STUDENT PROJECTS
In addition to Mainstage productions directed by faculty and industry professionals, we stage approximately 30 more productions each academic year. They're all directed, produced, designed, stage managed, technically supported, and performed by students at all levels of artistic and technical development.
TICKETS
You can get tickets via the Theatre Resource Center's Facebook page about two weeks before the show opens. Tickets are free.
FALL 2018 STUDENT PROJECTS
EXIT, PURSUED BY A BEAR
October 23 to October 25
By Lauren Gunderson
Directed by CJ Day
Nan 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, Nan tapes Kyle to a chair and forces him to watch reenacted scenes from their painful past. Nan’s agenda for the evening includes covering 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.
FOX ON THE FAIRWAY
October 31 to November 2
By Ken Ludwig
Directed by Matthew Masino
A tribute from Ken Ludwig (Lend Me A Tenor, Moon Over Buffalo) to the great English farces of the 1930s and 1940s, A Fox on the Fairway pulls the rug out from under the stuffy denizens of a private country club. Filled with mistaken identities, slamming doors, and over-the-top romantic shenanigans, it's a furiously paced comedy that recalls the Marx Brothers' classics. A charmingly madcap adventure about love, life, and man's eternal love affair with...golf.
MARCUS, OR THE SECRET OF SWEET
November 6 to November 8
By Tarell Alvin McCraney
Directed by William Pettway
Marcus is sixteen and "sweet." Days before Hurricane Katrina strikes New Orleans, the currents of his life converge and overflow, launching the search for sexual and personal identity on a landscape seething with mysterious family creeds. The provocative, poignant, and fiercely humorous coming-of-age story of a young gay man in the South, Marcus is the stirring conclusion of The Brother/Sister Plays.
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SPEECH AND DEBATE
November 6 to November 8
By Stephen Karam
Directed by Siobhán Murphy
After learning of a sex scandal happening in his high school, Soloman, an aspiring journalist, is determined to be the first to break the story. He crashes a meeting of the newly formed Speech and Debate team to interview Diwata, the club's president and self-proclaimed future of Broadway, about the information he believes she's hiding.
BUG
November 14 to November 16
By Tracy Letts
Directed by Madison Kesselring
Agnes, a divorced waitress with a fondness for cocaine and isolation, and Peter, a soft-spoken Gulf War drifter, are neighbors in a seedy Oklahoma City motel where a bug infestation has marked them both with scathing welts and festering sores. Peter believes his condition is the result of experiments conducted on him at an army hospital. Together their fears escalate to paranoia, conspiracy theories, and twisted psychological motives.
Virginia Wolf’s
ORLANDO
December 5 to December 7
Adapted by Sarah Ruhl
Directed by Hannah Siglin
After a particularly wild night in 17th-century Constantinople, Orlando goes to sleep as a man and wakes up seven days later as a woman who goes on to navigate love, loss, and humankind from an entirely new perspective over the course of three centuries. Often described as the longest love letter in literature—written by Virginia Woolf to Vita Sackville-West—Ruhl brings the novel to life on stage in an epic adventure that transcends time, place, and gender.