Theatre Arts

Welcome to the Department of Theatre Arts located in the Blank Performing Arts Center.

The department currently offers these majors and minors:

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Contacts in the Department of Theatre Arts

Ann Woldt

Ann Woldt

  • Associate Professor Theatre Arts
  • Chair Theatre Arts
Jennifer Nostrala

Jennifer Ross Nostrala

  • Director of Women and Gender Studies
  • Director of Simpson Productions
  • Professor of Theatre Arts

Past Productions

The Enchanted Pig

As You Like It

Fefu and Her Friends

Guys and Dolls

Festival of Short Plays 2022: Reflections of Chekhov

Prospera’s Island: An Operatic Fantasy

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, adapted by Orson Welles

Festival of New Plays: A Podcast

The Telephone by Gian-Carlo Menotti/ A Hand of Bridge by Samuel Barber & Gian-Carlo Menotti

Machinal by Sophie Treadwell

Festival of Short Plays 2021: Between the Wars

An Enemy of the People by Henrik Ibsen, Translated by Richard Nelson

The Magic Flute by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Text by Emanuel Schikanader,  English translation by Jeremy Sams, Orchestral reduction by Jonathan Lyness

10 Minute Play Festival

Doubt  By John Patrick Shanley

The Pirates of Penzance:  Book by W.S. Gilbert, Music by Arthur Sullivan, Authentic Version Edited by Bryceson Treharne

Festival of Short Plays 2020: 50/50 in 2020

Tartuffe: by Moliére, adapted by Constance Congdon

The Bald Soprano: by Eugene Ionesco, adapted by Tina Howe

The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee: Music & Lyrics by William Finn, Book by Rachel Sheinkin

Festival of Short Plays 2018: Theatre of Politics and Protest

Marisol: by José Rivera

Noises Off: by Michael Frayn

Knowing Joan: by Jennifer Ross Nostrala

Festival of Short Plays 2016: Regarding Shakespeare

Carousel: by Rodgers & Hammerstein

The Memory of Water: by Shelagh Stephenson

Pericles: by William Shakespeare

Festival of Short Plays 2015: Wholly Moly Moliére!

Lysistrata Jones: Music & Lyrics by Lewis Flynn, Book by Douglas Carter Beane,

The Women of Lockerbie: by Deborah Brevoort

Night of the Soul: by David Farr

Festival of Short Plays 2014: EcoDrama

Women Beware Women: by Thomas Middleton, adapted by Jesse Berger

The Glass Menagerie: by Tennessee Williams

Peer Gynt: by Henrik Ibsen, adapted by Tom Woldt

Festival of Short Plays 2012: Experimental Theatre in America

 

Betrayal: by Harold Pinter

Learned Ladies: by Moliére, adapted by Freyda Thomas

Eurydice: by Sarah Ruhl

Festival of Short Plays 2011: John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts

Necessary Targets: by Eve Ensler

A Year with Frog and Toad: Music by Robert Real, Book & Lyrics by William Raele

The Servant of Two Masters: by Carlo Golden, adapted by Constance Congdon

Festival of Short Plays 2009: American Theatre Between the World Wars

Antigone: by Sophocles

Pride and Prejudice: by Jane Austen, adapted by Jon Jory

Push-Up 1-3: by Roland Schimmelpfennig, translated by Melanie Dreyer

Festival of Short Plays 2008: Theatre of the Absurd

Nora and Julie: by Ingmar Bergman, an adaptation of A Doll’s House and Miss Julie

Hamlet: by William Shakespeare

Into The Woods: by Stephen Sondheim

Festival of Short Plays 2006: The British Invasion

 

My Sister in This House: by Wendy Kesselman

A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings: by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, adapted by Nilo Cruz

Love’s Labour’s Lost: by William Shakespeare

Festival of Short Plays 2004: Brecht Fest

The Shape of Things: by Neil Labute

Godspell: Music & Lyrics by Stephen Schwartz, Book by John-Michael Tebelak

Tales of the Lost Formicans: by Constance Congdon

One Acts 2003

 

Life’s a Dream: by Calderon de la Barce

The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged): by Adam Long, Daniel Singer and Jess Winfield

To Fool The Eye: by Jeffery Hatcher

One Acts 2002

Electra: by Sophocles

Quilters: by Molly Newman and Barbara Damashek

Stop Kiss: by Diana Son

One Acts 2001

 

The Woman in Black: Adapted by Stephen Mallatratt from the book by Susan Hill

The Merchant of Venice: by William Shakespeare

A Streetcar Named Desire: by Tennessee Williams

One Acts 2000

 

Tons of Money: by Will Evans and Arthur Valentine

Landscape of the Body: by John Guare

The Rover: by Aphra Behn

One Acts 1999

Twelfth Night: by William Shakespeare

Top Girls: by Caryl Churchill

Still Life: by Emily Mann

One Acts 1998

Arcadia: Tom Stoppard

Inspecting Carol: by Daniel Sullivan

A Midsummer Night’s Dream: by William Shakespeare

One Acts 1997

The Dark Riddle of Helen

Pterodactyls: by Nicky Silver

MacBeth: by William Shakespeare

One Acts 1995

 

The Triumph of Love: by Marivaux

Eating Out: by Marcia Dixey

Assorted Company

All’s Well That Ends Well: by William Shakespeare

Blue Window: by Craig Lucas

The Fantasticks: Music by Harvey Schmidt, Book & Lyrics by Tom Jones

The Love of the Nightingale: by Timberlake Wertenbaker

Beckett Revisited: by Samuel Beckett

Temptation: by Václav Havel

One Acts 1993

“Bill’s Chicks: Live on Stage”: by William Shakespeare, compiled by Ann Lady & Meghan Shoultz

As You Like It: by William Shakespeare