The 8th annual Rogue Theater Festival (RTF) returns to NYC this summer, featuring a dynamic and diverse group of new works and artists. The week-long festival will showcase 37 original productions, including fully staged plays, short plays, staged readings, and digital streaming performances.

Passionate love affairs, murder mysteries, errotic horror, raging storms both outside and inside the home, journeys through rehab, and to space stations, and stories spanning small towns and big cities will light up the stage during the 2026 Rogue Theater Festival.

An eclectic mix of characters will take center stage, including four social media influencers who find themselves canceled — and then murdered — as well as a mysterious drifter searching for a place to call home, and a queer son returning to his parents Baptist home.