Off-Broadway's Soho Rep has revealed its 2025–26 programming, which includes the Off-Broadway transfer of its production of Jordan Tannahill's Prince Faggot, a new Toshi Reagon music event, and a show from Anne Gridley called Watch Me Walk.
The season will kick off with Toshi Reagon's Songs of the Living, which will bring 11 New York City communities together to learn and sing music. Each Songs of the Living event will be uniquely themed and developed in collaboration with participating organizations and featured artists, culminating in one final event at Brooklyn Academy of Music. The event will run October 21–November 16.
The initiative will partner with a number of cultural and civic organizations, including Snug Harbor Cultural Center and Botanical Garden, Bronxlandia, The Africa Center, National Sawdust, Flushing Town Hall, Another World, Weeksville Heritage Center, Queens Public Library, Lincoln Center, El Puente, and BAM.
Along with Reagon, many will also be special guests artists: Alsarah and the Nubatones, Taína Asili, Morley & Chris Bruce: “The Bruces”, New York Arabic Chorus, DJ Bill Coleman, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Nona Hendryx, Baba Israel, Yasmine Lee, Legacy Women, Miguel Luciano, Nile Nights, Lizzie No, The Soapbox Presents, and DJ Leecy T.
The season also current offers the Off-Broadway transfer of Soho Rep's hit play from last season: Jordan Tannahill's Prince Faggot, which began performances September 11 Studio Seaview on the heels of its sold-out, three-times extended run at the Peter Jay Sharp Theater last season. Described in press notes as a "meta-theatrical tragicomedy," the work features a queer and gender expansive ensemble daring to imagine a monarch from their own community. Shayok Misha Chowdhury (Public Obscenities) is back to direct after staging the world premiere. It will continue its run at Studio Seaview through November 30.
Next in Soho Rep's season will be Anne Gridley's show Watch Me Walk. Described as "the show she never wanted to write," it explores Gridley's experience living with Hereditary Spastic Paraplegia (HSP)—a rare degenerative neurological disease, which her mother and grandmother also had. In association with the Under the Radar Festival, Eric Ting will co-direct the production, which will run at Playwrights Horizons’ Peter Jay Sharp Theater January 14–February 8, 2026. (Following Soho Rep's departure from its home of three decades, they have entered a space-sharing initiative with Playwrights Horizons until they find a new permanent venue.)
For more information, visit SohoRep.org.