Ben Williamson, Amber McNew, Casey Murphy, Ariel Blue. Photo by Sorcha Augustine.

Urbanite Theatre kicks off the 2026-27 Main Stage Season with Jenny Stafford’s wildly fun AHOY-HOY, A Play About That Relatable Feeling When Someone Else Invents The Telephone Three Hours Before You Do… A deliriously unhinged sprint through history, Ahoy-Hoy is based on the true story of the invention of the telephone. Winner of the “Audience Favorite” award at the 2025 Modern Works Festival, Ahoy-Hoy returns to Urbanite as a Rolling World Premiere with the National New Play Network. Ahoy-Hoy is a 150-year-old invention rivalry that feels surprisingly contemporary… It’s 1876 (and also right now) and Elisha Gray, played by Amber McNew, is this close to inventing the telephone. Elisha is brilliant, anxious, and ready to make history if Alexander Graham Bell, played by Casey Murphy, doesn’t beat him to it… Spoiler alert: he kind of does. 

Ben Williamson, Amber McNew, Casey Murphy, Ariel Blue. Photo by Sorcha Augustine.

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