The Santa Fe Playhouses 2026 Season Theme is: POWER PLAYS. In the new year, we’ll turn our stage into a battleground, a sanctuary, and a mirror, exploring the many faces of power: who holds it, who resists it, and how it is reclaimed. Theater has the unique ability to hold a mirror to our current day, allowing us to confront the forces shaping our lives from a safe, shared space. Through bold new works, reimagined classics, and community-driven creations, each piece invites unexpected conversations that connect artists and audiences, revealing how power shapes identity, relationships, and the world we share. In 2026, power is not just a theme. It is an invitation. Join us as we hold space for the urgent, the hilarious, the haunting, and the transformative.
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Flexible seating on a flexible schedule. FlexPass subscriptions let you decide where you want to sit and when you want to come while paying one price to get six tickets that can be used on all productions of the 2026 Season.
Individual Tickets:
Individual Tickets will go on sale January 14th, 2026.
Ticket Accessibility Options:
Santa Fe Playhouse remains dedicated to accessible theater with Pay-What-You-Will preview performances and $10 Rush Tickets after opening night.
MAINSTAGE COMEDY
MARCH 19 – APRIL 12
POTUS is a farce about seven powerful women in the White House who must frantically work to contain a global crisis caused by the President’s disastrous PR stunt, which escalates from a scandal into a potentially worldwide catastrophe. As they try to clean up the Commander-in-Chief’s mess, they find themselves risking their careers, reputations, and even their lives in a desperate, often absurd attempt to keep the President from sinking the nation.
MAINSTAGE DARK COMEDY
MAY 7 – MAY 31
Set in 2004, At the Wake of a Dead Drag Queen alternates between the wake of deceased Drag Queen Courtney Berringers and scenes of her life and romantic journey with aspiring drag performer Vickie Versailles. This play utilizes traditional storytelling, drama, and drag performances to explore themes of Black identity, southern queerness, HIV/AIDS, poverty, illness, and the construction of self. It’s a vibrant, often hilarious, but ultimately moving celebration of life, community, and the power of drag as an art form and a means of survival.
MAINSTAGE MUSICAL
JULY 2 – JULY 19
Cabaret is a musical set in the final days of the Weimar Republic in 1930s Berlin, focusing on the decadent nightlife of the Kit Kat Klub as the Nazi Party rises to power. An American writer, Cliff Bradshaw, and British singer Sally Bowles fall in love amid this growing political turmoil, while Fräulein Schneider and Herr Schultz navigate their own romance and increasing threats to their Jewish heritage. The story serves as a cautionary tale about rising fascism, the dangers of political apathy, and how people choose to ignore the looming threat of a war.
MAINSTAGE WORLD PREMIERE HORROR COMEDY
AUGUST 6 – AUGUST 30
In Bad Medicine, Native American academics Aislin and Cesar are excited to settle into their new home in Proctor, Massachusetts. Even their nosy white neighbors seem nice enough. But as Aislin becomes aware of strange occurrences surrounding her job at the Natural History Museum, she starts to wonder if there might be something insidious beneath the sleepy town. Aislin must overcome deep insecurities around her identity to uncover the town’s terrifying secrets.
MAINSTAGE MUSICAL COMEDY
OCTOBER 8 – OCTOBER 25
The 104th Annual Melodrama will continue Santa Fe Playhouse’s tradition of presenting an original script featuring highly comedic scenes and songs, written by an anonymous committee of Santa Feans.
We are seeking a diverse cast of 10 dynamic, comedic performers of all genders, races, and ages to perform Santa Fe spins on traditional melodrama archetypes, including the Hero, the Heroine, the Vamp, and the Villain; actor special skills such as singing, playing instruments, dance, combat, comedy and the like may be integrated into the script.
MAINSTAGE MUSICAL
NOVEMBER 19 – DECEMBER 20
Through a series of vignettes, Company showcases the joys and struggles of relationships, marriage, and singledom, forcing the 35 year old and single Robert (or Bobbie) to confront their own reluctance to commit and the meaning of being alive. The show, a trailblazer of the modern-comedy musical, uses a non-linear concept structure rather than a traditional plot.