(Sarasota, Fla) – Asolo Repertory Theatre has received a $2,000 Impact and Exploration Grant from the National Alliance for Musical Theatre. Funds will be designated towards Asolo Rep’s ASL-interpreted performances.
Asolo Rep will offer at least one ASL-interpreted performance for each show in the 2025-26 season. Listed below are the scheduled dates for ASL-interpreted performances this season:
COME FROM AWAY, Nov 23rd at 1:30pm
ALL IS CALM, Dec 7th at 3pm
PRIMARY TRUST, Jan 11th at 1:30pm
THE MIRROR CRACK’D, Feb 8th at 1:30pm
THE UNFRIEND, March 15th at 1:30pm
FIDDLER ON THE ROOF, Apr 19th at 1:30pm
MARIE AND ROSETTA, May 10th at 1:30pm
LADY DISDAIN, June 14th at 1:30pm
SUMMER CHILDREN’S MUSICAL, Date TBA
“Asolo Rep is proud to partner with the National Alliance for Musical Theatre to grow our offering of ASL-interpreted performances,” said Ross Egan, Asolo Rep Managing Director. “This collaboration allows us to expand accessibility for members of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing community, ensuring that more patrons can fully experience live theatre.”
Supported by funding from NAMT, Asolo Repertory Theatre’s 2025–2026 season offers a vibrant mix of musicals, mysteries, comedies, and bold new works. The season launches with the internationally acclaimed musical Come From Away, before moving into an exciting lineup that includes Primary Trust, Agatha Christie’s classic whodunit The Mirror Crack’d, and the razor-sharp comedy The Unfriend.
Later in the season, audiences will experience a fresh reimagining of Fiddler on the Roof, the stirring musical journey of Marie and Rosetta, and Lauren Gunderson’s witty new play Lady Disdain. The season also features the return of All Is Calm: The Christmas Truce of 1914, a moving production that has become an audience favorite.
ABOUT ASOLO REP
Asolo Rep is a major force in Sarasota’s arts scene. Asolo Rep is annually the creative home of more than 100 artists, technical craftsmen, and administrative staff. Under the dynamic leadership of Producing Artistic Director Peter Rothstein and Managing Director Ross Egan, over 100,000 patrons are drawn each year to the theatre’s rotating repertory season. In its role as the largest professional not-for-profit theatre in the U.S. south of Atlanta, Asolo Rep serves as a springboard for successful productions to travel to Broadway and other regional theatres throughout the country.
Whether staging a new work or re-envisioning a classic, Asolo Rep creates theatre that consistently surprises, entertains, challenges and inspires its audiences by inviting them to take part in shared acts of imagination. With its ambitious theatrical offerings and ground-breaking education, outreach and audience development programming, Asolo Rep is more vibrant and its work more relevant than ever before. A theatre district in and of itself, Asolo Rep exists to present a diverse mix of theatrical work of the highest artistic standards and enthusiastically engage its audiences, continually ensuring its legacy for future generations. Visit asolorep.org to learn more.
ABOUT THE NATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR MUSICAL THEATRE
The National Alliance for Musical Theatre (NAMT), founded in 1985, is a not-for-profit organization serving the musical theatre community. Their 155 organizational members and 60 individual members, located throughout 33 states and abroad, are some of the leading producers of musical theatre in the world. They include theatres, presenting organizations, higher education programs and individual producers. Simply put, NAMT serves the musical theatre community.
Since their founding in 1985, the National Alliance for Musical Theatre has been a catalyst for nurturing musical theatre development, production, innovation and collaboration. They achieve this with festivals, conferences, granting programs, and many other initiatives that bolster the field.
NAMT’s Impact & Exploration Fund is designed to help NAMT member theatres pilot new capacity-building programs to advance their missions. Areas of exploration may include (but are not limited to) technology, accessibility, audience development, education and artistic innovation and advancement. By reducing the financial burden, these project grants will allow theatres to take some risks and try new ideas, contributing to the overall growth and health of the field. Lessons learned are shared with the entire NAMT membership, leading to opportunities for more innovation and continual growth
NAMT serves both organizational and individual members throughout North America and abroad. Members include theatres, presenting organizations, higher education programs and individual producers. They also serve artists — and particularly writers and composers — who create new musicals. For more information, visit https://namt.org.