Announcing the 2026 Summer Repertory Season at Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum! A Midsummer Night’s Dream is back, alongside Romeo and Juliet, Treasure Island, Noël Coward’s Waiting in the Wings and Bernardo Cubría’s dark and incisive new comedy, The People of Pompeii. Get tickets at www.theatricum.com.
It doesn’t feel quite like summer in Los Angeles without a trip to Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum, Topanga’s dreamy outdoor repertory theatre in the shade of the old growth oak trees of the Canyon. Don’t forget to arrive early with a picnic to explore the grounds before the show opens, and take a peek at the newly renovated historic home of Woody Guthrie on the grounds of Theatricum, called The Shelter, which houses archives of Guthrie and Geer and is open to audiences before the show.
The 2026 Repertory Season opens June 6 with Romeo and Juliet, set in Gilded Age New York City, as two impulsive teenagers find each other in a societal moment of explosive industrial growth, staggering inequality and rigid social division.
Next up, beginning June 7, is Theatricum’s signature production, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, where the most magical outdoor setting in Los Angeles becomes an enchanted forest inhabited by lovers, both fairy and human.
On June 20, the swashbuckling adventure of Treasure Island sweeps across Theatricum’s woodland stage as a young man's romantic dream of pirates on the high seas becomes a harrowing reality, where he is tested at every turn.
On July 11, Noël Coward’s Waiting in the Wings opens, in which the lauded playwright’s signature wit paints a vivid portrait of the residents of a home for retired actresses, not as relics of a bygone era, but as fully realized human beings — sharp, opinionated, funny, difficult, generous and full of life. Finally, the season is rounded out with an incisive new dark comedy by Bernardo Cubrìa set in the aftermath of the 2025 fires in Los Angeles.
The Repertory Season runs June through October 2026, alongside Family Fundays (interactive storytelling for children and families) and Under the Oaks Performance Series (Thursday nights in September).