Vineyard Theatre Sets Two World Premieres for 2025-2026 Season
The season will include the world premieres of ||: Girls :||: Chance :||: Music :|| and The Burning Cauldron of Fiery Fire.
By: Chloe Rabinowitz Jun. 25, 2025
Vineyard Theatre has revealed its upcoming 43rd Season, which will include two world premiere productions, with a third winter production to be announced soon. The season begins in Fall 2025 with the world premiere of The Burning Cauldron of Fiery Fire, written by Anne Washburn (Mr. Burns, a Post-Electric Play) and directed by Steve Cosson (The Great Immensity), in a co-production with The Civilians. In Spring 2026, Vineyard will present ||: Girls :||: Chance :||: Music :||, a new play written by Pulitzer Prize finalist Eisa Davis (Bulrusher) and directed by Tony Award winner Pam MacKinnon (Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?), in partnership with American Conservatory Theater. Details for the Winter 2026 production will be announced shortly.
The Burning Cauldron of Fiery Fire
By Anne Washburn
Directed by Steve Cosson
Fall 2025 World Premiere
Co-production with The Civilians
Presented at Vineyard Theatre
Somewhere in foggy Northern California, an intentional community tries to live off the land and keep an unsteady world at bay. But when one of their own dies unexpectedly, ideals are tested and faith in their independence is rocked. The Burning Cauldron of Fiery Fire is a tender, funny, probing story about a death, a pageant, a rescue, a resurrection, pigs, and the act of saying grace. The kids may not be all right.
This world-premiere play reunites renowned playwright Anne Washburn and Obie-Award winning director Steve Cosson, following their acclaimed collaborations on Mr. Burns, A Post Electric Play (“downright brilliant”, NYT) and A Devil at Noon.
||: Girls :||: Chance :||: Music :||
By Eisa Davis
Directed by Pam MacKinnon
Spring 2026 World Premiere
Co-production with American Conservatory Theater
Presented at Vineyard Theatre
Four gifted teenagers collaborate and collide one pivotal summer at a prestigious girls’ music program in Berkeley. As their connections intensify, the world outside thrums with a steady undercurrent of disaster and emergency – and they must find new ways to improvise on stage and off. Featuring a live score with elements unique to each performance, this world-premiere play from acclaimed playwright-composer-actor and Pulitzer Prize finalist Eisa Davis (Bulrusher, Warriors concept album) is a sharp, hilarious, aching story about coming of age under pressure. What does it mean to make something beautiful when everything might fall apart?
||: Girls :||: Chance :||: Music :|| was commissioned by Vineyard Theatre and American Conservatory Theatre, and is directed by Pam MacKinnon, the Tony Award-winning director of Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Eisa Davis is the inaugural recipient of Vineyard Theatre’s Roth-Vogel Commission.
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