Rep Reads is our fan-favorite play reading and discussion group! Celebrate the written word of theatre and share perspectives with members of the Rep community.
Over the last four years, Rep Reads has become a fan-favorite artistic engagement program. We are happy to continue offering this beloved play reading club. Each month, we independently read a script and come together to discuss its themes, characters, and impact. Rep Readers gain a deeper appreciation of dramatic literature while building community connections with fellow theatre lovers at The Rep.
Rep Reads 2025-2026 Season
Each of our Rep Reads selections has been curated to reflect our onstage programming. Deepen your understanding and appreciation of our season of daring imagination with this collection of plays that reflect the themes, styles, and voices of our productions.
SEPTEMBER
Home, I'm Darling by Laura Wade
Tuesday, September 9, 2025: 2 pm - 3 pm - Zoom
Tuesday, September 9, 2025: 6 pm - 7 pm - LHC Lobby
Wednesday, September 10, 2025: 2 pm - 3 pm - The Novel Neighbor
How happily married are the happily married? Home, I'm Darling is a dark comedy about sex, cake and the quest to be the perfect 1950s housewife. Judy has Johnny's slippers waiting for him when he arrives home from work, the kitchen's clean, the rooms are aired...yet this is not the 1950s, but a 21st-century 'arrangement' agreed between the two of them. With clothes, furniture and a (faulty) fridge from the 1950s, Judy and Johnny try to 'live the dream', with specific roles and a perfectly ordered life.
Why we chose it: Reflects The Cottage through British farce, feminist and domestic themes, and historical fiction.
OCTOBER
A Number by Caryl Churchill
Tuesday, October 14, 2025: 2 pm - 3 pm - Zoom
Tuesday, October 14, 2025: 6 pm - 7 pm - LHC Lobby
Wednesday, October 15, 2025: 2 pm - 3 pm - The Novel Neighbor
As A Number begins, a son confronts his father with the startling knowledge that he has genetically identical counterparts and is merely one of “a number.” Upon this topical foundation, Churchill shifts gears to engage in a penetrating, timeless inquiry aimed at the intersection of morality, nature versus nurture, and the very substance of love.
Why we chose it: Reflects The Woman in Black through minimalist theatricality, Gothic storytelling devices, and thrilling tone.
NOVEMBER
In the Red and Brown Water by Tarell Alvin McCraney
Tuesday, November 11, 2025: 2 pm - 3 pm - Zoom
Tuesday, November 11, 2025: 6 pm - 7 pm - LHC Lobby
Wednesday, November 12, 2025: 2 pm - 3 pm - The Novel Neighbor
In the sweltering heat of Louisiana, Oya dreams of competing alongside star athletes. She never feels so right as when she's burning up the track. As a girl, she must choose between her dream and caring for her mother. As a woman, she's torn between the man she lives with and the man she can't live without. An earlier chapter in the lives of Ogun Size and Elegba.
Why we chose it: Deepens the audience’s response to and connection with the characters of The Brothers Size, inviting conversation on play cycles, modernized mythology, and the Black American experience.
JANUARY
Aubergine by Julia Cho
Tuesday, January 20, 2026: 2 pm - 3 pm - Zoom
Tuesday, January 20, 2026: 6 pm - 7 pm - LHC Lobby
Wednesday, January 21, 2026: 2 pm - 3 pm - The Novel Neighbor
A man shares a bowl of berries, and a young woman falls in love. A world away, a mother prepares a bowl of soup to keep her son from leaving home. And a son cooks a meal for his dying father to say everything that words can’t. In this poignant and lyrical play, the making of a perfect meal is an expression more precise than language, and the medium through which life gradually reveals itself.
Why we chose it: Reflects Mrs. Krishnan’s Party by exploring themes of family and identity through the lenses of cooking and cuisine.
FEBRUARY
Harvey by Mary Chase
Tuesday, February 10, 2026: 2 pm - 3 pm - Zoom
Tuesday, February 10, 2026: 6 pm - 7 pm - LHC Lobby
Wednesday, February 11 2026: 2 pm - 3 pm - The Novel Neighbor
When Elwood P. Dowd starts to introduce his imaginary friend, Harvey, a six-and-a-half-foot rabbit, to guests at a society party, his sister, Veta, has seen as much of his eccentric behavior as she can tolerate. She decides to have him committed to a sanitarium to spare her daughter, Myrtle Mae, and their family from future embarrassment. Problems arise, however, when Veta herself is mistakenly assumed to be on the verge of lunacy when she explains to doctors that years of living with Elwood's hallucination have caused her to see Harvey also! Winner of the 1945 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
Why we chose it: Reflects Primary Trust through its exploration of mental health and community. The play is also a clear inspiration for Primary Trust, inviting conversation around homage on the American stage.
MARCH
Arcadia by Tom Stoppard
Tuesday, March 17, 2026: 2 pm - 3 pm - Zoom
Tuesday, March 17, 2026: 6 pm - 7 pm - LHC Lobby
Wednesday, March 18, 2026: 2 pm - 3 pm - The Novel Neighbor
This brilliant play moves smoothly between 1809 and the present as it explores the nature of truth and time, the difference between classical and romantic temperaments, and the disruptive influence of sex on our life orbits- the attraction Newton left out.
Why we chose it: Like The Enigmatist, a puzzle of a play that depends on both intellectual stimulation and emotional relevance.
APRIL
The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams
Tuesday, April 7, 2026: 2 pm - 3 pm - Zoom
Tuesday, April 7, 2026: 6 pm - 7 pm - LHC Lobby
Wednesday, April 8, 2026: 2 pm - 3 pm - The Novel Neighbor
Amanda Wingfield is a faded remnant of Southern gentility who now lives in a dingy St. Louis apartment with her son, Tom, and her daughter, Laura, who has a physical handicap and debilitating shyness. The father has left home; Tom supports his mother and sister with a shoe-factory job he finds unbearable. When Amanda convinces Tom to bring home from his workplace a “gentleman caller” for Laura, the illusions that Tom, Amanda, and Laura have each created in order to make life bearable collapse about them.
Why we chose it: Reflects Gypsy through its themes of mother/child relationships, the ghost of the past, illusion, and survival.