Players' Ring Theatre Announces Mainstage Season 2025-26

PORTSMOUTH – Looking for thought-provoking drama, romantic horror, classic Shakespeare and maybe even a recipe for hope?

The Players’ Ring Theatre announces its Mainstage Season for 2025-26 promising to deliver all of this and more. (See sidebar)

Every year, the theatre holds the so called “Ring-Toss,” a community event where theatre makers – playwrights, directors, performers, producers – have the opportunity to pitch their works and ideas.

This year was no different, with 93 submissions received, and many of them creatively presented live in front of a supportive audience of fellow artists, and narrowed down to 10 productions including the annual “A Christmas Carol,” that runs each December.

The Players’ Ring Theatre is a historic and uniquely intimate 75-seat venue at 105 Marcy Street, right at the edge of beautiful Prescott Park. Donors were invited to an exclusive season preview at the end of May.

“It’s pretty remarkable and inspiring to realize how far the Players’ Ring has come over the past few years,” said the Ring’s Executive Director Margherita Giacobbi.

“What started as a volunteer-run organization hosting externally produced shows has grown into a professionally operated theatre with a staff of five. Season after season, we engage hundreds of local and regional artists to produce 10 Mainstage productions in house.”

Please visit www.playersring.org for the full press release.

PLAYERS’ RING THEATRE MAINSTAGE SEASON 2025-26

• Sept. 12 – 28 : “Waiting for Godot”, a tragicomic masterpiece by Samuel Beckett and directed by Bretton Reis.
• Oct. 17 – Nov. 2: “The Man Who Laughs”, a romantic horror directed by Peter Josephson.
• Nov. 14 – 30 : “Ye Merry Gentlemen”, a holiday fable, by G. Matthew Gaskell and directed by Sam Smith.
• Dec. 5 – 28: “A Christmas Carol”, adapted and directed by Ben Bagley.
• Jan. 9 – 25: “Seeing Violet”, a New England History Drama by Peter Snoad and directed by Sandi Clark Kaddy.
• Feb. 6 – 22: “Julius Caesar”, William Shakespeare’s tragedy of power and betrayal, facilitated by Andrew Codispoti and Glenn Provost.