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Judgement at Nuremberg
by Abby Mann

September 28 – October 2
Directed by: Benard Cummings
8:00 p.m. Wed.- Sat, 2:00 p.m. Sun.
Bob Hope Theatre / Owen Arts Center

Abby Mann’s stage version of an Academy Award winning film chronicles the post-World War II trials at Nuremberg. Called “incisive and blistering” by the Chicago Sun-Times, this powerful play speaks to the challenges and dangers of authoritarianism and the decay of democracy in our present day.

The Seagull
by Anton Chekhov

October 26 – 30
Directed by: Stan Wojewodski
8:00 p.m. Wed.- Sat, 2:00 p.m. Sat. and Sun.
Margo Jones Theatre / Owen Arts Center

A successful actress visits her brother’s isolated estate far from the city, throwing the frustrated residents’ unfulfilled ambitions into sharp relief. As her son attempts to impress with a self-penned play, putting much more than his pride at stake, others dream of fame, love and the ability to change their past. Chekhov’s darkly comic masterpiece is reignited for the 21st century by one of the most exciting new voices in British Theatre, Anya Reiss, winner of the Most Promising Playwright at both the Evening Standard and Critics’ Circle awards.

Twelfth Night (A Musical Adaptation of William Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night)

November 30 – December 4
Conceived by: Kwame Kwei-Armah and Shaina Taub, Music and Lyrics by: Shaina Taub
Directed by: Tiana Blair
Translated by: Sarah Ruden
8:00 p.m. Wed.- Sat, 2:00 p.m. Sat. and Sun.
Bob Hope Theatre / Owen Arts Center

Named one of the best theatrical productions of 2018 by Time, The Hollywood Reporter and The Washington Post, Twelfth Night is a rousing contemporary musical adaptation of Shakespeare’s classic romantic comedy about mistaken identity and self-discovery. Featuring an original jazz-funk score by Shaina Taub in a new adaptation by Kwame Kwei-Armah, Twelfth Night tells the story of Viola, a young heroine who washes up on the shores of Illyria, disguises herself as a man, is sent to court a countess and falls hard for a Duke. As she navigates this strange and wonderful new land, she finds her true self and true love in the process.

An Octoroon
by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins

March 1 – 5
Directed by: Kara-Lynn Vaeni
8:00 p.m. Wed.- Sat., 2:00 p.m. Sun.
Greer Garson Theatre / Owen Arts Center

Judge Peyton is dead and his plantation Terrebonne is in financial ruins. Peyton’s handsome nephew George arrives as heir apparent and quickly falls in love with Zoe, a beautiful octoroon. But the evil overseer M’Closky has other plans—for both Terrebonne and Zoe. In 1859, a famous Irishman wrote this play about slavery in America. Now an American, tries to write his own. Winner of the 2014 OBIE Award for Best New American Play, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins blistering satire forces us to face what’s changed and what hasn’t in our country’s fraught history of race relations. 

The Rep: Three Contemporary American Plays Performed in Rotation

April 13 – 22
8:00 p.m. Wed.-Sat.; 2:00 p.m. Sat. and Sun.
Margo Jones Theatre / Owen Arts Center

• April 13 and 21 (8:00 p.m.), April 22 (2:00 p.m.)
  Utility by Emily Schwend

Amber is a young woman struggling to raise a family in East Texas. Her on-again, off-again husband Chris is eternally optimistic and charming as hell, but rarely employed. The house is falling apart and Amber has an eight-year-old’s birthday party to plan. Emily Schwend’s play vividly captures the economic hardships and relationship difficulties faced by so many Americans today.

• April 14 and 22 (8:00 p.m.), April 15 (2:00 p.m.)
  The Effect by Lucy Prebble

Two young volunteers, Tristan and Connie, agree to take part in a clinical drug trial. Succumbing to the gravitational pull of attraction and love, however, Tristan and Connie manage to throw the trial off-course, much to the frustration of the clinicians involved. This funny, moving play explores questions of sanity, neurology and the limits of medicine, alongside ideas of fate, loyalty and the inevitability of physical attraction.

• April 15 and 20 (8:00 p.m.), April 16 (2:00 p.m.)
  Blood at the Root by Dominique Morisseau

A striking new ensemble drama based on the Jena Six; six Black students who were initially charged with attempted murder for a school fight after being provoked with nooses hanging from a tree on campus. This bold new play by Dominique Morisseau examines the miscarriage of justice, racial double standards, and the crises in relations between men and women of all classes and, as a result, the shattering state of Black family life.