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2021 – 2022
The Legend of Georgia McBride
Written by Matthew Lopez • Directed by Kolton Bradley
March 25 – 27, 2022
A big-hearted, music-filled comedy. Casey is an Elvis impersonator with everything going for him. But just like that he loses his gig, rent is overdue and his wife announces a baby on the way. So when Elvis leaves the building and a drag show moves in, “The King” transforms into an all-out queen with the help of some new friends who become the second family Casey never saw coming. With snappy zingers and dance-worthy numbers, this wildly entertaining story will challenge your assumptions with extraordinary humor and depth.
Senior Acting Thesis: Pod 4
April 2 – 3, 2022
As a culmination of their time at Boston University School of Theatre, Senior Acting Majors present their Final Theses for an audience. Pod 4: Isabel Van Natta, Abigayle Scobee, Raymond Vasco, and Emma Laird.
Senior Acting Thesis: Pod 5
April 9 – 10, 2022
As a culmination of their time at Boston University School of Theatre, Senior Acting Majors present their Final Theses for an audience. Pod 5: Brittani McBride, Arianne Banda, Ivan Walks, and Victoria Omoregie.
MANEATER
Written by Madison Kartoz
Directed by Trevor Turnbow
April 22 – 24, 2022
MANEATER is a Senior Theatre Arts Major Project (STAMP) Production.
Choice /CHois/
Directed by Malika Oyetimein
April 27 – 30, 2022
Springboard Series
May 2 – 8, 2022
Want to experience something new? A part of New Works, the Springboard Series provides opportunities for School of Theatre students to present public readings of their new plays and works in progress.
May 2 • Freakshow
May 6 • Meeting
May 8 • In the Wake of it All
roots
Conceived by Will Choy Edelson and Ken Yotsukura
April 29 – May 1, 2022
This devised work is a Senior Theatre Arts Major Project (STAMP) Production
Shakespeare in Love
Written by Lee Hall, Marc Norman, and Tom Stoppard
Directed by Judy Braha
April 30 – May 8, 2022
“Young Will Shakespeare has writer’s block. The deadline for his new play is fast approaching, but he’s in desperate need of inspiration. That is, until he finds his muse… the feisty, brilliant and beautiful Viola. This crafty young woman is Will’s greatest admirer and will stop at nothing (including breaking the law) to appear in his next play. Against a bustling background of mistaken identity, ruthless scheming and backstage theatrics, Will’s love for Viola quickly blossoms, inspiring him to write his greatest romantic masterpiece” (Concord Theatricals, Shakespeare In Love).
Exit the King
Written by Eugène Ionesco
Directed by Clay Hopper
Interactive Projection Design by Paolo Scoppola
May 4 – 7, 2022
This absurdist exploration of ego and mortality is set in the crumbling throne-room of the palace in an unnamed country where King Berenger the First has only the duration of the play to live. Once, it seemed he ruled over an immense empire and commanded great armies, now his kingdom has shrunk to the confines of his garden wall. Refusing to accept his end, he is attended by his present and former Queens who must help him face the final inevitable truth of life: death.
Murder Ballad
Conceived by and with book and lyrics by Julia Jordan
Music and Lyrics by Juliana Nash
Directed by Shamus
May 5 – 7, 2022
“Murder Ballad is the dramatic story of a love triangle gone wrong, centering on Sara, an uptown girl who seems to have it all, but whose downtown past lingers enticingly and dangerously in front of her” (Music Theatre International, Murder Ballad). Free admission; seating is limited.
Murder Ballad is presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI). All authorized performance materials are also supplied by MTI.
First-year graduate students of Boston University School of Theatre come together for Masterclass, four collaborative spring semester projects. Written by Madeline Sayet May 6 – 7, 2022 The Greek city of Thebes is crumbling under plague and oppression, and her newly enthroned ruler Creon tries to quell an uprising against the patriarchal status quo. Madeline Sayet’s Antigone breathes new life into Sophocles’ timeless tale of the defiance of an exiled king’s orphaned daughter and the city she inspires to action. Can the citizens of Thebes overcome their prejudices and find common ground against autocracy? Written by Alice Birch May 6 – 7, 2022 “A wildly experimental and inventive new play that does not behave. Playwright Alice Birch has put together a grouping of vignettes that ask how to revolutionize language, relationships, work, and life in general while bursting at the seams of conformity (Concord Theatricals).” Q4 Masterclass Projects
Antigone or And Still She Must Rise Up
Directed by Enzo GonzalesRevolt. She Said. Revolt Again.
