Miami New Drama has (finally) announced its 10th Anniversary Season, marking a decade of bringing groundbreaking stories to Miami audiences.

We are excited for what’s coming.

The season will include four world premieres including “Ghandi and the Jew” by Harley Elias (November 5 – 29, 2026). Also, “The Great Behind” a comedy by Carmen Pelaez (April 1 – 25, 2027) and “City Hall” an immersive theater experience by Aurin Squire. Finally, “Cianuro Espumante” by Karin Valecillos (July 8 – August 1, 2027), the first authorized direct Spanish-language adaptation of one of Agatha Christie’s iconic mysteries.

A city that produces world premier plays is a city that is worthy of being seen as wordly.

“Miami is one of the most diverse cities in the country. We believed that a theater rooted in this extraordinary city could not only reflect our community; it could help create the future of the American theater,” explains artistic director Michel Hausmann. “I’m so proud to begin our second decade with our most ambitious season to date. We’re bringing five extraordinary shows that are personal and political, local and national, unmistakably Miami, and in direct conversation with the world beyond it.”

Season subscription packages are now on sale at miaminewdrama.org.. Single tickets will be available starting September 8, 2026.

About the 10th Anniversary Season

Gandhi and the Jew (World Premiere)
By Harley Elias

Directed by Margot Bordelon
November 5 – November 29, 2026

A friendship that changed the world. Drawn from years of research, multiple journeys to South Africa, and hundreds of unpublished letters, Gandhi and the Jew uncovers an unlikely and profound bond between Mahatma Gandhi and Hermann Kallenbach, a Jewish architect shaped by exile and persecution.

Together, they help invent the philosophy of nonviolence. But as history darkens and the fate of European Jews becomes urgent, their shared ideals fracture, setting them on a collision course over the future of a Jewish state. This is the story of a friendship that changed the world, and the conflict that nearly broke it.

The Golem of Havana – An Original Musical

10th Anniversary Production

Music by Saloman Lerner, Lyrics by Len Schiff, Book by Michel Hausmann

January 28 – February 28, 2027

A Holocaust survivor’s family. An Afro-Cuban housekeeper who prays to the sea. A wounded revolutionary hiding in the back room. And a teenage girl who believes a comic-book monster can save them all.

Set in late-1950s Havana, The Golem of Havana follows Rebecca, a young Jewish girl who turns to a mythical protector of Jewish folklore — the Golem — as her family navigates poverty, political unrest, and the electric final days of the Batista regime. When she’s drawn into the orbit of Teo, a young revolutionary, myth and reality collide.

The Golem of Havana throws Jewish legend and Cuban revolution onto the same stage and lets them ignite, in a musical that moves from klezmer to mambo to bolero without ever stopping to breathe.

The Great Behind (World Premiere)
A Comedy By Carmen Pelaez April 1 – April 25, 2027

A Miami Cyrano. Same Wit. Bigger Hips.

This is bold, hilarious reinvention of Cyrano de Bergerac. Sylvia is a brilliant Miami librarian with a lethal tongue, a body everyone notices but no one truly sees, and a secret. She is hopelessly in love with her best friend. When he falls for Sylvia’s beautiful new coworker, Sylvia agrees to write the love letters that will win his heart, giving another woman the words she cannot bring herself to speak.

Written by Miami native Carmen Peláez, in her fifth work with Miami New Drama. The Great Behind is a romantic new comedy about beauty, desire, and the courage it takes to be truly seen.

How long can you give someone your words before you lose your own?

We are looking forward to this!

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City Hall (An Immersive World Premiere)
Conceived by Michel Hausmann, Written by Aurin Squire

Dates Forthcoming

Set in a live Miami City Commission meeting and performed inside a real city hall, City Hall transforms the audience into the electorate, the chamber into the stage, and every performance into a live vote on the city’s future.  As rising seas threaten to swallow the city, a billionaire developer offers the solution the city cannot afford: he will fund the infrastructure needed to save it, but only if democracy steps aside and his company takes control for a generation. What follows is a gripping, high-stakes battle between survival and sovereignty, speed and accountability, private power and the public good.

Immersive, urgent, and different every night, City Hall is a love letter to democracy that asks its audience to do more than watch. It asks them to decide: when the system is failing, do you fix it or give it away?

We are really looking forward to this!!

Cianuro Espumante (An Agatha Christie World Premiere)
By Karin Valecillos

July 8 – August 1, 2027

In a thrilling first, the Agatha Christie Estate has authorized a direct Spanish-language adaptation of one of Agatha Christie’s iconic mysteries—reimagined for Miami.

When a glamorous birthday celebration ends in sudden death, what appears to be a tragic suicide unravels into a web of secrets, ambition, and betrayal. One year later, the guests reunite—and another body falls. As the brilliant detective Hercule Poirot invites the audience to play along, every glance, toast, and  silence becomes a clue.

A seductive, suspenseful game of truth and illusion, set in the heart of Miami, where beauty, power, and greed collide. Cianuro asks: how well do we really know the people we love? And how far will we go to protect what we’ve built?