BREATH: A festival of Samuel Beckett shorts and prose

Breath will consist 8-10 short Beckett pieces, woven together in a single evening. As an added bonus, audience members will have the opportunity to experience the “bed-time” story Company.

Directed by Lane Savadove and Dane Eissler

October 25 (preview) – 27 at 8PM, October 28 at 2PM          

Added Bonus: Company    in The Studio Theatre (Bunce 159)

October 26 at 5PM, October 27 at 3 & 5PM, October 28 at 5PM, October 29 at 6 & 8PM                                  

Bring your blanket and pillow for a Beckett slumber party. As an immersive sensory experience, you are blindfolded on your back in the dark, the haunting text whispered in your ear. Free cookies and milk. Be sure to make your free reservations at rowan.tix.com. Space is limited.

Beloved Community: A Dance Concert

This piece is inspired by Killing Rage Ending Racism by bell hooks and will feature discussions with faculty and students regarding Race/Gender equality and inclusion. 

Directed and Choreographed by Dawn Bazemore

December 6 (preview) – 9 at 8PM, December 9 at 2PM

In America, That is to say No Where: A devised piece based on Ubu Roi by Alfred Jarry

This new work is based on Ubu Roi, which caused a riotous response in the audience when it opened and closed in Paris at the Théâtre de l'Œuvre on December 10, 1896. It will be a wild, bizarre and comedic play, significant for the way it overturns cultural rules, norms, and conventions. 

Directed by Melanie Stewart, written by Brian Grace-Duff

February 21 (preview) – 23 at 8PM, February 24 at 2PM

Hair: The Legendary Rock Musical

Book and lyrics by James Rado and Gerome Ragni and music by Galt MacDermot.

Celebrating its 50th annerversary, this show as, “a product of the hippie counterculture and sexual revolution  of the late 1960s, several of its songs became anthems of the anti-Vietnam War peace movement. The musical's profanity, its depiction of the use of illegal drugs, its treatment of sexuality, its irreverence for the American flag, and its nude scene caused much comment and controversy” 

Directed by Chris Roche, choreographed by Dawn Bazemore

April 5 -6 and 11-13 at 8PM, April 7 at 2PM

The Blurred Perspectives

Written and directed by Seth Jackson         

Oct 4-6 at 8PM

Musical Theatre Cabaret 

Directed by Chris Roche

November 8 - 10 at 8 PM

Trigger Warning                       

Written and Composed by Matthew Vesley

Directed by Kerry Jules    

March 7-9 at 7:30PM

Detroit                         

By Lisa D’Amour

Directed by Mike Grubb             

April 11-13 at 8PM