Current Season
Tickets go on sale for mainstage performances one month before the production at University Box Office
(919/684-4444 or www.tickets.duke.edu). Other performances sell tickets at the door only, and some are free.
This schedule is tentative. Times and locations of performances are subject to change.
Please check before performance.2008-2009 Season
DUKE PLAYERS ORIENTATION SHOW
DURANG DURANG
Three short, zany comedies by Christopher Durang
Directed by Adam Barron (T’10)
Brody Theater
August 22, 23 at 11 pm
August 29, 30 at 8 pm
free admissionSWEENEY TODD
Book by Hugh Wheeler
Music and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim
Directed by John Clum, Theater Studies faculty
Reynolds Theater
October 23-November 2
$10 general admisssion; $5 students and senior citizensDUKE PLAYERS LAB THEATER
Brody Theater
November 13-16
free admissionOLEANNA
By David Mamet
Directed by Russell Hainline (T’07)
Featuring Matt Colabrese (Sr. Distinction Project)
209 East Duke
January 22-25
free admissionLIFE X 3
By Yasmina Reza
Directed by Carolyn McDaniel (Sr. Distinction Project)
Sheafer Theater
February 5-8
free admissionGULAG FOLLIES
Written and directed by Jody McAuliffe, Theater Studies faculty
Sheafer Theater
February 19-22DUKE PLAYERS LAB THEATER
Brody Theater
March 26-29
free admissionEXIT THE KING
By Eugene Ionesco
Directed by Ellen Hemphill, Theater Studies faculty
Sheafer Theater
April 2-11
$10 general admisssion; $5 students and senior citizensTHE MAIDS
By Jean Genet
Directed by Gretchen Wright (Sr. Distinction Project)
Featuring Claire Florian & Becky Sweren (Sr. Distinction Project)
Brody Theater
April 16-18
free admission
Past Seasons2008 Winter/Spring Season
Intern (an original musical)
By Sarah Ellis and Julia Robertson
(Senior distinction project)
209 East Duke, East Campus
February 1-2 at 8 pm
free admissionThe Dreamer Examines His Pillow
By John Patrick Shanley
Directed by Rob Baird
(Senior distinction project)
Sheafer Theater, Bryan Center, West Campus
February 7-9 at 8 pm & February 10 at 2 pm
free admissionFool for Love
By Sam Shepard
Directed by Gretchen Wright
Duke Players Lab Theater
209 East Duke, East Campus
February 21-23 at 8 pm
free admissionSpring Awakening (mainstage production)
By Frank Wedekind
Directed by Jeff Storer, Theater Studies faculty
Sheafer Theater, Bryan Center, West Campus
April 3-5, 10-12, 8 pm & April 6 and 13 at 2 pm
$10 general admisssion; $5 students and senior citizensTheater 2008: New Works Festival
April 17-19, 8 pm, Brody Theater, East Campus
featuring student work
April 20 at 2 pm, Sheafer Theater, West Campus
featuring professional actors in a reading of Going After Alice
by New York playwright Megan Mostyn-Brown and
directed by Jody McAuliffe, Department of Theater Studies faculty
free admission
African American Theater Workshop Performance
Brody Theater, East Campus
April 21, 8 pm
free admissionMusical Theater Workshop Performance
Sheafer Theater, Bryan Center, West Campus
April 22, 8 pm
free admission
2007 Fall Season
Duke Players Orientation Show
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged)
Directed by Rob Baird
Brody Theater, East Campus
Aug. 24 & 25 at 11 pm
Aug. 31 & Sept. 1 at 8 pmMisterioso
an interactive installation based in part on the Jazz Loft Project
Directed by Jay O’Berski
Smith Warehouse
September 26-29 at 8 pmDuke Players Lab Theater
The Shape of Things
By Neil Labute
Brody Theater, East Campus
November 1-3 at 8 pm & November 4 at 2 pm
free admissionBetrayal
By Harold Pinter
(Senior distinction project)
Brody Theater, East Campus
November 15-17 at 8 pm & November 18 at 2 pm
free admissionPericles (mainstage production)
By William Shakespeare
Directed by John Clum, Theater Studies faculty
Sheafer Theater, Bryan Center, West Campus
November 28-December 1 at 8 pm & December 2 at 2 pm
$10 general admission; $5 students and senior citizens
684-4444, or www.ticket.duke.edu
2007 Winter/Spring Season
Duke Players Lab
Tick...Tick...Boom!
by Jonathan Larson
Brody Theater, East Campus
February 1-3 at 8:00 p.m. and February 4 at 2:00 p.m.
