
What's Coming in 2025-26?
Season 5:
Power & Resistance
As we embark upon unprecedented times in America, Southbank is responding with works about power and resistance. Our fifth season will include:
September 11-21, 2025
England, 1605: A terrorist plot to assassinate King James I and Parliament has been thwarted. Shakespeare is commissioned to write the “true historie” of the plot and is confronted with the ultimate moral and artistic dilemma: Speak truth to power—and perhaps lose his head, or take the money and lie. Is there a third option—equivocation? A high-stakes political thriller with contemporary resonances.
October 23 - November 2
This timeless classic challenges American ideas of power, intolerance, and justice. In the Puritan community of Salem, Massachusetts, a servant girl accuses a farmer’s wife of witchcraft. One accusation spirals into many, uncovering a web of bigotry and deceit that changes their lives forever. The Crucible is both a gripping historical drama and an evergreen parable about contemporary society. (No Halloween show)
March 12-22
An expressionist parable about an ordinary young woman who lives in a mechanized, materialistic world. A modern Everywoman, Helen works in a boring office, marries her boss who offers her financial security, finds motherhood oppressive, and has a lover who abandons her. Machinal presents the life of a young woman who asks an impersonal society, “Is nothing mine?”
April 23-May 3
Our fourth show for season 5 will be the winner of our Making History Contest! Come to our staged readings June 20-21, 2025, to hear an early version of each of the shows. Then, when the winner is announced, we'll update this page with the winner!