2015-16 Season

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With ironic humor and piercing compassion, Anton Chekhov’s masterpiece explores the insatiable human desire to live an exceptional life. Featuring theater seniors Anna Aronson and Cameron Platt, directed by faculty member Mark Nelson.

A tuneful, poignant and subversive farce by the great Russian novelist and playwright Mikhail Bulgakov (The Master and Margarita). It’s 1920s post-revolutionary Russia when the hope for freedom means sacrifice and compromise and imagination becomes an escape from harsh realities.

Cloud Nine is one of the classic comedic satires of the British stage and features gender-bending characters and a time-warping exploration of political and sexual oppression. Directed by R. N. Sandberg, lecturer in Theatre and English and performed by seniors Victoria Gruenberg, Tyler Lawrence and Will Plunkett.

Sophocles’ tragedy Elektra, a dark, bloody tale of familial vengeance from ancient Greece, features senior Evelyn Giovine in the title role.

The Program in Theater presents a senior thesis production of Disco Pigs by Enda Walsh, directed by theater senior Morgan Young and featuring students Nathalie Ellis-Einhorn '16 as Runt and Ross Barron '17 as Pig

A unique, theatrical, student exploration of two strong, iconic female characters of the American musical stage featuring Michaela Milgrom '16 and Katie Birenboim '16, directed by Suzanne Agins

A new dance-theater piece exploring W.E.B. Du Bois' idea of double/dual consciousness

A senior theater performance featuring students Billy Cohen '16 and Maddie Reese '16, directed by Adin Walker '16

A new musical about womanhood in New York City in the Jazz Age written by theater senior Sonya Hayden, featuring seniors Victoria Gruenberg and Matt Volpe.

A new one-person, devised ethnographic play based on interviews with people who clown, written and performed by senior Nathalie Ellis-Einhorn and directed by senior Oge Ude