2025/2026 Season
CELEBRATING 101 YEARS!
This 2025/2026 marks 101 years that The Youngstown Playhouse has provided community theatre to Youngstown and the surrounding areas. This season’s line-up continues to bring a variety of genres to the stage with a mix of classics and contemporary shows that will take audiences through a full range of emotions: love, mystery, adventure, joy, and hope.
“We tell stories that connect us, that let us walk in someone else’s shoes and illuminate the human spirit. There’s nothing better than entertaining people and making them laugh or cry.”
– Dr. John Cox, Board President
PEOPLE, PLACES & THINGS
Book by Duncan MacMillan
Directed By Christopher Fidram
August 15 – 24, 2025
The Moyer Room
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Emma was having the time of her life. Now she’s in rehab. Her first step is to admit that she has a problem, but the problem isn’t with Emma, it’s with everything else. She needs to tell the truth, but she’s smart enough to know that there’s no such thing. When intoxication feels like the only way to survive the modern world, how can she ever sober up?
SINGIN’ IN THE RAIN
Screenplay by Betty Comden & Adolph Green
Music by Arthur Freed & Nacio Herb Brown
Directed by Tyler Stouffer
September 12 – 21, 2025
Main Stage
ABOUT THE SHOW
The “Greatest Movie Musical of All Time” is faithfully and lovingly adapted for the stage from the original award-winning screenplya. Each unforgettable scene, song, and dance is accounted for, including the show-stopping title number, complete with an onstage rainstorm! Hilarious situations, snappy dialogue, and a hit-parade score of Hollywood standards make Singin’ in the Rain the perfect entertainment for any fan of the golden age of movie musicals.
A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM
An Adaptation of the Play by William Shakespeare
Directed by Isa Foltz
October 10 – 12, 2025
The Main Stage | Youth Production
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Amidst a wedding celebration in Athens, four young lovers get tangled in a forest full of magic and mistaken identities, leading to a series of hilarious mishaps and unexpected connections, all thanks to the mischievous fairies and their enchanted love potions.
HONK! JR.
Music by George Stiles
Book & Lyrics by Anthony Drewe
Directed by Wayne Bonner III
February 20 – 22, 2026
Main Stage
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Ugly looks quite a bit different from his darling duckling brothers and sisters, leaving him feeling rather foul about himself. The little fowl finds himself on an adventure of self-discovery, all the while unknowingly outwitting a very hungry cat. Along the way, Ugly meets a whole flock of unique characters and finds out that being different is not a bad thing to be.
THE LYONS
Written by Nicky Silver
Directed by Connor Bezeredi
March 20 – 29, 2026
Downtown
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Ben Lyons is dying. When his wife, Rita, and grown children gather to say goodbye, they learn that, despite being a family , each of them is utterly isolated, afraid of closeness, and afraid of solitude. They are propelled into foreign territory – human connection.
URINETOWN
Music & Lyrics by Mark Hollmann
Book & Lyrics by Greg Kolis
Directed by Nate Beagle
May 29 – June 7, 2026
Main Stage
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In a Gotham-like city, a terrible water shortage caused by a 20-year drought has led to a government-enforced ban on private toilets. The citizens must use public amenities regulated by a single malevolent company that profits by charging admission for one of humanity’s most basic needs. Amid the people, a hero decides that he’s had enough and plans a revolution to lead them all to freedom!
THE SHARK IS BROKEN
Written By Ian Shaw & Joseph Nixon
Directed by Brendan Boyle
June 19 – 28, 2026
Downtown
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Fade in: the open ocean, 1974. Filming is delayed… again. The lead actors – theatre veteran Robert Shaw and young Hollywood hotshots Richard Dreyfuss and Roy Scheider – are crammed into a too-small boat, entirely at the mercy of foul weather and a faulty mechanical co-star. Alcohol flows, egos collide, and tempers flare on a chaotic voyage that just might lead to cinematic magic… if it doesn’t sink them all. Step aboard the Orca and into a profound dive behind the scenes of the making of Jaws.
2025/2026 Season Flex Passes
ON SALE FRIDAY, JUNE 27
2025/2026 Flex Pass subscriptions will go on sale Friday, June 27 and available in three pricing tiers, passes are valid for four (4) performances within the season.
