Upcoming Events this Season
To view all upcoming events related to The Arts at Dickinson, please check out our Calendar of the Arts
Angels in America: Millennium Approaches
by Tony Kushner
The Department of Theatre and Dance presents Tony Kushner’s 1993 Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winning play Angels in America: Millennium Approaches Nov. 1st and 2nd at 7pm and Nov. 3rd at 2pm. Directed by Karen Lordi-Kirkham with guest designers Trui Malten and Jojo Siu, Millennium is part one of two stories that portrays the intersecting stories of a diverse group of Americans during the early days of the AIDS epidemic. Considered one of the most pivotal dramas of the last century, Angels weaves political, social, religious, cultural and historical themes culminating in a message of love and hope for the future as relevant today as when it was written.
CONTENT ADVISORY: This play contains mature language, racial and ableist slurs, references to explicit sexual situations, and depictions of violence, and of illness and death.
“Brilliant, Maddening, and Necessary” NYT, 2018 revival review
Performance Location: Mathers Theatre
Showtimes:
November 1, 2024: 7 PM
November 2, 2024: 7 PM
November 3, 2024: 2 PM
Tickets: here tickets starting at $5.00
Assembly:Required
Assembly:Required is an immersive, site-specific dance event that takes the audience on a journey through the Goodyear Art Building. Echoes of the building’s past as a women’s shoe factory mingle with the current buzz of a thriving studio art facility. Choreographers Matt Reeves and Colette Krogol of Orange Grove Dance and Lecturer in Dance Erin Crawley-Woods weave dynamic movement through the architecture of the space as it pulsates with a new original musical score by composer Dylan Glatthorn. Designed by Professor Kent Barrett and Juli Bounds and performed by the daring students of Dance Theatre Group, Assembly:Required is a one-of-a-kind collaboration between the Department of Theatre + Dance and the Studio Art Program.
Please note: This is a standing performance. There are two flights of stairs to access the performance. Bathroom access is limited. Please see campus map here. The performance will be in Goodyear (#64 on map). There's street parking and limited parking behind the building - however we would advise you park next to Anita Tuvin Schlechter Auditorium (#19 on map) and walk the 1.5 blocks to Goodyear.
Performance location: Goodyear Hall 551-595 West Louther Street Carlisle, PA
Showtimes:
November 22, 2024: 7 PM and 9 PM
November 23, 2024: 7 PM and 9 PM
November 24, 2024: 7 PM
Tickets: here starting at $5.00
Fall One Act Festival
Student Directors and Designers from the Department of Theatre and Dance present two evenings of performances in 2024’s Fall One-Act Festival. Performances will be held at The Cubiculo on December 6th & 7th at 7PM. All performances are free and open to the public.
Performance location: The Cubiculo Theatre 40 W. High Street Carlisle, PA
Showtimes:
December 6, 2024: 7 PM
December 7, 2024: 7 PM
Future Anxiety
by Laurel Haines
In this fiercely intelligent and wildly conceivable vision of the apocalypse, Future Anxiety follows a new generation trying to make sense of how to live on a planet with increasingly drained resources and suspect inhabitants. Things we take for granted are in short supply — toilet paper’s doled out one square at a time. Violent storms rack the sky interrupted by fires broad as the horizon — shades of today’s news of tornadoes and fires. Radioactivity everywhere is a given. Unfortunately, the planet has become uninhabitable. Fortunately, Karl has built a spaceship.
Performance Location: Mathers Theatre
Showtimes:
February 28, 2025: 7 PM
March 1, 2025: 2 PM and 7 PM
March 2, 2025: 2 PM
Ticketing: link coming soon
Freshworks: an evening of student choreography
Student choreographers in collaboration with Dickinson's student dance company, Dance Theatre Group (DTG), present an evening of new choreographic works.
Performance location: Mathers Theatre
Showtimes:
April 25, 2025: 7 PM
April 26, 2025: 7 PM
April 27, 2025: 2 PM
Ticketing: link coming soon
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Past Productions
From Sondheim to Shakespeare, the Dickinson theatre experience is rich and varied.
Experience our production history through the photographs of our plays & performances:
