Book by: Steven Levenson
Music and Lyrics by: Benji Pasek and Justin Paul
Directed by: Joshua Robinson
April 23-26, 2026
A high school student struggling with social anxiety finds himself at the center of a misunderstanding that spirals into something far bigger than he ever imagined. As events unfold, Evan must navigate truth, identity and the consequences of his choices.
Written by: John Cariani
Directed by: Eric Altheide
February 19-22, 2026
Set in the fictional town of Almost, Maine, the play unfolds over the course of a single winter night beneath the northern lights. Through a series of interwoven vignettes, the town鈥檚 residents experience moments of longing, joy, heartbreak and hope as they navigate the complexities of human connection.
Written by: Simon Heriques and Skyler Fox
Directed by: Brecken Maddox
October 2-5, 2025
Following a group of camp counselors trying to mold the leaders of tomorrow when tomorrow is looking bleaker and bleaker, The Grown-Ups explores the traditions that change us, what it takes for us to change them, and how to change yourself when you鈥檙e hopelessly, tragically not prepared for this.
Written by: Kate Hamill
Directed by: Brynne Stephens
March 5-8, 2026
A modern take on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle鈥檚 famous sleuth and sidekick, this irreverent and darkly comic tale re-examines the world鈥檚 most famous detective story with a bold new feminist lens. Oddball female roommates Sherlock Holmes and Joan Watson join forces to emerge from pandemic fog as a deeply codependent, quasi-dysfunctional odd couple adventure duo. The pair find themselves chasing every shadow while solving mysteries and kicking butts, until they come face to face with a villain who seems to have all the answers.
Book by: Douglas Carter Beane
Music and Lyrics by: Jeff Lynne and John Farrar
Directed by: Joshua Robinson
November 20-23, 2025
Xanadu follows the journey of a Greek muse whose mission is to inspire the artist Sonny Malone to invent the apex of all artistic endeavors, a roller-skating disco! Antics and hijinks ensue in this madcap spoof of the original Razzie-award winning movie, featuring songs from the original soundtrack and hits from Olivia Newton-John and Electric Light Orchestra.鈥疶he show is an all-out spectacle that promises to transport the audience back to the decade of decadence.
Book by: Hunter Bell
Music and Lyrics by: Jeff Bowen
Directed by: Joshua Robinson
June 26-29, 2025
The show chronicles its own creation as an entry in the New York Musical Theatre Festival and follows the struggles of the author and composer/lyricist and their two actress friends during the three-week creative period, along with subsequent events leading up to the show's production. [title of show] is, above all, a love letter to musical theatre鈥攁 uniquely American art form鈥攁nd to the joy of collaboration.
Written by: Lauren Gunderson
Directed by: Chloe Kummer
February 20-22, 2025
All Mrs. America Contestant, Katherine, needs to revolutionize the American government is the help of two unlikely coconspirators. Patricia, an ultra-conservative senator's aide on the cusp of a career breakthrough, and Bianca, a bleeding-heart liberal blogger willing to do anything for her cause.
Written by: William Shakespeare
Directed by: Christia Ward
November 21-24, 2024
As You Like It is a comedic Shakespearean play about love, identity and transformation. Rosalind, the daughter of the exiled Duke, is banished from the court by her usurping uncle. Disguised as a young man named Ganymede, she flees to the Forest of Arden with her cousin Celia, who assumes the guise of Aliena. In the forest, Rosalind encounters Orlando, a young man who has fallen in love with her and convinces him to woo "Ganymede" to win her love. As various romantic entanglements unfold, identities are mistaken, and characters wrestle with love and self-discovery.
Written by: Jack Heifner
Directed by: Madalyn Cottrell
September 26-28, 2024
This comedy-drama by Jack Heifner had one of the longest Off-Broadway runs, opening on January 15th, 1976 and closing on May 27th, 1979. Vanities delves into the inter-personal lives of three girls from Texas, and follows them through their time as sorority sisters in college and ends with the dissolution of their friendship in 1974. The play is ultimately a story a friendship, but chronicles the women and their journeys to escape their innocence and grasp the realities of womanhood.
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Book by: Roger O. Hirson
Music and Lyrics by: Stephen Schwartz
Directed by: Joshua Robinson
April 10-13, 2025
The young prince Pippin is in search of the secret to true happiness and fulfillment. He seeks it in the glories of the battlefield, the temptations of the flesh, and the intrigues of political power (after disposing of his father, King Charlemagne the Great). In the end, though, Pippin finds that happiness lies not in extraordinary endeavors, but rather in the unextraordinary moments that happen every day.
