Jake Brasch News

The Terrence McNally Foundation and The Recovery Arts Project have announced the second cycle of the Terrence McNally Recovery Commissions. Learn more here!

Throughout spring 2026, Works & Process will present a full slate of dynamic programs at Guggenheim New York, along with a special Martha Graham Dance Company performance at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice on May 8, coinciding with the opening of the Venice Biennale.

Lincoln Center Theater has revealed the programming for The Reading Series at LCT3. In this intimate new series, six of our most celebrated playwrights join forces with exciting voices new to LCT to share the stage and the spotlight.

Rise and shine, BroadwayWorld! It is November 14, 2025 and it's time to catch up on all of the theatrical happenings you may have missed in the last 24 hours.

The cast has been revealed for the Off-Broadway debut of The Reservoir, written by Jake Brasch and directed by Shelley Butler.

The Denver Center Theatre Company has announced playwrights, dates, and details for the 2026 Colorado New Play Summit (CNPS). The 20th annual festival will take place over one weekend on February 14-15.

Geffen Playhouse raised vital funds for the theater’s education, community engagement and artistic initiatives at its signature Backstage at the Geffen annual fundraiser. See photos!

The line-up has been revealed for the first half of the 2025 First Light Festival. Since 1998, the EST/Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Science & Technology Project has developed over 300 plays that challenge and broaden the view of science in the popular imagination.

You can now get a first look at photos of Jake Brasch's The Reservoir, performing at Berkeley Repertory Theatre. Learn more about the production and see how to purchase tickets.

Ensemble Studio Theatre (Estefanía Fadul and Graeme Gillis, Co-Artistic Directors) and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation (Doron Weber, Vice President and Program Director) have announced the 2025–26 Science & Technology Project New Play Commissions, along with this year’s Regional Development and Production Grants to Lantern Theater Company, Media Art Xploration, Miners Alley Playhouse, Phoenix Theatre Cultural Centre, and Seattle Rep.

The Rochester School of Technology's School of Performing Arts (Rochester, NY) will join The Farm Theater's 2025-26 College Collaboration Project with playwright Gina Femia.

Ensemble Studio Theatre has announced its 2025-26 line-up, a season committed to new work development through the EST/Sloan Project and the Youngblood emerging playwrights collective as well as two new plays.

Berkeley Repertory Theatre will kick off its 2025/26 season with Jake Brasch's The Reservoir, performing at Berkeley Rep's Peet's Theatre. Learn more here!

Rise and shine, BroadwayWorld! It is July 25, 2025 and it's time to catch up on all of the theatrical happenings you may have missed in the last 24 hours.

Atlantic Theater Company has revealed its 40th Anniversary season of four new plays, as well as an Atlantic for Kids New York Premiere musical, and its 40th Anniversary Gala. Learn more!

What did our critic think of THE RESERVOIR at Geffen Playhouse Gil Cates Theater? “Well, the Geffen sure knows their audience,” remarked my guest at the media preview of, THE RESERVOIR.  And I’d have to agree.  Between the spontaneous audience call backs, guffaws, tears, and chant-alongs that happened much in the second act, it’s probably safe to say, the show’s a hit.

The Recovery Arts Project and Bigvision have announced at partnership aimed at addressing the addiction epidemic through the power of the arts. T

The world premiere of The Resevoir is now playing at Geffen Payhouse. Get a first look at production photos here! 

HOLE! is a musical comedy about a strict religious sect in Nebraska, who, thanks to an apocalyptic event known as The Great Sucking, are the only humans left on Earth.

Jake Brasch makes his professional playwriting debut with The Reservoir, now in performances at Geffen Playhouse through July 20, 2025. Directed by Shelley Butler, The Reservoir was developed in partnership with the Denver Center for the Performing Arts and Alliance Theatre, where Brasch was a finalist for the Alliance/Kendeda National Graduate Playwriting Competition.