Performances

At least two student-led productions are held each academic year!

  • Male actor holds up female actress with his legs in Failure: A Love Story
  • Actors on stage in Failure: A Love Story
  • Student in red dress faces back of a woman in black
  • Female actress sits perched on the set of Metamorphoses
  • Male actor with horns
  • Man in cloak puts arm over female with goggles
  • Woman on floor holds up hand in protest
  • Female actress as Baccus
  • Male and female actors holding hands
  • Actress holds the face of another actress gently

2026-27 season at Bininger Center for the Performing Arts

Tickets available at the door: General public $10, College community $5, free for Eckerd students

Fall 2026

Bellwether

Written by Steve Yockey
Directed by Gavin Hawk

Performances:

  • October 28, 29 and 30 at 7:30 p.m.
  • October 31 at 2 p.m.

Bellwether was a nice, safe place to live. Bad things didn’t happen there. That was until six-year-old Amy Draft went missing. As the investigation progresses, speculation in the media and the neighborhood turns on Amy’s parents, Alan and Jackie Draft. But the young girl’s disappearance is not what it seems, and is only a glimpse of what lurks below the community’s perfection.

Lost Girl

Written by Kimberly Belflower
Directed by Bryanna Bradshaw and Emily Weaver

Performances:

  • November 18, 19, and 20 at 7:30 p.m.
  • November 21 at 2 p.m.

Long after returning from Neverland, Wendy decides that she must find Peter in order to reclaim her kiss and move on with her life. Along the way, she meets other girls who went to Neverland and learns she is not alone. A coming-of-age exploration of first love and lasting loss, Lost Girl continues the story of J.M. Barrie’s beloved character – the girl who had to grow up.

Spring 2027

Ride The Cyclone

Music, Book, and Lyrics by Jacob Richmond and Brooke Maxwell
Directed by Izzy Melado

Performances:

  • April 7, 8, and 9 at 7:30 p.m.
  • April 10 at 2 p.m.

In this hilarious and outlandish story, the lives of six teenagers from a Canadian chamber choir are cut short in a freak accident aboard a roller coaster. When they awake in limbo, a mechanical fortune teller invites each to tell a story to win a prize like no other – the chance to return to life. Through a wondrously funny and touching series of songs, the teen contestants argue that they should be the ones to be saved. Told with moving insights into adolescence as well as dark comedic style benefiting the outrageousness of its premise, this original musical asks the question; What makes a life well-lived?

The Rimers of Eldritch

Written by Lanford Wilson
Directed by Gage Ramos

Performances:

  • April 22, 23, and 24 at 7:30 p.m.
  • April 25 at 2 p.m.

Winner of the Drama Desk’s Vernon Rice Award, this highly imaginative and affecting play examines a tiny Midwest town through a community’s response to the murder of its aging local hermit by a woman who mistakenly thought he was committing an assault when he was actually trying to prevent one from occurring. Blending together the various people and bits of action into a striking mosaic, the story captures the very heart and meaning of a small midwestern town called Eldritch.

Past productions