The Off-Central Players 2026 - 2027 Season
Directed by Dylan Barlowe
Middle-aged siblings Vanya and Sonia have spent their mundane lives caring for the family homestead in rural Pennsylvania, until their glamorous, world-traveling movie-star sister Masha sweeps in with a sexy young boyfriend Spike. This Tony Award-winning comedy by the great American playwright and master satirist, Christopher Durang, and inspired by the works of Anton Chekhov, is a hilarious and poignant exploration of family tensions and longing for relevance in a changing world.
Directed by Travis Ray
One relationship. Infinite possibilities. In how many universes would you love someone? Nick Payne’s Olivier award-winning Constellations is a play about free will and friendship; it’s about quantum multiverse theory, love and honey. Roland is a beekeeper. Marianne is a quantum physicist. What are their odds of falling in love? With infinite moments that can change the trajectory of a life, it’s anyone’s guess how cosmic collision is possible. This play moves from the question of “what if,” to a poignant picture of “what is.”
Directed by Alexa Perez
This one-person play explores why art matters, not just as aesthetic beauty, but as something that helps us process life’s hardest questions. The statue of David becomes a metaphor for fragility, permanence, and what we choose to preserve. An unnamed tour guide leads the audience on what appears to be a private tour of Michelangelo’s David in the Galleria dell’Accademia di Firenze. As the guide shares the fascinating history and precarious physical condition of the famous sculpture, the tour quietly gives way to grief, as they confide the death of their son and the story becomes profoundly personal.
Directed by Landon Green
When Preston writes a furious letter to a store demanding a refund for a broken snow globe, he gets assistant manager Dahlia fired - and finds a vengeful epistolary match. In this wickedly funny alternative to Love Letters, the two embark on an epic, often acrimonious correspondence as their lives intertwine. Whether Preston and Dahlia are joining cults, having breakdowns, shipping each other deceased lizards, or falling in love, Hate Mail is a two-person comedy full of surprises at every turn.
Directed by Stephen Riordan
Dancing Lessons centers on Ever, a young man with Asperger’s syndrome, who seeks the instruction of a Broadway dancer to learn enough dancing to survive an awards dinner. The dancer, Senga, however, is recovering from an injury that may stop her dancing career permanently. As their relationship unfolds, they’re both caught off-guard by the discoveries—both hilarious and heartwarming—that they make about each other and about themselves.
Directed by Debbie Yones
For seventeen years, Lena and Sophie build a life together. They create a home, celebrate milestones, endure heartbreak, care for one another through life's greatest challenges, and discover that love is often found in the quiet moments that never ask to be noticed. Then, in an instant, everything they've built is called into question. When Sophie's right to the life she shared with Lena is challenged because their relationship was asexual, Load-Bearing Walls asks us to examine what truly defines a lifelong partnership. Tender, heartbreaking, and unexpectedly joyful, Pamela Morgan's remarkable new play reminds us that love is measured not by how a relationship appears from the outside, but by the life two people build together.