Atlantic Theater Company has filled out the companies of two world premieres in its 2026–2027 season. Alison Pill and Ato Blankson-Wood lead Clare Barron's Too Bad For Her, and Pulitzer Prize winner Eboni Booth joins Deirdre O'Connell in Lucas Hnath's Old Actress.
The Chelsea company also named the young cast of its Atlantic for Kids musical, Finn, which reaches New York in December.
Too Bad For Her
Barron's new play follows a thirty-year affair and everything that comes after it; the company calls it compassionate and perverse in equal measure, a play about love, art and life lived outside the lines. Anne Kauffman directs, and both are returning to the Atlantic: Barron after SHHHH, Kauffman after The Bedwetter.
Pill, a Tony nominee for The Lieutenant of Inishmore who was most recently on Broadway in Lincoln Center Theater's Uncle Vanya, plays Justine. Blankson-Wood, Tony-nominated for Slave Play, is Davey. Renata Friedman plays Aubrey, Obie winner Greg Keller, who was also in SHHHH here, plays Winn, and Peter Mark Kendall, lately the twins Adam and Stephens Croft on CBS's Watson, plays Frank. Further casting is still to come.
The design team is Arnulfo Maldonado (sets), Lizzie Donelan (costumes), Heather Gilbert (lights), Daniel Kluger (sound and original compositions) and Lucy Mackinnon (projections), with intimacy direction by Crista Marie Jackson. Performances run January 9–February 14, 2027, at the Linda Gross Theater.
Old Actress
Hnath's play is billed in a single line as "a play about learning lines for a play." It reunites the writer with director Les Waters and O'Connell for the first time since Dana H., which won O'Connell a Tony Award. She plays Diane. Booth, whose Primary Trust won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and whose Paris was staged at the Atlantic, plays Erin. Playwright and dramaturg Susan Yassky makes her Off-Broadway debut as The Stage Manager.
Sets are by Louisa Thompson, costumes by Kaye Voyce, lights by Yuki Nakase Link and sound by Tei Blow. The run is March 18–April 25, 2027, also at the Linda Gross.
Finn
The family show, by Chris Nee, Michael Kooman and Christopher Dimond and directed by Ryan Dobrin, follows a young shark who hopes to join his relatives in the elite Shark Guard and learns, out in the open ocean, to follow his own heart. Arwen-Vira Marsh plays Seasil and Catherine Luckenbach plays Aggie, with Jonice Bernard, Sydney Carmona, Gio Coppola, Maya Mays, Hayden Eugene Poe and Alexa Stratton in the ensemble. More names will follow.
Phil Colgan choreographs and Fernanda Douglas is music director. Finn plays December 12, 2026–January 31, 2027, at Atlantic Stage 2, 330 West 16th Street, presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals.
The rest of the season
No casting has been named yet for Push, the new play by Pulitzer winner Jackie Sibblies Drury, which Justin Peck directs and choreographs with Patricia Delgado.
The season is already under way. I Became We, by Obie winner Mona Pirnot, directed by Sarah Benson with music by Jack D. Coen, began previews on Friday, October 16, opens on Tuesday, October 27, and plays a limited engagement through Sunday, November 15. We published the first production photos earlier this month.
The Linda Gross Theater is at 336 West 20th Street, between Eighth and Ninth Avenues. Tickets for I Became We are available here; the company sells the rest of the season through AtlanticTheater.org.
