2016-17 Season

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In the lobby of a Manhattan apartment building in the middle of the night, two security guards are drawn into a murder investigation and face dilemmas of race, gender and friendship. Featuring seniors Charlie Baker and Stanley Mathabane, directed by faculty member Mark Nelson.

The Tony Award-winning musical Once, directed by senior Graham Phillips and featuring theater seniors Sam Gravitte and Maddie Meyers, tells the gripping tale of a Dublin street musician who is on the verge of giving up on his dreams, when he unexpectedly meets a girl who is fascinated by his haunting love songs.

Caryl Churchill’s docudrama journeying to 1989 Romania. Directed by junior Nico Krell, designed and dramaturged by senior Sydney Becker.

An autobiographical solo show about mother/daughter relationships and the coming-of-age of the millennial generation

Lloyd Suh's satirical play hilariously challenges racial stereotype and caricature. Featuring theater seniors Kathy Zhao and Ross Barron.

Theater senior Catherine Andre directs Caryl Churchill’s darkly comedic adaptation of August Strindberg’s surrealist masterpiece. Follow Agnes, the daughter of the gods, as she journeys through human life in all its pain and beauty, searching for the hope of redemption.

Questions of identity and race are brought to the forefront in this take on Broadway's hit musical Hairspray, based on the 1988 John Waters film. Directed by theater senior AJ Jones and featuring theater senior Alex Daniels as Tracy Turnblad

Theater seniors Nadia Diamond, Robby Keown, and Abby Melick explore Tennessee Williams' Pulitzer Prize-winning play

Work in Progress, a new play by Senior Ross Barron, engages with questions of love, loss, and death. Artie, an author, and Allen, his character, find themselves at odds in how they think their story should end. Allen will do everything he can to change the fate that has been written for him, and Artie will try to stop him because that's not how it happened. What neither of them realize is that it's not really even up to them, it's up to the woman they both love.

Sondheim and Lapine's masterful fairytale-remix asks the question, What happens after 'happily ever after'? In a world that's fracturing and falling apart, what stories do we tell our children?

A workshop presentation of a new play written by senior Edwin Rosales follows a Maya family living in the highlands of Guatemala, the soldiers who occupy their village, and the spirits who guide and haunt them all during the most violent moments from the civil war.