PCTC Announces 2025 – 26 Season Line-Up

Peppermint Creek Theatre Company proudly announces our 22nd Season: “Based On A True Story”!

From roller coasters and family traditions to stories ripped straight from the headlines, our 22nd Season continues our mission to embrace bold, urgent, and emotionally resonant theatre with a lineup that asks big questions about identity, justice, resilience, and hope. We’re thrilled to announce our 2025-2026 season and invite you to join the conversation. Purchase season ticket packages on our website, HERE.

RIDE THE CYCLONE
With Music, Book and Lyrics by Brooke Maxwell & Jacob Richmond
Directed by James Curtis
September 19 – 21 & 25 – 28, 2025
In this hilarious and outlandish story, the lives of six teenagers from a Canadian chamber choir are cut short in a freak accident aboard a roller coaster. When they awake in limbo, a mechanical fortune teller invites each to tell a story to win a prize like no other — the chance to return to life. This popular musical is a funny, moving look at what makes a life well-lived!

THE BEST WE COULD
By Emily Feldman
Directed by Emily Clark
November 7 – 9 & 13 – 16, 2025
In this funny, wise, and heartbreaking new play, a daughter’s road trip with her father becomes a theatrical journey across more than just state lines. Though 36-year old Ella has nearly given up on life, she agrees to accompany her father Lou on a long-distance trip to adopt a rescue dog. Guided by a narrator called Maps and interspersed with memories and phone calls from Ella’s mother, Peg, their journey reveals hard truths as their pasts slowly rise to the surface.

ALL IS CALM: The Christmas Truce of 1914
By Peter Rothstein, Erick Lichte and Timothy Takach
Directed by Chad Swan-Badgero
December 10 – 14, 2025
After SOLD OUT runs for the last four years, PCTC brings back this moving holiday event for the final time! All Is Calm: The Christmas Truce of 1914 recounts an astounding moment in history when Allied and German soldiers laid down their arms to celebrate Christmas together, sharing food and drink, playing soccer, singing carols and burying each other’s dead. This dramatic re-telling weaves together firsthand accounts by 30 World War I soldiers with music including patriotic tunes, trench songs and Christmas carols.

FATHERLAND
By Stephen Sachs
Directed by Chad Swan-Badgero
January 23 – 25 & 29 -February 1, 2026
The true story of the eighteen-year-old son who turned in his father to the FBI because of his dad’s role in the attack on the U.S. Capitol on January 6. Fast-moving, powerful, and theatrical, every word of Fatherland comes from court evidence, public statements, and the official court transcript of The United States vs. Guy Wesley Reffitt, the jury trial held before the United States District Court, District of Columbia, from February 28 – March 8, 2022.

FAIRVIEW
By Jackie Sibblies Drury
Directed by Janell Hall
March 13 – 15 & 19 – 22, 2026
At the Frasier household, preparations for Grandma’s birthday party are underway. Beverly is holding on to her sanity by a thread to make sure this party is perfect, but her sister can’t be bothered to help, her husband doesn’t seem to listen, her brother is MIA, her daughter is a teenager, and maybe nothing is what it seems in the first place…! FAIRVIEW is a searing examination of families, drama, family dramas, and the insidiousness of white supremacy.

EUREKA DAY
By Jonathan Spector
Directed by Ben Cassidy
May 8 – 10 & 14 – 17, 2026
The Eureka Day School in Berkeley, California, is a bastion of progressive ideals: representation, acceptance and social justice. In weekly meetings Eureka Day’s five board members develop and update policy to preserve this culture of inclusivity, reaching decisions only by consensus. But when a mumps outbreak threatens the Eureka community, facts become subjective and every solution divisive, leaving the school’s leadership to confront the central question of our time: How do you build consensus when no one can agree on truth?

We look forward to bring these productions to our community next season!