What We Produce
Orientation Show
Orientation shows (O-shows) are short theatre productions at the start of the fall semester for incoming students! It’s our way to introduce student theatre to first-years and a fun opportunity for current students to collaborate on a show before classes begin. The O-show rehearses over Zoom (or equivalent) over the Summer periodically, and in person during Orientation Week with two performances at the end!
Mainstage
The Mainstage production is our biggest production of the semester. Although at a bigger scale, the Mainstage is still a great way to get involved with student theatre in any area (acting, design, crew, tech)! Our Mainstages are full tech and have a full team of designers with many design elements. Mainstages are a bigger commitment at an eight week process with around a 10-12, sometimes 14 hour time commitment (timing may vary).
Workshop
The Workshop production is a great opportunity for student-written works to take the stage, experimental productions, or for you to try something new! This has a much smaller scale than our Mainstage production with fewer design elements. It is a four week process with a ~7-8 hour time commitment (timing may vary).
Fall 2025 productions
Our Town by Thornton Wilder
Co-Directed by: Katharine (Kay) Glimcher
In a provincial English town, a theater troupe rehearses a touring production of a sex comedy, Nothing On. Unfortunately, almost nothing is going right – the cast can’t remember their lines, they mix up their blocking, misplace props, and even the director is certain that the show will be a disaster. As tensions rise and relationships unravel, the line between onstage and backstage antics blurs, and personal lives start to mirror the insanity in the play, with sexual dalliances, jealousies, and chaos reigning overall. By closing night, the play is in complete shambles both onstage and off, with open “warfare” occurring among cast members and everyone simply trying to survive until the final curtain. Full of physical comedy and witty banter, Noises Off is a hilarious celebration of theatrical chaos.
Performance dates: 10/9-10/11 in Balch Arena Theatre
Workshop
Mainstage
Oedipus Rex by Sophocles
Directed by: Wylie Doak
Wink follows unhappy housewife Sofie and her breadwinning husband, Gregor, who both seek weekly counseling from an unorthodox therapist, Doctor Frans. Their current topic of disagreement: the cat, Wink. When Wink goes missing, violent desires, domestic anarchy, and feline vengeance emerge, threatening the neatly ordered reality Sophie, Gregor, and Doctor Frans have constructed.
Performance dates: TBD
O-Show
CLUE by Sarah Rustin
Directed by: Kai Markley & Emma Gordon
Picture this: it’s a dark and stormy night, and you’ve been invited to a very unusual dinner party. You’ve just been blackmailed, handed a weapon, and suddenly your host is dead. In traditional whodunnit fashion, you must find the murderer before they strike again. Based on the cult classic film and the popular board game, CLUE is a farcical comedy that will keep you guessing until the final twist.
Performance dates: Fall 2025 Orientation Show
Fall 2024 productions
O-Show
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
In a woods near Athens, three groups find their stories intertwined. A group of young lovers fight to be with the one they love while discovering themselves. The Athenian Royals’ magical Queer alter-egos battle each other while their troupe of genderful fairies meddle in the lovers’ lives. A band of rude mechanicals prepare a play for the royals’ wedding day.
The script is a shortened version of the original script with some minor word changes/omissions. The estimated run time is a little over 2 hours.
Performance dates: 12/6-12/8
Workshop
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged) [Revised]
This revised version of The Complete Works of William Shakespeare(Abridged) features all 37 of Shakespeare’s plays—from spoofed tragedies to comedies condensed into one story to histories presented as a football game—performed in 97 minutes by three actors. It’s a fast-paced, witty, and physical farce meant to be enjoyed by haters and lovers of Shakespeare alike.
Performance dates: 9/1 @ 6pm and 9/2 @ 4pm
Mainstage
The Ghazzali Dossier
Below are transcripts from the deposition of Grace & Hawthrone v. Kalamad University. Most of you will never have heard of this case. The University wanted to keep it from you, but a seventeen-year-old girl is dead. Few of you knew her, but all of you deserve to know how, and you deserve to know why.
She should not be written off as an accident, not when Galatine is to blame. Not when the University is protecting Galatine, as it has been for years, in the face of students’ deaths.
The proof is in the transcripts. Read them. Share them. Don't let them escape responsibility. Not this time. -R&G
Performance dates: 10/18 and 10/19
Past Productions
Ten Season Archive
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O-Show: Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged) [Revised]
Mainstage: A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Workshop: The Ghazzali Dossier (student written work)
SPRING
Mainstage: Noises Off
Workshop: Wink
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FALL
O-Show: Almost, Maine
Mainstage: DNA (canceled)
Workshop: The Wolves
SPRING
Mainstage: Eight Women
Workshop: Walking Backwards (student written work)
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FALL
O-Show: All in the Timing
Mainstage: Startling (student written work)
Workshop: Everything's Fine (student written work)
SPRING
Mainstage: Julius Caesar
Workshop: Eurydice
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FALL
O-show: (VIRTUAL) The Bacchae
Mainstage: Dry Land
Workshop: The Bacchae
SPRING
Mainstage: The Impromptu at Versailles
Workshop: Opus 1
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Shows:
Dry Land
Trainwreck
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Shows:
The Tempest
The Wolves
Red Noses
The Realistic Joneses
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Shows:
Mr. Burns
Eurydice
Speech and Debate
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Shows:
Red
The Hungry Woman
30 Plays in 60 Minutes
Bootycandy
Stop Kiss
Gnit
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Shows:
Abbyland
Becca and her Miscellaneous Things
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Shows:
Gruesome Playground Injuries
Circle Mirror Transformation
Our Youth
Gnit
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