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South Coast Repertory announces 2025-26 season

May 7, 2025

South Coast Repertory’s 2025-26 season will feature two world premieres, two Tony Award winners running in repertory and the return of the popular show “Million Dollar Quartet,” the Costa Mesa regional theater announced today, May 7.

Edward Albee’s “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf” and Yasmina Reza’s “God of Carnage” will play in repertory from Jan. 23 through March 21 — an eight-week run that is among the longest in the theater’s history. SCR is hailing the two rotating plays as “The Theatrical Event of the Season” and theater-goers can see both plays in the same weekend or even on the same day.

Other highlights will include the regional theater hit “The Heart Sellers” by Lloyd Suh, pianist Hershey Felder’s portrayal of “Beethoven,” the world premiere of “Fremont Ave.” by Reggie D. White and a second world premiere yet to be announced. The theater’s beloved annual production of Charles Dickens’s “A Christmas Carol” will be back for a 45th year.

“By design, each offering in the season converses with the others, providing performance after performance of impactful, moving, transformative theater,” SCR Artistic Director David Ivers said in a written statement, adding that the season’s themes are “family, intimacy, longing and joy.”

Here is a chronological look at SCR’s upcoming season:

“Million Dollar Quartet,” Segerstrom Stage, Sept. 13-Oct. 11: A legendary 1956 jam session featuring Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis and Carl Perkins is re-created in the Tony Award-winning revue, which is chockfull of iconic hits such as “Blue Suede Shoes” and “Walk the Line.”

“The Heart Sellers,” Julianne Argyros Stage, Oct. 26-Nov. 16: Lloyd Suh’s play tells the story of two immigrant women — one Filipino, the other Korean — who meet in a supermarket on Thanksgiving 1973 and spend the holiday together while their husbands work. The women discuss their lives in America, the families they left behind and how to cook a frozen turkey.

Richard Doyle is shown as Ebenezer Scrooge in South Coast Repertory's 2024 production of "A Christmas Carol." The annual holiday production returns later this year for a 45th time. (Photo by Robert Huskey, SCR) — Richard Doyle is shown as Ebenezer Scrooge in South Coast Repertory’s 2024 production of “A Christmas Carol.” The annual holiday production returns later this year for a 45th time. (Photo by Robert Huskey, SCR)

Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol,” Segerstrom Stage, Nov. 29-Dec. 28: The theater’s holiday tradition returns for a 45th year. SCR stalwart Richard Doyle returns to portray Ebenezer Scrooge.

“God of Carnage,” Segerstrom Stage, Jan. 23-March 21: After two 11-year-old boys get into a fight, their parents sit down to resolve the conflict — but the peace negotiations soon devolve into a donnybrook. Reza’s work won the 2009 Tony Award for best play.

Edward Albee’s “Who’s Afraid of Virigina Woolf?,” Segerstrom Stage, Jan. 24-March 21: When a young couple is invited to an older couple’s home for a nightcap, they find that they have front-row seats for their hosts’ grievances and resentments. “Virginia Woolf” won the Tony Award for best play in 1963.

“Cinderella: A Salsa Fairy Tale,” Julianne Argyros Stage, Feb. 8-20: In this Theatre for Young Audiences and Families production, the classic story of Cinderella is transformed into a bilingual musical featuring salsa and hip-hop stylings as two female basketball players seek to get Coach Prince to choose them to play in the big game.

World premiere to be announced, Julianne Argyos Stage, April 5-26: In advance of the Pacific Playwrights Festival (May 2-4), SCR will debut a new work from its play development program.

“Fremont Ave.,” Segerstrom Stage, April 25-May 23, 2026: Reggie D. White’s play, receiving its world premiere as part of the Pacific Playwrights Festival, chronicles three generations of Black men who live in a suburban house in Southern California from the 1960s into the 2020s and the woman who connects them.

“Hershey Felder, Beethoven,” Segerstrom Stage, June 10-21, 2026: Felder, a pianist known for bringing musical luminaries such as George Gershwin, Leonard Bernstein and Frederic Chopin to life in his one-man shows, embodies one of classical music’s most celebrated composers. Felder will also perform a “Great American Songbook Sing-Along” for one night only, on June 14.

The interior of South Coast Repertory's Segerstrom Stage is shown. Four-play Segerstrom Stage subscriptions are available for $200-$352. (Courtesy of South Coast Repertory) — The interior of South Coast Repertory’s Segerstrom Stage is shown. Four-play Segerstrom Stage subscriptions are available for $200-$352. (Courtesy of South Coast Repertory)

Full-season subscriptions, which include all of the productions above except for “A Christmas Carol,” “Cinderella: A Salsa Fairy Tale” and the two Hershey Felder shows, are on sale for $290 to $518. Four-play Segerstrom Stage subscriptions are $200-$352, while two-play Argyros Stage subscriptions are $102-$178. Season subscribers will get early access to buy tickets for “A Christmas Carol,” “Beethoven” and the “Great American Songbook Sing-Along.”

The theater is also offering $40 Family Fun Memberships, which include discounts and early access to single tickets for all of SCR’s 2025-26 season, including, “A Christmas Carol,” “Cinderella: A Salsa Fairy Tale” and the SCR Theatre Conservatory Summer Players musical “SpongeBob Square Pants,” which runs Aug. 2-10.

For more details about subscriptions and other information, call 714-708-5555 or go to scr.org.

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