Current Production Season

2025-2026 Season

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Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812

Written by Dave Malloy

Directed by Maurice Emmanuel Parent; Music Directed by Dan Rodriguez

Performance Dates

Novmeber 12, 7:30pm
November 13-15, 8pm
November 16, 2pm

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

Dave Malloy’s Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812 is a groundbreaking musical that brings a fresh, electrifying twist to a classic story.

Inspired by a dramatic slice of Leo Tolstoy’s War and Peace, this innovative electropop opera follows the young and passionate Natasha Rostova as she arrives in Moscow, eagerly awaiting her fiancé’s return from war. But when she falls for the charming and reckless Anatole, her world is turned upside down. Caught in the middle is Pierre, a family friend struggling with his own sense of purpose, who must step in to help Natasha recover from scandal.

With its bold storytelling and genre-defying music, Great Comet has captivated audiences from its early days in New York’s Ars Nova to celebrated runs off-Broadway and on Broadway.

Fall Dance Concert

November 21-22, 2025, 7pm

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

Dance at Tufts University is a well-established and vibrant part of academic, cultural, and community life on campus. At every level of study, dance offers Tufts students an essential source of physical, creative, and aesthetic engagement within a fully integrated academic vision for the arts, education, and enhanced cultural understanding.

Spiritual Diasporas: A Performance Art Ceremony

Organized by PhD Candidates Wenxuan Xue and Sung-Min Kim

December 2-7, 2025

Spiritual Diasporas: A Performance Art Ceremony is a performance and workshop series with artists that engage with rituals, ceremonies, ancestral and spiritual practices. This performance and workshop series will meditate on the uses of ritual and ceremony in the work of resistance and care against structural violence.

Untitled True Crime Project

Created by the TDPS Devised Performance Class

Directed by Katie Brook

March 5-9, 2026

Next academic year, TDPS will offer a devised performance class in the Fall, taught by Katie Brook, and produce a devised production in the Spring, which she will be directing. While the work in the class will become the seed of the production, students may choose to take the class without participating in the production or participate in the production without taking the class.

Spring Dance Concert

April 17-18, 2026

Featuring Choreography from Senior TDPS Majors and Dance Minors

A Journal of the Plague Year

Written by Terayama Shūji in collaboration with Kishida Rio

Translated by Tsuneda Keiko and Colleen Lanki

Directed by August Kittleson as part of a capstone project in TDPS

April 23-26, 2026

Terayama Shuji’s 1975 play, A Journal of the Plague Year, pushes us to think about the violence of a nation’s imperial past (or present!) and epidemic disease both as a literal threat and as a metaphor for the way war crimes infect victims and perpetrators alike.

It can also be seen as a play about protest, resistance, and activism. Its emphasis on memory, for instance, as an act of resistance against colonial amnesia, and community in the face of all that tears us apart, is profoundly relevant for a 21st-century US-based audience.

The message of hopeful urgency at the end of the play—“The time is now! The time is now!”—captures the spirit of student protest today.