Dr. Amy Steiger, assistant professor of theater studies, has recently published two articles on performance and actor training, in Pedagogy and Theater of the Oppressed Journal (“Moving Forward, Living Backward, or Just Standing Still?: Newspaper Theatre, Critical Race Theory, and Commemorating the Wade-Braden Trial in Louisville, Kentucky”) and Howlround (“Whiteness, Patriarchy, and Resistance in Actor […]
Auditions for The Nether, Monday, February 3, in the BDT
Auditions for THE NETHER, by Jennifer Haley, directed by Mark A. Rhoda, will take place in the Bruce Davis Theater (BDT), Montgomery Hall, on Monday, February 3, from 7:00-9:00 p.m. Callbacks will be scheduled on Tuesday, February 4, beginning at 8:00 p.m. in the BDT. An audition sign-up sheet is posted on the TFMS bulletin […]
Acclaimed Happenstance Theater to Perform “Cabaret Macabre,” November 20-21
Happenstance Theater (www.happenstancetheater.com) is a six-member, Rockville, MD-based performance troupe steeped in the traditions of commedia dell’arte, clowning, circus, and vaudeville. The award-winning company, which visited St. Mary’s College two years ago for its performances of BROUHAHA, is committed to devising, producing, and touring original, performer-created visual and poetic theater that stretches the boundaries of […]
Shakespeare’s “Macbeth” Given Site-Specific Halloween Performance at Historic St. Mary’s City
Shakespeare’s tale of terrors and of unbridled ambition is full of “present fears” and “horrible imaginings” – witches, ghosts, and deadly violence both actual and imaginary – that trouble boundaries between the material world and systems or feelings that can less easily be clutched in the hands. Exploring the remarkable natural and architectural landscape of […]
“Stick Fly” performs in the Bruce Davis Theater
The affluent African American LeVay family gathers at their Martha’s Vineyard home for the weekend, and brothers Kent and Flip have each brought his girlfriend home to meet the parents for the first time. Kent’s fiancée, Taylor, an academic whose absent father was a prominent author, struggles to fit into the LeVay’s upper-crust lifestyle. Kimber, […]
10-Minute Play Festival performs in the Bruce Davis Theater
Following are festival play titles, authors, and directors: Union, by Allison Claggett, directed by Amy Steiger Silence Too Loud, by Rebecca Weber, directed by Kori Taber Speak for Me No More, by Samantha Reed, directed by Rebecca Weber Hashtagtivism, by Oli Platt, directed by Amy Steiger Heaven Spots, by Cameron Kelley, directed by Amy Steiger […]
Happy Birthday, Wanda June performs in the Bruce Davis Theater
“This is a simple-minded play about men who enjoy killing, and those who don’t.” So opens Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.’s prescient riff on toxic masculinity, as seen through the lens of late-1960s America. Big-game hunter and war hero Harold Ryan, presumed dead for many years, returns home like Odysseus to an America he no longer recognizes […]
Happenstance Theater’s “BrouHaHa,” Sept. 20 & 21, 8PM, Bruce Davis Theater
In this funny and poetic one-hour performance, a troupe of Victorian clowns greets the end of the world with pathos and levity. Their curiosity at the precipice lights up the darkness like a firecracker! What happens in that moment of illumination? Come find out from the multiple Helen Hayes award-winning company hailed by the Washington, […]
Eli Ayres wins Visionary Award for “One Way Town”
TFMS alum Eli Ayres (fall ’16) recently received the Visionary Award for his animated film “One Way Town” at the International Visions Film Festival & Conference, hosted annually by the Film Studies Department at the University of North Carolina, Wilmington. The Visionary Award (or “Best in Show”) is given to the top entry in the festival. Eli […]
Opening in the BDT, “Eurydice,” April 19 @ 8:00 p.m.
Sarah Ruhl’s contemporary poetic retelling of the Orpheus/Eurydice myth imagines it from Eurydice’s perspective. After she arrives in the Underworld, a place Ruhl describes as more Alice in Wonderland than Hades, Eurydice has a choice: to stay there with her father, in the room of string he builds for her, or return to the world […]