A barber who goes to ghastly ends to enact revenge kicks off Theatreworks’ 2026-2027 season.

The new five-show season at Ent Center for the Arts begins Sept. 10 with Stephen Sondheim’s Tony Award-winning “Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street.” It also includes the popular Noël Coward play, “Private Lives”; “Sweat,” by the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Lynn Nottage; and the Sarah Ruhl adaptation, “Dear Elizabeth,” featuring the decades-long correspondence between two Pulitzer Prize-winning poets.

It’s the first season to be programmed under the professional regional theater company’s new dual leadership structure of general director Matt Giles and artistic director Max Shulman.

“Max and I built this season as a conversation about what excites us artistically and what will resonate in our community right now,” Giles said. “These five productions are entertaining, but they’re also meant to invite people in to stories that matter, that challenge us, and that help us see one another a little more clearly.”

Early bird season subscriptions offer a 20% discount and are on sale now. Subscriber perks include seat selection, five free drinks per subscription and one free guest ticket per subscription. Go online to entarts.org/subscribe.

Single tickets for “Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street” go on sale in July.

Theatreworks’ 2026-2027 season

• Sept. 10-Oct. 4: “Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street,” by Stephen Sondheim – Directed by Michael Lluberes. Set in 19th-century London, the Tony Award-winning musical chronicles the tale of a barber unjustly imprisoned by a corrupt judge. After 15 years, he returns to London with revenge on his mind. He partners with the proprietor of a pie shop, where the duo makes meat pies in a deadly act of gastronomy.

• Nov. 19-Dec. 13: “Private Lives,” by Noël Coward. A divorced couple finds they’ve booked neighboring honeymoon suites, each accompanied by their new spouse. Much to their surprise, their once-extinguished flame flickers back to life.

• Jan. 28-Feb. 14: “What the Constitution Means to Me,” by Heidi Schreck. Directed by Lynne Hastings. At 15, Schreck paid for college by speaking in debate competitions across the country. Now older, she resurrects her teen self to tell the stories of four generations of women in her family and how the Constitution influenced their lives.

• April 15-May 9: “Sweat,” by Lynn Nottage. Directed by Taisa Jones. In the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright’s 2015 play, she spotlights a community of factory workers in Reading, Pa., from 2000 to 2008, whose lives are upended by layoffs, union busting and violence.

• June 10-27: “Dear Elizabeth,” adapted by Sarah Ruhl. Directed by Max Shulman. Pulitzer Prize-winning poets Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell exchanged more than 400 letters over three decades. Ruhl brings the long friendship to life through their correspondence.