Upcoming
17-18 Theatre Department Season
Chicago
Directed by Michelle Miller ‘98
Music by John Kander
Lyrics by Fred Ebb
Book by Fred Ebb & Bob Fosse
October 18-21 at 7:30pm | October 22 at 2:00pm
Robsham Mainstage Theater
Synopsis: In roaring twenties Chicago, Roxie Hart murders a faithless lover and convinces her hapless husband Amos to take the rap...until he finds out he's been duped and turns on Roxie. Convicted and sent to death row, Roxie and another "Merry Murderess" Velma Kelly, vie for the spotlight and the headlines, ultimately joining forces in search of the "American Dream": fame, fortune and acquittal.
The Cherry Orchard
By Anton Chekhov
Translated by Paul Schmidt
Directed by Patricia Riggin
November 16-18 at 7:30pm | November 19 at 2:00pm
Robsham Mainstage Theater
Synopsis: An impoverished landowning family is unable to face the fact that their estate is about to be auctioned off. Lopakhin, a local merchant, presents numerous options to save it, including cutting down their prized cherry orchard. But the family is stricken with denial. The Cherry Orchard charts the precipitous descent of a wealthy family and in the process creates a bold meditation on social change and bourgeois materialism.
No Exit
By Jean-Paul Sartre
Translated by Stuart Gilbert
Directed by Kylie Fletcher ‘17
January 25-27 at 7:30pm | January 28 at 2:00pm
Robsham Bonn Studio Theater
Synopsis: Two women and one man are locked up together for eternity in one hideous room in hell. The windows are bricked up; there are no mirrors; the electric lights can never be turned off; and there is no exit. The irony of this hell is that its torture is not of the rack and fire, but of the burning humiliation of each soul as it is stripped of its pretenses by the cruel curiosity of the damned. Here the soul is shorn of secrecy, and even the blackest deeds are mercilessly exposed to the fierce light of hell. It is an eternal torment.
New Voices
Plays by Taylor Badoyen ‘19 & Michael Quinn ‘19
Directed by Scott T. Cummings
February 15-17 at 7:30pm | February 18 at 2:00pm
Robsham Bonn Studio Theater
Stop Kiss
By Diana Son
Directed by Taylor Tranfaglia ‘18
March 22-24 at 7:30pm | March 25 at 2:00pm
Robsham Bonn Studio Theater
Synopsis: "A poignant and funny play about the ways, both sudden and slow, that lives can change irrevocably," says Variety. After Callie meets Sara, the two unexpectedly fall in love. Their first kiss provokes a violent attack that transforms their lives in a way they could never anticipate.
Peter and the Starcatcher
A Play by Rick Elice
Based on the Novel by Dave Barry & Ridley Pearson
Music by Wayne Barker
Directed by Luke Jorgensen
April 25-28 at 7:30pm | April 29 at 2:00pm
Robsham Mainstage Theater
Synopsis: From marauding pirates and jungle tyrants to unwilling comrades and unlikely heroes, Peter and the Starcatcher playfully explores the depths of greed and despair, and the bonds of friendship, duty and love. A young orphan and his mates are shipped off from Victorian England to a distant island ruled by the evil King Zarboff. They know nothing of the mysterious trunk in the captain’s cabin, which contains a precious, otherworldly cargo. At sea, the boys are discovered by a precocious young girl named Molly, a Starcatcher-in-training who realizes that the trunk’s precious cargo is starstuff, a celestial substance so powerful that it must never fall into the wrong hands. When the ship is taken over by pirates – led by the fearsome Black Stache, a villain determined to claim the trunk and its treasure for his own – the journey quickly becomes a thrilling adventure.