Like every year, all the roles, scenery, costumes, and lighting will be designed and built by our faculty and students.  Tickets are available through the Nazareth College Box Office: (585) 389-2170.

MAD FOREST

by Caryl Churchill

October 19, 20, 26, and 27 at 8pm
October 21 and 28 at 2pm

$12 regular admission, $11 for seniors, and $10 for students (Nazareth students free)

Callahan Theater

Internationally known playwright Caryl Churchill took young actors from London to Romania shortly after the fall of the Ceausescu regime and devised this story of two families and their lives before and after the revolution. Part fiction, part docudrama, the play conjures up a chilling picture of the lives of the ordinary people of Romania, both living in a dictatorship and scrambling to find their way in the chaotic times after December of 1989.

ORDINARY DAYS

Book, music, and lyrics by Adam Gwon

November 9, 10, 16, and 17 at 8pm
November 11 and 18 at 2pm

$17 regular admission, $16 for seniors, and $15 for students (Nazareth students free)

Studio A48

ORDINARY DAYS tells the story of four young New Yorkers whose lives intersect as they search for fulfillment, happiness, love and cabs. Through a score of vibrant and memorable songs, their experiences ring startlingly true to life. ORDINARY DAYS is an original musical about all of us…about how we affect each others’ lives without even knowing it.  The ordinary becomes extraordinary.

PLAZA SUITE

by Neil Simon

February 15, 16, 22, and 23 at 8pm
February 17 and 24 at 2pm

$12 regular admission, $11 for seniors, and $10 for students (Nazareth students free)

Studio A48

Hilarity abounds in this portrait of three couples successively occupying a suite at the Plaza. A suburban couple take the suite while their house is being painted and it turns out to be the one in which they honeymooned 23 (or was it 24?) years before and was yesterday the anniversary, or is it today? This is followed by the exploits of a Hollywood producer who, after three marriages, calls a childhood sweetheart, now a suburban housewife, for a little sexual diversion. The last couple is a mother and father fighting about the best way to get their daughter out of the bathroom and down to the ballroom where guests await her or as Mother yells, "I want you to come out of that bathroom and get married!"

THE THREEPENNY OPERA

book and lyrics by Bertolt Brecht, music by Kurt Weill

April 12, 13, 19, and 20 at 8pm
April 14 and 21 at 2pm

$17 regular admission, $16 for seniors, and $15 for students (Nazareth students free)
Callahan Theater

Brecht and Weill turned to John Gay's 18th-century 'The Beggar's Opera' to fashion this savage, biting commentary on bourgeois capitalism and modern morality. Set in Victorian London, the bitter tale is told of the predatory outlaw known as Mack the Knife. He secretly marries the daughter of Soho's underworld boss, but is soon betrayed by his sinister in-laws and sent to prison. After being freed by the police chief's daughter, he is again betrayed- this time by a prostitute-and sentenced to death. At the final hour he manages a reprieve from Queen Victoria herself, thus providing a menacing finale of ferocious irony.