Past Productions

New Works Festival

New Works Festival: Year Three


A festival of plays by the graduating playwrights of the MFA Dramatic Writing program. The readings, which will each have two public performances, will be…

Scene from Brokers at Massman Theatre

Brokers


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.

Kokoro

Kokoro (True Heart)


Kokoro (True Heart) explores the struggle of a young Japanese mother adapting to the very foreign culture of the United States.

The Dining Room

The Dining Room


A mosaic of scenes set in the dining room of a typical well-to-do household – which, taken together, create an in-depth portrait of a vanishing species: the upper-middle-class WASP.

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.

New Works Festival poster

A Roach’s Complaint


Please join us for one of three plays in the New Works Festival Year 2.

Fortinbras

Fortinbras


The quick-witted, comical continuation of Hamlet in which a young Fortinbras enters the mass murder scene and devises a plan to ascend the throne of Denmark.

Grand Hotel

Grand Hotel, The Musical


A group of eccentric guests spend a lavish weekend at the opulent Grand Hotel in 1928 Berlin – when the Roaring Twenties are in high…

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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.

Pericles, Prince of Tyre

Pericles, Prince of Tyre


When Pericles deciphers a riddle that reveals a dark secret about the king of Antioch, his solution puts his life in danger and sends him on a long journey of adversity and adventure.