| This season, 5th Wall Theatre presents an exploration of the human need to belong, with stories that are fiercely imagined and centered on the radical act of self-actualization. Our Dear Dead Drug Lord, Wolf Play, and Tambo & Bones follow characters navigating fractured realities: familial, cultural, and historical. They respond not with retreat, but with instinct, invention, and defiant self-definition. These plays are united by a hunger to belong in worlds that were not built with them in mind.When the systems we inherit fail to hold us, these characters invent new ways of being, transforming ritual, performance, and identity into tools for survival and expression.The 2025/2026 season is about forging connection, meaning, and selfhood on your own terms. It is about what happens when people imagine something truer, freer, and bolder. Because when the world falls short, they build what is missing. |
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| 5TH WALL THEATRE IS MOVING IN AND WE’RE BRINGING BOLD WORK WITH US Our new home, The Basement, has long been a launchpad for artists from Richmond and across the country. 5th Wall Theatre at The Basement is fiercely imagined — championing daring stories, inventive artists, and work that sparks conversation. Alongside our MainStage productions, we’ll soon be opening the doors for bookings, creating a space where the next wave of boundary-pushing theatre and art across all mediums can thrive. Stay tuned for more on this to come! |
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| OUR DEAR DEAD DRUG LORD BY ALEXIS SCHEER DIRECTED BY KAITLIN PAIGE LONGORIA OCT 16 – NOV 9, 2025 REGIONAL PREMIERE -PERFORMANCES AT THE BASEMENT (300 E. Broad St. Richmond, VA 23219) High above Miami in a cluttered treehouse, four teenage girls are plotting something wild: a séance to summon Pablo Escobar. What starts as a game of guts and giggles spirals into a sharp, unpredictable clash of friendship, power, and dark imagination. Part occult ritual, part rollercoaster through the thrills and terrors of growing up, Our Dear Dead Drug Lord is a wickedly funny, unsettling ride you won’t see coming. |
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| WOLF PLAY BY HANSOL JUNG APRIL 16 – MAY 9, 202 REGIONAL PREMIERE -PERFORMANCES AT THE BASEMENT (300 E. Broad St. Richmond, VA 23219) Somewhere between a boxing gym and a living room, a wolf is looking for a pack. When a young boy is rehomed through an online message board, a queer couple takes him in, unaware that he sees himself not as a boy, but as something wilder. As tensions rise and identities clash, instinct takes center stage. Wolf Play is a feral, theatrical fable about parenthood, survival, and the strange and sacred ways we fight for to belong. |
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| TAMBO & BONES BY DAVE HARRIS JUNE 25 – JULY 25, 2026 REGIONAL PREMIERE –CO-PRODUCED WITH BLK VIRGINIA THEATRE ALLIANCE PERFORMANCES AT THE BASEMENT (300 E. Broad St. Richmond, VA 23219) Tambo and Bones are stuck in a minstrel show or maybe they’re headlining the hottest rap concert of the century. Either way, they’re done playing by the rules. What starts with satirical sketches morphs into a hip hop fueled rebellion that rips through American history and launches into a mind bending Afrofuturist vision of the future. Tambo & Bones is a riotous, razor sharp thrill ride that crashes comedy into revolution and dares you to keep up. |