Every Script in Hand playreading is a brand new experience.
Great scripts. Great actors. One great night at the Playhouse.
At Playhouse Script in-Hand playreadings, an audience favorite for over 10 years, there’s nothing between you and the actors on stage. These readings bring together actors who’ve just met or who’ve known each other for years for one day to rehearse and perform a play on a bare stage, with simple lighting, and you. The audience is in charge of conjuring the set, costumes, and atmosphere, or nothing at all. Actors, audience, and the director come together to create a special, one-night-only experience.
2026 Script in Hand Calendar
Join us in 2026
Script in Hand Dates
- Monday, January 12
- Monday, February 9
- Monday, March 2
- Monday, May 4
- Monday, June 8
- Monday, September 14
- Monday, October 5
- Monday, November 30
All titles, dates, and artists are subject to change.
Become a Subscriber
In response to audiences asking for a way to secure their favorite seat to our popular and often-sold-out Script in Hand playreadings, we created Script in Hand Subscription. In the past, Script in Hand playreadings were sold as single events (and not available as add ons to mainstage season ticket packages).
With a subscription, you are guaranteed a ticket and secured your seat before they are available to the general public. And, as long as you remain a subscriber, your seats are yours to renew annually.
Subscriber single tickets are only $30 each. Non-subscriber tickets are $35.
All subscriptions are individual. Subscriptions should be purchased for each person in your party attending the series. A $35/person individual subscription fee secures your ticket and a seat location to all Script in Hand playreadings and the opportunity to keep to renew annually. The $35/person individual subscription fee is in addition to the cost of a ticket for each show, and will be added to your total at the end of your purchase.
Subscriptions can be renewed at the start of every season.
Individual tickets
Individual tickets in 2026 are only $35 each!
Individual tickets for all 2026 Script in Hand play readings will go on sale on Monday, December 1. They will be available online or by calling the box office at (203) 227-4177. Box Office hours are 12- 5 PM, Tuesday through Friday. Performance day may affect these hours.
I love the playreading experience. It gives us a chance to unearth and re-examine plays and to investigate what theater means to us."
Mark Shanahan, CuratorGET TO KNOW THE CURATOR

2025 Script in Hand Readings
TO BE ANNOUNCED
November 3 at 7PMTO BE ANNOUNCED
December 1 at 7PMPAST EVENT
BackTalkby Rob Ackerman
directed by Jeremy Webb
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PAST EVENT
How the World Beganby Catherine Trieschmann
directed by Camden Gonzales
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PAST EVENT
Parisby Eboni Booth
directed by Anissa Felix
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Past Event
Stillby Lia Romeo
directed by Mark Shanahan
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PAST EVENT
The Shark Is Brokenby Ian Shaw and Joseph Nixon
directed by Mark Shanahan
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PAST EVENT
THE ONE GOOD THING or “Are Ya Patrick Swayze?”By Joe Bravaco
Directed by Ciarán O`Reilly
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PAST EVENT
The MachineBy Matthew Libby Directed by Camden Gonzales
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