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).

Spring 2026 productions

Relfections

Directed by: Jenny Brown

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: 4/4-4/5 in Curtis Hall

Workshop

Mainstage

Tartuffe by Molière

Directed by: Juliet Baker

Tartuffe is a classic French comedy written by Molière, centering on the character Orgon, who becomes infatuated with Tartuffe, a conman posing as a pious man. The play opens with Orgon's family living harmoniously, including his younger wife Elmire and his children from a previous marriage. However, the arrival of Tartuffe disrupts their happy home, as he ingratiates himself with Orgon and manipulates him into adopting a strict, puritanical lifestyle. Tartuffe's ulterior motives unfold as he seeks to marry Orgon’s daughter, Mariane, while harboring desires for Elmire (and fully trying to seduce her). As the family grapples with Tartuffe's control, resistance grows, particularly from the spirited servant Dorine and Orgon’s son, Damis. The play explores themes of hypocrisy, gullibility, and the tension between genuine faith and false piety. Ultimately, Tartuffe's deception is revealed when Elmire orchestrates a plan to expose him, but not before he attempts to seize Orgon's estate and threaten his family. The resolution comes when the king intervenes, recognizing Tartuffe’s true nature and restoring order to Orgon's household. Molière's work not only critiques religious hypocrisy but also serves as a commentary on the complexities of trust and familial loyalty. It is a farce, a physical comedy.

Performance dates: 3/27-3/28 in Cohen Auditorium

Fall 2025 productions

O-Show

Our Town

Thornton Wilder’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Our Town tells the story of a small town, Grover’s Corners, New Hampshire, in order to tell us the story of every town, the whole world over. Narrated by the “Stage Manager”, we follow the Gibbs and Webb families, residents of Grover’s Corners, through twelve years of life changes – from the mundane in Act I, “Daily Life”, to the romantic in Act II, “Love and Marriage”, and the devastating in Act III, “Death and Eternity”. Over the course of nine years, we see their daily life, watch their love bloom, and consider the eternity of death. The story centers the life shared between Emily Webb and George Gibbs, from childhood to marriage, and through the tragedy of death. We are led through their story, and those of the other residents of the town, by the (fictitious) “Stage Manager”. The Stage Manager welcomes the audience to Our Town, and acts as a quasi tour guide through the play; breaking down the divide between viewer and performer. Through the young lovers Emily and George, their strong and loving parents, and the many other Grover’s Corners’ locals, Wilder delivers universal truths about what it means to be human

Performance dates: 10/9 - 10/11 in Balch Arena Theater

Workshop

The Thirteenth Chair

(The Crosby Mansion. New York City, 1920s. Evening.) 

This thrilling mystery, originally written in 1916, centers around two mysterious deaths. First, Edward Wales seeks to solve the murder of his friend, Spencer Lee. He enlists the help of an eccentric medium (Madam Rosalie La Grange) to question Spencer’s spirit and find his killer. Then the doors are locked, the lights go out, someone screams, and Wales is dead. Every member of the séance is a suspect – including the young couple (Helen O’Neill and William Crosby), William’s parents and the hosts of the evening (Mr and Mrs Crosby), and each of the wealthy  guests. Inspector Donahue, a brilliant detective, takes it upon himself to question the guests and solve both murders – before the killer strikes again.

Performance dates: 8/31 - 9/1 in Balch Arena Theater

Mainstage

Oedipus Rex

Oedipus seeks to cure his city of a mysterious plague by discovering the murderer of the former king. Oedipus Rex is one of the great works in the Western canon and often cited in works of theater, history, political science, and psychology. At the same time, it is complex, challenging, feels temporally foreign yet perennially relevant, and quite twisted. In many ways, it is one of the earliest murder mysteries, yet everything is politically coated by Oedipus’ status as king. This play explores the existence of free will and the place of the individual in a significant, yet often unknown, history. This play gnaws at the minds of all who see it, so come and join the gnawing!

Performance dates: 12/6 -1 2/7 in Curtis Hall

Past Productions

Ten Season Archive

  • FALL

    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

  • FALL

    O-Show: Almost, Maine

    Mainstage: DNA (canceled)

    Workshop: The Wolves

    SPRING

    Mainstage: Eight Women

    Workshop: Walking Backwards (student written work)

  • 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

  • FALL

    O-show: (VIRTUAL) The Bacchae

    Mainstage: Dry Land

    Workshop: The Bacchae

    SPRING

    Mainstage: The Impromptu at Versailles

    Workshop: Opus 1

  • Shows:

    • Dry Land

    • Trainwreck

  • Shows:

    • The Tempest

    • The Wolves

    • Red Noses

    • The Realistic Joneses

  • Shows:

    • Mr. Burns

    • Eurydice

    • Speech and Debate

  • Shows:

    • Red

    • The Hungry Woman

    • 30 Plays in 60 Minutes

    • Bootycandy

    • Stop Kiss

    • Gnit

  • Shows:

    • Abbyland

    • Becca and her Miscellaneous Things

  • Shows:

    • Gruesome Playground Injuries

    • Circle Mirror Transformation

    • Our Youth

    • Gnit

  • Click here to look at our full production history!