Directed by Ludmila de Brito
Chariot Reversed
Written by Erin David and Julia Hertzberg
Directed by Jennie Gorn
May 6 – 8, 2022
Chariot Reversed is a Senior Theatre Arts Major Project (STAMP) Production.
The Queero's Journey
Written by Abacus Dean-Polacheck
April 28 – 29, 2022
This Next Stage Workshop of The Queero’s Journey is presented as part of New Works, a four-step process dedicated to the development of new plays at Boston University School of Theatre – from cold reads all the way to fully staged productions that are supported by a director and performed for audiences. All projects presented as part of the New Works trajectory are student written, directed, designed, and performed.
Everybody
Written by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
Directed by Melisa Pereyra and Jeb Burris
March 1 – 3, 2022
This is a play about community, truly, a play about Everybody. Through this ensemble driven work, we get to explore as artists the existential questions that plague our minds from day to day. Together we sift through a metaphorical look at our lives and ask our community, what is the meaning of it all? Because this is a morality play, we lead the audience through a meditation on their value systems, and in turn, perhaps learn something about ourselves as artists by daring to tell this story of Everybody’s journey through life with whatever courage we have left. Intensely driven by the imagination of each ensemble member, we invite you to join Everybody’s world: a place where thoughts become people, and where death, love, beauty, and even our senses, get their time on stage. Literally. Packed with gravitas and humor in equal parts, this play by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins draws on the classic morality tale Everyman and reminds us that this story is not about a man at all, but rather about the things that keep ALL of us up at night: our fears of the unknown beyond the grave and who will show up to help us get to the end of our journeys.
Mac Beth
Adapted by Erica Schmidt from the work of William Shakespeare
Directed by Gigi Juras
February 27 – March 3, 2022
Mac Beth is an adaptation using text from the original Shakespeare play, but contextualized and inspired by highly publicized incidents of young girls enacting violence on one another. This production wrestles with the flawed representation of women and witches in Shakespeare, love and violence, adolescent girlhood, and the dynamics of how relationships to each other inform their perceptions of themselves.
LIZZIE: The Musical
Written by Tim Maner & Steven Cheslik-DeMeyer
Music by Steven Cheslik-DeMeyer & Alan Stevens Hewitt
Directed by Emma Cavage
February 27 – March 3, 2022
In 1892, Lizzie Borden was accused of murdering her father and stepmother. Testimonies were muddled, evidence was incomplete, and Lizzie was acquitted. LIZZIE: The Musical delves into the mysterious mind of Lizzie and speculates on the motivations she may have had. By her side are her older sister Emma, their maid Bridget, and their neighbor Alice. The four women sing a punk rock score to tell the story of why “Lizzie Borden took an axe…”
Q3 Masterclass Projects
Dead Man’s Cellphone
February 26-27, 2022
Written by Sarah Ruhl
Directed by Ludmila de Brito
An incessantly ringing cell phone in a quiet café. A stranger at the next table who has had enough. And a dead man – with a lot of loose ends. So begins Dead Man’s Cell Phone, a wildly imaginative new comedy by MacArthur “Genius” Grant recipient and Pulitzer Prize finalist Sarah Ruhl. A work about how we memorialize the dead – and how that remembering changes us – it is the odyssey of a woman forced to confront her own assumptions about morality, redemption, and the need to connect in a technologically obsessed world.
Mercury
February 26-27, 2022
Written by Steve Yockey
Directed by Enzo Gonzales
A couple moves out to a remote area of Oregon and discover that all is not right with their next door neighbor. A housewife confronts her spurned ex-lover, convinced that she has something to do with her dog Mr. Bundles’ disappearance. These stories collide in Mercury by Steve Yockey, which explores just how terrible and callous people can be to each other when our favorite planetary body is in retrograde.
