Department of
Theatre
and
Dance
2024-25
"Cymbeline"
by William Shakespeare
Directed by Edward Isser
Boroughs Theatre
Prior Performing Arts Center
October 31, November 1-2 and November 7-9
at 7:30 p.m
Matinees November 3 & 10 at 2:00 p.m.
"Cymbeline" is a fairy tale about an ancient British king married to a wicked queen who conspires against Imogen, his daughter from a previous marriage. It is a tale of deceit, jealousy, and accusations of infidelity that leads ultimately to the slandering and subjugation of the innocent princess. Imogen emerges trimphant when she confronts and ultimately absolves the men who have betrayed and maligned her. Filled with action and song, "Cymbeline" is an epic romantic adventure about the power of love and the centrality of family that concludes with shocking revelations and a joyous reconciliation.
Tickets available in October.
Gamelan Gita Sari
Boroughs Theatre
Prior Performing Arts Center
December 7 at 7:30
Luth Concert Hall
Prior Performing Arts Center
April 26 at 7:30
Visiting Professor of Balinese Music and Dance I Nyoman Catra's eagerly anticipated biannual gamelan concerts bring together the work of his student dancers and musicians performing pieces from the classic and modern Balinese repertory.
No admission charge.
"Sweeney Todd"
Music and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim
Book by Hugh Wheeler from an adaptation by Christopher Bond
Directed by Meaghan Deiter
Luth Concert Hall
Prior Performing Arts Center
February 6-8 & 13-15 at 7:30 p.m.
Matinees February 9 & 16 at 2:00
Attend the tale of Sweeney Todd / He served a dark and vengeful god ... " In the nearly half-century since Stephen Sondheim's adaptation of a delectably lurid nineteenth-century melodrama premiered on Broadway, it has become a modern classic. The title character is perhaps the most grightening and complex anti-hero in musical theatre, a barber whose fury and dispair over the loss of his innocent wife to a pitiless predator turns him into a serial killer with a witty and imaginative partner in crime, his landlady Mrs. Lovett. Containing his most ambitious and challenging music, "Sweeney Todd" is a fitting tribute to the great composer-lyricist who died in 2021. Directed by Meaghan Deiter who staged Sondheim's "Company" at Holy Cross two years ago.
Tickets available in January 2025.
"Enron"
by
Lucy Prebble
Directed by Scott Malia
Boroughs Theatre
Prior Performing Arts Center
April 3-5 & 10-11 at 7:30 p.m.
Matinees April 6 & 7 at 2:00 p.m.
How much is an ideal worth? For the American energy company Enron, it was worth billions ... until it wasn't. When CEO Kenneth Lay gives the golden boy Jeff Skilling free rein at Enron, the company soars to new financial heights, while whiz kid Andy Fastow struggles to keep the bubble from burstin. If more is always better and rules are only for everyday folks, how could they possibly lose? The British playwright Lucy Prebble's darkly comic take on real-life events shows how ambition, delusion, and boy's-club insiderism lead to one of the biggest financial scandals of the new millennium.
Tickets available in March.
Dance Concert
Luth Concert Hall
Prior Performing Arts Center
May 1 at 7:00 p.m. and 9:00 p.m.
The students from our dance classes demonstrate what they have learned in an exuberant sample of pieces representing a dazzling variety of styles and genres. This sold-out spring tradition has become more varied and exciting with each new year, with course offerings that include Hip-Hop, Breakin', Afro-Haitian Dance, Modern Dance, and Ballet. Assembled by our gifted dance professors: Jimena Bermejo, Audra Carabetta, Joanne Caidor, and Taylor Travassos-Lomba.
No admission charge.
Alternate College Theatre
Alternate College Theatre is the only fully student-run theater group on campus and offers the opportunity to direct, perform, design, produce, stage-manage, or work within any other production aspect of theatre!
"At the Wedding"
by Bryna Turner
Directed by Patrick O'Konis
The Pit - O'Kane 037
November 21-23 at 7:30 p.m.
Matinees November 23-24 at 2:00 p.m
Bryna Turner's zany one-act follows Carlo as she decides to crash her ex-girlfriend's wedding (to a man). In her plight to win Eva back, Carlo must try to navigate her mistakes, regrets, and insecurities through stereotypical wedding traditions, awkward interventions by family and friends and - most importantly - an open bar. We are delighted to welcome back as guest director Patrick O'Konis, who teaches Basic Acting in the Department of Theatre and Dance and is an alumnus from the class of 2016.
Ticket information in October.
"Alice by Heart"
Book by Steven Sater & Jessie Nelson
Music by Duncan Sheik
Lyrics by Steven Sater
The Pit - O'Kane 37
March 20-22 at 7:30 p.m.
Matinees March 22 & 23 at 2:00 p.m.
Act's musical this year is an offbeat retelling of Alice in Wonderland set in a London tube station in 1941, in the early days of the Blitz, when the city was enduring nightly bombings by the Nazi forces. Alice and a ragtaggle crew of other displaces young Londoners inhabit a makeshift shelter in the Underground. Lew Carroll's fantasy classic becomes Alice's means of consoling and transporting her lifelong friend Alfred, who is suffering from tuberculosis. Directed by Mike Sheehan '25.
Ticket information in February.