Current Theater Season
Past Shows
TANTRUM THEATER PRESENTS
Men on Boats
By Jaclyn Backhaus
Directed by Shannon R. Davis
Ten explorers. Four boats. One Grand Canyon. Men on Boats is the true(ish) history of an 1869 expedition, when a one-armed captain and a crew of insane yet loyal volunteers set out to chart the course of the Colorado River.
Forum Theater
October 7-16, 2021
SCHOOL OF THEATER PRESENTS
Summer and Smoke
By Tennessee Williams
Directed by Sarah Elizabeth Yorke
Summer and Smoke is a simple love story of a somewhat puritanical Southern girl and an unpuritanical young doctor. Each is attracted to the other but because of their divergent attitudes toward life, each over the course of years is driven away from the other. Not until the end does the doctor realize that the girl's high idealism is ultimately right, and while she is still in love with him, it turns out that neither time nor circumstances will allow the two to come together.
There will be a Sensory-Friendly performance of Summer and Smoke on Saturday, November 6 at 2pm. An adapted performance of Tennessee William's Summer and Smoke to foster a more welcoming and comfortable arts experience for people with sensory processing disorders, developmental differences, autism, or others who feel limited by the traditional theater set up.
Baker Theater
October 28-November 6, 2021
VIBRANCY THEATER PRESENTS
Absentia
By Olivia Matthews
Directed by Tanisha Lynn Pyron
After living in the secluded Florida woods with only her father and pet rabbit Robyn, 20-year-old Esther Harris dreams of being reunited with her long-lost mother. When her father kills her beloved Robyn, Esther breaks out of their cabin in search of her mother and her old life. While they soon find each other, can the abandoned and abused Esther adjust to her new life with her mother?
Forum Theater
November 18-December 4, 2021
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SCHOOL OF THEATER PRESENTS
Everybody
By Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
Directed by Roberto Di Donato
In this modern riff on the morality play, Everyman follows Everybody (chosen from amongst the cast by lottery at each performance) as they journey through life’s greatest mystery—the meaning of living.
Baker Theater
February 17-19 and February 23-26, 2022 at 8pm
February 26, 2022 at 2pm
TANTRUM THEATER PRESENTS
Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812
Music and Lyrics by Dave Malloy
Adapted from War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Directed by Alan Patrick Kenny
Music Direction by Brent Frederick
An electropop opera based on a scandalous slice of Leo Tolstoy’s War and Peace. Young and impulsive, Natasha Rostova arrives in Moscow to await the return of her fiancé from the front lines. When she falls under the spell of the roguish Anatole, it is up to Pierre, a family friend in the middle of an existential crisis, to pick up the pieces of her shattered reputation.
Forum Theater
March 24-26 and March 29-April 2, 2022 at 8pm
SCHOOL OF THEATER PRESENTS
First Year Graduate Directors’ One Act Plays
Concord Floral
Written by Jordan Tannahill
Directed by Molly Donahue
The Motherf*** with the Hat
Written by Stephen Adly Guirgis
Directed by Adam Zarowski
The Hahne Theater
March 25-April 2, 2022
SCHOOL OF THEATER PRESENTS
28th Annual Seabury Quinn, Jr. Playwrights’ Festival
April 14-16 & April 20-23, 2022
FEATURED PRODUCTION
THE BRUTAL F**KING DEATH OF THE DRUNKARD, THE IMMIGRANT, THE DURABLE, THE JUGGERNAUT; “IRON” MIKE MALLOY
by Klae Bainter
Directed by Sam Nelson
April 14–16 & April 20–23 @ 8pm
Elizabeth Evans Baker Theater, Kantner Hall
STAGED READING
N/N
by Ivan Mosley
Directed by Lloyda Alicia Garrett
April 23 @ 8pm
Forum Theater, RTV Building
SECOND-YEAR READING
THE LONG MEMORIAM
by Eryn McVay
Directed by Molly H. Donahue
April 22 @ 3pm
Forum Theater, RTV Building
SECOND-YEAR READING
THE MODEL CONGRESSMAN
by Steven Strafford
Directed by Tyler Everett Adams
April 23 @ 3pm
Forum Theater, RTV Buildning
SCHOOL OF THEATER PRESENTS
Midnight Madness
Midnight Madness is part of the MFA Playwriting program consisting of the bi-weekly, informal production of new work. Early each week a different graduate playwright is selected as the week’s producer. The producer chooses a theme, style, or concept as a prompt for that week’s production. Each writer must then write a three to five-minute play based on that prompt. Each play is written, cast, and rehearsed throughout the week in preparation for the Friday night, script-in-hand production.
Madness takes place Fridays at 11 PM in the Hahne Theater. The performances last about an hour and are free and open to the public. Upcoming Madness Schedule is available here: ohioplaywriting.org/madness
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