Coming this Summer:
The 2026 Repertory Season at Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum!
Romeo & Juliet
by William Shakespeare
June 6 – September 26
The Gilded Age in New York City: a moment of explosive industrial growth, staggering inequality, and rigid social division. It is within this landscape of class hatred and social imbalance that Romeo and Juliet find each other, two teenagers who are young, impulsive, and innocent of the adult grievances surrounding them. The history of the Gilded Age and the tragic fate of Romeo and Juliet loom as a warning: when humanity gets lost in division, hate, and fear, the first things we sacrifice are compassion, connection, and a hopeful future for our children.
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
by William Shakespeare
June 7 – October 10
Theatricum returns with its signature production! The most magical outdoor theater in Los Angeles becomes an enchanted forest inhabited by lovers, both fairy and human. Shakespeare conjures a world of wonder, magic, and romance, where comical misunderstandings and the pain of unrequited love are resolved. All is reconciled through midsummer night revelries and the enduring power of nature.
Treasure Island
Reimagined by Ellen Geer
From the Novel by Robert Louis Stevenson
June 20 – October 3
Robert Lewis Stevenson’s swashbuckling adventure story sails off the page and onto the wooded outdoor stage of Theatricum Botanicum. A young man’s romantic dream of pirates on the high seas becomes a harrowing reality, where he is tested at every turn. He must face these challenges with courage, trusting a moral compass strong enough to triumph and discover the true treasure found in a life lived with integrity and purpose.
Noël Coward’s
Waiting in the Wings
July 11 – October 3
“The Wings” is a charitable home for retired actresses, women who once lived at the very center of applause and public admiration, and who must now learn how to live together when the curtain has long since fallen. Coward’s signature wit is radical in its insistence that these women are not relics of a bygone era, but fully realized human beings who are sharp, opinionated, funny, difficult, generous, and full of life. They are voices shaped by experience, artistry, and survival. With poignant humor, Waiting in the Wings reminds us that if we are to live fully, we must continue to grow and recognize that a life well led is measured not by applause, but by connection.
The People of Pompeii
by Bernardo Cubría
August 1 – October 4
Fires have come before. More will come again. And still, people stay, for love of place, for their children, for the idea of community. Bernardo Cubría’s dark and incisive new comedy, set in the aftermath of the 2025 fires in Los Angeles, does not romanticize that choice, but interrogates it, exposing the privilege embedded in even being able to choose. A dinner party meant to celebrate survival quickly turns into a sharp, funny, and uncomfortable reckoning with how we perform community when everything beneath it feels unstable. Fast, biting, and wickedly observant, Cubría’s quick dialogue reveals a deeper urgency: a hunger for connection, home, and belonging that is not fragile or performative. In a time when many of us feel unmoored, The People of Pompeii asks what “home” really means—and whether we are willing to do the work it takes to build it together, before the next fire comes.
THE PEOPLE OF POMPEII was originally commissioned by The Old Globe, Barry Edelstein, Erna Finci Viterbi Artistic Director Timothy J. Shields, Audrey S. Geisel Managing Director.