THE LAST SHOW ON EARTH
New Work--Theatrical Production--Premiere
2026
THE LAST SHOW ON EARTH is an end-of-the-world theatrical collage of comic, catastrophic, and absurd encounters. Moving through advertisements, confessions, political dread, digital ghosts, and cosmic questions, the play asks what remains human in a world shaped by automation, imitation, and artificial consciousness.
About the Work
Equally Represented Arts Presents
THE LAST SHOW ON EARTH
A New Play Created for Humans* by Humans*
*While supplies last
Written by Joe Taylor
Directed by Lucy Cashion
Equally Represented Arts presents THE LAST SHOW ON EARTH, a new play written by Joe Taylor and directed by Lucy Cashion, running SEPTEMBER 17-20 AND 24-26 at THE KRANZBERG ARTS CENTER, BLACK BOX THEATER.
THE LAST SHOW ON EARTH is a theatrical collage of comic, catastrophic, and absurd encounters at the edge of human extinction. Moving through advertisements, confessions, political dread, digital ghosts, and cosmic questions, the play stages the moral vertigo of contemporary life: the strange sensation of trying to remain human.
As memory, language, and even creativity become increasingly machine-modeled, THE LAST SHOW ON EARTH asks what remains. Mortality? Love? Embarrassment? Inefficiency? In a world shaped by automation, mechanical imitation, context collapse, and the uncanny aura of artificial consciousness, the play searches for the human remainder: the irreplaceable residue of being alive.
Part end-of-the-world revue and part posthuman séance, THE LAST SHOW ON EARTH considers whether meaning can survive without witness — and whether memory can form without experience.
The production features Ashwini Arora, Will Bonfiglio, Maggie Conroy, Frankie Ferrari, Marty Rubright, Joe Taylor, and Rachel Tibbetts.
THE LAST SHOW ON EARTH is produced by Ashwini Arora, Lucy Cashion, and Joe Taylor for Equally Represented Arts (ERA), with Miranda Félix serving as Executive Producer for ERA.
Performance Information
Production: THE LAST SHOW ON EARTH
Producing Company: Equally Represented Arts
Dates: September 17-20 and 24-26, 2026
Venue: Kranzberg Arts Center, Black Box Theater
Address: 501 N Grand Blvd, Saint Louis, MO 63103
Tickets: metrotix.com/events/detail/the-last-show-on-earth
More Information: eratheatre.org
Credits
Written by: Joe Taylor
Directed by: Lucy Cashion
Featuring: Ashwini Arora, Will Bonfiglio, Maggie Conroy, Frankie Ferrari, Marty Rubright, Joe Taylor, and Rachel Tibbetts Executive Producer: Miranda Félix for ERA
Produced by: Ashwini Arora, Lucy Cashion, and Joe Taylor for ERA
Associate Producers: Jimmy Bernatowicz and Spencer Lawton for ERA
Composer: Joe Taylor
Music Performed by: Sam Golden, Dustin Sholtes, and Joe Taylor
Production Manager & Technical Director: Jimmy Bernatowicz
Stage Manager: Jake Santhuff Assistant Stage Manager: Jack Rimar
Set: Lucy Cashion and Denisse Chavez
Costumes: Meredith LaBounty
Lighting: Denisse Chavez
Sound Design & Video: Joe Taylor
Dramaturg: Lottie Wheeler
Assistant Director: Miranda Félix
Box Office / Ticketing: Eli Saesanger
House Manager: Spencer Lawton
Marketing Director: Martha Kamau
Camera 1 Operator: Emma Glose
Camera 2 Operator: David Joseph
Production Intern: Eli Saesanger
About Equally Represented Arts
Equally Represented Arts is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) experimental theatre company based in St. Louis, Missouri. ERA creates collaborative, multidisciplinary live performance rooted in the belief that all components of theatre are equal and that artistic innovation comes from experimentation. Through its work, ERA uses the elements unique to theatre’s identity to expand the possibilities for the art form and challenge expectations for meaning in theatre, art, and the world.
For more information, visit eratheatre.org.
Press Contact
Eli Saesanger
Box Office / ERA
+1 (314) 800-9517
eratheatre.org
Process/Archive Note
THE LAST SHOW ON EARTH is being archived as both a current production and a parent work. Its archive record will continue to grow as production materials, credits, images, and audience-facing documentation are finalized.