Mainstages
Outside of the classroom, the theater department focuses its energies on the production of one full-length mainstage show each semester. Mainstages expose students to the many facets of theater production, providing them with the opportunity to gain first-hand experience working on shows both on stage and behind the scenes, as student designers, technicians and stage crew are utilized in addition to student actors. Mainstages are directed alternately by department faculty and guest artists, exposing students to a variety of styles and techniques throughout their study and participation in the theater department.
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‘The Marriage of Figaro’, Nov. 2006
Mozart's comic opera, The Marriage of Figaro, combines the composer's characteristic melodies with a witty plot in which hastily improvised and absurd situations contrast to Mozart's beautifully crafted music.
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‘HONK!’ – Hillary Knox, May 2006
A delightful musical (winner of London's Olivier award for best new musical in 2000) based on Hans Christian Andersen's traditional tale of "The Ugly Duckling."
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‘After Mrs. Rochester’, March 2006
The play interweaves fiction with historical fact in its exploration of the turbulent life of Jean Rhys, author of Wide Sargasso Sea (1957), a novel that invents the childhood and early life of Mrs. Rochester, the insane and violent wife of Rochester in Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre.
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‘Much Ado About Nothing’, Nov. 2005
A playful adaptation of a popular Shakespearian comedy. Love, betrayal, silliness and all other sorts of intrigue.
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‘Die Fledermaus’, March 2005
"Die Fledermaus", an operatta by Johann Strauss, showcases the extravagant life of upper crust Vienna in the late 19th century.
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‘A Plague of Angels’, Nov. 2004
A new play depicting the story of Mary Mallon, better known as "Typhoid Mary" and her struggle with the Public Health system of New York City.
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‘TORBA’, March 2004
Based on stories from peaceworker Amy Gopp and survivors of the war in the Balkans.
