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THEATER
Stage Left in Glendale announces 2026 season lineup
New season features West Valley theater’s milestone 100th production
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2025 SEASON SHOWS COMING UP
-- Oct. 10-26: “Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead”
-- Nov. 7-23: “Harvey”
-- Dec. 5-21: “Who’s Holiday”
Special to Independent Newsmedia
Fresh off its 10-year anniversary season, Stage Left Productions announced its new lineup of shows for the 2026 season.
The West Valley theater will stage 11 shows from January through December in 2026, including the theater’s milestone 100th production.
Individual ticket prices for shows in 2026 will be $34.
The 2026 season lineup:
Jan. 16-Feb. 1: “Good People”
In this comedy by David Lindsay-Abaire, welcome to Southie, a Boston neighborhood where a night on the town means a few rounds of bingo, where this month’s paycheck covers last month’s bills, and where Margie Walsh has just been let go from yet another job.
Feb. 13-March 1: “Living On Love”
When a demanding diva discovers that her larger-than-life maestro husband has become enamored with the lovely young lady hired to ghostwrite his largely fictional autobiography, she hires a handsome young scribe of her own. The comedy by Joe DiPietro is based on “Peccadillo” by Garson Kanin.
March 13-29: “Long Days Journey Into Night”
Set in a summer home in 1912, the drama by Eugene O’Neil unfolds over a single day and night in the life of the Tyrone family, exposing the deep emotional wounds, addictions, and regrets that haunt them.
April 10-26: “Hay Fever”
Hoping for a quiet weekend in the country with some guests, David Bliss, a novelist, and his wife, Judith, a retired actress, find an impossible dream when their high-spirited children, Simon and Sorel, appear with guests of their own in this Noel Coward comedy.
May 15-31: “Bar Fight”
This original play, written by Stage Left Artistic Director Cody Dull, marks the theater’s 100th overall production. Set in a bar in a small Montana town, the three Sapa Sisters have gathered for their eldest sister Shirley’s third wedding to a much younger man. There is only one slight problem, the sisters haven’t really spoken in over a decade after Shirley’s second husband Charlie died in a suspicious hiking accident, and the youngest sister, Dee, a well-known author, allegedly has written a tell-all book about her sisters’ own misfortune.
June 12-28: “I Never Saw Another Butterfly”
In this drama by Celeste Raspanti, more than 15,000 Jewish children passed through Terezin and only about a hundred were still alive when Terezin was liberated at the end of the war. One of the survivors, Raja, having lived through it all, teaching the children when there was nothing to teach with, helping to give them hope when there was little enough reason for hope, creating a little world of laughter, of flowers and butterflies behind the barbed wire, tells the true story of the children.
Aug. 14-30: “Ann”
This comedy/drama by Holland Taylor presents an intimate, no-holds-barred portrait of Ann Richards, the late governor of Texas.
Sept. 11-27: “One Man, Two Guvnors”
Set in Brighton, England, in 1963, this farce by Richard Bean is a fast-paced British comedy that follows the antics of Francis Henshall, a perpetually hungry and dim-witted man who accidentally gets hired by two different bosses — and must keep each unaware of the other.
Oct. 9-25: “Trap”
A genre-blending mystery/thriller play by Stephen Gregg, often staged as documentary theater with horror undertones, is set in the fictional town of Menachap, California, and kicks off with a bizarre and chilling event: every person in the audience of a high school play suddenly falls unconscious — except one survivor.
Nov. 6-22: “The Half Life of Marie Curie”
A two-woman play that explores the resilience, friendship, and brilliance of two remarkable women in science: Marie Curie, the Nobel Prize-winning physicist and chemist, and Hertha Ayrton, a pioneering British engineer, mathematician, and suffragette, in this drama by Lauren Gunderson.
Dec. 4-20: “The Macbethest Christmas Pageant Spectaculathon...Ever!”
This holiday comedy by John Perovich, and a co-production with Ronin Theatre Collabrative, looks at what elves do when Santa maintains dangerous working conditions. Leave the young ones at home for a debaucherous dinner party hosted by Lady M.
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