The theatre studies program produces two shows per academic year, one in the fall and one in the spring. The goal with our productions is to create exciting opportunities for students to learn and experience design, and performance and to develop technical skills. We are dedicated to providing opportunities that coincide with our mission in that they both “provoke and entertain.”

The 2007-08 academic season will include:

Metamorphoses
by Mary Zimmerman, based on David R. Slavitt’s translation of The Metamorphoses of Ovid
Called by Time the "theater event of the year," Mary Zimmerman's Metamorphoses brings Ovid's tales to stunning visual life. Metamorphoses juxtaposes the ancient and the contemporary in both language and image to reflect the variety and persistence of narrative in the face of inevitable change. Nominated for three 2002 Tony Awards, including "Best Play," Metamorphoses earned Zimmerman a Tony for "Best Direction of a Play."

November 2, 3, 8, 9 and 10 - 7:30 p.m.
November 4 - 2:00 p.m.
Tickets go on sale in fall 2007

The Shape of Things
by Neil Labute
After a chance meeting at a museum, Evelyn and Adam embark on an intense relationship that causes shy and principled Adam to go to extraordinary lengths, including cosmetic surgery and a betrayal of his best friend, to improve his appearance and character. In the process, Evelyn's subtle and insistent coaching results in a reconstruction of Adam's fundamental moral character. Only in a final and shocking exhibition does Evelyn reveal the nature of her interest in Adam, of her detached artist's perspective and sense of authority—to her, Adam is no more than "flesh ... one of the most perfect materials on earth. Natural, beautiful and malleable."

Labute's work is an intense and disturbing study not only of the uses of power within human relationships, but also of the ethics involved in the relationship of art and life. To what extent is an artist licensed to shape and change her medium or to alter the work of another artist? What is acceptable artistic material? At what point does creation become manipulation, and at what point does creation destroy? Or, is the new Adam, handsome and confident if heart broken, an admirable result of the most challenging artistic endeavor? The Shape of Things challenges society's most deeply entrenched ideas about art, manipulation and love.

April 11, 12, 17, 18 and 19 - 7:30 p.m.
April 13 - 2:00 p.m.
Tickets go on sale in winter 2007-08

Songs for a New World
April 2007

Fuddy Meers
November 2006

The Glass Menagerie
April 2006

View a list of all of our productions since 1967.