2022/23 Season of Plays

Community Performances

SDA Community Performances


Two off-campus opportunities to watch the work of talented students in Anna in the Tropics and The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the…

New Works Festival Year 2


Festival of staged readings showcasing the voices of the School’s Year 2 MFA Dramatic Writing students. Reserve Seats Play 1: All That God Commands By…

Sondheim on Sondheim


A legend in the arts, Stephen Sondheim changed musical theatre forever. Sondheim on Sondheim is an intimate portrait of the beloved composer through his own…

The Conduct of Life


The Conduct of Life, one of María Irene Fornés’ most critically acclaimed plays, is a powerful and disturbing work that brings together politics, gender, and…

The Aliens


The Aliens by Annie Baker is a seemingly quiet study rooted in alienation, and a powerful observation of a lost generation. We meet two angry…

New Works Festival Year 3


Showcasing the emerging voices of the School’s graduating MFA Dramatic Writing students. Play 1: Michaela’s Fluent Aphasia By Christina CarrafiellDirected by John DeMita Michaela, a…

Carrie: The Musical


Adapted from the imagination of American horror legend Stephen King, the haunting character of Carrie White is a teenage outcast who longs to fit in.…

Wintertime


Members of a gloriously eccentric family arrive at their summer house in the winter woods for a supposedly secret rendezvous – and soon bodies collide,…

Passage


A fantasia inspired by E.M. Forster’s A Passage to India, Passage is set in the fictional Country X, which is a neocolonial client of Country Y. A local…

Buried Child


Yearning for the comfort of his idealized Midwestern roots, 22-year-old Vince returns to the family homestead with his girlfriend to find no one recognizes him.…