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, Find out more »
San Francisco Mime Troupe’s “Freedomland”
October 26 & 27 @ 8PM FREE and open to the public Reservations required. Seating is first-come, first-served. Bruce Davis Theater, Montgomery Hall Fine Arts Center A door is blown off its hinges! Into a blasted room of scarred walls and shattered windows, armed with M-16’s, America’s bravest duck and dodge for cover, finally training their Find out more »
In the Bruce Davis Theater, “Machinal,” April 20-24. Reservations, call 240-895-4243 or email boxoffice@smcm.edu
Sophie Treadwell’s 1928 expressionist masterpiece, MACHINAL, is based on the highly publicized trial of Ruth Snyder, who was accused of conspiring with a lover to murder her husband. It follows the central character, an “ordinary young woman,” through nine episodes as she tries to navigate women’s limited options in a mechanized, dehumanizing world obsessed with Find out more »
“Striptease / Catastrophe” has ended its successful run in the BDT!
From the late Polish playwright Sławomir Mrożek (1930-2013), STRIPTEASE is political satire: a tale of two men, a thinker and an activist, both similarly dressed and with matching briefcases, trapped in what appears to be a prison. In what amounts to a vaudeville routine, they try to escape their circumstances by convincing each other he’s Find out more »
Performing in the Bruce Davis Theater, “Striptease” / “Catastrophe,” March 2-6
From the late Polish playwright Sławomir Mrożek (1930-2013), STRIPTEASE is political satire: a tale of two men, a thinker and an activist, both similarly dressed and with matching briefcases, trapped in what appears to be a prison. In what amounts to a vaudeville routine, they try to escape their circumstances by convincing each other he’s Find out more »
Auditions for two plays, “Striptease” & “Catastrophe,” Wed., Jan. 20, 7:00-9:30 p.m., Bruce Davis Theater
Auditions for Striptease (by Slawomir Mrozek) and Catastrophe (by Samuel Beckett) will be held for one night only on Wednesday, January 20, from 7:00-9:30 p.m. in the Bruce Davis Theater, MH. To audition, please prepare a 1-2 minute comic monologue of your choosing (a memorized piece is preferable to a cold reading), and sign up Find out more »
“Speaking of Race” (reprise), a single evening performance, Thurs., Jan. 28, 8 PM, Bruce Davis Theater. Free and open to the public
The Department of Theater, Film, and Media Studies and director Joanne Klein are proud to reprise “Speaking of Race” for a single evening performance in the Bruce Davis Theater, Montgomery Hall, on Thursday, January 28, starting at 8 PM. Originally produced as a lunchtime performance series, “Speaking of Race” brings together the original SMCM student Find out more »
Tyrone (Ty) Wilson Joins SMCM’s TFMS Department
In January-February 2016, actor Tyrone (Ty) Wilson will be performing in the Oregon Shakespeare Festival-Arena Stage co-production of Lynn Nottage’s new play, Sweat, in Washington, D.C. After Sweat closes its run on February 21, Tyrone will join SMCM’s TFMS department for the month of March. While in residency, Ty will perform the mute role of Find out more »
Crossroads: On Common Ground opens Wed., Nov. 18, runs through Sun., Nov. 22, Bruce Davis Theater, Montgomery Hall, $
CROSSROADS 2015 will retain a focus on the local natural, cultural, and historical environment – the literal and metaphoric paths, or ground, we walk – and will use music, dance, poetry, humor, and drama in exploring dynamic intersections of identity and power in our institutional history and in this age of selfies and social media. Find out more »
Speaking of Race (a lunchtime performance series), Oct. 15 & 28, Nov. 10, 12:15 p.m., Aldom Lounge, Campus Center
In “Speaking of Race,” a lunchtime performance series produced by the Department of Theater, Film, and Media Studies, students and members of the SMCM community express their understandings of race, ethnicity, and identity in an original series of monologues sharing powerful feelings and experiences. Performances take place at 12:15 p.m. in Aldom Lounge, Campus Center Find out more »