VILLAGE PRIDE 2026
Dear Friends,
There’s a reason we’re called Village Theatre. A village is a place where you’re known — a place where, whoever you are and whoever you love, there’s a seat with your name on it. As an out gay man and the Artistic Director here, let me say it plainly to our LGBTQIA+ audiences, artists, and neighbors:
You belong at Village Theatre, in the house and on our stages, exactly as you are.
That belief lives in our work:
- We’ve put Black queer love center stage in The Color Purple.
- We’ve helped launch new musicals like MISS STEP that bring trans and non-binary lives into a spotlight too rarely theirs.
- We’ve welcomed transgender artists into roles that have nothing to do with their gender and everything to do with their gifts.
Because representation is as much about who’s in the room as it is about which stories we choose to tell.
This season you’ll find queer characters woven throughout our productions in Come From Away and Love Is Dead; and, over the holidays, Village Theatre Presents brings Dragapella — four performers in glorious drag and even more glorious four-part harmony — skewering the season in their bawdy, brilliant holiday mash-up, Oy Vey in a Manger.
With only a handful of productions a year, we can’t tell every story every season — but we intend to keep telling more of them, and to tell them with care.
So consider this your invitation. Come as you are, bring who you love, and take your seat. The door is open, and there’s room for you here. I can’t wait to share the work with you.
Yours,
Adam
Coming this December, one of our new Village Theatre Presents events will feature America’s Favorite Beauty Shop Quartet, Dragapella!
