Auditions, Master Classes and 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

2024-25 season

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

Fall 2024

Firebringer: A New Stone Age Musical

  • Book by Matt Lang, Nick Lang, & Brian Holden
  • Music & Lyrics by Meredith Stepien and Mark Swiderski
  • Directed by Elle Pierzchalski

Performances: October 30-November 2, 2023

The Story: At the dawn of humanity, one tribe of cave-people survives the many trials of prehistoric life under the wise leadership of Jemilla, The Peacemaker. Jemilla taught her people to express themselves, rather than bashing each others’ heads with rocks and eating each others’ babies. But one member of the tribe doesn’t seem to fit in: Zazzalil. She’s always trying to invent things to make life easier… for herself. While out hatching her latest scheme, Zazzalil stumbles upon the most important discovery in history. One that will pit her tribe against wooly mammoths, saber-toothed tigers, and change the world forever. She’ll travel from omega to alpha, and become… the Firebringer!

Location: Bininger Center for Performing Arts

Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind

  • By Greg Allen
  • Directed by Janina Katz

Performances: November 13-16

The Story: Having opened in 1988 and still playing today as the longest-running show in Chicago history, Too Much Light Makes The Baby Go Blind is an ensemble experiment in presenting “30 Plays in 60 Minutes.” Each two-minute play is performed in random order with an interactive audience. An onstage 60-minute timer keeps everyone honest. This collection of 90 comic, tragic, political, personal, and abstract plays gives you the chance to program your own evening of 30 Neo-Futurist plays to reflect the lives and experiences of your own ensemble. Go!

Location: Bininger Studio Theatre

Spring 2024

All Aquiver: A Robin Hood Revival (new play premiere)

Performances: April 9-12

The Story: In the thick of Sherwood Forest, in their most dire moment, the Merry Band gathers to tell stories of the illustrious Robin Hood. But as the stories proceed, and as their viewpoints become cross-examined, they illuminate the terrible fact that maybe none of them actually know the real Robin at all. As the Sheriff approaches, the Merry Band tries their best to find out if they can actually agree on a truth about their leader before Sherwood Forest is gone forever. A comedy until it isn’t, All Aquiver is a play about lies, stories, and the difference between the two.

Location: Bininger Center for Performing Arts

Little Women

  • By Kate Hamill
  • Directed by Anna Randall

Performances: April 30-May 3

The Story: Jo March isn’t your typical Victorian lady. She’s indecorous and headstrong, and one day she’s going to be a great American novelist. As she and her sisters grow up in the middle of the Civil War, they strive to be brave, intelligent, and imaginative young women. But as adulthood approaches, each sister must negotiate her private ambitions with society’s expectations. In a war-torn world defined by gender, class, and personal tragedy, Jo March gives us her greatest story: that of the March sisters, four dreamers destined to be imperfect little women.

Location: Bininger Center for Performing Arts

Past productions

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Fall