2017-2018 Main Stage Season

Precisely 40 years ago, this first play by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Wendy Wasserstein spoke to a generation, and introduced theatergoers to Glenn Close and Meryl Streep, among others. The action flips between a reunion of close friends and classmates at Mount Holyoke College and their senior year, six years prior. This play invites us to look at Connecticut College’s own past, and to discover, for better and worse, what has changed, and what remains.

Directed by David Jaffe.

By Charles L. Mee

Directed by Kimberly Senior

A wild road trip through our American landscape—in a play made as one of America’s greatest artists, Robert
Rauschenberg, might have conceived it if he had been a playwright instead of a painter: a collage of people and places and music
and dancing, of love stories and picnics and business schemes and shootings and chicken jokes and golfing, and of the sheer exhilaration of living in a country where people make up their lives as they go.

Book and lyrics by Steven Sater
Music by Duncan Sheik
Based on the play by Frank Wedekind
Directed by Leora Morris, Guest Director
Music director Robert Frost
Choreography by David Dorfman

An angsty rock musical adaptation of the seminal play about the trials and tribulations of growing up. The winner of eight Tony Awards, including Best Musical, told by Duncan Sheik and Steven Sater through a groundbreaking Broadway score. Spring Awakening explores the journey from adolescence to adulthood with a poignancy and passion that is illuminating and unforgettable. The landmark musical is an electrifying fusion of morality, sexuality and rock and roll.

The Department of Theater ends the year with our 5th Annual Theater Capstone Festival, a collective opportunity for our seniors to finish their college careers with a major creative project. We invite them to take risks, to deepen their work, to find their theatrical voices as actors, designers, directors, scholars, writers, or beyond.