Music and Lyrics by: Ryan Scott Oliver
Directed by: Rayn Miller
February 6-8, 2025
The original production, based on photographs by Matthew Murphy, was scored and lyricized by Ryan Scott Oliver. The belief is that if a picture is worth a thousand words, what about a song? This intricately woven collection of stories told through song reimagines what the modern American musical can be. Each new image tells its story through movement, voice and emotion.
Written by: Sarah Ruhl
Directed by: Joshua Robinson
October 17-20, 2024
Eurydice reimagines the classic myth of Orpheus through the eyes of its heroine. Dying too young on her wedding day, Eurydice must journey to the underworld, where she reunites with her father and struggles to remember her lost love. With ingenious plot twists and breathtaking visual effects, the play is a fresh look at a timeless love story.
Written by: Jacob Richmond
Music and Lyrics by: Brooke Maxwell and Jacob Richmond
Directed by: Joshua Robinson
February 15-18, 2024
黑料网 Theatre continues its 2023-24 season with Ride the Cyclone. The book, music and lyrics are by Jacob Richmond and Brooke Maxwell, and the production is directed by Joshua Robinson, Professor of Musical Theatre in 黑料网鈥檚 Philip H. Hagemann Performing Arts Department. Performances will run from Thursday, February 15 through Sunday, February 18 in the 黑料网 Performance Center.
In a dilapidated warehouse at an abandoned amusement park, an aging mechanical fortune-teller called The Amazing Karnak comes to life and brings with him a ghostly choir of five deceased high-schoolers, all members of the Saint Cassian Chamber Choir, who were tragically killed on the park鈥檚 Cyclone roller coaster. Now, Karnak has the power to return one of these youths to life, but they must all decide among themselves who is the worthiest of a second chance to 鈥渞ide the cyclone鈥� that is life.
Robinson will be joined by a design team including Henry Maurer as Musical Director, Jaddyn Olivas as Choreographer, Paul Weimer, Associate Professor and Chair of Theatre, as Scenic Designer; Shan Jensen, Professor of Theatre, as Costume Designer; Andy Hammond, Theatre Technical Coordinator, as Technical Director; Joshua Stallings, Facilities Coordinator, as Sound Designer; Brandon Bagwell, Assistant Professor of Theatre, as Lighting Designer; as well as students, Grey Miller as Stage Manager, Jade Griffy as Associate Costume Designer, and Rayn Miller as Assistant Director/Dance Captain.
The cast of Ride the Cyclone features Michael Woywood as Karnak; Abby Scheller as Ocean O鈥機onnell Rosenburg; Leo Rasche as Noel Gruber; Cooper Craig as Mischa Bachinski; Ethan Hoover as Ricky Potts; Morgan Stauter as Jane Doe; and Blair McKown as Constance; Jaden Crouch as Virgil; Via Ryan as Talia; and Rayn Miller as the Female Swing cast member.
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Written by: Sarah DeLappe
Directed by: Eric Altheide
April 18-21, 2024
From the safety of their suburban stretch circle, The Wolves follows a girls indoor soccer team as they navigate big life questions and wage tiny battles with all the vigor of a pack of adolescent warriors. This production is a portrait of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness for nine American girls who just want to score some goals.
Student cast members include Morgan Ray, LillyBea Ireland, Via Ryan, Brynne Stephens, Madalyn Cottrell, Ashlyn Thornburgh, Jillian Palomino, Jade Griffy, Jaden Crouch and Rayn Miller. Alice Shen, Professor of English, also joins the cast as one of the player鈥檚 parents.
Altheide is joined by Blair McKown, Student Assistant Director; Gavin Carter, Student Lighting Designer; Joshua Stallings, Sound Designer; Mel Hanebutt, Student Assistant Sound Designer; Paul Weimer, Scenic Designer; Shan Jensen, Costume Designer; Andy Hammond, Technical Director; and Adam Funkhouser, Box Office Operations Manager. The show will also feature Brecken Maddox, Student Stage Manager; Leo Rasche, Student Assistant Stage Manager; and Morgan Stauter, Student Assistant Stage Manager.
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Written by: Kate Hamill
Directed by: Eric Altheide
October 12-15, 2023
This ain't your father's "Dracula"...but it might be your mother's.
