Our 2026 Season

Kitchen Sink Theatre Company is proud to announce our full 2026 season! We are so excited to present another season of new theatre, featuring two workshop readings and two full productions by queer New York City playwrights. 

 

Both of our readings (Show Me Your Dick! by Eliana Rubin and Narcissus as Plot Form: A Transsexual Rage(r) by Oscar K.) are wonderfully absurd transgender pieces that play in a heightened camp reality. Connected by the simultaneously ridiculous and existentially terrifying reality of being trans in America in 2026, they underscore the earnestness, vulnerability, and excitement that it takes to live as a trans person in a world so poisoned against nonconformity. These are two capital-Q Queer shows rooted in a long tradition of using deliberate high camp to explore the contradictions inherent to living under the dominance of cultural conservatism. In true Queer tradition, they ask the audience to laugh and dance through hardships together. 

 

Our two full productions (BRICKGIRL by Ryan Stevens and Boys Will Be Dogs by Al Groppi) explore how destabilizing it feels to live in this moment so saturated with outright hatred and nihilism. They ask what so many of us find ourselves asking every day: how do you walk on the same earth, breathe the same air, share blood and traditions with people who can participate in heinous acts? How do you love your neighbor or your family, when you’re constantly having to question what violence they’re capable of? Can people who do bad things be saved? How do we look past such a magnitude of suffering?

Through both experimental and more classic theatrical modes, BRICKGIRL and Boys Will Be Dogs join a rich theatrical tradition trying to make meaning out of seemingly senseless depravity. They ask a lot and answer little. In presenting these shows, we invite our audience to discover, or at least get a little closer to, their own personal answers to these questions.

 

And of course in October, as always, we’ll cap it off with everyone’s favorite mad transsexual transvestite from Transylvania, tying together all of the gory high-camp queerness we’ve played with all season in one nonsensical madcap musical extraordinaire. 

 

It’s a bizarro season that we’re SO excited to share, queerer and fresher than ever, featuring some of the smartest and most talented new playwrights in the city. I’m so proud of this work and the fact that we get to share these amazing talents with our community. Here’s to a fantastic season!

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Katie Gobreski, KSTC Production Manager