We understand that we are asking you to purchase tickets for a play that is a long way off. However, we are building this project from the ground up, and a large part of our funding will come from advance ticket sales. Purchasing tickets now will be a tremendous help in bringing our production to life! We also understand that schedules can shift. If for any reason you need to exchange your tickets for another date or time as we get closer to opening night, we will do everything we can to accommodate your request, as availability allows. Tickets are also transferable.
Purchase tickets before February 14th 2026 for a 15% early bird discount.
Use code: HYE2026
Unable to attend our production, but want to support our efforts in bringing this brilliant play to the stage in New York City once again? Tax-deductible donations can be made to our production through Fractured Atlas! Any amount is greatly appreciated. (You will be redirected to the Fractured Atlas website).
Inspired by true events, Beast on the Moon follows the lives of two orphaned survivors of the Armenian genocide. Aram Tomassian and Seta, his mail-order bride, are polar opposites bound through their tragic experience and struggles to build a new life. The play, set in early 1920’s Milwaukee, unfolds around the effort of the couple to have a child. Infertility threatens not only their dreams, but also their relationship, until the presence of an orphaned boy forces them to reckon with each other and the past. Peppered with humor, irony, and bittersweet surprise, theirs is a universal story of hope, healing, redemption, and finally, love.
A masterpiece by award-winning playwright, Richard Kalinoski, Beast on the Moon has been performed in over twenty countries and translated into nineteen languages.
“A play can still triumph on purely theatrical terms, as did Beast on the Moon… it was the one that seemed the most completely to engage it’s audience, which gave it a standing ovations.”
-Ben Brantley, The New York Times
“One of the must-see plays in New York… The play moves from tragedy and turmoil to a profound sense of promise.”
- Howard Kissel, The New York Daily News
“A powerful and moving exploration of trauma, survival and the human need for family and belonging after the Armenian genocide.”
- Paris Critique
“It’s easy to see why this quiet play about a brutal subject has had such a successful history for it’s theme of healing and redemption is universal - whether healing the differences between husband and wives raised with different values and customs of healing the wounds from major disappointments and experiences of traumatizing cruetly. Unfortunately, the historic events that inspired Beast on the Moon have had counterparts throughout the world - and still do today.”
- Elyse Sommer, A CurtainUp Review
