5-PLAY SUBSCRIPTION
• For the 25/26 Season: the Syracuse University Department of Drama is offering a 5-Play Subscription which includes: Bernarda Alba, Antigonick, Picnic, A Rebel Prayer, and Baltimore.
• Please Note: This package does not include the holiday co-production, Disney’s Frozen The Broadway Musical. However, discounts are available to Department of Drama Subscribers.
ABOUT THE DEPARTMENT OF DRAMA
The Department of Drama in Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts (SU:VPA) offers conservatory-style training combined with a level of integration with a professional theatre company that is unparalleled among undergraduate programs. Each season Syracuse Stage and the Department of Drama co-produce a show, and during that process students have the opportunity to work with professional actors, directors and designers, and earn points toward membership in Actors' Equity Association, the union for professional actors and stage managers.
BERNARDA ALBA
Words and Music by Michael John LaChiusa | Based on the play The House of Bernarda Alba by Federico Garcia Lorca | Directed and Choreographed by William Carlos Angulo | Associate Direction by Diego Alejandro González and Felipe Panamá | Music Direction by Jacob Kerzner | Oct 10 - 19 | Opening Night: Oct 11
A fiery, flamenco-steeped musical.
“My pains, Mother, are not pains of hunger.” After the death of her husband Antonio, Bernarda Alba mourns in a shuttered home while keeping watch over five daughters—each desperate to break free from her matriarchal stranglehold. A tale of lust, longing, and lamentation, Federico García Lorca’s classic Spanish drama is brought to a dark and melodic boil in this musical adaptation from composer Michael John LaChiusa.
ANTIGONICK
By Sophokles | A new version by Anne Carson | Directed by Matthew Winning and Erica Murphy | Nov 14 - 22 | Opening Night: Nov 15
A new twist on an ancient story.
“Nothing vast enters the lives of mortals without ruin.” When Antigone, daughter of Oedipus, buries her brother, the mutinous Polyneikes, it is in direct defiance of Kreon, the King of Thebes, who has ordered his body to rot in the fields. This single act of civil disobedience will set off a fatalistic chain reaction in Canadian poet Anne Carson’s audacious, irreverent, and distinctly modern reworking of Sophokles’ meditation on tyranny, resistance, and the immutable tragedy that is the passage of time.
PICNIC
By William Inge | Directed by Ralph Zito | Feb 20 - Mar 1 | Opening Night: Feb 21
An elegant drama from an American master.
“I've always had the feeling, if I just had the chance, I could set the whole world on fire.” As a small Kansas town prepares for the annual Labor Day picnic, handsome young drifter Hal stirs up long dormant feelings amongst a group of repressed women, including Madge, a beauty queen who yearns for another life whenever she hears the train whistle blow. Disappointments, resentments, and rivalries simmer with the late summer swelter in William Inge’s Pulitzer Prize-winning classic about the power of attraction and the perils of unfulfilled desire.
A REBEL PRAYER
ACADEMIC WORLD PREMIERE
Book and Lyrics by Eloise T. Govedare | Music by Aleksandra M. Weil | Directed by Kathleen Wrinn | Music Direction by Brian Cimmet | Choreography by Bradley Stone | Mar 27 - Apr 5 | Opening Night: Mar 28
A searing new musical about protest, loss, and the power of art.
“Look the beast in the eyes, and stare. Say a rebel prayer.” When a politically provocative play costs her father his life, 16-year-old Nikita and her mother are forced to flee Moscow for Domikov, a remote Russian town where tyrannical headmistress Ludmilla Mukhina rules the local school with an iron fist. Mired in grief and desperate to return home, Nikita is visited by the spirits of Pussy Riot, the real-life punk-protest collective imprisoned for their art. But when they offer Nikita one of their masks to carry on her father’s legacy, Nikita is faced with a dangerous choice: submit, or rebel?
BALTIMORE
By Kirsten Greenidge | Directed by Michelle Chan | Apr 24 - May 3 | Opening Night: Apr 25
An incisive critique of a “post-racial” America.
“When you see me, what do you see?” Shelby, a resident advisor at a small New England school, is working towards a sports medicine degree while on deadline for her college paper—but her phone keeps blowing up with messages from her peers, demanding she address a grotesque caricature drawn on the door of a Black student. A play about contemporary identity—in all its complexities—Kristen Greenridge’s modern day parable asks us to confront the messiness of history while opening the door for a better, if not perfect, future.
DISNEY’S FROZEN THE BROADWAY MUSICAL
Music and lyrics by Kristen Anderson Lopez and Robert Lopez | Book by Jennifer Lee | Based on the Disney film written by Jennifer Lee | And directed by Chris Buck and Jennifer Lee | Originally produced on Broadway by Disney Theatrical Productions | Directed by Emily Maltby | Music direction by Brian Cimmet | Choreographed by Marjorie Failoni | Co-produced with Syracuse Stage | May 13 – Jun 21 | Opening Night: May 15
Sisterhood, stirring songs, and one magical snowman.
“Conceal, don’t feel.” Elsa enjoys a sheltered royal life in the Kingdom of Arendelle, but when her budding powers almost lead to tragedy, she’s forced to bury her icy talents—until they erupt, unleashing an eternal winter that threatens to destroy everything she loves. A story of sisterhood and embracing your true self, Disney’s majestic musical riff on Hans Christian Andersen’s “The Snow Queen” is a thrilling theatrical event with soaring songs and spectacular adventure.
* Please Note: Disney’s Frozen The Broadway Musical is not included in the Department of Drama subscription package. However, discounts are available to Department of Drama subscribers.
Bernarda Alba is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals. www.concordtheatricals.com | Antigonick is presented by special arrangement with Paradigm Talent Agency | Picnic is presented by special arrangement with Broadway Licensing, LLC, servicing the Dramatists Play Service collection. (www.dramatists.com) | Baltimore is produced by special arrangement with Playscripts, Inc. (www.playscripts.com) | Frozen is presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI). All authorized performance materials are also supplied by MTI. www.mtishows.com
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