The practice of organizing shows and concerts around a theme started in 2004-2005.

The themes and productions of the last five years are as follows:

2010-2011 “Control and Contain”

  • Cabaret, musical by Kander and Ebb
  • Fall Dance Concert
  • Antigone, adaptation from the Sophocles by Bertolt Brecht, translated by Judith Malina
  • Twelve Ophelias: a play with broken songs, by Caridad Svich
  • Spring Dance Concert

2009-2010 “Faces of Madness”

  • Tartuffe, by Moliere, transl. Richard Wilbur
  • Fall Dance Concert
  • Marat/Sade, by Peter Weiss
  • Accidental Death of an Anarchist, by Dario Fo
  • Spring Dance Concert

2008-2009 “Staging America(s)”

  • The Colored Museum, by George C. Wolfe
  • Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, by Tennessee Williams
  • Fall Dance Concert
  • Our Town, by Thornton Wilder (adaptation)
  • Spring Dance Concert

2007-2008 “Gods and Monsters”

  • Angels in America: Millennium Approaches, by Tony Kushner
  • Lysistrata, by Aristophanes
  • Fall Dance Concert
  • The Threepenny Opera, by Bertolt Brecht
  • The Witness Project: plays about Power and the State, short plays by Harold Pinter, Maria Irene Fornes and Caryl Churchill
  • Spring Dance Concert

2006-2007 “Dramas of Discovery, Dances of Invention: Plays and Dances about Science”

  • Proof, by David Auburn
  • Saturday, Sunday, Monday by Eduardo de Filippo
  • Fall Dance Concert
  • An Experiment with an Air Pump, by Shelagh Stephenson
  • Spring Dance Conceret
  • The Love Song of J. Robert Oppenheimer, by Carson Kreitzer

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Archival listing of the Theatre & Dance Department’s seasons, dating all the way back to the original “dramatics activity” of the college beginning in 1900.