World Premiere Musical UNORTHODOX from Harmon, Pasek, and Taub Headed To The Huntington; Full 26/27 Season Announced

In an era where regional theatre seasons are looking bleaker and bleaker, the Huntington in Boston has come out strong with a bold 2026/2027 season including new world premieres putting Boston on the map. 

Next April will see the world premiere of Unorthodox based on the best-selling memoir written by Deborah Feldman. Three Broadway heavy hitters are healming the new musical including composer Benj Pasek (EGOT winner, Dear Evan Hansen, La La Land, Only Murders in the Building); composer Shaina Taub (two-time Tony winner for Suffs); and playwright Joshua Harmon (Tony nominated for Prayer for the French Republic). Jordan Fein, who’s daring Into The Woods at London’s Bridge Theatre turned into one of my favorite performances this year, is set to direct. 

Deep in the heart of Brooklyn, Devoiri, just seventeen, enters an arranged marriage in the Hasidic Satmar community. Sixty years earlier, her grandmother Fraida arrives in America at roughly the same age, alone, to begin a new life. In parallel journeys, one woman decides to join this devout world, while another awakens to the realization that she wants to try and leave. Based on the best-selling memoir, Unorthodox is an intimate and emotionally resonant new musical about the impossible choices we face trying to do what is right for our children – and ourselves.

“We are close friends who had been searching for something to write together. When we discovered this story, we knew it was the one we wanted to tell, as it's full of complex characters in extraordinary circumstances making impossible choices. Collaborating on this show has been a genuine joy, we are grateful to The Huntington for the chance to see it realized, and eager to share it with audiences,” said Pasek and Taub. 

The season also includes another musical world premiere with the joyous finale to Mfoniso Udofia’s nine-play Ufot Family Cycle, a final chapter two years in the making.

Audiences can also look forward to regional premieres of internationally acclaimed titles, like Aaron Sorkin’s (The West Wing, A Few Good Men) soaring adaptation of Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird and Branden Jacobs-Jenkins (Appropriate) Tony- and Pulitzer-winning play Purpose, as well as a new comedy from Massachusetts-raised playwright Talene Monahon.