We are thrilled to announce our 2025-26 Majestic Mainstage Season! We’d like to extend a huge thank-you to this year’s Play Reading Committee for all of their diligent efforts in guiding Majestic Staff towards a truly stellar set of plays.

Our season kicks off with a trip through time to the Roaring Twenties when we present our Fall show, F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, adapted by Simon Levy and directed by Laura Blackwell, just in time for the original novel’s 100th anniversary. Blackwell intends to sweep us into an enchanting world of glitz and glamor—complete with jazz music, flappers, and the rich iconography of silent films—overlaying the corruption beneath the grandeur.

Then, although it’ll be autumn outside, it will be Springtime on our stage… "Springtime for Hitler,” that is, when dynamic directing duo Ashleigh Barbeau and Riley Lucas bring us The Producers, written by Mel Brooks and Thomas Meehan as our Fall musical, with music direction by Jim Martinez. This satirical romp takes its scandalously outrageous premise to its riotously humorous conclusion, lampooning the theatre industry, the wealthy, and (most of all) Nazis.

For our Winter play, we’re thrilled to announce our first-ever youth-directed Mainstage show, when Jax Kalberer realizes his vision for The Outsiders, written by S.E. Hinton and adapted for the stage by Christopher Sergel. This brutally honest memory play based on the literary classic examines grief, trauma, and violence from the perspective of young people who have experienced it directly, and it will provide a vehicle through which the talented teen actors of our community can really shine.

In the Spring, we’re set to launch into a brave new world of science fiction when Brandi Douglas directs an original adaptation of Rossum’s Universal Robots, written by Karel Capek. This production seeks to explore humanity’s growing fascination and entanglement with Artificial Intelligence, both as a concept and as a developing technology. While the original play was staged in the 1920s (and was, in fact, the origin of the word “robot”), its subject matter remains relevant, and in the hands of Douglas, seems almost prescient. 

Finally, the season will wrap up with our Spring musical, the ever-popular Legally Blonde, with music and lyrics by Laurence O'Keefe and Nell Benjamin and a book by Heather Hach, directed by Ruth Mandsager and with music direction by Jim Martinez. This musical is as fun as it is funny, and it received quite the outpouring of enthusiastic interest from our larger Majestic community. Since it's brought to our stage by the same team that gave us both Sweeny Todd and Little Shop of Horrors, our audiences are sure to render a verdict of success!

Don’t let the excitement of next season distract you from this one, though! The first play of our 2024-25 Mainstage season is set to open on September 20th—Mr. Burns: A Post-Electric Play, a post-apocalyptic exploration of the adaptable nature of humanity, the resilience of culture, and…the Emmy award-winning animated sitcom The Simpsons? If you’re ready to have a theatrical experience like nothing else you’ll have ever seen on the Majestic Theatre stage, you’ll need to be certain that you buy your tickets for this one. The cast and crew are ready to blow your mind! The first two acts are a compelling mix of personal tragedy and pop-culture comedy, but it’s the third act that really stands out, when the whole thing transforms into a full-blown musical that is equal parts horrifying and hilarious. Words cannot do this production justice. You’ll really have to come and see it for yourself!