In this funny and poetic one-hour performance, a troupe of Victorian clowns greets the end of the world with pathos and levity. Their curiosity at the precipice lights up the darkness like a firecracker! What happens in that moment of illumination? Come find out from the multiple Helen Hayes award-winning company hailed by the Washington, Find out more »
Eli Ayres wins Visionary Award for “One Way Town”
TFMS alum Eli Ayres (fall ’16) recently received the Visionary Award for his animated film “One Way Town” at the International Visions Film Festival & Conference, hosted annually by the Film Studies Department at the University of North Carolina, Wilmington. The Visionary Award (or “Best in Show”) is given to the top entry in the festival. Eli Find out more »
Opening in the BDT, “Eurydice,” April 19 @ 8:00 p.m.
Sarah Ruhl’s contemporary poetic retelling of the Orpheus/Eurydice myth imagines it from Eurydice’s perspective. After she arrives in the Underworld, a place Ruhl describes as more Alice in Wonderland than Hades, Eurydice has a choice: to stay there with her father, in the room of string he builds for her, or return to the world Find out more »
Opening in the BDT, “On Contentious Grounds,” March 1 @ 8:00 p.m.
ON CONTENTIOUS GROUNDS is a devised movement theater piece developed from interviews with Palestinian occupants of the West Bank about their experiences of movement in their daily lives and ancestral histories. How do borders shape bodies? Borders – in the form of walls, laws, guns, language, access to information, and rigidified memories – shape our Find out more »
TFMS Statement of Commitment for The Ghostlight Project
On January 19, 2017 at 5:30 p.m. in each time zone across the country, members of the theater community – from Broadway to regional theaters to high schools and colleges and community theaters – came together to launch THE GHOSTLIGHT PROJECT. Gathering outside of theaters on the eve of the Presidential Inauguration, people joined in Find out more »
Auditions, “The Marriage of Figaro,” September 6-7, in the BDT
WHAT: Auditions, THE MARRIAGE OF FIGARO WHEN: Tuesday & Wednesday, September 6-7 TIME: 7:00 – 9:00 p.m., both days WHERE: Bruce Davis Theater, MH It’s a really BIG SHOW! A cast of 21! Looking for clowns, fast-talkers, wits, lovers young and old(er), movers, shakers, dancers, musicians, and those who just want to have a darn’d Find out more »
San Francisco Mime Troupe’s “Freedomland”
October 26 & 27 @ 8PM FREE and open to the public Reservations required. Seating is first-come, first-served. Bruce Davis Theater, Montgomery Hall Fine Arts Center A door is blown off its hinges! Into a blasted room of scarred walls and shattered windows, armed with M-16’s, America’s bravest duck and dodge for cover, finally training their Find out more »
In the Bruce Davis Theater, “Machinal,” April 20-24. Reservations, call 240-895-4243 or email boxoffice@smcm.edu
Sophie Treadwell’s 1928 expressionist masterpiece, MACHINAL, is based on the highly publicized trial of Ruth Snyder, who was accused of conspiring with a lover to murder her husband. It follows the central character, an “ordinary young woman,” through nine episodes as she tries to navigate women’s limited options in a mechanized, dehumanizing world obsessed with Find out more »
Auditions for “Machinal,” directed by Amy Steiger, Wed. & Thurs., Feb. 10-11, 4:00-6:00 p.m., Bruce Davis Theater
Auditions for American playwright Sophie Treadwell’s Machinal will take place on Wednesday and Thursday, February 10-11, from 4:00-6:00 p.m. in the Bruce Davis Theater, MH. In order to audition, you’ll need to SIGN UP FOR A FULL HOUR TIME SLOT. A sign-up sheet is posted on the director’s office door, MH176 (right across from the Find out more »