Tickets: $5.00 general admission; $3.00 students and senior citizens
Tickets sold at the door.
New Play by Martin Zimmerman ('T07)
Three Movements
Directed by Marshall Botvinick
Sheafer Theater, Bryan Center, West Campus
February 8-10 at 8:00 p.m. and February 11 at 2:00 p.m.
Tickets: $5.00 general admission; $3.00 students and senior citizens
Tickets sold at the door.
The Great Game
By D. Tucker Smith
Directed by Wilson Milam
A Theater Previews at Duke production
Reynolds Theater, Bryan Center, West Campus
February 14-15, 18, 20-22, 25 and March 1 at 7:30 p.m.
February 16-17, 23-24, and March 2-3 at 8 pm
February 17-18, 24-25 and March 3-4 at 2 p.m.
Tickets at www.tickets.duke.edu
All Reserved Seating
Tue: 7:30 pm - All seats $25
Wed: 7:30 pm - All seats $25
Thu: 7:30 pm - All seats $25
Fri: 8:00 pm - $30/$25
Sat: 2:00 pm - All seats $25
8:00 pm - $30/$25
Sun: 2:00 pm - $30/$25
7:30 pm - All seats $25
Special Discounts:
$5 for Duke students
$5 off for non-Duke students and Groups of 10 or more
Please call 919-660-1724 for group discounts.
Duke Players Lab
209 East Duke
Polish Joke by David Ives
directed by Russell Hainline
March 1 & 3, 8 pm
Vaudeville night to include:
Teeth by Tina Howe
directed by Danny Bischoff
Night by Harold Pinter
directed by Danny Bischoff
a short mask performance
directed by Danny Bischoff
a musical revue
directed by Carolyn McDaniel
Some Girls (excerpt) by Neil LaBute
directed by Jay O'Berski
March 2, 8 pm
Playing the Course, a reading of a new play by Andrea Stolowitz
directed by Ellen Hemphill
March 4, 8 pm
Tickets: $5.00 general admission; $3.00 students and senior citizens
Tickets sold at the door.
Shadow of Himself
Premier of a new play by Neal Bell, Theater Studies faculty
Directed by Jody McAuliffe, Theater Studies faculty
Sheafer Theater, Bryan Center, West Campus
April 5-7, April 12-14 at 8:00 p.m. and April 7 & 15 at 2:00 p.m.
Tickets: $10.00 general admission; $7.00 students and senior citizens
Theater 2007: New Works Festival
Blood and Air
Brody Theater, East Campus
April 18-21 at 8:00 p.m.
Tickets: $5.00 general admission; $3.00 students and senior citizens
African American Theater Workshop
This is Madness
Brody Theater, East Campus
April 23, 8 pmMusical Theater Workshop
Brody Theater, East Campus
April 24, 8 pmSolo Performance Class Workshop
Going Solo
Brody Theater, East Campus
April 25, 8 pm2006 Fall
Duke Players Orientation Show
Sure Thing by David Ives and The Zoo Story by Edward Albee
209 East Duke, East Campus
August 25-26 & September 1-2
8:00 p.m.
FREE TO FRESHMEN, $3.00 general admission
Tim Miller Workshop and Performance
Performance artist Tim Miller will conduct a workshop and perform
Brody Theater
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October 16
House of Desires
By Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz
Directed by Rafael Lopez-Barrantes, Theater Studies faculty
Reynolds Theater, Bryan Center, West Campus
October 20-21, 26-28 at 8:00 p.m. and October 29 at 2:00 p.m.
