Current Production Season

2024-2025 Season

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The Furies

Written by Aeschylus

Translations by Peter Meineck and E. D. A. Morshead

Directed by Katie Brook

Performance Dates

October 30, 7:30pm
November 1-2, 8pm
November 8-9, 8pm
November 10, 2pm

Audition Date: September 5, 5-9pm (Location TBD)

The Furies is the final play of Aeschylus's Oresteia. The first ever courtroom drama, this text explores themes of vengeance and justice, (dis)empowerment, and the function of legal systems within a larger democracy. Culminating in a trial presided over by the goddess Athena, we are excited to seek contemporary wisdom in this foundational theatre text.

Fall Dance Concert

November 22-23, 2024, 7pm

Audition Date: September 20, 12-1:30pm (Jackson Dance Lab)

On the heels of celebrating 40 years of dancing at Tufts, members of the Dance Program have put together a Fall Dance Concert showcasing the outstanding work of students, faculty, and two guest artists. Solo capstone works created by Senior Dance Minors Mikayla Cole and Maggie Lieberman stand alongside the works of prominent guest artists in the field, Pat Catterson and Stefanie Batten Bland. Pat Catterson, Guggenheim award winning choreographer and custodian of Yvonne Rainer’s early works including Trio A, reimagines her work Present Circumstances for a cast of 6 dancers. Stefanie Batten Bland, creator of SBB Dance Company and former dancer with Pina Bausch, Bill T. Jones, and Punch Drunk’s Sleep No More, will share an excerpt of Look Who’s Coming to Dinner. This version of the work, staged by SBB company member AJ Guevara and coached by Batten Bland, has been remounted on a cast of 7 undergraduate and graduate students. Additionally, the concert will include new works created by students in Daniel McCusker’s Studies in Dance Composition course as well Jenny Oliver’s Afro-Haitian Roots to Stage course re-envisioning a celebration of ancestors and life. Additional collaborations include costuming by Kyle Artone, lighting by Brian Lilienthal, and sound design from Adam Smith.

Cabaret

Book by Joe Masteroff

Based on I Am a Camera, a 1951 play by John Van Druten adapted from Christopher Isherwood’s 1939 novel Goodbye to Berlin

Music by John Kander; Lyrics by Fred Ebb

Direction by Barbara Wallace Grossman; choreography by Holly Stone; musical direction by Aviva Senzon ‘26

Performance Dates

February 27, 7:30pm
February 28, 8pm
March 1, 8pm
March 7-8, 8pm
March 9, 2pm

Audition Dates

November 15, 4-9pm (Location TBD)
November 16, 11am-5pm (Location TBD)

First produced as a Broadway musical in 1966, reimagined multiple times since then on stage and screen, Cabaret arrives at Tufts in Winter 2025. Set in the waning years of the Weimar Republic on the verge of Hitler’s catastrophic rise, Cabaret entertains, engages, and terrifies. At a volatile moment in our nation and the world, how will it speak to you? What lessons are there for us about the spread of fascism, bigotry, and complacency? Can this iconic musical inspire constructive dialogue on our campus and help us find common ground? Come to our Cabaret and see!

Spring Dance Concert

Works by Tufts Dance Faculty and Senior Dance Minors

April 11-12, 2025, 7pm

As part of the minor degree in Dance, students at Tufts engage in research, practice, and creative process. The Spring Dance Concert showcases choreographic capstone projects created by Senior Dance Minors.

Spring Festival

April 24-26, 2025, times TBA

An opportunity to support developing work and artists, we are proud to announce the lineup for our third year of Festival programming, Welcome to Dragistan – a Critical Drag Show and Orange Julius.

Welcome to Dragistan - a Critical Drag Show

The energy in the theater will be incredible as students from Kareem Khubchandani’s acclaimed Critical Drag course delight and engage with their boundary-pushing artistry and cultural explorations.

Orange Julius

By Basil Kreimendahl

Directed by Max Bennett, Theatre Major (’25)

Senior TDPS major Max Bennett is set to direct Basil Kreimendahl's Orange Julius. A playful, sentimental, and evocative play about the complex relationship between transmasculine child, Nut, and their Vietnam war veteran father, Julius, Orange Julius grips audiences as Nut attempts to piece his father's life together and salvage their intimate bond before it's too late.