The Corruption of Morgana Pendragon
February 24 – 26, 2022
Written by McKayla Witt
Directed by Noah Putterman
Boston University School of Theatre presents a new play by McKayla Witt (CFA’22), directed by Noah Putterman. Here is a girl transforming into a woman. Here is a girl transforming into a goddess. Here is a girl transforming into a beast. Here is Arthurian legend as it stands and as it crumples to the tide of history. Here is what it means to make and remake a legend on the backs of broken women and forgotten traditions.
If I Were You
February 24 – 27, 2022
Music by Jake Heggie • Libretto by Gene Scheer
Jim Petosa, director • William Lumpkin, conductor
If I Were You (2019) is an opera loosely based on the 1947 novel Si j’étais vous… by Julien Green (courtesy of the Estate of Julien Green and Editions Fayard). In this modern telling of the Faust story, the devil (Brittomara) makes a bargain with a dispirited young writer named Fabian Hart. He is given the supernatural power to move his soul and identity from person to person for as long as he likes; but, if he ever returns to his original body, he will die, and the devil will collect his soul. On his precarious journey to win the heart of his beloved, he leaves a trail of human wreckage and hollow shells. In the end, will he choose to live forever as someone else, or die for love as himself?
Joan & Edgar Booth Theatre
Senior Acting Thesis: Pod 3
February 19 – 20, 2022
Shakespeare's R&J
February 19 – 20, 2022
Written by Joe Colarco
Directed by Shamus
Four young prep school students, tired of going through the usual drill of conjugating Latin and other tedious school routines, decide to vary their very governed lives. After school, one breaks out a copy of William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. Perceptions and understanding are turned upside-down as the fun of play-acting turns serious, and the words and meanings begin to hit home and universal truths emerge.
Things That Are Round
February 16 – 17, 2022
Written by Callie Kimball
Directed by Clay Hopper
Senior Acting Thesis: Pod 2
February 12 – 13, 2022
Senior Acting Thesis: Pod 1
February 5 – 6, 2022
The Ain Gordon Project
February 5, 2022
Written and Directed by Ain Gordon
Lighting and Production Design by Kelly Martin
3-time Obie winning writer/director Ain Gordon workshops a new play inspired by overlooked memories from the first five years of the AIDS crisis during the 80’s in Philadelphia. Capping an eighteen month research process, the play imagines three figures: a nurse, a single man, and a chorister. This workshop will be double-cast with two BU students sharing each of the three roles.
Springboard Series
December 10 – 13, 2021
Want to experience something new? The Springboard Series is your opportunity to hear public readings of new plays written and presented by School of Theatre students.
December 10 • The Body Electric
December 11 • Rockets Red Glare
December 13 • The Corruption of Morgana Pendragon
December 13 • Against A Village
Music by Andrew Lippa, Lyrics by Tom Greenwald John and Jen is a chamber musical about Jen and her relationships with the two Johns of her life: her younger brother, who was killed in Vietnam, and his namesake — her son, who is trying to find his way in a confusing world.John and Jen
November 11 – 14, 2021
Directed by Kolton Bradley (CFA’22)
Written by Mya Ison (CFA’22) Laure is a play in response to the painting Olympia by Manet (1865), imagining that the Black model, Laure, was not erased from the archive. By adapting themes from the The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde (1890), this play creates a three-dimensional world through its four characters, and engages with agency, gaze, and the power of the erotic.Laure
November 19 – 21, 2021
Directed by Gigi Juras (CFA’22)
Written by Sophie Treadwell A powerful expressionist drama from the 1920s about the dependent status of women in an increasingly mechanised society, based on the true story of Ruth Snyder. Sophie Treadwell was a campaigning journalist in America between the wars. Among her assignments was the sensational murder involving Snyder who, with her lover Judd Gray, had murdered her husband and gone to the electric chair.Machinal
