2024-25 Season

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This event has been canceled. The Inheritor, a 1968 activist play about structural inequities in access to educational opportunity, is presented as a staged reading in a new (and the first English-language) translation of the script.

Two worlds collide as the story a father left behind for his family spills into the living room. This new play by Le'Naya Wilkerson '25 explores how we deal with loss, how families learn to meet each other where they are, and how our lost loved ones might stay with us in surprising ways. Directed by Wasif Sami '25. Free tickets required.

An up-to-the-moment, comedic, political news report conceived, created, and performed by Princeton senior Charlie Roth. Free tickets required.

In this entrancing play by award-winning playwright Naomi Iizuka, a young refugee named Anon, separated from his mother, journeys through the United States, encountering a wide variety of people—some kind, some dangerous and cruel—as he searches for his family. From a sinister one-eyed butcher to beguiling barflies to a sweatshop, Anon must navigate through an ever-changing landscape in this adaptation of Homer's The Odyssey. Anon(ymous) is a story of displacement, the search for belonging, hope and resilience, and the power of friendship.

This new play by senior Molly Lopkin follows a 12-year old Charles Dickens after his family is thrown into debtor’s prison. The young Dickens swears to write a novel so great that everyone will know he’s better than the common guttersnipes, but when he falls in with a pack of thieving, cursing urchins, he’ll have to choose between the acclaim he has always wanted and the friends he never thought he would make. Free tickets required.

A Life Worth Living is a new dramatic-comedy musical that follows Gavin, a depressed teenager involuntarily sent to a residential mental health treatment facility. Using music and comedy, the show focuses on topics of platonic love, mental health, and suicide, while exploring themes of grief, acceptance, and radical hope. Talkback with Dr. Calvin R. Chin, Princeton's Director of Counseling and Psychological Services, follows 11/9 performance. Free tickets required.

A new play written and directed by Daniel Viorica '25. Tularosa, New Mexico. 1982. The night she leaves home, Rachel reveals a secret her sister Leah has been keeping close. When she returns twenty years later, the family finds simmering resentments ready to boil. Over the next months, they must painstakingly articulate something new: reconciliation. Free tickets required.

The Amish Project explores the aftermath of the 2006 shooting at an Amish schoolhouse in Nickel Mines, a small village in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. The play delves into themes of community loss and transcendent forgiveness that continue to resonate today. Senior Caitlin Durkin performs this solo show, portraying six characters forever transformed by the tragic event. Free tickets required.

Scenes of Connection is an exploration of intimacy across forms: what is love? How does love spring up across and through life, for different people and different souls? A collection of scenes directed by Orion Lopez-Ramirez '26 with intimacy direction by Kat McLaughlin '25. Free tickets required.

Senior Stephenie Chen's new play To Dream About Wings follows two teenagers: Anna, who dreams of stability and a love that lasts forever, and Leo, who is destined to fly. After a fateful meeting at church, Anna becomes swept up in Leo’s ambition. But as his flying machine—his ornithopter—starts becoming a reality, she is faced with the fact that he must leave her. Directed by senior Wasif Sami. Free tickets required.

Safe Harbor is an original piece of interactive theater where audience member choices have a direct impact on the story. Come play as the main characters in a choose-your-own adventure video game come to life. Try and thrive in a post-apocalyptic world, navigating the complex politics of an authoritarian commune and a libertarian revolution. See how your morals hold-up in times of scarcity while moving through ethical scenarios that make the “trolly problem” look like child’s play. Free tickets required.

This musical celebration unites music theater storytelling, performance, composition, arranging, direction, and choreography while featuring the work and leadership of current Princeton students and alumni. The Playhouse Ensembles will be joined by Broadway performer and two-time Grammy-nominated songwriter Becca Stevens, two-time Grammy-winning violist and composer Nathan Schram, and others. You'll hear selections from Hadestown, Pippin, Shuffle Along, Sondheim's Evening Primrose, and more alongside world premieres by guest artists and students. Tickets required.

