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The Tepper Semester is invaluable if you are interested in theatre. I honestly believe that it cuts off a few years of trying to figure out acting life in New York. I graduated in December, and although I certainly don't know all the answers, I have met a lot of actors who are 24, 25 years old and after hearing about the program, they pick my brain about what I learned.”
Program
Shows
An essential part of the Tepper Semester experience is seeing theater every week, up to 30 shows during each semester. Exposure to a spectrum of theater allows students to experience the widest range of performances, from Broadway, to Off-Broadway, including intimate and experimental original works.
Spring 2009 Theater Attended
- Hedda Gabler
Roundabout Theatre Company (by Henry Ibsen) - The Cripple of Inishmaan
Atlantic Theatre Company (by Martin MacDonagh) - Becky Shaw
Second Stage Theatre Company (by Gina Gionfriddo) - The American Plan
Manhattan Theatre Club (by Richard Greenburg) - The Cherry Orchard
Brooklyn Academy of Music (by Anton Chekov) - Upright Citizens Brigade
Improv Theatre - Mourning Becomes Electra
The New Group (Eugene O'Neill) - A Winter's Tale
Brooklyn Academy of Music (by William Shakespeare) - In The Heights
The Richard Rogers Theatre (by Lin-Manuel Miranda) - Speed The Plow
The Barrymore Theatre (by David Mamet) - Garden of Earthly Delights
The Minetta Theatre (directed by Martha Clarke) - Billy Elliot
The Imperial Theatre (music by Elton John) - This Beautiful City
The Vineyard Theatre (directed by Steve Cosson) - 33 Variations
The Eugene O'Neill Theatre (by Moises Kaufman) - South Pacific
Lincoln Center Theatre (by Rodgers and Hammerstein) - Impressionism
The Schoenfeld Theatre (by Michael Jacobs) - Fuerzabruta
The Daryl Roth Theatre (produced by David Binder) - Reasons To Be Pretty
The Lyceum Theatre (by Neil LaBute) - Ruined
Manhattan Theatre Club (by Lynne Nottage) - Blithe Spirit
The Shubert Theatre (by Noel Coward) - Zooman and the Sign
The Signature Theatre Company (by Charles Fuller) - Hair
The Al Hirscheld Theatre (directed by Diane Paulus) - Mary Stuart
The Broadhurst Theatre (produced by Arielle Tepper) - Why Torture Is Wrong And The People Who Love Them
The Public Theatre (by Christopher Durang) - Next to Normal
The Booth Theatre (by Tom Kitt and Brian Yorkey) - West Side Story
The Palace Theatre (directed by Arthur Laurents)
Fall 2007 Theater Attended
- Spring Awakening
Eugene O'Neill Theatre (by Duncan Sheik and Steven Sater) - Iphigenia 2.0
Signature Threatre (by Charles Mee) - Misanthrope
New York Theatre Workshop (directed by Ivo van Hove) - Mauritius
Manhattan Theatre Club (by Theresa Rebeck) - The Seagull
Brooklyn Academy of Music (Royal Shakespeare Company) - A Chorus Line
Schoenfeld Theatre (Broadway Revival) - Power of Darkness
Mint Theatre (by Leo Tolstoy) - Dividing the Estate
Primary Stages (by Horton Foote) - Electra
National Theatre of Greece at City Center - A Feminine Ending
Playwrights Horizons (starring Marsha Mason) - Hamlet
The Wooster Group (The Public Theater) - The Glorious Ones
Lincoln Center Theatre (by Lynne Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty) - Peter and Jerry
Second Stage Theatre (by Edward Albee) - Pygmalion
Roundabout Theatre Company (by George Bernard Shaw) - Things We Want
The New Group (directed by Ethan Hawke) - The Seafarer
Booth Theatre (written and directed by Conor McPherson) - Fuerzabruta
Daryl Roth Theatre - The Farnsworth Invention
Music Box Theatre (by Aaron Sorkin) - The Drowsy Chaperone
Marquis Theatre (Broadway) - The Homecoming
Cort Theatre (by Harold Pinter) - Yellow Face
The Public Theater (by David Henry Hwang) - August: Osage County
Imperial Theatre (Steppenwolf Theatre Company) - Masked
DR2 Theatre (by Ilan Hatsor) - The Overwhelming
Roundabout Theatre Company (by J.T. Rogers) - The Receptionist
Manhattan Theatre Club (by Adam Bock) - Cyrano de Bergerac
Richard Rodgers Theatre (with Kevin Kline)
