September 2026
2026 Modern Works Festival
Back for its seventh year at Urbanite Theatre, the 2026 Modern Works Festival is a two-week celebration of new play development and women in theatre. Urbanite’s Modern Works Festival is a bold invitation inside the creative process, where audiences experience new plays as they are being shaped. With a Festival Pass, you gain all-access entry to the work in progress, including staged readings of finalist plays, a kickoff celebration, guest speaker events, artist performances, and post-show conversations that bring audiences…
Find out more »October 2026
Ahoy-Hoy by Jenny Stafford
A Play About That Relatable Feeling When Someone Else Invents the Telephone Three Hours Before You Do. It’s 1876 and also, right now. Elisha Gray is this close to inventing the telephone. He’s brilliant, anxious, and ready to make history… if Alexander Graham Bell doesn’t beat him to it. Spoiler: he kind of does. Two oversized egos. One telephone. A battle of beards and bell tones. AHOY-HOY is a deliriously unhinged, unapologetic sprint through American ambition, innovation, and the absurd quest for legacy. History has never been this ridiculous or this fun. SHOWTIMES: WEDNESDAYS AT 2:00pm…
Find out more »January 2027
The Garbologists by Lindsay Joelle
Danny’s a white, blue-collar, New York City sanitation worker. Marlowe’s a Black, Ivy-educated newcomer just assigned to his route. Trapped together in the cab of a nineteen-ton garbage truck, they spend their days sparring over everything from “house rules” to high art, each convinced they know better than the other. But somewhere between the trash piles and the treasures they uncover, an unexpected connection begins to take shape. As their worlds collide, they discover there’s more that binds them than…
Find out more »March 2027
1999 by Stacey Isom Campbell
When a college student protests the inclusion of a film by a disgraced #MeToo-era director in her syllabus, acclaimed producer and professor Emma is forced to confront a pivotal moment from her own past. Set against the backdrop of academia and the lasting echoes of the 1990s film industry, this compelling new play weaves together the stories of three women whose lives intersect in the aftermath of trauma. With sharp insight, it interrogates the moral complexities of consuming and teaching…
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