Kipp Koenig’s THE GLITCH Sets World Premiere at A.R.T.'s Gural Theatre

The world premiere production of Kipp Koenig’s THE GLITCH, directed by Ann Cooley, will play a special limited engagement at the Gural Theatre at A.R.T. (West 53rd Street, NYC) as part of the Next Step Festival from May 28–June 6, 2025. Following the festival, the production will move to an open-ended Off-Broadway engagement at the Jerry Orbach Theater at The Theatre Center, beginning in September 2025. Tickets are $29 and available here. 

Amy has found the perfect man. He dreams of five kids, but she’s not even sure she wants one. In search of clarity, she visits a futuristic lab where advanced emotional AI generates a holographic teenager based on her and her partner’s DNA. However, when a glitch in the system reveals something impossible, the actual spirit of her future daughter, Amy must decide whether to listen to the voice reaching across time or retreat to the life she thought she wanted. 

When Amy walks through the door, ​ Wyatt, the lab’s brilliant but reclusive founder who hides behind a false identity and a lifetime of guilt, is forced to confront a childhood tragedy, the possibility of redemption, and the stunning truth that love, memory, and forgiveness are more intertwined than ever imagined. 

Blending humor, heartbreak, and sci-fi intimacy, The Glitch explores the nature of connection in an increasingly synthetic world. It dares to ask: what if the AI you feared could help you become the parent you always wished you had? What if it could connect you with the one person meant to guide you there? The Glitch is a story about finding grace in unexpected places and discovering that we may be more than our programming, and so are the machines.