I N S T A N T   P L A Y   F E S T I V A L

SEPTEMBER 24-25, ALEXANDER STAGE • TICKETS AVAILABLE SEPTEMBER 9
Seven plays on Saturday and then seven more on Sunday. After three weeks of writing workshops with professional playwrights, students receive a prompt in the evening, write all night, go into rehearsal the next morning, and perform that evening.

T H E   S K I N   O F   O U R   T E E T H

BY THORNTON WILDER • OCTOBER 20-23, ALEXANDER STAGE
TICKETS AVAILABLE OCTOBER 7
Thornton Wilder’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play brings to life the fate and foibles of the celebrated Antrobus family - Wilder’s vision of the American people. This eloquent comedy, a hilarious romp through human experience, serves up a tale of how one American family must come to grips with its destiny. Having survived the ice age, Noah’s flood, pestilence, seven-year locusts, and a dozen wars, the Antrobuses are “as durable as radiators, and look upon the future with a disarming optimism.”

T H E   A L T R U I S T S

BY NICKY SILVER • NOVEMBER 9 -13, FREIMANN STUDIO THEATRE
TICKETS AVAILABLE OCTOBER 28
Can altruism truly exist, or are people naturally selfish? The Altruist is a quirky, and beautiful story of five different people trying to live for others when they can’t help but live for themselves. These activists try to do good, and always end up doing something much worse.

B U S   S T O P

BY WILLIAM INGE • DECEMBER 8-11, ALEXANDER STAGE
TICKETS AVAILABLE NOVEMBER 18
This American classic tells the story of eight people stranded in a small-town diner during a blizzard. Throughout the course of the night we see each character reveal a little more than expected while waiting for the highways to be cleared. A romantic, funny, and poignant journey into the lives of people you meet everyday.

O N E   A C T   P L A Y   C O N T E S T

FEBRUARY 8-12, FREIMANN STUDIO THEATRE • TICKETS AVAILABLE JANUARY 27
Students submit original scripts. A chosen three compete for cash prizes. You are the judge.

H E L L O   F A I L U R E

BY KRISTEN KOSMAS • MARCH 1-4, ALEXANDER STAGE
TICKETS AVAILABLE FEBRUARY 17
Hello Failure is a sprawling associative neo-realistic comedy of beauty involving seven submariners’ wives, one counterfeit Civil War ghost, a lusty renegade hairdresser, and a poignant potted plant all just making it through the day. Barely.

T H E   B I R T H D A Y   P A R T Y

BY HAROLD PINTER • APRIL 11-15, FREIMANN STUDIO THEATRE
TICKETS AVAILABLE MARCH 30
Stanley Webber is visited in his boarding-house by two strangers. An innocent-seeming birthday party for Stanley turns into a nightmare. The Birthday Party, a spine-chilling comic riff on free-floating menace was first performed in 1958 and is now a modern classic.

T R E L A W N Y

ADAPTED FROM SIR ARTHUR PINERO’S TRELAWNY • BY AUBREY WOODS,
GEORGE ROWELL, AND JULIAN SLADE
MAY 3-6, 17-19, ALEXANDER STAGE • TICKETS AVAILABLE APRIL 20
We salute our newly remodeled home with a sparkling romantic musical celebrating the theatre of a bygone era. As the 1860 season ends, ingénue Rose Trelawny bids farewell to the Wells Theatre company to marry the fashionable young gentleman she loves. Can their romance survive the differences between the gypsies of the Wells and the aristocrats of Cavendish Square? Based on Arthur Pinero’s affectionate comic valentine to the theatre of his youth, Trelawny is “an exuberant celebration of the irrepressible urge to make theatre.”