Welcome to Season 24
We are thrilled to announce the three musicals and two plays that will make up its bold and inspiring 2025–2026 season. This, our 24th season and third full season in the renovated and renamed Ray Charles Stage at the Dea Hurston New Village Arts Center, celebrates stories of resilience and friendship: tales of grit, growth, and the powerful joy that comes from facing life’s challenges together.
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[Title of show] – an ORIGINAL broadway musical
MUSIC & LYRICS BY JEFF BOWEN
BOOK BY HUNTER BELL
Directed by Desireé Clarke Miller
Musical direction by eRIN VANDERHYDE
“Sly, sassy, inspired.” – Entertainment Weekly
- Previews: August 8-15, 2025
- Opening Night: Saturday, August 16, 2025
- August 8-September 21, 2025
Ever wonder what it would be like to write a musical? This musical about writing a musical (and yes, that’s the real title!) is a fast, funny, entirely entertaining look at the creative process told by a talented cast of four actors. Directed by Moxie Theatre’s Artistic Director Desireé Clarke Miller, this will be a fantastic summer show!
[TITLE OF SHOW] is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals. www.concordtheatricals.com
RENT
Book, Music and Lyrics by JONATHAN LARSON
Directed by KYM PAPPAS
“RENT is theatre at its best: passionate, exuberant, uplifting, and joyous.”
– Theatremania
- Previews: October 31st-November 7th, 2025
- Opening Night: Saturday, November 8th, 2025
- October 31st-December 24th, 2025
An exciting & powerful collaboration with DIVERSIONARY THEATRE in San Diego!
One of the most important (and most thrilling) musicals of modern times, RENT follows a group of friends in NYC as they navigate the challenges of various romances, the AIDS crisis and yes, rent prices in the City. Produced in collaboration with Diversionary Theatre (who will do their own production of RENT in late Spring 2026!), this show welcomes Kym Pappas back as director after her amazing productions of THE HALF-LIFE OF MARIE CURIE and FUN HOME. At the end, everything comes back to LOVE, and NVA is proud to finally produce this unforgettable show.
RENT was originally produced in New York by New York Theatre Workshop and on Broadway by Jeffrey Seller, Kevin McCollum, Allan S. Gordon and New York Theatre Workshop.
RENT is presented through special arrangemnet with Music Theatre International (MTI). All authorized performance materials are also supplied by MTI. www.mtishows.com
THE APIARY
WRITTEN BY KATE DOUGLAS
directed by NVA Founder and EXECUTIVE Artistic Director, Kristianne Kurner
“Critic’s Pick! Call it ‘Little Hive of Horrors’…a bright, strange and mesmerizing marvel.” —The New York Times
- Previews: January 23rd-30th, 2026
- Opening Night: Saturday, January 31st, 2026
- January 23rd-February 22nd, 2026
SAN DIEGO PREMIERE!
The San Diego premiere of an enthralling and funny new work by Kate Douglas, THE APIARY is a sci-fi thriller that takes place in a lab determined to save the ailing honey bees – but at what cost? Executive Artistic Director Kristianne Kurner will direct this play that delves into the ethics of discovery and the lengths we will go to protect what we love. The New York Times named it a Critic’s Pick calling it a “bright, strange and mesmerizing marvel”.
THE APIARY is presented by special arrangement with Broadway Licensing, LLC, servicing the Dramatists Play Service collection. www.dramatists.com
MATT & BEN
WRITTEN BY MINDY KALING & BRENDA WITHERS
Directed by Patrice Amon
“Absolutely delightful and deliciously spiteful! Sharp and clever, Matt & Ben succeeds!” – The New York Times
- Previews: March 27th-April 3rd, 2026
- Opening Night: Saturday, April 4th, 2026
- March 27th-April 26th, 2026
SAN DIEGO PREMIERE!
Written by one of our best living comedians, Mindy Kaling (THE MINDY PROJECT, THE OFFICE), along with Brenda Withers, this hysterical comedy takes an unconventional look at two of Hollywood’s golden boys, Matt Damon & Ben Affleck. When the script for the film GOOD WILL HUNTING mysteriously drops from the heavens, what will they do? This is a quick, hilarious send up on creativity and friendship, and is the San Diego Premiere of this play that took NYC by storm in 2003.
MATT & BEN is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals. www.concordtheatricals.com. MATT & BEN was originally produced Off-Broadway by Victoria Lang & Pier Paolo Piccoli, Stephen Pevner & Jason Hsiao
HAIRSPRAY
BOOK BY MARK O’DONNELL & THOMAS MEEHAN
MUSIC BY MARC SHAIMAN
LYRICS BY SCOTT WITTMAN & MARC SHAIMAN
BASED ON THE NEW LINE CINEMA FILM WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY JOHN WATERS
DIRECTED BY NVA ARTISTIC PRODUCER, KALI BOSTON
“Sings an anthem to equality and self-determination… fills the theater with glowing, genuinely earned Broadway optimism.” — San Francisco Chronicle
- Previews: June 5th-12th, 2026
- Opening Night: Saturday, June 13th, 2026
- June 5th – July 19th, 2026
Based on John Waters’ iconic 1998 film, this musical has become one of the most beloved of the American stage. Set in Baltimore in 1962, follow Tracy Turnblad as she achieves her dream of performing on a TV dance show – and works to integrate the show in the process. Winner of 8 Tony Awards, including Best Musical, HAIRSPRAY is a family-friendly musical, piled high with laughter, romance and deliriously tuneful songs. NVA’s Artistic Producer Kali Boston will make her NVA debut as the director!
HAIRSPRAY is presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI). All authorized performance materials are also supplied by MTI. www.mtishows.com
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