The complete lineup has been revealed for Working Theater and Broadway Advocacy Coalition’s second annual Stage Left, the new play festival where art meets activism.

Working Theater and the Broadway Advocacy Coalition will present the second annual Stage Left, an innovative new play festival where art meets activism, taking place June 12–14, 2026 at Theatre Row.

Working Theater goes viral — and the subject, of course, is accessible ticket pricing. Kareem 100% agrees with us!

Working Theater will present its first-ever benefit concert, Off the Clock: Punch Out, Belt Out, with the announcement of a second wave of performers and the addition of Broadway icons Eden Espinosa and Marcia, Marcia, Marcia.

Featuring 12 Last Songs, an epic interview-based meditation on work and community, at Under the Radar 2026.

Gotham’s stage laborers aren’t just organizing existing workplaces; they’re also making their own, built on new models and partnerships.

At a time when theater is prohibitively expensive for the vast majority, the theater company Working Theater partners with labor unions to recreate a working-class theater for the 21st century.

In Colm Summers’s words, “The history of American theater is written in labor plays.” As the Artistic Director of Working Theater, a New York-based company completely committed to creating theater specifically “for, about, and with working people,” Summers would be the one to know. Founded in 1985, Working Theater has led the way in the development of sliding-scale ticket initiatives and mobile performance units, all while championing the work of artists who may lack or have lacked access to theater.

Working Theater has announced its 41st Season, a year dedicated to expansion, creative risk, and deep community engagement. Following the success of its 40th anniversary year, the company is setting the stage for a new era with trailblazing programs designed to sustain both Working Theater and the broader American theater landscape.

Experimental theatre festival Under the Radar has announced the programming for its 2026 iteration.  The festival will run January 7–25, featuring over 30 shows across New York City.  Highlights of the programming include Elevator Repair Services’ Ulysses, Brokentalkers’ Bellow, and Kinoshita Kabuki’s Kanjincho.

Working Theater is proud to announce their 41st Season which focuses on a year of expansion, risk, and deep commitment to community-rooted theater. Fresh off the success of their fortieth anniversary season, Working Theater is setting the tone for the next era of the company, by trailblazing programs they hope will break ground to sustain not only Working Theater, but the American Theater for years to come.

Sliding-scale tickets. Mobile theater units. Deep partnerships with organizers. Working Theater is proving that art can be accessible – and part of the front line of the movement to keep communities intact.

Working Theater has named playwright Kallan Dana as this year’s Playwright in Residence. Over the course of the residency, Dana will develop her new play, Control, a timely work that takes audiences inside the high-stakes world of air traffic controllers.

Working Theater has revealed the 2025 recipients of the Mark Plesent Commission Fund: Max Garcia and Brian Francis Pickett. This year’s recipients will be mentored by two of the most visionary playwrights working today: Martyna Majok, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright of Cost of Living, and the internationally celebrated Naomi Wallace, known for her bold political work and global acclaim.

Notes app brainstorms and subway scrawlings, not to mention years of research and hard work—that’s what it takes for six emerging playwrights to get their latest pieces over the finish line. And at this month’s first ever Stage Left festival, the brainchild of Working Theater and Broadway Advocacy Coalition, they’ll stage readings of these works for the very first time. Held at Playwright Horizons, Stage Left is homing in on storytelling with a social justice bent.

Participants in Broadway Advocacy Coalition and Working Theater’s first-ever Stage Left Festival, a new platform for social justice-centered storytelling, have been announced. Six new works that fuse the power of theatre with the urgency of advocacy will be offered in the series. Each play has been developed in partnership with frontline organizations advancing justice in and beyond New York.

Produced by Working Theater and the Broadway Advocacy Coalition, the festival pairs new plays with an advocacy coalitions working at the frontlines of social change.

The Drama League and The Working Theater are co-presenting Liba Vaynberg and Dina Vovsi’s new play about migration and identity.