It Can’t Happen Here – May 1 – 17, 2026

Based on the novel by Sinclair Lewis
Adapted by Tony Taccone & Bennett S. Cohen
Directed by Ed Trujillo

A cautionary dark satire about the fragility of democracy and how fascism can take hold even in the land of liberty. IT CAN’T HAPPEN HERE follows the ascent of a demagogue who becomes president of the United States by promising to return the country to greatness. Witnessing the new president’s tyranny from the sidelines is a liberal, middle-class newspaper editor from Vermont who trusts the system will fix itself—until he ends up in a prison camp. Sinclair Lewis’ eerily prescient 1935 novel gets a fresh update in this adaptation that examines what brings a citizenry to the point of sacrificing its own freedom and how a courageous few can prevail to overcome the fall.

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Additional Theater Dates
Weekend 1:
May 1, 2026 7:30 pm
May 2, 2026 7:30 pm
May 3, 2026 2:00 pm

Weekend 2:
May 8, 2026 7:30 pm
May 9 2026 7:30 pm
May 10, 2026 2:00 pm

Weekend 3:
May 15, 2026 7:30 pm
May 16, 2026 7:30 pm
May 17, 2026 2:00 pm