Our summer season is here. 

After a long, cold winter, we emerge from The Dark into the light. This year, we do so with a summer program that is illuminated by new work, including ten world and US premieres—many of which were commissioned by PS21, developed in residency here at PS21, or both. 

These artists are interrogating the role of American culture and history reflected around the world; engaging PS21’s landscape in ever bolder ways; and seeking out community members to help co-author place-based work.

Groundtone and Commonground return for the second year—two festivals on each end of the summer, each featuring unexpected performances across our grounds. 

And so much more. 

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SUMMER SEASON

Many of the season’s productions are pay-as-you-wish. For the rest, we’re debuting a new tiered ticket pricing structure this year:

$12.50 (no questions asked): no eligibility requirements—if that’s what you have, we can’t wait to have you with us.

$30 (general): standard ticket

$50 (pay it forward): for those who can comfortably pay a little more, this helps offset the $12.50 ticket.

$110 (true cost): reflects the actual per-seat cost of the performance, including artist fees, production, travel, and operations.

This structure reflects our increased commitment to access, while also being honest about the costs of presenting large-scale, international shows.

Dear friends,

Just over twelve months ago, we began down a road to transform how our artistic, local, national and global communities come up the drive from Route 66 to the theater—and what they find when they arrive. 

The artists you will engage and meet this summer are—as you would expect—coming to Chatham from every discipline imaginable. They reflect and examine wildly different perspectives on how American culture transmits itself and is received around the world. 

They constitute a polyphony of voices, each wading gamely through our current morass of identity, politics, economics, and geopolitical fissure. They understand their individual pasts and challenge our collective histories, bravely interrogating both to imagine a more beautiful future.

As we continue our commitment to activating our grounds and to being better stewards of the landscape in which we work, we welcome these artists who are unafraid to bring us out of the theater. They lead us into meadows, woods, barns, ponds, and into new communities, engaging participants in the creation of their work along the way. 

I encourage you to seek out work you expect to love—but even more, to take a risk with us on something entirely new. 

My thanks, as always, to the incredible PS21 team, who have run faster and stronger than I ever could have imagined. This is a team sport—and every person in our organization has delivered far beyond every expectation. And my deepest thanks to all of our supporters and our board—you’ve boldly endorsed our vision and enabled us to take on risk as we continue to evolve PS21. I believe our work in 2026—from The Dark in February to the productions you’ll find inside this brochure—rewards that risk. 

Thank you. 

Vallejo Gantner

PS21 Artistic & Executive Director

In a challenging moment for American arts nonprofits, PS21 is growing. That’s because of you: our community of hundreds of supporters, who believe in the transformative power of live performance—and that what we’re doing is important. 

By design, ticket sales account for just a small fraction of our revenue. It is your generosity that makes everything we do possible.

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