The Legacy Theatre in Branford has announced its three-play 2026 season, which starts in April 2026 and runs through October.

The comedy-heavy season features the popular musical “Nunsense,” a stage version of the classic MGM movie musical “The Wizard of Oz” and Neil Simon’s immortal play about male bonding, “The Odd Couple.”

The Legacy Theatre is a professional theater company founded five years ago at the historic theater building on Branford’s Thimble Islands Road. In the 1920s, the theater was run by the local Parish Players who are credited with presenting the world premiere of one of the biggest hits of that time, “Death Takes a Holiday.” In the ‘30s, Orson Welles and his Mercury Theatre company used the theater for a pre-Broadway run of “Too Much Johnson,” for which Welles made

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