Announcing Our 2026-27 Season!

This season, RTP celebrates its 34th year as one of Virginia’s most acclaimed cultural institutions and the longest-operating LGBTQ+ theatre company in the mid-Atlantic region. Our new season features five extraordinary productions, including an acclaimed play by a Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and a Tony Award-winning musical.

“In a world that can feel increasingly uncertain — especially for theatres like ours — we felt called to be louder, prouder, and more unapologetically ourselves,” said RTP Artistic Director Lucian Restivo. “This season is filled with stories about love and laughter, glamour and grit, resilience and joy.”

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The 2026-27 Mainstage Season

September 16th – October 10th, 2026
BLKS by Aziza Barnes

Three young black women in New York City navigate intimacy, identity, and self-medication (drinking, smoking, sex) to cope with feeling miserable and unheard. When sh*t goes down, your girls show up. Waking up to a shocking and personal health scare, Octavia and her best friends, June and Imani, go on a crusade to find intimacy and joy in a world that couldn’t give a f*ck about them or their queer blk feelings.

November 11th – December 19th, 2026
The Real Housewives of the North Pole by David Cerda

The North Pole is in trouble. Santa and all the North Pole power players are indicted for fraud and it’s up to the women to try and save their families from financial ruin. But how? Years of wealth and privilege have left them with a lot of designer clothes and jewelry, but little else. Enter Andy Cohen from the Bravo network, who whisks them into reality TV stardom. Another rollicking holiday romp from the author of last season’s smash The Golden Girls: The Lost Episodes (Holiday Edition)!

February 10th – March 6th, 2027
Messy White Gays by Drew Droege

It’s Sunday morning in Hell’s Kitchen. Brecken and Caden have just murdered their boyfriend and stuffed his body into a Jonathan Adler credenza. Unfortunately, they’ve also invited friends over for brunch. And they’re out of limes! In Messy White Gays, Drew Droege—the sharp-penned and quick-witted diarist of the contemporary homosexual—shines a harsh overhead light on the pores of White Gaydom, revealing what happens when throuples crumble, neighbors bicker, and rich and pretty clash with hot and dumb.

April 21st – May 15th, 2027
Indecent by Paula Vogel

The Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright has crafted a deeply moving play inspired by the true events surrounding the controversial 1923 Broadway debut of Sholem Asch’s God of Vengeance – a play seen by some as a seminal work of Jewish culture, and by others as an act of traitorous libel. Indecent charts the history of an incendiary drama and the path of the artists who risked their careers and lives to perform it.

July 7th – 31st, 2027
Avenue Q by Robert Lopez, Jeff Marx, and Jeff Whitty

Recent graduate Princeton moves into a run-down New York apartment on Avenue Q, where he meets an eccentric group of neighbors, including Kate Monster, a sweet kindergarten teaching assistant with big dreams; Rod, a closeted Republican banker; Nicky, his laid-back roommate, and Trekkie Monster, who’s addicted to the internet. As they navigate love, work, money and the search for purpose, this unforgettable bunch of puppets discover that life’s biggest lessons aren’t always as simple as they seemed on children’s television. With its sharp wit, catchy songs and wicked sense of humor, Avenue Q proves that being a grown-up isn’t as easy as it looks. The Tony Award winner for Best Musical in 2004!

The 2026-27 Cabaret Season

October 15th – 17th. 2026
Georgia Rogers Farmer: FLOOZIE

RTP’s resident cabaret diva and certified domestic goddess celebrates 15 years of songs, stories, crafts, and prizes in a brand-new show!

December 31st, 2026
Susan Sanford: Ringing in the New Year!
One of Richmond’s most celebrated performers – who won her two RTCC awards here at RTP (It Shoulda Been You and Grey Gardens) – helps us ring in the New Year (along with some very special guests) in a fabulous fashion with a cabaret you won’t want to miss!

January 8th & 9th, 2027
Scott Wichmann: The Return of Mr. Showtime

Scott brings back the style and flair of a bygone era with his signature charisma, blending the best of the Great American Songbook with modern classics and novelty tunes. Together with Musical Director Ryan Corbitt, Mister Showtime delivers the magic of the great crooners—from the Rat Pack to Tony Bennett, Bobby Darin to Mel Torme and more—with a wink and a smile.

March 18th – 20th, 2027
Ginger Minj and Jujubee: Licked: For Gay
Powered by the music of Ariana Grande, Licked: For Gay unfolds inside the Ozdust Barroom as a sexually confused, brand-obsessed Glinda confesses everything: the dorm-room tension, the chaotic love triangle with no straight edges, the rhinestoned corruption of a RuPaul led Oz, the ice bucket challenge heard ’round the world, and the love she didn’t have the courage to choose.

June 4th & 5th, 2027
Julie Fulcher Davis: Songs for the Journey
A Song Cycle for an Ordinary Lesbian Mormon Girl