November 12 – 14, 2026 Waterfront Playhouse, Mallory Square, 407 Wall Street The Waterfront Playhouse launches its Spotlight Series with the Florida premiere of , a solo play written by Jason Odell Williams. It runs about 75 minutes and takes the form of a private tour of Michelangelo's David at the Galleria dell'Accademia in Florence, […]
December 2 – 17, 2026 Waterfront Playhouse, Mallory Square, 407 Wall Street The Waterfront Playhouse's holiday show turns the theatre into a 1940s radio studio for It's a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play, Joe Landry's adaptation of the Frank Capra film. A small cast plays every role, performing the story live at microphones the […]
December 8, 2026 – January 2, 2027 · Shows at 7:00pm Red Barn Theatre, 319 Duval Street (rear) The Red Barn opens its holiday slot with Shooting Star, a two-hander by Steven Dietz, one of the most widely produced playwrights working in American theater. The setup is simple enough to describe in a sentence: two […]
January 7 – 9, 2027 Waterfront Playhouse, Mallory Square, 407 Wall Street The Spotlight Series continues with Blanche and Beyond, Steve Lawson's one-man play assembled from Tennessee Williams's own letters. It's the sequel to Lawson's A Distant Country Called Youth, which drew on the early correspondence; this one covers 1945 through 1957, the stretch that […]
Monday, January 18, 2027 Doors 6:30pm, Show 7:30pm · Tennessee Williams Theatre America's premiere doo wop group brings a brand-new show to the Tennessee Williams Theatre stage this January. The Doo Wop Project takes today's biggest hits and "doowop-ifies" them — reimagining contemporary songs as though they'd been written and recorded in 1958. Familiar melodies arrive […]
January 19 – February 20, 2027 · Tuesdays–Saturdays at 7:30pm Red Barn Theatre, 319 Duval Street (rear) The Red Barn follows its holiday show with Dracula: A Comedy of Terrors, the Gordon Greenberg and Steve Rosen send-up that became an off-Broadway hit and has been working its way through regional theaters ever since. The premise […]
Thursday, January 21, 2027 Doors 6:30pm, Show 7:30pm · Tennessee Williams Theatre One of Italy's most inventive performing arts companies makes a stop in Key West this January. NoGravity was founded in Rome in 2005 by artist Emiliano Pellisari, and it has spent two decades building a form of theater that doesn't fit neatly into […]
January 28 – February 6, 2027 Waterfront Playhouse, Mallory Square, 407 Wall Street The Waterfront's mainstage returns to Paul Slade Smith, whose The Angel Next Door played there previously, with Unnecessary Farce. Two cops have set up a sting in a cheap motel, hoping to catch the mayor taking a bribe. There are two adjoining […]
Monday, February 1, 2027 Doors 6:30pm, Show 7:30pm · Tennessee Williams Theatre The New York Gilbert & Sullivan Players bring their production of to Key West this February. NYGASP has been the country's leading Gilbert & Sullivan repertory company for more than fifty years, and Pirates is the piece they're best known for — a […]
Tuesday, February 9, 2027 Doors 5:30pm, Show 6:30pm · Tennessee Williams Theatre Afrique en Cirque comes to Key West as part of the Tennessee Williams Theatre's new Family Fun Series, a slate of shows programmed for audiences of all ages. It's the signature production of Cirque Kalabanté, the company founded by Guinean acrobat Yamoussa Bangoura, […]
February 11 – 13, 2027 Waterfront Playhouse, Mallory Square, 407 Wall Street The Spotlight Series continues with the Florida premiere of Call Me Elizabeth, written and performed by Kayla Boye. It's set on a single morning in May 1961 at the Beverly Hills Hotel, drawn from Elizabeth Taylor's real conversations with the writer Max Lerner […]
Saturday, February 27, 2027 Doors 6:30pm, Show 7:30pm · Tennessee Williams Theatre Ailey II is the junior company of Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, and calling it a training ensemble undersells it considerably. Founded in 1974 as the Alvin Ailey Repertory Ensemble, it exists to pair the strongest early-career dancers in the country with choreographers […]