Dracula is this year鈥檚 黑料网 Theatre annual Repertory Project production, which operates under a contract with the Actors鈥� Equity Association, the professional union of actors and stage managers. The production will feature Jesse Luttrell, a professional actor, as Dracula and Margaret Kayes, a professional stage manager.
Kate Hamill's inventive 鈥渇eminist revenge fantasy鈥� reimagines Dracula in a way that is both unsettling and uproarious, unlike any previous adaptation. It delves into the concept of predators, offering a clever, disconcerting and darkly comedic twist on the story. Hamill's unique approach and contemporary humor completely transform the traditional narrative of Victorian vampires, effectively challenging toxic masculinity.
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Written by: Lauren Gunderson
Directed by: Joshua Robinson
November 16-19, 2023
For those times when divorce just doesn't send the right message. Sometimes revenge is sweet...and furry.
Exit introduces us to Nan who has decided to teach her abusive husband Kyle a lesson. With the help of her friend Simon (acting as her emotional - and actual - cheerleader) and a stripper named Sweetheart, she tapes Kyle to a chair and forces him to watch as they reenact scenes from their painful past. In the piece de resistance, they plan to cover the room in meat and honey so Kyle will be mauled by a bear. Through this night of emotional trials and ridiculous theatrics, Nan and Kyle are both freed from their past in this smart, dark revenge comedy.
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Book and Lyrics by: Lisa Kron
Music by: Jeanine Tesori
Directed by: Eric Altheide
February 23-26, 2023
When her father dies unexpectedly, graphic novelist Alison dives deep into her past to tell the story of the volatile, brilliant, one-of-a-kind man whose temperament and secrets defined her family and her life. Moving between past and present, Alison relives her unique childhood playing at the family鈥檚 Bechdel Funeral Home, her growing understanding of her own sexuality, and the looming, unanswerable questions about her father鈥檚 hidden desires. Fun Home is a refreshingly honest, wholly original musical about seeing your parents through grown-up eyes.
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Developed by: 黑料网 Theatre Department
Directed by: Joe Paulik
April 14-16, 2023
This inaugural performance by the 黑料网 Theatre department will showcase original works by 黑料网 Theatre students, giving them a unique chance to showcase their skills and talents.
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Written by: Oscar Wilde
Directed by: Elliot Wasserman
October 20-23, 2022
The Importance of Being Earnest is the most renowned of Oscar Wilde鈥檚 comedies. It鈥檚 the story of two bachelors, John 鈥楯ack鈥� Worthing and Algernon 鈥楢lgy鈥� Moncrieff, who create alter egos named Ernest to escape their tiresome lives. They attempt to win the hearts of two women who, conveniently, claim to only love men called Ernest. The pair struggle to keep up with their own stories and become tangled in a tale of deception, disguise and misadventure. The elaborate plot ridicules Victorian sensibilities with some of the best loved, and indeed bizarre, characters to be found on the modern stage.
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Written by: Melanie Marnich
Directed by: Amelia Schmitz
November 17-20, 2022
Based on the true story of the 鈥淩adium Girls鈥�, These Shining Lives chronicles the strength and determination of women considered expendable in their day, exploring their true story and its continued resonance. Catherine and her friends are dying, it鈥檚 true; but theirs is a story of survival in its most transcendent sense, as they refuse to allow the company that stole their health to kill their spirits鈥攐r endanger the lives of those who come after them.
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Fall 2021
The Mad Ones
By Kait Kerrigan and Bree Lowdermilk
Based on an Idea by Zach Altman and Bree Lowdermilk
Directed by Eric Altheide
October 14-17, 2021
A Christmas Carol
By John Mortimer
Adapted from the story by Charles Dickens
Directed by Elliot Wasserman
November 18-21, 2021
Spring 2022
Stop Kiss
By Diana Son
Directed by Eric Altheide
February 17-20, 2022
Twelfth Night
By William Shakespeare
Directed by Elliot Wasserman
April 21-24, 2022
Fall 2020
Songs For A New World
Directed by Eric Altheide
Video available October 15, 2020 through September 30, 2021
It's A Wonderful Life: A Radio Play
By Joe Landry
Directed by Elliot Wasserman
Video available from December 16-23, 2020
Spring 2021
The Laramie Project
by Mois茅s Kaufman
and the Members of Tectonic Theater Project
Directed by Eric Altheide
Video available from April 15-22, 2021
础苍听Oedipus
Written and directed by Elliot Wasserman
Video available December 1, 2021