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 Spring 2026: The Crucible by Arthur Miller

Directed by Visiting Assistant Professor of Theater Alex Keegan

Selected by the team from THEA180: Reading Plays for Production—Conceiving for Performance.

A timely parable that exposes the devastating consequences of mass hysteria and the erosion of justice. Amidst the infamous Salem witch trials, accusations fly, moral lines blur, and a tight-knit community finds itself on edge. Arthur Miller’s investigation of groupthink, betrayal, and morality offers a searing critique of McCarthyism, serving as a stark and urgent warning for our times.

Performances: 
CFA Theater 

Thursday, April 30, 7pm
Friday, May 1, 7pm
Saturday, May 2, 1pm & 7pm

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Fall 2025: Marta Becket, Save us All!

Directed by Associate Professor of Theater Katie Pearl

A new performance inspired by the life of Marta Becket—a Broadway dancer who left New York at the height of her career, moved into an empty Opera House in an abandoned desert town, painted an entire audience on its walls, and performed there for the next 40 years whether anyone was there to see her or not. This show will be created in rehearsal, taking inspiration from Marta’s life, Vaudeville performance, artistic obsession, using “getting lost” as a strategy for finding oneself, and dust devils.

“Is it eccentric to love your work so much that you would go anywhere in the world to do it?”
– Marta Becket

Performances:
HEx Theater at the Fries Arts Building (56 Hamlin Street)

Thursday, November 13, 7pm & 9pm
Friday, November 14, 7pm & 9pm
Saturday, November 15, 2pm & 7pm

Senior Capstones

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 Spring 2026:

 

"She" Is Loved

A solo cabaret performance of “‘She’ is Loved” by Sage Saling ’26 explores what it means to be “easily lovable” in the world of musical theater. Blending music and the voices of real performers, the work draws from verbatim interviews with female and non-male-identifying artists to uncover how ideas of lovability, strength, and persistence shape the roles women play, both onstage and off. The show examines how female characters have been crafted to be lovable, dimensional, and palatable. The piece breaks apart these expectations and reaches toward a more complex, unapologetic understanding of female characters.

Advisor: Assistant Professor of Theater Lauren Yeoman

Performances:
Highwaymen Common Room, Romance Languages (300 High St)

Thursday, February 26, 7:30pm
Friday, February 27, 7:30pm
Saturday, February 28, 3:00pm & 7:30pm

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The Seventh Fire

Step into an immersive escape room experience designed for groups from 4 to 6 people that merges theater, game, and installation art into one evolving experience. Created by Wennan (Avivi) Li ’26 and Liang Liang ’26, the interdisciplinary capstone “The Seventh Fire” invites the audience to explore absence and presence, choice, and illusion within a world shaped by puzzles, light, shadow, and silence. Inside a black-box space, participants become both players and storytellers, uncovering fragments of a forgotten campus ritual.

Something unfinished has begun to surface, disrupting preparations for an anniversary exhibition. We are seeking small groups willing to enter together, observe carefully, and discover the truth. This is an escape room experience shaped by shared discovery. Progress depends on what you notice, what you choose to share, and how your team thinks as one. Some stories do not resolve on their own. They are waiting for you.

Advisor: Assistant Professor of Theater Courtney Gaston

Event Information:
Theater Studio (275 Washington)

Monday, March 2: 7pm, 8pm, 9pm
Tuesday, March 3: 7pm, 8pm, 9pm
Wednesday, March 4: 7pm, 8pm, 9pm
Thursday, March 5: 7pm, 8pm, 9pm
Friday, March 6: 7pm, 8pm, 9pm

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Fall 2025: Mothership

What happens when you feel stuck in a town that doesn’t seem to understand you? When you and your friends are outcasts, trapped in a place that feels suffocating, but you’re not sure where to go next? When you’re young and full of dreams but have no idea how to make them real? Set in the 2010’s suburbs of New Jersey, Mothership is a one-act play that explores that feeling of being caught in a vortex of indecision, wanting to leave, and not knowing where to go. It’s about the confusion of emerging as an adult, searching for connection, and weighing the risks of stepping into the unknown. Mothership tells the story of two young people struggling to find their place in a world that feels too small and too limited while getting ready to get out and trying to figure out where. In this play, the audience is invited to explore the space between what is and what could be. It’s a story of self-discovery and the power of possibility.

The Senior Thesis Theater Production features a new work written and performed by Dani Brugger ’26 and Paige Merril ’26 as a senior project, and directed by Eliza Bryson ’26 in partial fulfillment for Honors in Theater.

Direction Advisor: Associate Professor of Theater Katie Pearl
Playwriting Advisor: Associate Professor of Theater Edwin Sanchez
Acting Advisors: Assistant Professor of Theater Maria-Christina Oliveras and Assistant Professor of Theater Lauren Yeoman

Performances: 
Patricelli '92 Theater (213 High Street)

Wednesday, December 10, 8:00pm
Thursday, December 11, 8:00pm 
Friday, December 12, 8:00pm