Princeton senior Vincent Gerardi explores the challenge of bringing multiple characters to life in a one-person show, performing the third act of Vanya, Tony Award-winner Simon Stephens' (The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time) radical new version of Anton Chekhov's Uncle Vanya. Through Vanya, Gerardi explores the kaleidoscope of human emotions, harnessing the power of the intimate bond between actor and audience to delve deeper into the human psyche. Free tickets required.

DrKheal2 offers a tandem encounter with María Irene Fornés’s 1968 play Dr. Kheal, in which a learned professor delivers a lecture about the meaning of all things. Professor Brian Herrera and alum Kyle Berlin, Class of 2018, each perform the role of Dr. Kheal simultaneously in different time periods in different venues (Wallace Theater and CoLab) for half the audience. The audiences then switch venues and experience the other Dr. Kheal. Free tickets required.

Latinx Theatre Commons (LTC) presents the 2025 Latinx Theatre Commons María Irene Fornés Institute Symposium, a one-day convening of scholars, artists, students, advocates, and others invested in the life, work, and legacy of playwright, director and educator, María Irene Fornés (1930-2018). Admission is free and by invitation; available remaining seats will be opened to public.

What’s the story that framed you before you were even you? Macbeth in Stride, by Obie Award-winning theater artist Whitney White, employs the musical styles of rock, pop, gospel, and R&B to investigate some of the most familiar narratives of Shakespeare’s “Scottish play.” The musical preserves the madness, mystery, and macabre while infusing its own twist of irony, indulgence, and introspection, some so commonplace, we’ve forgotten to treat them as narratives at all. A talkback follows the April 11 performance. Tickets: $10-20

This fable set in a forest tells the story of three brothers, their individual weaknesses, and their quest to beat the Devil at his own games. Including music and dance, this fable draws on themes of pride versus humility, faith, colonialism, and capitalism. Featuring traditional characters like Papa Bois and the Bolom and a host of animal narrators, this work is a testament to how Caribbean people consolidate a painful history through the arts as Walcott threads tones of colonialism through a story of adventure. Directed by alumna abigail jean-baptiste '18 and featuring Aleena Brown '25. Free tickets required.

A queer exploration of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream by the students in the spring course, “Topics in Ensemble Performing,” directed by faculty member Chesney Snow, assistant directed by Ava Kronman ’26, and featuring John Venegas Juarez ’25. Free tickets required.

This new play by Kate Stewart '25 examines self-reflection, redemption, and human capacity for growth amidst personal flaws and mistakes. The story follows Rena, a young woman caught between her carefree but reckless past and a moment of reckoning after a life-altering accident. The play speaks to the transformative power of acceptance and the courage to embrace imperfection while choosing to move forward. Free tickets required.

Two best friends Alana and Destiny go to Puerto Rico to enjoy their final winter break as college seniors. During a wild night out in La Placita, Alana meets Gabriel who shows her that the island isn’t just about its beaches and reggaeton. Based on oral history archives, Afro-Puerto Ricans characters like Gabriel will expose Alana and Destiny to stories that showcase strength, resistance, and pride in one’s African heritage. These stories reveal a new perspective that makes the friends question their views about the Afro-diaspora. Open to public; free tickets required.

Join us for an intimate evening of performance. Princeton students will showcase some of their favorite songs featuring work from musicals, folk music, and original compositions in a cabaret-style atmosphere. Produced by senior Lev Ricanati, with musical direction by Daniel Liu '26. Free tickets required.

A theatricalized staged reading of Princeton senior Violet Prete's new play. Damned to Marriage follows Mary, who uses artificial intelligence to go back in time to when her parents met and dated in college in 1975 to retell the story of two lovers meeting while at school and how their marriage eventually fails. She breaks them up and urges them not to have kids. The play is a story of young love through the eyes of a time travel dream scheme that is fueled by artificial intelligence. Free tickets required through University Ticketing.