Tickets: $10.00 general admission; $7.00 students and senior citizens
Brody Theater Gala
Ribbon cutting, master class, readings, and various performing groups will perform in celebration
of our grand opening of newly-renovated Brody Theater
Brody Theater (formerly Branson), East Campus
October 20
4:00 - 5:30 pm - dedication
October 21
noon - 2:00 pm - Master Class with Brian Charles Rooney
3:00 - 5:00 - Brian Rooney and ShowStoppers perform
October 22 Readings:
2:00 - 2:15 pm - What Will I Do When You're Gone? by Neal Bell
2:30 - 4:30 pm - Bad Family by Andrea Stolowitz
7:00 - 9:00 pm Performing Arts Marathon (times approximate)
Pitchforks - 7:00
Inside Joke - 7:20
Dancing Devils - 7:40
Chinese Traditional Dance Club - 8:00
Rhythm and Blue - 8:15
Dhamaka - 8:30Duke Players Lab
Tough Choices for the New Century by Jane Anderson
The Information Desk by Jean Tardieu
Brody Theater, East Campus
November 16-18 at 8:00 p.m. and November 19 at 2:00 p.m.
Tickets: $5.00 general admission; $3.00 students and senior citizens
I Am My Own Wife
By Doug Wright
Directed by Jay O'Berski
Starring Michael Ayers (T'07)
Sheafer Theater, Bryan Center, West Campus
November 30-December 2 at 8:00 p.m. and December 2 and 3 at 2:00 p.m.
Tickets: $5.00 general admission; $3.00 students and senior citizens
Tickets sold at the door.2006 Spring Season
Loyal Women
By Gary Mitchell
Directed by Vanessa Rodriguez (T'06)
Sheafer Theater, Bryan Center, West Campus
February 9-11 at 8:00 p.m. and February 12 at 2:00 p.m.
Tickets: $5.00 general admission; $3.00 students and senior citizensDuke Players Lab
Joy, Delirious
by Colin Crowe (T'06)
209 East Duke, East Campus
March 2, 3 at 8:00 pm, March 4 at 4:00 pm, and March 5 at 2:00 pmChild of Hungry Times
based on the works of Lyudmila Petrushevskaya
One Woman Show starring Bridget Bailey (T'06)
Directed by Jay O'Berski
209 East Duke, East Campus
March 24, 25 at 8:00 p.m. and March 26 at 2:00 p.m.
The Special Prosecutor
Translated, adapted and directed by Jody McAuliffe of the Theater Studies faculty
from Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol's The Inspector General
Sheafer Theater, Bryan Center, West Campus
April 6-8, 13-15 at 8:00 p.m and April 9 & 15 at 2:00 p.m.
Tickets: $10.00 general admission; $7.00 students and senior citizensTheater 2006: New Works Festival
Workshops and readings of plays by advanced playwriting students.
Eyes Like Fire Opals by Martin Zimmerman (T'07)
directed by Paul Reid (T'07)
April 20 & 22 at 8:00 p.m.
It's Not Whether You Win or Lose - Act I by Tiffany Webber (T'06)
directed by Ryan Morgan (T'06)
Parallel Play by Judd Schlossberg (T'08)
directed by John Vickery (T'07)
April 21 at 8:00 p.m. and April 22 at 2:00 p.m.
It's Not Whether You Win or Lose - a reading of Act II
April 23 at 2:00 p.m.
Branson Theater, East Campus
Tickets: $5.00 general admission; $3.00 students and senior citizens
Musical Theater Workshop Performances
Branson Theater, East Campus
April 23 at 8:00 p.m. and April 24 at 1:15 p.m.
Free
2005 Fall Season
The Trojan Women
By Euripides
Created and directed by Ellen Hemphill of the Theater Studies faculty
From the translation by Alan Shapiro with Peter Burian
Music/lyrics by Allison Leyton-Brown/Stephen Tolmac
Sheafer Theater, Bryan Center, West Campus
November 10-12, 17-19 at 8:00 p.m. and November 13 and 20 at 2:00 p.m.
The Walls
By Griselda Gambaro
Directed by Marshall Botvinick (T'06)
209 East Duke, East Campus
November 16-19 at 8:00 p.m.
