Rep Reads
Rep Reads is our fan-favorite play reading and discussion group! Celebrate the written word of theatre and share perspectives with members of the Rep community.
Over the last five years, Rep Reads has become a fan-favorite artistic engagement program. We are happy to continue offering this beloved play reading club. Each month, we independently read a script and come together to discuss its themes, characters, and impact. Rep Readers gain a deeper appreciation of dramatic literature while building community connections with fellow theatre lovers at The Rep.
September (M1: Little Women) – Crimes of the Heart by Beth Henley
September 15-16, 2026
In Hazlehurst, Mississippi, the three Magrath sisters gather to await news of their grandfather, who is living out his last hours in the local hospital. Lenny, the oldest sister, is unmarried at 30 and facing diminishing marital prospects; Meg, the middle sister, who quickly outgrew Hazlehurst, is back after a failed singing career on the West Coast, and Babe, the youngest, is out on bail after having shot her husband in the stomach. Their troubles, grave yet somehow hilarious, are highlighted by their priggish cousin, Chick, and by Babe’s awkward young lawyer, who has clearly fallen in love with her. Honest, touching and consistently hilarious, Crimes of the Heart teems with humanity and humor. Winner of the 1981 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
October (M2: 2 Pianos 4 Hands) – Master Class by Terrence McNally
October 13-14, 2026
Maria Callas is teaching a master class in front of an audience. She’s glamorous, commanding, larger than life and drop-dead funny. An accompanist sits at the piano. Over the course of the master class, students enter and Callas instructs them by reaching into the recesses of her mind and regaling them with stories from her life and career. What started out as a class becomes a platform for Callas to expound on her own career, dabble in opera gossip and flat-out seduce the audience. This play is not just a comedy about the entertainment industry, but also about the sacrifices one chooses to make in the name of art. Winner of the 1996 Tony Award for Best Play.
November (S1: What the Constitution Means to Me) – Liberation by Bess Wohl
November 10-11, 2026
It’s 1970. Somewhere in Ohio, six women meet on a basement basketball court to form a consciousness-raising group, determined to shake up their lives and change the world. Fifty years later, one of their daughters tries to understand where things fell apart. A provocative, wildly theatrical play that poses vital questions about friendship, legacy and the true meaning of liberation, investigating what we inherit, what we forget, and what we’re still fighting to understand. Winner of the 2026 Pulitzer Prize in Drama and the 2026 Tony Award for Best Play.
January (S2: In Pour Taste) – Fully Committed by Becky Mode
January 12-13, 2027
This devastatingly funny one-act follows a day in the life of Sam Peliczowski, an out-of-work actor who mans the red-hot reservation line at Manhattan’s number-one restaurant. Coercion, threats, bribes, histrionics – he hears it all! A cast of desperate callers will stop at nothing in their quest to land a prime reservation or the right table. Amid the barrage, Sam’s got his own needs to contend with – his recently widowed dad wants him home for Christmas and he’s up for a choice part at Lincoln Center. While juggling scheming socialites, name-dropping wannabes, fickle celebrities and egomaniacal bosses, can he manage to look out for himself?
February (M5: Detroit ’67) – Paradise Blue by Dominique Morisseau
February 9-10, 2027
Blue, a gifted trumpeter, contemplates selling his once-vibrant jazz club in Detroit’s Blackbottom neighborhood to shake free the demons of his past and better his life. But where does that leave his devoted Pumpkin, who has dreams of her own? And what does it mean for the club’s resident bebop band? When a mysterious woman with a walk that drives men mad comes to town with her own plans, everyone’s world is turned upside down. This dynamic and musically-infused drama shines light on the challenges of building a better future on the foundation of what our predecessors have left us.
March (S3: Avaaz) – Torch Song Trilogy by Harvey Fierstein
March 9-10, 2027
In Torch Song Trilogy, the life of Arnold Beckoff, a torch song-singing, Jewish drag queen living in New York City, is dramatized over the span of the late 1970s and 1980s. Told with a likable, human voice, Torch Song Trilogy follows Arnold’s odyssey to find happiness in New York. All he wants is a husband, a child, and a pair of bunny slippers that fit, but a visit from his overbearing mother reminds him that he needs one thing more: respect. Winner of the 1983 Tony Award for Best Play.
April (M6: And Then There Were None) – An Inspector Calls by J.B. Priestly
April 13-14, 2027
One of the classics of mid-20th century English theatre, Priestley’s daring play takes place in an English industrial city, where an eminently respectable British family is subject to a routine inquiry in connection with the suicide of a young girl. An inspector calls on the family to interrogate them, and during the course of his questioning, each of them is implicated in the girl’s undoing. Before the evening is over, the formerly friendly and close-knit family members reveal themselves to be selfish, self-centered or cowardly – their good humor turning to acid and their fellowship to disdain.
