Author: Joe Shea

scene from United Kingdom of Dance

United Kingdom of Dance


Rock out and relive the best of Britain’s music and culture as the Repertory Dance Company celebrates decades of pop and rock from the United Kingdom through dance.

scene from Moonchildren

Moonchildren


Five male college seniors and their housemates explore the rootless ‘60s generation of free-love and protest.

scene from Top Girls

Top Girls


Set in early 1980s Britain, Top Girls examines the role of women in society and what being a successful woman means as told by an eclectic group of historical and modern characters in a continuous conversation across ages and generations.

a scene from Crimes of the Heart

Crimes of the Heart


The scene for this comedy-drama is Hazlehurst, Mississippi, where the three Magrath sisters have gathered to await news of the family patriarch, their grandfather, who is living out his last hours in the local hospital.

a scene from The Rimers of Eldritch

The Rimers of Eldritch


The killing of an Eldritch, Missouri, resident unravels the truth about the decaying Bible Belt town and its townspeople as the murder trial unfolds.

a scene from The Country Club

The Country Club


A young, witty and charmingly neurotic woman retreats from a failed marriage to her upper class hometown in which a getaway weekend of party after party gives way to the rest of her life.

a scene from 12 Ophelias

12 Ophelias


A continuation of Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Ophelia rises from the water to find herself in a neo-Elizabethan Appalachian setting where nothing is what it seems.

scene from Disappearing Act

Disappearing Act


Please join us for one of three plays in the New Works Festival Year 2 that features exciting and diverse new works by the School of Dramatic Arts’ second-year MFA Dramatic Writing students.

scene from

La Ronde


Scrutinized upon its publishing in 1900 for its hypersexual content, La Ronde bares the interwoven tale of a risque roundelay of love affairs.

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Tartuffe


The story takes place in the home of the wealthy Orgon, where Tartuffe – a fraud and a pious imposter – has insinuated himself. He succeeds magnificently in winning the respect and devotion of the head of the house and then tries to marry his daughter and seduce his wife and scrounge the deed to the property.