Theatre Main Season

RENT
Book, Music and Lyrics by Jonathan Larson
Musical Arrangements – Steve Skinner
Original Concept/Additional Lyrics – Billy Aronson
Music Supervision and Additional Arrangements – Tim Weil
Dramaturg – Lynn Thomson

RENT was originally produced in New York by New York Theatre Workshop and on Broadway by Jeffrey Seller, Kevin McCollum, Allan S. Gordon and New York Theatre Workshop.

Alan Mingo, director
October 21–28, 2011
Kay Theatre

Jonathan Larson's Pulitzer Prize-winning Broadway musical — based loosely on Puccini's La Boheme but with a rock-inspired zest all its own — follows a year in the lives of seven impoverished young artists and musicians in New York. Living the disappearing Bohemian lifestyle in the East Village, they struggle to survive and create while dealing with the physical and emotional complications of the AIDS epidemic. Our student performers, who themselves anticipate a life in the arts, will draw on their own hopes, dreams and creative energies to bring Rent to raucous life on our stage.

A Child Shall Lead Them: Making The Night Of The Hunter
Derek Goldman, director
Co-production between University of Maryland and Georgetown University
November 12-19, 2011
Kogod Theatre

The 1955 film The Night of the Hunter was largely ignored upon its release but is now widely regarded as an American masterpiece. This new multimedia production is a historical re-imagining of the making of the film, woven from the classic screenplay and accounts of the shooting from those who were there. The play, written by director Derek Goldman, provides a powerful new framework for experiencing this uniquely chilling tale of corruption and evil, in which the forces of creation and destruction do battle with each other, within and outside of the frame.

The Old Settler
Walter Dallas, director
February 10-18, 2012
Kogod Theatre

John Henry Redwood's gentle, sweet-natured comedy, set in Harlem in 1943, is about the relationship of two aging, church-going sisters and what happens when a handsome young fellow, newly arrived from the Deep South, rents a room in the apartment they share. Although firmly grounded in a particular time and place, the play also transcends its setting to portray the shifting relationship between siblings as they reach a certain age.

Everything in the Garden
Scot Reese, director
March 2-10, 2012
Kay Theatre

Edward Albee's 1967 adaptation of Giles Cooper's Everything in the Garden exposes the dark underside of the outwardly sunny household of suburbanites Jenny and Richard. Their material aspirations far exceed their bank balance, so how far will one of them go to get the money they both crave? And at what cost? Although framed as a comedy of manners, the play is also a biting indictment of greed and its outcomes.

Sandwalk

Leigh Smiley, director
April 27-May 5, 2012
KogodTheatre

The sandwalk was a physical space that Charles Darwin walked for 40 years to "travel his brain," grappling with the conflict between the traditional faith of his upbringing and what scientific evidence was telling him about life and nature. Sandwalk is a collaborative production that integrates a multidisciplinary approach and text to explore the intersections between evolution, creation and Darwin. This world premiere will be devised through student interviews with scientists, clergy and lay people and willl feature MFA Performance candidates from the School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies.