On Monday, May 15th at the Edison Ballroom in New York City, the New York Theatre Workshop honored its 25-year partnership with the Department of Theater. Read more...
News and Events
May 10, 2017
Are you interested in taking THEA 65, New Plays in Development, this summer? Read more about the process for interviews that will take place in the Department of Theater on Wednesday, May 24th. The sign up sheet for interviews will be posted on Tuesday, May 23rd at 9AM!
April 26, 2017
Directed by Virginia Ogden '18, What Every Girl Should Know takes place in a Manhattan Catholic reformatory in 1914. Four teenage girls learn about friendship, religion, fantasy, and what it's like to be a woman.
April 26, 2017
Join us May 19-21 on the stage of the Moore Theater for Julie Solomon's Away This Night, a study of the intersection of gender identity, gender presentation, race, sexuality, and ability in physical space; a journey through the worlds of three of Shakespeare's plays.
April 20, 2017
Join us in the Bentley for this original piece, arranged and directed by Kelly Gaudet '17. Gender, domestic abuse, sexual violence and women's resiliency are explored using women's monologues from works of Shakespeare....
April 20, 2017
Jordyn Fitch '20, Tess McGuinness '18 and Elise Wien '17 are the winners of this year's Frost and Dodd Play Contests. Their plays will be performed in the Bentley Theater this July during the annual Frost and Dodd Student New Play Festival....
April 17, 2017
Laura Calderon '19 directs Crickets Ate The Moon this weekend in the Bentley. This play speaks to erasing stigma against mental illness and the powerful resilience of Native women....
April 11, 2017
Four playwrights, four directors, no scripts, no sleep...Students write, cast, and direct their original plays -- all within 24 hours! Really. Come see the results!
April 11, 2017
“You are cordially invited to a Passover Seder with the Cohen family of Columbia, South Carolina. Please join us this Wednesday, April 12, 1869.”...
April 06, 2017
Auditions for Feminist Shakespeare are Monday and Tuesday evenings. No experience necessary to audition for this YOUR SPACE production of an original piece, arranged and directed by Kelly Gaudet '17. This production features women's monologues from a vast array of Shakespeare's works.