2026-2027 Season
The Indiana Repertory Theatre’s 54th Season celebrates powerful storytelling, bold collaborations, and dynamic community connections with a wide variety of theatre productions for Indianapolis audiences. Running September 23, 2026 through May 9, 2027, this six-show lineup spans genres and generations—from a theatrical blockbuster and beloved holiday tradition to a Pulitzer Prize–winning drama and a golden-age Broadway musical.
The 2026–2027 Season is especially exciting as IRT collaborates with four leading regional theatres across the country. These co-productions bring new artistic voices to our city while sharing our work nationwide—showcasing the vibrancy of the theatre community in Indianapolis.
The season begins with the blockbuster The Da Vinci Code, presented by Printing Partners, and is followed by Kim’s Convenience, the inspiration for the hit series on Netflix, produced with Everyman Theatre and Portland Center Stage. Our holiday tradition continues with Charles Dickens’A Christmas Carol. In the new year, we present the 2025 Pulitzer Prize–winning play Purpose in collaboration with Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, along with a new adaptation of Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women.
We close the season with one of Broadway’s most beloved musicals, Guys and Dolls, IRT’s largest musical in decades, featuring iconic songs including “Luck Be a Lady.” It’s sure to be a welcome addition to the Indianapolis musical scene.
We look forward to welcoming audiences to a season of unforgettable stories and shared experiences that connect our community and celebrate the creative spirit of Indianapolis theater.
presented by Printing Partners
The Da Vinci Code
adapted by Rachel Wagstaff and Duncan Abel
based on the novel by Dan Brown
directed by Benjamin Hanna
September 23 – October 18, 2026
OneAmerica Financial Stage
heart-pounding action adventure
The international phenomenon and best-selling thriller comes to life onstage. When Professor Robert Langdon is brought to the Louvre in the middle of the night to help solve a brutal murder, he soon finds himself identified as the prime suspect. Now he must race across Europe to decipher a labyrinthine code that would clear his name—and reveal a secret that could change history. A tangled web of intrigue and deceit weaves together this pulse-racing mystery.
Co-production with Everyman Theatre and Portland Center Stage
Kim’s Convenience
by Ins Choi
directed by cara hinh
October 20 – November 15, 2026
Janet Allen Stage
hilarious and heartwarming
Before it was a beloved hit series on Netflix, Kim’s Convenience was a humorous, award-winning stage play. For over 30 years Mr. Kim, a first-generation Korean immigrant, has dispensed fatherly wisdom, history lessons, and potato chips from behind his convenience store counter. Now he faces a changing neighborhood landscape and children whose dreams are different from his. This show is a laugh-out-loud, deeply moving, feel-good story of love and family.
Charles Dickens’
A Christmas Carol
adapted by Tom Haas
directed by cara hinh
November 14 – December 26, 2026
OneAmerica Financial Stage
Indy’s holiday tradition
Banish your bah humbugs and celebrate the season at the Indiana Repertory Theatre! A Christmas Carol shines a light on the power of kindness and love in this uplifting tale of one man’s journey to redemption. As the weather turns cold, warm your heart with story and song at the IRT.
Co-production with Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park
Purpose
by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
directed by Tyrone Phillips
January 26 – February 21, 2027
OneAmerica Financial Stage
prize-winning family drama
For decades, the influential Jasper family has been a pillar of Black America—movers and shakers in the Civil Rights movement, figureheads in the church, and power players in politics. When the Jaspers’ son and an uninvited friend return home for a family celebration, secrets just under the surface threaten to crack and shake their foundations. Intense, hilarious, deeply dramatic, and filled with intrigue, Purpose is an epic family drama. Winner of the 2025 Pulitzer Prize and the Tony Award for Best Play.
Louisa May Alcott’s
Little Women
by Lauren M. Gunderson
directed by Lauren Keating
February 16 – March 21, 2027
Janet Allen Stage
growing up, growing strong
While their father serves in the Civil War, the four March sisters and their mother work hard to keep hearth and home. Despite society’s limitations, their love and shared feminine strength bind them through hardships, friendships, romantic entanglements, and inevitable losses. A captivating new stage adaptation by America’s most produced living playwright.
Guys and Dolls
based on a story and characters by Damon Runyan
music and lyrics by Frank Loesser
book by Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows
directed by Lili-Anne Brown
April 7 – May 9, 2027
OneAmerica Financial Stage
golden-age Broadway musical
In the bustling streets of New York, a smooth-talking gambler wagers he can charm an uptight missionary, and another high roller desperately fights to keep his game alive—while trying to avoid marrying his fiancée of 14 years. Will luck be a lady tonight? Filled with songs you love and exhilarating dances, the award-winning classic Guys and Dolls has often been called “the perfect musical comedy.”
Revon Yousif and Neagheen Homaifar in the IRT's 2026 production of English. Photo by Zach Rosing.
2026-2027
Season Ticket Memberships
Join us for our 2026-2027 Season with a Season Ticket Membership, and receive the best pricing, priority seating, exclusive discounts, and other special benefits. Save your seat and experience all of the world-class theatre only the IRT can provide! Memberships start at $196.
The cast of the IRT's 2025 production of A Christmas Carol. Photo by Zach Rosing.
2026-2027
Student Matinee Performances
Our inclusive productions highlight the best of classic literature and current voices in ways that are sure to enrich your English, social studies, theatre, and art classes. Plus, the sets, lighting, costumes, and staging created by nationally recognized professional artists will spark STEM conversations that can carry into science, engineering, and math classes. Our productions offer thoughtful, challenging, entertaining, and enlightening insights that will help students understand the world around them and examine their own lives. We look forward to seeing you at the Theatre!