2022-23 Season

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How can a text that is more than four hundred years old speak to the realities of today? In this shortened workshop performance of William Shakespeare’s Hamlet, a new generation brings their voices to this famed play to find what resonates most personally, and thus most universally. Open to public; no tickets required.

"I made this for you" is a three-pronged artistic practice: first, a series of shared public meals around campus; second, an oral history project collecting remembered stories of shared meals gone by and meals/foods that are lost to us; and finally, this event: a culminating final public meal performance based on food, memory, care, queerness, and utopia. Refreshments provided. Open to University community; registration required.

Through songs from Broadway’s hit musicals, we’ll take the ride that is becoming an adult, with all of the highs and lows that come with it. A cabaret performance featuring and organized by Princeton senior Cassandra James along with student performers Carrie Geisler, Madeleine LeBeau, Zach Lee, Osamede Ogbomo, Jenna Park, Liam Wang, and Matthew Weatherhead. Open to public; no tickets required.

Come dance and celebrate! This show celebrates cumbia (a rhythm/dance/music genre, with African and Indigenous roots) and community, journeying through three styles of cumbia. Conceived/directed by senior Kaelani Burja with choreography by guest artist Andrea Guajardo. Audience participation encouraged but not required. Open to public.

A zany, metatheatrical musical comedy extravaganza by senior Jenni Lawson that explores conventional theater-writing and theater-making processes through an intersectional lens of femininity, queerness, and neurodivergence, while drawing upon influences from sketch comedy, stand-up, improv, and more. Open to public; no tickets required.

Three Loves is a new contemporary styled, sung-through musical that follows the common pop culture theory of the same name, loosely defined as young love, hard love, and the love that lasts. In this musical, these three loves are put to the test and demonstrate a journey of romance, heartbreak, and self-growth. With an exciting and vibrant new score that utilizes pop and modern flares, this show explores the realistic highs and lows of love that young adults face every day and will resonate with the shared commonalities of romance. Written and music directed by senior Halle Mitchell and co-directed by students Wasif Sami and Christine Chen. No tickets required.

For nearly twenty years, playwright Lauren Yee’s father, Larry, has been a driving force in the Yee Family Association, a seemingly obsolescent Chinese American men’s club formed a hundred fifty years ago in the wake of the Gold Rush and the building of the transcontinental railroad. But when her father goes missing, Lauren must plunge into the rabbit hole of San Francisco Chinatown and confront a world both foreign and familiar. At once bitingly hilarious and heartbreakingly honest, "King of the Yees" is an epic joyride across cultural, national, and familial borders that explores what it means to truly be a Yee. Directed by guest artist Bi Jean Ngo and featuring lighting design by senior Angelica Qin.

What happens when characters whose fate has been written and rewritten encounter the bounds of their own stories? Heroides, a Postscript is a new theatrical work by Princeton senior Katie Hameetman that centers on eight women from Greek and Roman mythology and the letters they compose to those who have left them behind. Open to public; no tickets required.

Twenty-three years after his release from prison, Reginald Dwayne Betts explores the experience and consequences of his incarceration in a compelling solo theater show based on his poetry collection, Felon. This theater piece is a meditation on life after prison, criminal justice, art-making and community. Tickets required.

Long after returning from Neverland, Wendy decides that she must find Peter in order to reclaim her kiss and move on with her life. Along the way, she meets other girls who went to Neverland and learns she is not alone. A coming-of-age exploration of first love, lasting loss and metal illness, Lost Girl continues the story of J.M. Barrie’s beloved character – the girl who had to grow up. Open to public; no tickets required.

Disorder is an immersive theatrical installation conceptualized, designed, and led by senior Reed Leventis, with sound design by senior Emily Murray. Highlighting stories and writing sourced from the Princeton University community, the installation illuminates and investigates the frays and strains of the American medical industry. The installation further utilizes audience participation and reflection as a mechanism to reimagine spaces of health care as communal sites of radical listening and vulnerability. Open to public; free tickets required.

On a whim, a young businessman buys the deed to a ghost town in the California desert, hoping to turn it into a tourist attraction. What he finds instead is a place steeped in gruesome histories, and an old caretaker who can tell him just about every terrible thing that’s ever happened in Birnam Mines. Directed by Sabina Jafri ’24, sound design by Eliyana Abraham '23, and written/performed by Asher Muldoon ’23, "mine" is an intimate ghost story interspersed with original folk songs. Open to University community.

A new devised theater piece researched, developed and created by student performers, writers and designers, through choreography, interviews with athletes and absurd exercises in endurance and teamwork. Led and directed by Lecturer in Theater Aaron Landsman and associated directed/choreographed by Princeton alumna Ogemdi Ude '16. Dec. 9 performance features open captioning.

A new horror musical in the genre of dark academia with book and lyrics by Mel Hornyak and Elliot Valentine Lee and music by Lee. The story focuses on three queer students of color at an elite college going to horrific lengths to prove their worth for a coveted graduation honor. The show features a score with baroque pop and dark cabaret influences. Performance on 11/18 features open captions. No tickets required.

Affecting Expression is a new queer tragicomedy by Princeton alum Eliana Cohen-Orth that tells the tale of three queer women from history as they navigate their intersecting artistic paths and the complexities of their relationships with each other and within the increasingly unreliable walls of their home. Directed by senior Eliyana Abraham and featuring senior Rosemary Paulson. No tickets required.

Semi-staged reading of a new play by senior Sarah Grinalds, in which Ines Roget as she pieces together a life of mandated therapy sessions, fever dreams, and family confrontation. The play covers topics of grief, detachment, and therapeutic culture in a surrealist format, questioning the boundaries of what takes place, and what has a stake, in reality. No tickets required.