A holdover from last season and two new selections will make up Selah Dessert Theater’s 2026-27 season.

“Madbury Winter,” which was postponed last February due to family health issues, has been rescheduled to February 2027, and it will be sandwiched between “Ages of the Moon” by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Sam Shepard and the comedy “The Second-to-Last Chance Ladies League” by Jessie Jones, Nicholas Hope and Jamie Wooten.

“Madbury Winter” was written by Jeffrey Kinghorn, who Selah Artistic Director Mary Ruth Lynn knew when she lived in New Hampshire.

“Jeff and I were teaching colleagues,” Lynn said. “He had written several plays at that point, and I read a couple of them at that time. His writing is really quite lovely, and he picks some interesting topics. He has written a number of pieces that are specifically designed with a smaller cast and plays that could be done in a small venue that don’t require heavy sets and props. They’re specifically designed for a more intimate staging, and ‘Madbury Winter’ is certainly one of those.”

It will be the first fully staged production of the work, and Lynn said Kinghorn plans to come see it during the run of the play.

The season will open Oct. 22 with “Ages of the Moon,” one of Shepard’s later works.

“It’s set in an old country home, and it all takes place on the porch in front of that home with an old fan that doesn’t work all the time, and a screen door that slams shut with a bang,” she said. “There are two men who are probably in their 60s who knew each other from before but haven’t been in touch with each other for a long time. They get together and they are drinking bourbon and discussing their lives now, memories of long ago, and it’s perfect for that space, because they don’t have to go on and off stage. It’s just very simple and easy to stage in that space.”

The season will close in May 2027 with “The Second-to-Last Chance Ladies League,” a comedy by the playwriting trio of Jones, Hope and Wooten.

Lynn directed the trio’s “Savannah Sipping Society” for one of Selah’s first seasons, both Youngstown Playhouse and Trumbull New Theatre have done their “Dixie Swim Club” and TNT also presented “Til Beth Do Us Part.”

“It’s a very big, over-the-top comedy, but it also has these very bonded women,” Lynn said. “They fight and bicker and what have you, but they truly support each other, so there’s that very human quality under all of the crazy comedy that goes on. I haven’t done a big comedy for a while, so this will make my audiences happy who love that stuff.”

Auditions will take place this summer. Three of the five actors originally cast for “Madbury Winter” are able to return, but auditions for two parts in “Madbury” and all five roles for “Ladies League” will be filled through auditions. Lynn said she may cast “Ages” without holding auditions but hasn’t decided yet.

Selah’s season

• Oct. 22 — “Ages of the Moon” by Sam Shepard

• Feb. 25, 2027 — “Madbury Winter” by Jeffrey Kinghorn

• May 13, 2027 — “The Second-to-Last Chance Ladies League” by Jessie Jones, Nicholas Hope and Jamie Wooten

All shows open on a Thursday and play for three consecutive Fridays and Saturdays at Selah Dessert Theater, 130 S. Bridge St., Struthers.