2027 Season
Welcome to our 2027 Mainstage Season! This is our 10th Anniversary Season made to excite, inspire, and celebrate the impact of live theatre!
In Eureka Day, witness the tensions, humor, and challenges that arise within a progressive private school community as a public health crisis forces parents and administrators to confront their values. June brings Tick, Tick... Boom!, Jonathan Larson's inspiring and heartfelt musical about ambition, creativity, and the pursuit of artistic dreams in the face of uncertainty. In October, Every Brilliant Thing offers a deeply moving and uplifting exploration of mental health, resilience, and the small joys that make life worth living. End the year with Louisa May Alcott's Little Women, an adaptation of the beloved classic that follows the March sisters as they navigate love, loss, and adulthood while discovering the strength of family and the power of following their dreams.
Summer also brings Hamlet by William Shakespeare! Shakespeare on the Lawn is our annual outdoor theatrical experience in partnership with The Salisbury House Foundation. We are thrilled that our 2027 production features one of Shakespeare’s most complex and enduring tragedies.
Join us for a season of compelling stories, rich emotions, and dynamic performances. Get your tickets for an epic journey through the magic of theatre.
WE CAN'T WAIT TO SEE YOU AT THE THEATER!​
Eureka Day
By Jonathan Spector​
February 26 - March 7, 2027​
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Winner of the 2025 Tony Award for Best Revival of a Play! The Eureka Day School in Berkeley, California, is a bastion of progressive ideals: representation, acceptance, social justice. When a mumps outbreak threatens the Eureka community, facts become subjective and every solution divisive.​​
Tick, Tick...BOOM!
By Jonathan Larson​
June 18-27, 2027​​
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An aspiring composer questions his life choices on the eve of his thirtieth birthday in Jonathan Larson's autobiographical musical. Before Rent, there was Tick, Tick... Boom!. This autobiographical musical by Jonathan Larson, the Pulitzer Prize- and Tony Award-winning composer of Rent, is the story of a composer and the sacrifices that he made to achieve his big break in theatre. Containing fourteen songs, ten characters, three actors and a band, Tick, Tick... Boom! takes you on the playwright/composer's journey that led to a Broadway blockbuster.
Every Brilliant Thing
By Duncan Macmillan with John Donahoe
October 1-10, 2027
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Every Brilliant Thing opens with a mother’s suicide attempt and her seven-year-old’s subsequent search to understand it and help lift her depression by documenting the joys all around them. Starting with the basics, like ice cream and the color yellow, the list is maintained throughout their lifetime and highlights the narrator’s ever-changing view of what is beautiful about the world as they reach adulthood.
Louisa May Alcott's Little Women
By Lauren Gunderson​
December 3-12, 2027
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Jo March desperately wants to be a writer – an unusual dream for a teenage girl in 1860s Massachusetts. With her father away during the Civil War, Jo and sisters Meg, Beth and Amy remain at home with their mother Marmee, joyful and dutiful despite their modest circumstances. As time passes, the women in the family grow ever closer as they navigate love, loss and new beginnings. Yearning for independence, Jo is emboldened by her sisters to channel her angst into her stories, eventually finding her place in the world as a published author. This new adaptation of the beloved classic celebrates the wonderful and trying transition from girlhood to adulthood.​​
2027 flex packageS
This year we are offering two season package options though our Flex Pass setup! Flex Pass patrons will receive vouchers, which can be used toward any Iowa Stage Theatre Company production at the Stoner Theater. You can use one for each production or all on one! They’re FLEX-ible!
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Flex Pass - 3 Show: $149
Flex Pass - 4 Show: $198
Sponsor an Artist or a Show Today
We count on the support of our generous donors to help us create the laughs, the goosebumps, the tears, and the rush of a well-told story.
Sponsoring an artist helps offset production costs, allowing us work with a variety of Cloris Award-winning local artists. An artist is a performer, a director, a lighting designer, or any one of the professionals creating the magic of the stage.
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Sponsoring a show helps us cover the necessary cost of resources like venue rental, licensing, and more. Before we can build the set, help us secure the space.
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To sponsor a show or an artist, contact us at development@iowastage.org.
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