2014 to Present
2021 Fall: The Seven Ages of Shakespeare: A Shakespeare Review
2021 Fall: Bread and Puppet Theater
2021 Fall: Sophomore Showcases
2021 Fall: Moving Histories, Dancing Futures: A Festival of Dance
2021 Fall: Freshman Plays
2022 Spring: Senior Project: Proff by David Auburn
2022 Spring: Little Shop of Horrors
2022 Spring: Freshworks, An Evening of Student Choreography
2020 Spring: (Canceled season-Covid 19)
2019 Fall: We Are Pussy Riot (or) everything is P.R.
2019 Spring: Oh What A Lovely War
2018 Fall: Mr. Burns
2018 Spring: Buried Child
2017 Fall: The Grapes of Wrath
2017 Spring: Next to Normal
2016 Fall: Three Sisters
2016 Spring: Big Love
2015 Fall: Pocatello
2015 Spring: Our Country's Good
2014 Fall: Fiddler on the Roof
2014 Spring: The Burial at Thebes
2010 to 2013
2013 Fall: A Flea in Her Ear
2013 Spring: The Conference of the Birds
2012 Fall: The Spitfire Grill
2012 Spring: The Arsonists
2011 Fall: Much Ado About Nothing
2011 Spring: The Caucasian Chalk Circle
2010 Fall: Lucky Stiff
2010 Spring: Noises Off
2004 to 2009
Special Event: The Mermaid Players Reunion Plays (June 12 & 13, 2009)
2009 Spring: Machinal
2009 Fall: Finding Don Quixote
2008 Fall: A Little Night Music
2008 Spring: Tempest
2007 Fall: The Ballad of The Sad Cafe`
2007 Spring: The Visit
2006 Fall: Urinetown
2006 Spring: An Enemy of The People
2005 Fall: Spinning into Butter
2005 Spring: Ondine
"2004 Fall: Merrily We Roll Along"
"2004 Spring: Right You Are! (If You Think You Are)"
Additional Past Productions
2003 Fall: The Love of the Nightingale
2003 Spring: Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet)
2002 Fall: The Mystery of Edwin Drood
2002 Spring: Julius Caesar
2000-2001: Hamlet, Hotel in Colorado, Cabaret, The Heidi Chronicles, and Oleanna (Oleanna Students Reaction)
1980 to 1999
1998-99 Misalliance, Sunday in the Park with George, Dance Alloy (Full Program)
1998 (June 12 & 13) Special Event: The Mermaid Players Reunion Plays (Full Program)
1997-98 Dancing at Lughnasa, Twelth Night, Fool for Love (Images) (Student Impressions)
1996-97 Arcadia, Balm in Gilead, The Durang Plays
1995-96 A Flea in her (R)ear, Coastal Disturbances, The Winter's Tale
1994-95 Three Sisters, Into The Woods, Our Town
1993-94 Romance Language, King Lear, After Magritte and The Real Inspector Hound
1992-93 The Crucible, Anything Goes, The Rimers of Eldrich
1991-92 Lysystrata, Cloud 9, Orchards
1990-91 Les Liasons Dangereuses, A Little Night Music, Six Characters In Search Of An Author
1989-90 Kind Lady, House of the Blue Leaves, As You Like It
1988-89 Noises Off, Life is a Dream, Guys and Dolls
1987-88 The Royal Family, The Diviners, Ah, Wilderness!
1986-87 Loose Ends, Threepenny Opera, The French Have a Word For It
1985-86 Edmond, The Visit, The Misanthrope
1984-85 The Winter's Tale, Once Upon A Mattress, On The Razzle
1983-84 Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Chamber Music & The Day the Whores Came Out to Play Tennis, The Way of the World
1982-83 The Importance of Being Earnest, Street Scene, The Gondoliers
1981-82 Seven Keys to Baldpate, Love's Labour's Lost, A Country Scandal
1980-81 Museum, Major Barbara, Kiss Me, Kate
1979-80 Marat/Sade, Much Ado About Nothing, Once in a Lifetime
1950 to 1979
1978-79 Inherit the Wind, Camino Real, The Comedy of Errors
1977-78 The Caucasian Chalk Circle, A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Beggar's Opera
1976-77 The Haunted House, The Duchess of Malfi, The Hot L Baltimore
1975-76 Fuente Ovejuna, Ondine, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, High Cockalorum
1974-75 Under Milkwood, The Clandestine Marriage, Rashomon, Two Gentlemen of Verona
1973-74 Legend of Lovers, All's Well That Ends Well, The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man in the Moon Marigolds, You Can't Take it With You
1972-73 The Front Page, Spoon River Anthology, Moonchildren, Ten Nights in a Bar-Room
1971-72 The Imaginary Invalid, Adaptation & The Bald Soprano, The Rimers of Eldritch, Rule a Wife and Have a Wife
1970-71 Enough Stupidity in Every Wise Man, Serjeant Musgrave's Dance, The Time of Your Life
1969-70 Richard III, Lysistrata, R.U.R., The Man Who Came To Dinner
1968-69 The Goodwoman of Setuzuan, The Revenger's Tragedy, A Flea in Her Ear
1967-68 A Man For All Seasons, The Rivals, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to The Forum
1966-67 The Chinese Wall, As You Like It, Light Up the Sky
1965-66 The Wild Duck, Sweeny Todd, The Madwoman of Chaillot
1964-65 Our Town, The Devil's Disciple, Endgame & Tom Thumb
1963-64 The Courageous One, Measure for Measure, The Merry Wives of Windsor
1962-63 See How They Run, The Crucible, A Thurber Carnival
1961-62 Tartuffe, Othello, My Three Angels
1960-61 Arsenic and Old Lace, Crime and Punishment, The Lady's Not For Burning
1959-60 The Miser, Blithe Spirit, Major Barbara
1958-59 The Fan, Twelth Night, Uncle Vanya
1957-58 The Playboy of the Western World, Summer and Smoke, Kind Lady
1956-57 Two Blind Mice, Much Ado About Nothing, The Heiress
1955-56 The Mikado, The Male Animal, The Beaux Stratagem
1954-55 Lo and Behold, Our Town, Two On An Island, Volpone
1953-54 The Importance of Being Earnest, Antigone, The Cardiff Giant, The Taming of the Shrew
1952-53 Beggar on Horseback, Anne of the Thousand Days, The Dover Road