Jordan Harrison’s play Marjorie Prime and Gina Gionfriddo’s comedy Becky Shaw – both Pulitzer Prize finalists – will be presented on Broadway as part of Second Stage Theater‘s 2025-26 season, the theater company announced today.
The season also will include three Off Broadway plays: Meet The Cartozians, by Talene Monahon; Meat Suit, or the shitshow of motherhood, written and directed by Aya Ogawa; and Adam Bock’s The Receptionist.
“Second Stage’s extraordinary body of work comes from its commitment to contemporary American writers through second stagings of modern classics and by nurturing playwrights through every step of their creative trajectory,” said Artistic Director Evan Cabnet.
“This season, my first, is a snapshot of the vast landscape of modern American theater,” he continued. “On Broadway, we are producing two masterful contemporary plays, both Pulitzer finalists, by Jordan Harrison and Gina Gionfriddo. Off-Broadway, we are producing two world premieres, one by Talene Monahon, the other by Aya Ogawa, incredible artists whose singular voices have made them two of our most exciting talents. I’m also thrilled to celebrate the return of Adam Bock’s work to the New York stage after almost ten years.”
Read below for additional details of Second Stage’s upcoming season, with synopses provided by the theater. Casting and full creative teams for all productions will be announced at a later date.
MARJORIE PRIME
BROADWAY PREMIERE
By Pulitzer Prize Finalist Jordan Harrison
Directed by Tony Award nominee Anne Kauffman
Performances begin November 20, 2025
Opening December 8, 2025
What would you say to someone you lost, if you could see them again? What if they’re a better listener now than when they were alive? Pulitzer Prize finalist Jordan Harrison reinvents the family drama in his richly spare, wryly funny, and powerful Marjorie Prime, directed by Tony Award® nominee Anne Kauffman (Mary Jane). A heart-achingly beautiful rumination on aging and artificial intelligence, memory and mortality, love and legacy, Marjorie Prime examines the blurred line between a life lived and a life remembered.
BECKY SHAW
BROADWAY PREMIERE
By Pulitzer Prize Finalist Gina Gionfriddo
Directed by Obie Award-winner Trip Cullman
Performances begin March 18, 2026
Opening April 8, 2026
A blind date spirals spectacularly off the rails in Becky Shaw, the razor-sharp dark comedy from two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist Gina Gionfriddo. When it made its New York premiere Off-Broadway at Second Stage, Becky Shaw left critics and audiences reeling, and The New York Times called it, “ferociously funny! A tangled tale of love, sex and ethics.” Now, this hilarious hit play is back and it’s making its Broadway debut. Strap yourselves in— Becky Shaw will make you laugh, gasp, and maybe take a break from dating…permanently.
MEET THE CARTOZIANS
OFF BROADWAY
WORLD PREMIERE
By Talene Monahon
Directed by Tony Award-winner David Cromer
Performances begin October 29, 2025
Opening November 18, 2025
Part riveting historical drama, part scorching satire, Talene Monahon’s Meet The Cartozians pulls back the curtain on a startling chapter of American history you may never have heard. This bold, witty new play follows two sets of Armenian Americans: one man fighting for legal recognition in the 1920s, while a century later, his descendant fights for followers and a competent glam team. A wildly imaginative and deeply compelling story of culture and heritage, Meet The Cartozians asks who gets to belong—and at what cost?
MEAT SUIT, or the shitshow of motherhood
OFF BROADWAY
WORLD PREMIERE
Written and Directed by Aya Ogawa
Performances begin February 11, 2026
Opening February 25, 2026
WARNING: Motherhood is not for the faint of heart…and neither is this play.
Meat Suit, or the shitshow of motherhood, written and directed by Aya Ogawa, is a gloriously genre-defying theatrical carnival that plunges audiences into the raw, hilarious chaos of being a mom. Performed by mothers for mothers, or those who love mothers, or simply those who have mothers, this play blends bouffon-inspired physicality, sharp satire, original songs, and total absurdity. Beneath the bedlam and humor, Meat Suit confronts a deeper theme: how every birth triggers quiet deaths—the mother’s autonomy, sense of self, and personal desire—and whether anything of the person she was survives. Come laugh, cringe, and cry through the unfiltered mess no one warned you about.
THE RECEPTIONIST
OFF BROADWAY
By Obie Award-winner Adam Bock
Director TBD
Performances begin April 15, 2026
Opening May 7, 2026
It’s business as usual at the Northeast Office where the cheerfully dutiful receptionist answers phones, brews coffee and gossips with co-workers. But when an unexpected visitor from the Central Office walks through the door, business becomes far from usual. The Receptionist is a jet-black comedy about bureaucracy and complicity that’s biting in its humor and chilling in its relevance.