December 3 – 5, 2021
Directed by Shamus McCarty (CFA’23)
Written by William Shakespeare The four-hundred-twenty-year-old cult classic Hamlet is back and ready to take on the institution with daggers and toy trumpets. This ensemble-centric production of Hamlet takes us on a rollercoaster ride to the heights of laughter and depths of grief while tackling traditional gender ideology.Hamlet
December 10 – 12, 2021
Adapted & Directed by Rani O’Brien (CFA’23)
Written by Charlotte Weinman (CFA’22) This New Works: Next Stage Workshop is a staged reading of a new play by Charlotte Weinman. The Salamander and the Impediment is a stark look at the notorious Zelda and F Scott Fitzgerald marriage and their liaisons with Tallulah Bankhead and Ernest Hemingway. These tortured centenarian souls tackle what it means to have friends you are in love with, and lovers whose friends you want to kill. New Works is a four-step process dedicated to the development of new plays at Boston University School of Theatre – from cold reads all the way to fully staged productions that are supported by a director and performed for audiences. All projects presented as part of the New Works trajectory are student written, directed, designed, and performed.The Salamander and the Impediment (New Works)
October 24, 2021
Directed by Enzo Gonzales (CFA’24)New Works: Next-Stage Workshop
Written by Becca Carter Freeman (CFA’22) A New Work: Next Stage Workshop, Boston University School of Theatre presents a reading of a new play by Becca Carter Freeman (CFA’22), directed by Ludmila Cardoso De Brito (CFA’24). Where Do Peaches Grow? is about where we call home. Where do we find comfort in the ones we love, our bodies, and in our physical surroundings? The play follows Vega, a 16-year-old girl who returns to her “hometown” for her sixteenth summer in a row after living in Seoul, South Korea for the majority of her life. Throughout the piece, we follow her as she navigates identifying with the people, places, and daily life she’s supposed to know so well. New Works is a four-step process dedicated to the development of new plays at Boston University School of Theatre – from cold reads all the way to fully staged productions that are supported by a director and performed for audiences. All projects presented as part of the New Works trajectory are student written, directed, designed, and performed.Where Do Peaches Grow? (New Works)
November 20, 2021
Directed by Ludmila De Brito (CFA’24)New Works: Next-Stage Workshop
October 14 – 24, 2021 Boston Playwrights’ Theatre LORENA: A Tabloid Epic spins out of the media hailstorm surrounding Lorena Bobbitt, who became a sensation after she used a kitchen knife against her abusive husband in 1993. The tacky dystopia of American pop culture tumbles onto the stage in a series of funhouse vignettes that know no bounds, while The Playwright desperately tries to protect Lorena from the play, which has clearly gotten out of her control.LORENA: A Tabloid Epic (BPT)
Written by Eliana Pipes
Directed by Erica Terpening-Romeo (CFA’21)
November 4 – 14, 2021 Boston Playwrights’ Theatre Boston Playwrights’ Theatre and the School of Theatre present this new play written by Daniel Blanda. At an old cabin in rural Minnesota, something is lurking in the corn. In the wake of his father’s death, straitlaced Riley has left his fiancée and the big city in order to find peace by visiting his old friend Hunter…and it turns out that Hunter knows the cure for grief—old stories, the great outdoors, and plenty of beers. But both men are running from their own demons, and something between them can’t be outrun.Gone Nowhere (BPT)
Written by Daniel Blanda
Directed by Noah Putterman (CFA’22)
December 2 – 12 Boston Playwrights’ Theatre Boston Playwrights’ Theatre and the School of Theatre present this new play written by Ally Sass. Incels and Other Myths follows a mother and son’s epic journey into the online realms of gender, power, and mythology. Elaine, a professor of Women in Mythology, grows concerned when Avery spends much of his time playing the online adventure game Oracle. Hoping to save him from spiraling deep into the notorious, misogynistic community of the “incels,” Elaine discovers an addiction of her own. But now, can Avery save her?Incels and Other Myths (BPT)
