2026 season
The season ahead.
Jun 17-Jul 12, 2026
Almost Heaven
Almost Heaven: The Songs of John Denver
For Maples Repertory Theatre, Almost Heaven gathers the songs of John Denver into an ensemble-driven portrait of open roads, mountain air, and homesickness for a place half remembered. Directed by Trevor Belt, the production moves between concert, memory, and landscape while keeping the intimacy of the music close.
Jul 1-Aug 2, 2026
You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown
A Peanuts musical comedy
You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown brings the Peanuts world to Maples Repertory Theatre as a series of small musical reckonings with friendship, failure, imagination, and ordinary courage. Directed by Brandon McShaffrey, the piece asks for a visual world that feels playful and specific without flattening childhood into nostalgia.
Jul 7-Aug 29, 2026
Romeo and Juliet
Shakespeare's tragedy in a Dust Bowl landscape
At New Swan Shakespeare Festival, Romeo and Juliet is framed through Dust Bowl scarcity, letting romance, humor, family rupture, and public unrest press against one another under the open sky. Directed by Rachael VanWormer, the production gives the familiar tragedy a landscape of want, heat, and fragile hope.
Jul 8-Aug 30, 2026
The Merry Wives of Windsor Cove
A 1950s SoCal surf-town Shakespeare comedy
The Merry Wives of Windsor Cove moves Shakespeare’s comedy into a rockin’ 1950s SoCal surf town for New Swan Shakespeare Festival, with skiffle-band energy, romantic mischief, and sitcom-bright reversals. Adapted by Anna Fitzgerald and Eli Simon and directed by Eli Simon, it calls for a world that can hold beach-town playfulness and the machinery of farce.
Jul 21-26, 2026
Never Can Say Goodbye
The 70s Beehive Musical
At Okoboji Summer Theatre, Never Can Say Goodbye: The 70s Beehive Musical follows the Beehive lineage into a high-spirited celebration of 1970s pop, soul, and disco. Directed by Susie Dycus, the production centers a company of performers moving through the decade’s bold style, cultural charge, and nonstop music.
Aug 4-9, 2026
9 to 5
Dolly Parton's workplace comedy musical
Okoboji Summer Theatre’s 9 to 5 turns the Rolodex-era office into a bright comic battleground where Violet, Judy, and Doralee push back against a boss and a workplace built to underestimate them. Directed by Bernie Monroe, Dolly Parton and Patricia Resnick’s musical can swing from everyday corporate grind to revenge fantasy with wit and momentum.
Past Productions
Selected production archives that connect public event pages to the full scenic design portfolio.
Oct 17-26, 2025
The Glass Menagerie
Tennessee Williams' memory play for Maples Repertory Theatre
The Glass Menagerie was produced by Maples Repertory Theatre in 2025, directed by Kimberly Braun, with scenic design by Brandon PT Davis. The production framed the Wingfield apartment as memory architecture, allowing fragility, longing, and escape to exist inside one haunted domestic space.
Sep 13-Oct 19, 2025
Million Dollar Quartet
A Sun Records musical for South Coast Repertory
Million Dollar Quartet was produced by South Coast Repertory in 2025, originally directed by James Moye and directed by Kim Martin-Cotten, with scenic design by Brandon PT Davis and Efren Delgadillo Jr. The production built Sun Records as both an intimate recording studio and a charged performance environment.
Jul 2-Aug 29, 2025
All's Well That Ends Well
Shakespeare's problem comedy in a Romantic-era world
All's Well That Ends Well was produced by New Swan Shakespeare Festival in 2025, directed by Rob Salas, with scenic design by Brandon PT Davis. The production framed Shakespeare's tale of love, pursuit, status, and transformation through drapery, heraldic detail, operatic reveal, and a visual shift between Roussillon and Florence.
Jul 9-Aug 30, 2025
Much Ado About Nothing
Shakespeare's comedy through a Wild West frame
Much Ado About Nothing was produced by New Swan Shakespeare Festival in 2025, directed by Eli Simon, with scenic design by Brandon PT Davis. The production reimagined Shakespeare's romantic comedy through saloon architecture, frontier texture, live bluegrass energy, and the repertory demands of New Swan's outdoor theater.
Jul 15-20, 2025
Bell, Book, and Candle
A mid-century comedy with a trace of magic
Bell, Book, and Candle was produced by Okoboji Summer Theatre in 2025, directed by Richard Biever, with scenic design by Brandon PT Davis. The production used a grounded mid-century apartment to support wit, intimacy, and supernatural undertones without losing its domestic believability.