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2026/2027 SEASON

What does it mean to be human when the odds are completely against you? Our 2026/27 season is all about people attempting to connect across impossible distances.

ANTHROPOLOGY

By Lauren Gunderson

October 9th - 18th

After her sister dies, Merril throws herself into her work. She's brilliant at it. She builds things that listen, respond, remember. Anthropology is a funny, devastating, and uncomfortably timely play about what we ask of the machines we build...and whether the connection we find there is really connection at all.

Merril has been spending more time with her sister, Angie, but she isn't ready for anyone to know about it. At least, not until Merril has decided that Angie is ready to see other people. Angie is an A.I. creation that Merril has developed to cope with her sister's death. But as the virtual Angie begins to demand more presence in Merril and her mother’s lives, reality and consciousness blur, and new moral questions arise about the right, safe, and acceptable ways to grieve.

THE NAUGHTY LIST 3

A Gnarly Bard Original

December 11th - 20th

KIWI THE ELF IS BACK! Help her decide who has been NAUGHTY and who has been NICE as she navigates another busy day in the department of naughty behavior! Checking the list twice is high stakes and big responsibility at Santa’s Workshop. With a live jazz trio, classic holiday songs, new original tunes, brand new sketches, a lot of laughs and a whole lot of festive cheer, THE NAUGHTY LIST celebrates the season and asks that tough question: Have you been NAUGHTY this year?

THE UNSEEN

By Craig Wright

February 26th - March 7th

Two prisoners. In seperate cells. A wall between them, in more ways than one. They've never seen each other, but they've spoken everyday for years. Are the words they share enough to let them hold on to some sense of humanity? The Unseen is a very dark comedy about the power of language, in all of its beauty and brutality. (Content warning: strong language.)

Imprisoned by a totalitarian regime and mercilessly tortured for unknown crimes, Wallace and Valdez live without hope of escape or release. When an enigmatic new prisoner arrives and begins communicating in code, both men develop new relationships to each other, their captors, and themselves. A darkly humorous examination of faith in an uncertain world.  

ESCAPE POD ECHO

A Gnarly Bard Original Musical

By Bubba Hollenhorst & Nicole Wilder

May 7th - 16th

Five people. One escape pod. Zero rescuers. Escape Pod Echo is a black absurdist comedy musical about the particular cruelty of hope, which insists on showing up anyway, even when you're drifting into the void. Buckle up.