Written by Ally Sass
Directed by Erica Terpening-Romeo (CFA’21)
December 2 – 5, 2021 The School of Theatre as a part of the Indigenous Voices in the Americas series, funded in part by the BU Arts Initiative, presents a Booth production of this world-premiere convergence stories of lineage, legacy, and land developed and facilitated by SOT resident guest artist Ty Defoe in collaboration with guest designer Katherine Freer. Interweaving Indigenous oral storytelling traditions and contemporary multimedia performance, Patterns of Wind is a process of creation and exploration. Students will deepen their own understanding of their relationship to lineage and migration through embodied techniques and Decolonial practice. Drawing from personal narrative and blood memory, the ensemble will devise an experience that uplifts the interconnectedness of all living things. Created by: Arianne Banda, Caila Katz, Claire Gardner, Jayna Shoda Meyer, Julia Hertzberg, Katie McRae, Nderitu Gatere, Raymond Vasco, Ty Defoe, Siobhan Growing Elm Brown, Katherine Freer, Dayna Cousins, Sierra Hoss, Sienna Siciliano Conceived by: Ty Defoe and Katherine Freer Directed by: Ty Defoe, Siobhan Growing Elm Brown, Dayna Cousins, Katherine FreerPatterns of Wind
A new devised work conceived by guest artist Ty Defoe and Katherine Freer
Joan & Edgar Booth Theatre
December 6, 2021 Yo-EL Cassell and Micki Taylor-Pinney, Artistic Co-DirectorsAurora Borealis 20: A Festival Of Light And Dance
Lighting Design by Qian Chengyuan
The Boston University College of Fine Arts School of Theatre, in collaboration with the Department of Physical Education, Recreation and Dance, presents the 20th annual Aurora Borealis: A Festival of Light and Dance. Aurora Borealis is a vibrant exploration of the relationship between light and form with a focus on collaboration and experimentation, featuring dance and movement pieces by faculty and students.
December 9 – 12, 2021 A fantasia inspired by E.M. Forster’s A Passage to India, Passage is set in the fictional Country X, which is a neocolonial client of Country Y. B, a local doctor, and F, an expat teacher, begin to forge a friendship that is challenged after a fateful trip to a local attraction; is a meditation on how power imbalances affect personal and interpersonal dynamics across a spectrum of situations.Passage (Fringe Festival)
Written by Christopher Chen
Directed by Malika Oyetimein
Ada, Countess of Lovelace and Lord Byron’s daughter, has been asked to help Charles Babbage with his work on the Difference Engine. Can she pursue her love of mathematics while upholding her reputation? Duration: 40 minutes.The Infinite Energy of Ada Lovelace (Fringe Festival)
October 15 – 17, 2021
A co-production of CFA School of Music Opera Institute and School of Theatre
Music by Kamala Sankaram
Libretto by Rob Handel
Allison Voth, music director
Emily Ranii (CFA’13), stage director
Based on a short story by Karen Russell, Proving Up is a surreal and haunting commentary on the American dream as experienced by the Zegners, a fictional family of 1860s homesteaders. The Zegners are a family that does everything “right” and are still undermined by forces beyond their control. Duration: 75 minutes.Proving Up (Fringe Festival)
October 22 – 24, 2021
A co-production of CFA School of Music Opera Institute and School of Theatre
Music by by Missy Mazzoli (CFA’02, BUTI’98)
Libretto by Royce Vavrek
William Lumpkin, conductor
Nathan Troup (CFA’04), stage director
A star football player – a pro prospect, one of the most graceful runners in the world, and a man in love with a teammate – struggles to move forward in the wake of a catastrophic spinal cord injury. With full-contact choreography, this play about love, ability, and extraordinary feats of strength tackles definitions of masculinity and the male body as vehicles for language, violence, and silent expression through dance, football, and disability.Colossal (Fringe Festival)
November 4 – 6, 2021
Play written by Andrew Hinderaker
Yo-EL Cassell, director
2020 – 2021
2020 - 2021 Productions
Due to pandemic-related restrictions and hybrid learning, in-person performances were limited in the 2020 – 2021 academic year.
