Current Season
Current Season
Our production program is an integral part of our overall educational process—co-curricular rather than extra-curricular—where students in all areas of the theatre get to test in practice what they are learning in the classroom. To provide our students with as many practical opportunities as we can and to focus on the learning experience of the process of creating theatre and dance as well as the product of performance, we have a wide range of performances, from the staged reading to the fully-realized production.
Showtimes
All evening performances are at 7:30 p.m., except where noted.
Ticket Prices
Tickets for live on-stage productions are $10 for the general public and $5 for Drew students with ID (unless otherwise noted-cash or check).
Reservations
Ticket reservations can be made by emailing keanboxoffice@drew.edu. Your tickets will be available to pick up at the box office prior to the performance.
Reservations made after 5 p.m. on the day of your selected show are not guaranteed to be processed by showtime.
Facilities
Most live performances are held in the Dorothy Young Center for the Arts, which houses The Concert Hall and the Thomas H. Kean theatre. Others may be held at the free-standing F.M. Kirby Shakespeare Theatre. Learn more about our arts facilities.
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ZOYA II
a new play by Riya Soyantar (Class of 2023)
After the death of her sister, Zoya, Anya goes in search of someone who will take care of Zoya’s abandoned goldfish. Along the way, she comes to a deeper understanding and reconciliation with her loved ones and herself
Monday, October 3, 2022, and Saturday, October 8, 2022
Performances each night at 7:30 p.m in the Directing Lab
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RON SWOBADA’S WISH
by Anna Ziegler
directed by Kris Perez (CLA 2024)
When Jason’s boyfriend of four years dumps him on his birthday, he turns to his twin brother Jacob, who is on the Autism spectrum, for comfort.
NIGHT VISION
by Dominique Morisseau
directed by Medina Purefoy-Craig (CLA 2024)
Originally commissioned as part of New Black Fest’s “Facing Our Truth: Ten-Minute Plays on Trayvon, Race and Privilege,” Night Vision features MacArthur “Genius” Award-winner Morriseau’s exploration around the tensions between race and gender.
EMOTIONAL CREATURE
by Eve Ensler
directed by Alivia Salls (CLA 2023)
Internationally renowned playwright Eve Ensler (author of the Vagina Monologues) offers monologues and stories inspired by interviews with young women.
Thursday, October 20, 2022, through Saturday, October 22, 2022,
Performances each night at 7:30 p.m in the Thomas H. Kean Theatre
Special 2:00 p.m. matinee on Saturday, October 22, 2022
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DESTIGMATIZE: A NIGHT OF TRUE STORIES FROM WOMEN REFUSING TO GO BACK
presented by RED MIC REPORATORY AND UNIDENTIFIED STAGES
With the devastating news regarding the leaked SCOTUS draft decision indicating the imminent overturning of Roe v. Wade, theatre companies Red Mic Repertory Company and Unidentified Stages to discuss what could/should be done. We realized this was an opportunity to “take our broken hearts and make it into art.” We decided to officially partner to develop an original play, which we’ve entitled Destigmatized, comprised of true stories written by our respective company members.
Thursday, November 3, 2022, through Saturday, November 5, 2022,
Performances each night at 7:30 PM in the Thomas H. Kean Theatre
Special 2:00 PM Matinee on Saturday, November 5, 2022, in the Thomas H. Kean Theatre
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MAINSTAGE FALL DANCE SHOW
Directed by Kimani Fowlin (faculty)
Celebrate dance as student choreographers present the Fall 2022 dance show.
Thursday, November 17, 2022, through Friday, November 18, 2022 at 7:30 PM.
Special 2:00 p.m. matinee on Saturday, November 19, 2022
Thomas H. Kean Theatre
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RODNEY M. GILBERT MEMORIAL SALON
co-produced by Kimani Fowlin & Jolie Tong (faculty)
Performances by BIPOC students with special guests.
Saturday, February 11, 2023 in the Directing Lab
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IPHIGENIA IN AULIS
by the New York Semester of Theatre (adapted from Euripides)
directed Jolie Tong (faculty)
A devised version of the Greek classical play, under the guidance of the internationally acclaimed Tectonic Theater Project.
Thursday, March 30, 2023, through Saturday, April 1, 2023
Performances each night at 7:30 p.m in the Thomas H. Kean Theatre
Special 2:00 p.m. matinee on Saturday, April 1, 2023
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Robert Fisher Oxnam Playwrighting Readings
directed by Jamie Richards (faculty)
Staged readings of award-winning student plays produced by the Ensemble Studio Theatre, featuring Drew students alongside professional actors.
Wednesday, April 26, 2023, at 6:30 PM in the Directing Lab
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SPRING DANCE SHOW
Directed by Kimani Fowlin (faculty)
Celebrate dance as student choreographers present the Fall 2022 dance show.
Thursday, April 20, 2023, through Friday, April 21, 2023 at 7:30 PM
Special 2:00 p.m. matinee on Saturday, April 22, 2023
Thomas H. Kean Theatre
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The Drew Performing Arts Access Coordinators can provide assisted listening devices, reserve wheelchair seating, provide sensory seminars, captioned performances, and audio described performances. Please reach out to keanboxoffice@drew.edu with any questions about assisted listening devices and wheelchair seating. Performances with sensory seminars, captions, and audio descriptions are detailed below:
A Look Back: Past Events
Directed by Dan LaPenta, Professor of Theatre Arts
Shakespeare's masterful nightmare of murder, ghosts, revenge, corruption and so much more featured a cast of 17 students and two faculty members.
Eugene's Ionesco’s The Lesson satirizes totalitarianism in education, politics, language, psychology and sexuality.
Directed, performed and produced by Drew students and the Department of Theatre and Dance.
The employees of an all-controlling big business struggle with their corporate ambition and morals as they attempt to climb the corporate ladder–only to find that reaching the top does not give them the expected result.
Directed by Adjunct Theatre Instructor Rodney Gilbert. Performed and produced by Drew students.
The eighth in Wilson’s 10-play cycle about African-American life in the United States, this work is about an ex-con in Pittsburgh trying to start over during the Reagan administration.