Past Productions

Punk Rock


In a private school outside of Manchester, England, a group of highly-articulate 17-year-olds flirt and posture their way through the day while preparing for their…

Passion Play


Three different acting troupes rehearse the annual Passion Play at three key moments in history: 1575 Northern England, just before Queen Elizabeth outlaws the ritual;…

Twelfth Night


Shakespeare’s enduring romantic comedy unleashes Saturnalian energies by turning logic and expectation on its head with a tale of mistaken identities and unrequited affection. Shipwrecked…

An Octoroon


Playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, a provocative new voice in American theatre, brings a radical, incendiary and subversively funny riff on Dion Boucicault’s once-popular 1859 mustache-twirling melodrama.…

New Works Festival Year 3 artwork

New Works Festival Year 3


Plays by the graduating playwrights of the MFA Dramatic Writing program, presented as staged readings with professional actors and directors.

New Works Festival Year 1


The first public readings of exciting new works by the School of Dramatic Arts’ first-year MFA Dramatic Writing students.

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Mr. Burns, a post-electric play


In a post-apocalyptic world, a mismatched group of survivors band together to try to recount the heroic fable of youth and innocence triumphing over evil — Bart Simpson’s epic battle against Sideshow Bob in the “Cape Feare” episode of The Simpsons.

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Spring Awakening


The source for the Broadway musical, Frank Wedekind’s play follows the dawning sexual awakening of a group of teenagers in a classic work that launched 20th Century avant-garde theatre.

New Works Festival Year 2 artwork

New Works Festival Year 2


A workshop of diverse new works by the School of Dramatic Arts’ second-year MFA Dramatic Writing students.