2019 – 2020
October 4 – 6, 2019 A chamber opera based on 5 paintings by Edward Hopper. Music by John Musto • Libretto by Mark Campbell October 23 – 27, 2019 October 18 – 27, 2019 September 22 – October 20, 2019 October 9 – 13, 2019 October 16 – 20, 2019 October 25 – 27, 2019 October 22 – 27, 2019 November 20-23, 2019 December 11-15, 2019 December 6-8, 2019 December 7-10, 2019 December 8-9, 2019 December 12-15, 2019 December 12-15, 2019 December 14-18, 2019 February 27 – March 1, 2020 February 27 – March 1, 2020 February 20-23, 2020 February 29-March 4, 2020 February 17-23, 2020 February 21 – 26, 2020 March 1 – 4, 2020 April 23-28, 2020 April 24-29, 2020 May 2-6, 20202019 - 2020 Productions
AS ONE (FRINGE FESTIVAL 2019)
A chamber opera for two voices and String Quartet. Music and Concept by Laura Kaminsky • Libretto by Mark Campbell & Kimberly Reed • Film by Kimberly Reed
Music Direction by William Lumpkin • Stage Direction by Jim PetosaLATER THE SAME EVENING (FRINGE FESTIVAL 2019)
Allison Voth & Matthew Larson, Co-Music Directors • Stage Direction by Eve SummerNew Play Initiative: AMPUTEES (FRINGE FESTIVAL 2019)
By Quentin Nguyen-Duy • Directed by Sarah Shin (CFA’19)THE EXONERATED
By Jessica Blank and Erik Jensen • Directed by Judy Braha
Joan & Edgar Booth TheatreTHE PLAYWRIGHTS’ PROJECT
By Ireon Roach, Michael Rosegrant, & Jo Mercado
The School of Theatre is excited to launch The Playwrights’ Project, which offers participating BFA playwrights a chance to realize their new plays at various stages of development. This fall three plays will receive workshop-style processes that encourage rigorous examination and generation of new text; one play will be performed in the SOT’s season, and yet another will be presented in the CFA’s Fall Fringe Festival. In collaboration with BFA dramaturgs, The Playwrights’ Project develops the storytellers of the future.
OCTOBER
By Tyler McMahon • Directed by Mallika ChandariaPETER AND THE STARCATCHER
A Play by Rick Elice • Based on the Novel by Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson • Music by Wayne Barker • Directed by Blair CaddenFEMINA SHAKES: Measure for Measure
By William Shakespeare • Directed by Erica Terpening RomeoTHE EUROPEANS
By Howard Barker • Directed by Adam Kassim (CFA’05)Stewart F. Lane and Bonnie Comley Musical: STRING
Book by Sarah Hammond • Music & Lyrics by Adam Gwon • Orchestrations by Frank Galgano and Matt Castle
Directed by McCaela Donovan • Matthew Stern, Music Director…and Jesus Moonwalks the Mississippi
By Marcus Gardley • Directed by Sara Katzoff
Joan & Edgar Booth Theatre The Shakespeare Project
Written by William Shakespeare • Directed by Mark Cohen
The School of Theatre’s annual exploration of the Bard’s work, featuring performances from the School’s junior class of Acting majors.The Director’s Project
Directed by Clay Hopper
The School of Theatre’s annual festival of 10-minute plays, produced by the School of Theatre’s junior Theatre Arts majors and focused on the art of the director.Aurora Borealis 18: A Festival of Light and Dance
Co-Artistic Directed by Yo-EL Cassell and Micki Taylor-Pinney
Co-presented by Boston University College of Fine Arts School of Theatre and the Department of Physical Education, Recreation & DanceTime Stands Still
By Donald Margulies • Directed by Blair CaddenKamioroshi, the Descent of the Gods
By Ronald Richardson • Directed by Sonoko Kawahara • Produced by BU Arts InitiativeClearing
Written by Beth Hyland • Directed by Leila GhaemiThe Rake’s Progress: An Opera in Three Acts
Composed by Igor Stravinsky with Libretto by W. H. Auden & Chester Kallman • Conducted by William Lumpkin • Stage Direction by Jim Petosa
