Past Productions and Events
Alison Matthews-David of Toronto Metropolitan University will give a talk that investigates the theme of crime and clothing as weapon, evidence, and disguise.
Campus community only, please.
Vassar juniors and seniors of any major may enter an original play in this competition, which ends on January 22, 2024. The author of the winning play receives a $1,000 award, a certificate from the Drama Department, and a staged reading/reception on April 21, 2024.
This timely drama resulted from a trip to Romania. Developed with students from London’s Central School of Drama, this is an incisive portrait of society in turmoil that focuses on two families to reveal what life is like under a totalitarian regime and what results when the regime collapses. Directed by Christopher Grabowski. Free and open to the public, reservations required.
Internationally renowned drag queen, visual artist, author, and Vassar alum will present an immersive evening of drag, storytelling, and live art. Reservations required.
Campus community only, please.
Two original plays presented by students from the playwriting course in Drama.
Campus community only, please.
Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright will give a talk and Q&A to the campus and public. The event is free, but reservations are required.
An inventive retelling of a Jacobean drama, Jen Silverman’s sharp, subversive fable debates how much our souls are worth when hope is hard to come by. Directed by Claire McHarg. Senior project members: Kelly Hatfield, Louise Ambler, Jack Francis, Emma Skinner, Rose Trammell, Presley Wheeler. Free and open to the public, reservations required.
In this Drama Department senior project, Mrs. Lemarchand, a well-to-do woman and a study in megalomania, draws her innocent cleaner, Hilda, into a trap from which there is no escape.
Campus community only, please.
A Drama Department senior project in which the ensemble cast tells the story of Pippin, a young prince who longs to find passion and adventure in his life. Campus community only, please.
Dr. Square is Assistant Professor at Parsons School of Design and a fellow in the Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. He will speak about his present research, which explores connections between histories of enslavement and the fashion system.
A story of sibling love that explores subjects closely linked to science. Reservations for performances on October 6, 7, and 8 can be made by emailing the box office. Campus community only, please.
Kwan, Chair of UC Berkeley’s Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies, will discuss her new book, which explores intercultural duets between artists of different backgrounds. Campus community only, please.
Enter your play! Accepting submissions from all Vassar juniors and seniors from any academic discipline from now until January 20, 2023.
Music and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim. Book by James Lapine. In collaboration with the Departments of Drama and Music. A senior project production directed by Christopher Grabowski and Drew Minter. Reservations required.
Saturday, May 7 and Sunday, May 8 at 4:30 p.m.
Beijing opera is a colorful, spectacular performance art that dazzles and fascinates. Reservations required.
Very limited seating—campus guests only.
A staged reading followed by a reception.
Congratulations to the 2022 award recipients: Gabriella Kimbrough ’22, for her play True Crime, and Louis Blachman ’23, for his play Four Seasons Total Landscaping.
Two weeks of productions of new plays written by Drama Department students. Campus community only, please.
Shivaike Shah, Visiting Artist and Producer/Founder of Khameleon Productions (UK), will discuss the making of Khameleon’s upcoming short film on the figure of Medea, based on Khameleon’s stage production of Euripides’s Medea at Oxford in 2018, which reimagined the ancient Greek tragedy with an all-global majority cast and crew. Campus community only, please.
During this webinar event, students and faculty from the Drama and Music Departments’ upcoming production of Sunday in the Park with George will share their creative process of interpreting this iconic show. Registration required.
Zoom webinar