Duke Players Lab
Speed-the-Play by David Ives
directed by Dylan Parkes (T'08)
The Marriage Proposal by Anton Chekov
directed by Danny Bischoff (T'07)
The Valiant by Hallyworth Hall and Robert Middlemass
directed by Kathryn Minshew (T'08)
209 East Duke, East Campus
December 1-3 at 8:00 p.m. and December 4 at 2:00 p.m.
Shakespeare Workshop Performance
Sheafer Theater, Bryan Center, West Campus
December 7 at 8:00 p.m.
FREE
Spring 2005 Season
You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown
Duke Players Lab Theater
February 1-5, 8 pm
February 6, 2 pm
209 East Duke, East Campus
Tickets: $5 General Public; $3 Students/Sr. CitizensA musical directed, produced, and performed by students.
Purgatorio
by Ariel Dorfman
February 4-5, 8:00 p.m., February 6, 2:00 p.m.
Reynolds Theater, West Campus
Tickets: $15 General Public; $5 StudentsA workshop production of a play about how you deal with the terrible things you've done, especially if the key to your redemption is the person you've most hurt.
Three Nights in Prague
by Allan Havis
February 12, 4:00 p.m.
Branson Theater, East Campus
FreeFive months before 9/11, lead hijacker Mohamed Atta is seen in Prague by Czech authorities in clandestine circumstances with a high Iraqi consulate official. "Three Nights in Prague" speculates what might have happened politically and personally, and if a powerful connection between Al Qaeda and Baghdad had been forged.
On the March to the Sea
by Gore Vidal
February 22-24, March 1-3, 7:30 p.m.
February 25-26, March 4-5, 8:00 p.m.
February 26-27, March 5-6, 2:00 p.m.
Reynolds Theater, West Campus
Tickets: $20-$39 General Public; Student & Group discount $5A play about integrity and betrayal in a time of war, set during the Civil War on Sherman's march to the sea and campaign for the Carolinas.
Angels In America, Part I: Millennium Approaches
Directed by Jeff Storer of the Theater Studies faculty
April 13-16, 7:30 pm
April 17, 2 pm
Sheafer Theater, Bryan Center, West Campus
Tickets: $10 General Public; $7 Students/Sr. CitizensThis Pulizer Prize-winning play by Tony Kushner explores "the state of the nation"--the sexual, racial, religious, political and social issues confronting the country during the Reagan years, as the AIDS epidemic was spreading.
Theater 2005: New Works Festival
April 20-23, 8 pm
April 23, 2 pm
Branson Theater, East Campus
Tickets: $8 General Public; $6 Students/Sr. CitizensWorkshops and readings of original plays by playwriting students.
Cabaret Workshop
Directed by Rafael Lopez-Barrantes of the Theater Studies faculty
April 26, 8 pm
Branson Theater, East Campus
FreeThe culminating performance of a theater class using the dynamic model of the European Cabaret form at the turn of the twentieth century when social commentary, debate, questioning and provocation prevailed.
Fall 2004 Season
Ghosts
by Henrik Ibsen
Directed by Amit Mahtaney (T '05)
November 3-6, 8 pm
November 6, 2 pm
209 East Duke, East Campus
Tickets: $8 General Public; $6 Students/Sr. CitizensA domestic tragedy haunted by duty to society's expectations and a father's sin.
Duke Players Lab Theater
November 11-13, 8 pm
November 13, 2 pm
209 East Duke, East Campus
Tickets: $8 General Public; $6 Students/Sr. CitizensHapgood
by Tom Stoppard
Directed by Jeffery West of the Theater Studies faculty
November 18 - 20, 8 pm
November 21, 2 pm
Sheafer Theater, Bryan Center, West Campus
Tickets: $10 General Public; $7 Students/Sr. CitizensTony-Award-winning playwright Tom Stoppard's celebrated comedy thriller about spies and physics.
Shakespeare's Contemporaries Workshop
Directed by Christine Morris of the Theater Studies faculty
December 1, 7 pm
Sheafer Theater, Bryan Center, West Campus
FreeA special workshop of scenes from plays of Shakespeare's era.
