2025/2026
Main Season
Winter 2026
The Arsonists
By Max Frisch | Translation by Alistair Beaton
Directed by TAPS Lecturer Matt Chapman
There have been a lot of fires lately. Whole neighborhoods are burning down! But surely this strange pair who just arrived has nothing to do with any of it. Surely if we give them a place to sleep upstairs and feed them well, they won’t disturb our peace and quiet! Even if they are arsonists—even if, in fact, they tell us that they are—surely, they will remember that we’re their friends! And we’ll be safe! Let’s just try and get some sleep, despite all the noise up there.
What’s a good citizen to do when potentially destructive thugs are suddenly sleeping in your attic, hoarding gasoline and looking for matches? Join us to find out in The Arsonists—a physical, hilarious, and painfully timely “morality play without a moral.”
Max Frisch's The Arsonists premiered as “Beidermann and the Firebugs,” a radio-play, in 1953 and was adapted for the stage in 1958.
February 26-28 at Pigott Theater
Tickets On Sale Here Late January
Graduate Repertory
Led by Lucas Baisch, Kathy Fang, Caitlin Main, and Shailee Rajak
This year’s Graduate Repertory will consist of four works over two weekends, led by TAPS Second-Year Ph.D. students Lucas Baisch, Kathy Fang, Caitlin Main, and Shailee Rajak.
January 29-31 and February 05-07 at Nitery Theater
Tickets Available Here Mid-January
Spring 2026
Romeo & Juliet
By William Shakespeare Directed by TAPS Lecturer Rotimi Agbabiaka
Romeo and Juliet find romance in a fiercely divided society, where loving may be the most dangerous act of all. Combining wild humor, breathtaking language, and an anarchy of the imagination, Shakespeare’s classic tale hurdles at a feverish pace, as these star-crossed lovers race to avoid their deadly fate. Setting the play in a cosmopolitan world of Baroque excess, this production will immerse audiences in an explosive exploration of the age-old potential for neighbors to be divided by hate, united by love, and driven by burning passion.May 21-23 at Harry J. Elam, Jr. Theater Tickets On Sale Here Early May
Moonchild
Written by K. Sid Zhang (‘25) and TAPS Graduate Student Connor Lifson
Directed by Connor Lifson
How does one heal a world that is sick? From an ancient lighthouse in the desert to a raging inferno among the clouds, Moonchild tells the story of a young girl’s quest to rid a dark fantasy realm of its blight. Along the way, she and her fairy companion uncover an unsettling reality lurking beneath the magic. In this unique blend of visual metaphor, physical theater, and miniature puppetry, a live video camera onstage visually narrates the tale in real time, providing an intimate cinematic view of this small, but epic adventure through the impossible.
May 07-09 in Pigott Theater
Tickets On Sale Here Mid-April
Fall 2025
Fun Home
Music by Jeanine Tesori | Book + Lyrics by Lisa Kron Based on the Graphic Novel by Alison Bechdel
Directed & Choreographer: TAPS Graduate Student Adin Walker
Musical Director and Conductor: Jad Bernardo
Fun Home is a Tony Award-winning musical by Lisa Kron (book and lyrics) and Jeanine Tesori (music), adapted from the graphic memoir Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel. The musical orbits a period of time when Alison Bechdel, as a college freshman in 1979, comes out to her parents in a letter, and then four months later her father commits suicide. Within those four months, Alison’s parents disclosed to her that her father was gay. The musical re-visits those four months from the vantage point of twenty years later as Alison approaches aging past her father. It is an elliptical exploration through her mind and her memory, her particular craft of accessing the past as a lesbian cartoonist, and a meditation on the creative labor for scripting a vision of one’s future beyond a too-soon narrative ending in death. Through it all, Fun Home invites audiences to join in a journey of experiencing and reflecting upon the particular pleasures, and the trials, of queer aging.
November 13-15 at 8pm at Pigott Theater
찜질방
Written and Directed by Emily Miyeon Lim (‘27)
찜질방 (pronounced jjim-jil-bang in English) roughly translates to public bath and spa house in Korean. 찜질방 follows the story of a group of Korean teenage girls sharing their first jjimjilbang experience, where truths emerge in the physically vulnerable space from the girls’ conversations and a movement exploration of how the body speaks when it has been subjected to the unspeakable. A narration of the personal-turned-communal cultural reckonings with the unspeakably impactful body and beauty standards of the Korean American feminine experience, 찜질방 makes its debut as the Stanford TAPS's Fall 2025 Developmental Stage.