Genre: Drama

Good

Set in Germany during the rise of Nazism, Good explores how a liberal, “good” man can be seduced into participating in the Holocaust.

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Machinal

An expressionist parable about an ordinary young woman who lives in a mechanized, materialistic world. A modern Everywoman, Helen works in a boring office, marries her boss who offers her financial security, finds motherhood oppressive, and has a lover who abandons her. Machinal presents the life of a young woman who asks an impersonal society, “Is nothing mine?”

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The Crucible

This timeless classic challenges American ideas of power, intolerance, and justice. In the Puritan community of Salem, Massachusetts, a servant girl accuses a farmer’s wife of witchcraft. One accusation spirals into many, uncovering a web of bigotry and deceit that changes their lives forever. The Crucible is both a gripping historical drama and an evergreen parable about contemporary society. (No Halloween show)

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Equivocation

England, 1605: A terrorist plot to assassinate King James I and Parliament has been thwarted. Shakespeare is commissioned to write the “true historie” of the plot and is confronted with the ultimate moral and artistic dilemma: Speak truth to power—and perhaps lose his head, or take the money and lie. Is there a third option—equivocation? A high-stakes political thriller with contemporary resonances.

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Red Velvet

Theatre Royal, Covent Garden, 1883. Edmund Kean, the greatest actor of his generation, has collapsed on stage whilst playing Othello. A young black American actor has been asked to take over the role.

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Relativity

In 1902, Albert Einstein and his girlfriend, and later wife, Mileva, had a daughter. After 1904, the child was never seen or spoken of again.

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Man of La Mancha

March 7-17 at Shelton Auditorium Man of La Mancha is one of the world’s most popular musicals. Inspired by Miguel de Cervantes’ 17th-century masterwork Don Quixote and set during the Spanish Inquisition, the

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The Lion in Winter

November 9-19 at Shelton Auditorium, Thursday-Saturday at 7:30, Sunday at 2:00 Sibling rivalry, adultery, and dungeons – The Lion in Winter, by James Goldman, is a modern-day classic. Comedic in

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Seeking Nietzsche

Now streaming!  With the nationalist composer Richard Wagner as Friedrich Nietzsche’s surrogate father and the Nazis’ appropriation of Wagner’s music and Nietzsche’s philosophy, many have questioned whether Nietzsche and his

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