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…
Past Productions
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
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.
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.
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
A workshop of diverse new works by the School of Dramatic Arts’ second-year MFA Dramatic Writing students.
Facing Our Truth: Ten Minute Plays on Trayvon, Race and Privilege
A diverse group of accomplished playwrights responded to the 2012 death of Trayvon Martin and acquittal of George Zimmerman through plays about race and privilege in America.
Evita
Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice’s modern masterpiece tells the unforgettable true story of the passionate, complex and controversial Argentine First Lady Eva Perón.
The Kentucky Cycle
Spanning two centuries, from 1775 to 1975, this mesmerizing epic is the story of three families — Black, White and Native American — whose lives are irrevocably intertwined.