2024-2025

Orange Julius
By Basil Kreimendahl
Directed by Kelly Howe and Emm Socey 

SEPTEMBER 26 - OCTOBER 3, 2024 | THU-SAT @ 7:30PM | SUN @2:00PM
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For some, the war ended decades ago. For Nut and his father Julius, it still rages on. Nut wrestles with the contradictory faces of wartime: the aggressive patriotism from the movies against his father’s brutal souvenirs from the Vietnam War. In towering memorials and quiet burials, Orange Julius searches for answers amidst generations of questions, showing that no matter how far in place or time a conflict can seem, its repercussions still ring. This abstract and poignant drama invades the Underground Theatre to demonstrate the fallacies of war and possibilities of peace. 

 

The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui
By Bertolt Brecht
Directed by Mark E. Lococo

OCTOBER 24-November 3, 2024 | THU-SAT @ 7:30PM | SUN @ 2:00PM
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Crime. Corruption. Cauliflower. Bertolt Brecht’s cutthroat satire chronicles gangster Arturo Ui’s bloody ascension to power. Set in Chicago amidst a city-wide scandal, The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui gets to the heart of hometown corruption and global fascism. Boundaries are blurred between high and low art, rich and poor crime, broken and fixed systems. In responding to the rise of tyranny in 1940s Germany, Brecht conducts a disturbingly timeless takedown of who runs systems and who lets them. 

 

Notes from the Field
By Anna Deavere Smith
Directed by DeRon S. Williams

FEBRUARY 13-23, 2025 | THU-SAT @7:30PM | SUN @ 2:00PM
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When fiction isn’t enough, stories must be told as they actually happened. Using verbatim transcripts of real-life interviews, Notes from the Field tackles incarceration, police brutality, and systemic educational issues with heart and hope. Anna Deavere Smith’s striking piece of documentary theatre shows the school-to-prison nexus not in allegorical critique, but in grotesquely real detail. Shattering notions of punishment and the justification of violent force, Notes from the Field interrogates what is activism, what is performance, and what you can do about it. 

 

Legally Blonde
By Laurence O'Keefe, Nell Benjamin, and Heather Hach
Directed by Cristin Carole

MARCH 27-APRIL 6, 2025 | THU-SAT @ 7:30PM | SUN @ 2:00PM
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Elle Woods has it all figured out- great friends, great car, great dog. When it all starts falling apart, Elle leaves behind her sunny sorority for the stuffy Harvard Law School, tackling this exclusive environment with optimism and ambition. The verdict? An inspiring and wildly entertaining take on identity and power. Based on the hit movie and filled with show-stopping songs, Legally Blonde celebrates the trials and victories of being yourself.