Presented by BU College of Fine Arts School of Music: Opera Institute and School of Theatre
Joan & Edgar Booth TheatrePhotograph 51
By Anna Ziegler • Directed by Avital ShiraThe Wolves
By Sarah DeLappe • Directed by Erica Terpening-RomeoOthello
By William Shakespeare • Directed by Noah PuttermanThe Pride
By Alexi Kaye Campbell • Directed by Kevin Kolton BradleyMarisol
By Jose Rivera • Directed by Leila GhaemiA Seagull – A Workshop Presentation
By Anton Chekhov • Adapted by Blair CaddenBurn This
By Lanford Wilson • Directed by Blair Cadden
performances canceled due to pandemic closuresThe Little Dog Laughed
By Douglas Carter Beane • Directed by Kevin Kolton Bradley
performances canceled due to pandemic closuresThe Penelopiad
By Margaret Atwood • Directed by Noah Putterman
performances canceled due to pandemic closures
2018 – 2019
Composed by Tom Cipullo with Libretto by David Mason • Directed by Emily Ranii By Molly Greville (CFA’18) • Directed by Michael Hammond Composed by Giuseppe Verdi with Libretto by Francesco Maria Piave • Conducted by William Lumpkin • Stage Directed by Nathan Troup By Tony Kushner • Directed by Jillian Robertson October 26-28, 2018 October 11-14, 2018 October 17-21, 2018 December 7-16, 2018 December 12-16, 2018 Sunday, December 2 – 3, 2018 December 1-5, 2018 November 30-December 4, 2018 December 8-12, 2018 February 28–March 3, 2019 February 22 – 24, 2019 February 24 – March 1, 2019 March 5-8, 2019 February 20-23, 20192018 - 2019 Productions
AFTER LIFE (FRINGE FESTIVAL 2018)
BU NEW PLAY INITIATIVE: UNMENTIONABLES (FRINGE FESTIVAL 2018)
LA TRAVIATA (FRINGE FESTIVAL 2018)
ANGELS IN AMERICA, PART ONE: MILLENNIUM APPROACHES
Joan & Edgar Booth TheatreANGELS IN AMERICA, PART TWO: PERESTROIKA
By Tony Kushner • Directed by Jeremy Ohringer
Joan & Edgar Booth TheatreJANE EYRE
Adapted by Polly Teale from the novel by Charlotte Bronte • Directed by McCaela DonovanBEOWULF: A Thousand Years of Baggage
Book and Lyrics by Jason Craig • Music by Dave Malloy • Directed by Sara KatzoffRUNAWAYS (STEWART F. LANE AND BONNIE COMLEY MUSICAL)
Sponsored in part by the Stewart F. Lane and Bonnie Comley Musical Theatre Fund
Book, Lyrics, and Music by Elizabeth Swados • Directed by Elaine Vaan Hogue • Music Direction by Matthew Stern
Joan & Edgar Booth TheatreWHEN THE RAIN STOPS FALLING
By Andrew Bovell • Directed by Jillian RobertsonAURORA BOREALIS 17: A FESTIVAL OF LIGHT AND DANCE
Co-artistic directed by Yo-EL Cassell and Micki Taylor-PinneyTHE SHAKESPEARE PROJECT
Written by William Shakespeare and directed by Mark Cohen.
The School of Theatre’s annual exploration of the Bard’s work, featuring performances from the School’s junior class of Acting majors.THE DIRECTORS’ PROJECT
Directed by Clay Hopper
The School of Theatre’s annual festival of 10-minute plays, produced by the School of Theatre’s junior Theatre Arts majors and focused on the art of the director.FEMINA SHAKESPEARE: AS YOU LIKE IT
Directed by Leila Ghaemi1984
Adapted by Robert Owens, Wilton E. Hall Jr., and William A. Miles Jr. from the novel by George Orwell • Directed by Clay HopperEDITH CAN SHOOT THINGS AND HIT THEM
By A. Rey Pamatmat • Directed by Blair CaddenMr. Burns, a post-electric play
By Anne Washburn • Score by Michael Friedman • Lyrics by Anne Washburn • Directed by Erica Terpening-RomeoMY FAIR LADY
Book and Lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner • Music by Frederick Loewe • Directed by Avital Shira • Music Direction by Mindy CiminiOUR COUNTRY’S GOOD
By Timberlake Wertenbaker • Directed by Judy Braha