New York City theater organization Soho Rep, since leaving their longtime home at 46 Walker Street, is now marching forward into their new era with 2 top-tier productions for their 2025-2026 season.
Toshi Reagon’s Songs of the Living (October 21-November 16) and Anne Gridley’s Watch Me Walk (January 14-February 8, 2026) will take place at a variety of venues across the five boroughs throughout the season. Soho Rep and Playwrights Horizons’ hit production of Jordan Tannahill’s Prince Faggot will continue through November 30, now transferred to Studio Seaview.
This new venture for Soho Rep, marked by their departure from their Walker Street theater, has been dubbed the “Soho Rep Is Not a Building” era. The organization continues to thrive as a leader in NYC theater, and now without being tethered to a singular location, they can bring their innovative productions to every corner of the city, reaching more people than ever before.
This season’s first production, Toshi Reagon’s community-sing project Songs of the Living, exemplifies this new initiative. Reagon, who is a singer, composer, musician, curator, and producer, will bring her show to 11 venues across New York City, with each audience invited to learn and sing music. Genres will stretch from Sacred songs to Hip Hop and from the newest pop hits to classic oldies, but ultimately, they will all represent resistance and resilience.
“It doesn’t matter if you can sing, it doesn’t matter if you’re melodic, you are a vibrational being. We are a vibrational species. What we call ‘music’ now is our communicative contribution as a species on and to planet Earth — and it’s one of our best contributions of all.”
-Toshi Reagon, director of “Songs of the Living”
Each event will be thematically distinct and planned in collaboration with the partners at each space, aiming to perfectly capture the spirit of each venue and its surrounding area. Featured artists and special guests aligning with each theme will also be attendance, bringing a unique cultural perspective to each show. The finale performance, set for November 16 at BAM’s Adam Space, will combine and thread together all of the previous events into one very impactful evening of music.
The second major production from Soho Rep this season is Anne Gridley’s Watch Me Walk. Gridley, as a founding member of the Nature Theater of Oklahoma, has had a long history with Soho Rep, who produced several of their shows. In this new production, Gridley will be reaching new depths with what she calls “the show [she] never wanted to write.”
Watch Me Walk explores Gridley’s personal experiences since her diagnosis with Hereditary Spastic Paraplegia (HSP), a rare degenerative neurological disease which also affected her mother and grandmother. Despite the tense subject matter, Gridley tackles it with an air of absurdity, with Soho Rep describing it as a “hilarious, biting, and compassionate examination of disability, pity, injustice, and family mythologies.”
Gridley’s Watch Me Walk will be presented in Playwrights Horizons’ Peter Jay Sharp Theater, who Soho Rep entered a space-sharing partnership with earlier this year. Soho Rep is still searching for a permanent home to truly nurture and grow their theater community.
For more information on Soho Rep and their upcoming shows, click here.
September 11-November 30
Prince Faggot by Jordan Tannahill, directed by Shayok Misha Chowdhury, presented by bb² (Jeremy O. Harris and Josh Godfrey), Seaview, LD Entertainment, Playwrights Horizons, and Soho Rep
Studio Seaview
Tuesday 10/21 at 7pm
Waterways & Work Songs with Toshi Reagon and special guest—writer, scholar, and poet Alexis Pauline Gumbs
The Carpenter’s Shop at Snug Harbor Cultural Center and Botanical Garden
Randall Manor, Staten Island
Thursday 10/23 at 7pm
Turntables Are a Must! A Community Cypher with Baba Israel and DJ Leecy T
Bronxlandia
Hunts Point, Bronx
Saturday 10/25 (time TBA)
The Soapbox Presents
The Africa Center
Harlem, Manhattan
Tuesday 10/28 at 7pm
Field Recordings from Yousif Batil Camp: Aghani Albanat from the Warlines with Alsarah and the Nubatones and special guest Nile Nights
National Sawdust
Williamsburg, Brooklyn
Thursday 10/30 at 7pm
Toshi Reagon Meets the New York Arabic Chorus: A Sonic Coming Together with New York Arabic Chorus + Toshi Reagon & BIGLovely
Flushing Town Hall
Flushing, Queens
Monday 11/3 at 5:30pm
A New Song for Another World
with Lizzie No and other local artists
Another World
Crown Heights, Brooklyn
Thursday 11/6 at 7pm
A Sower Went Out to Sow Her Seed with Toshi Reagon and featuring songs and cast members from the opera Octavia E. Butler’s Parable of the Sower
Weeksville Heritage Center
Weeksville, Brooklyn
Saturday 11/8 at 1pm
Story of the Sky: Morley & Chris Bruce “The Bruces” + Toshi Reagon
Queens Public Library – Central Branch – Children’s Library Discovery Center
Jamaica, Queens
Tuesday 11/11 at 7pm
You’re Having Too Much Fun So We’re Gonna Have to Kill You: A Life Journey in Disco with Toshi Reagon and special guests Nona Hendryx and DJ Bill Coleman; pre-show dance class with Yasmine Lee
David Rubenstein Atrium at Lincoln Center
Upper West Side, Manhattan
Thursday 11/13 at 7pm
Songs for Los Sures with Taína Asili and Legacy Women and special guest—visual artist Miguel Luciano
El Puente
Williamsburg, Brooklyn
Sunday 11/16 at 7pm
Songs of the Living Finale: Mapping a Path Forward in Song with Toshi Reagon & Friends
The Adam Space (Peter Jay Sharp Building) at BAM
Fort Greene, Brooklyn
January 14 – February 8, 2026
Soho Rep Presents Anne Gridley’s Watch Me Walk directed by Eric Ting in association with the Under the Radar Festival
Peter Jay Sharp Theater at Playwrights Horizons
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