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 2012 Theater Attended

• A Midsummer Night’s Dream
  Classic Stage Company (with Bebe Neuwirth and Christina Ricci)
• A Streetcar Named Desire
  Broadhurst Theater (by Tennessee Williams with Brad Koed)
• Clybourne Park
  Walter Kerr Theater (by Bruce Norris)
• Frueza Bruta: Look Up
  Daryl Roth Theatre (created by Diqui James)
• How I Learned to Drive
  Second Stage (by Paula Vogel)
• Jesus Christ Superstar
  Neil Simon Theater (by Andrew Lloyd Webber)
• Lady from Dubuque
  Signature Center (By Edward Albee)
• Now. Hear. This.
  Vinyard Theater (by Hunter Bell and Susan Blackwell)
• Once
  Bernard Jacobs Theater (by Enda Walsh)
• Paul Taylor Dance Company
  Lincoln Center
• Peter and The Starcatcher
  Brooke Atkinson Theater (by Dave Berry)
• Porgy and Bess
  Richard Rogers Theater (music by George Gershwin, starring Audra MacDonald)
• Richard III
  Brooklyn Academy of Music (directed by Sam Mendez, starring Kevin Spacey)
• Russian Transport
  Acorn Theater (by Erika Sheffer)
• Seminar
  Golden Theater (by Theresa Rebeck, directed by Sam Gold)
• Stick Fly
  The Cort Theater (by Lydia R. Diamond)
• The Big Meal
  Playwrights Horizons (by Dan LaFranc)
• The Early Plays
  St. Ann’s Warehouse (by Eugene O'Neill)
• The Morini Salad
  Primary Stages (by Willy Holtzman)
• The Road to Mecca
  American Airlines Theatre (by Athol Fugard)
• The Total Bent
  The Public Theatre
• Tosca
  Metropolitan Opera (by Giacomo Puccini)
• Venus In Fur
  Lyceum Theater (directed by Walter Bobbie, starring Nina Arianda)
• Wit
  Samuel J. Friedman Theater (by Margaret Edson)

Spring 2011 Theater Attended

• Arcadia
  Ethel Barrymore Theatre (by Tom Stoppard, starring Billy Crudup)
• Beautiful Burnout
  St. Ann’s Warehouse (in association with Frantic Assembly National Theatre of Scotland)
• Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo
  Richard Rogers Theatre (by Rajiv Joseph, starring Robin Williams)
• Black Tie
  Primary Stages (by A.R. Gurney)
• Blood from A Stone
  The New Group (by Tommy Nohilly, directed by Scott Elliot)
• Catch Me If You Can
  Neil Simon Theatre (music by Marc Shaiman, lyrics by Scott Wittman and Marc Shaiman)
• Don Pasquale
  The Metropolitan Opera
• Freud’s Last Session
  Majorie S. Deane Little Theater (by Mark St. Germain)
• Fuerza Bruta
  Daryl Roth Theatre (created by Diqui James)
• Good People
  Samuel J. Friedman Theatre (by David Linsay-Abaire, starring Frances McDormand, Tate Donovan, and Estelle Parsons)
• House of Blue Leaves
  Walter Kerr Theatre (by John Guare, starring Ben Stiller and Edie Falco)
• Jerusalem
  Music Box Theatre (by Jez Butterworth, starring Mark Rylance)
• Kin
  Playwrights Horizons (directed by Sam Gold)
• King Lear
  Brooklyn Academy of Music (by William Shakespeare, starring Derek Jacobi)
• Macbeth
  Brooklyn Academy of Music (by William Shakespeare)
• Peter and The Starcatcher
  New York Theatre Workshop (by Rick Elice)
• Priscilla Queen of the Desert
  Palace Theatre (adapted by Stephen Elliot and Allan Scott)
• The Divine Sister
  Soho Playhouse (written and directed by Charles Busch)
• The Importance of Being Earnest
  Roundabout Theatre Company (by Oscar Wilde, starring and directed by Brian Bedford)
• The Intelligent Homosexual’s Guide to Capitalism and Socialism with a Key to the Scriptures
  The Public Theatre (by Tony Kushner, directed by Michael Greif)
• Time Stands Still
  The Cort Theatre (by Donald Margulies, starring Laura Linney)
• Timon of Athens
  The Public Theatre (by William Shakespeare, directed by Barry Edelstein)
• Vieux Carre
  The Wooster Group (by Tennessee Williams)
• War Horse
  Vivian Beaumont Theatre (adapted by Nick Stafford)

Spring 2010 Theater Attended

• * A Lie of the Mind
  The New Group (by Sam Shepard, directed by Ethan Hawke)
• * A View from the Bridge
  The Cort Theatre (by Arthur Miller)
• * American Idiot
  
• * Love is My Sin
  The Duke on 42nd (directed by Peter Brook)
• * Present Laughter
  American Airlines Theatre (by Noel Coward)
• * Red
  The Golden Theatre (by John Logan, produced by Arielle Tepper)
• * Sondheim on Sondheim
  Studio 54 (music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim)
• * The Glass Menagerie
  Laura Pels Theatre (by Tennessee Williams)
• * The Tempest
  Brooklyn Academy of Music (by William Shakespeare)
• * Uncle Vanya
  Brooklyn Academy of Music (by Anton Chekhov)
• A Behanding in Spokane
  The Schoenfeld Theatre (by Michael McDonagh)
• Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson
  The Public Theatre (music by Michael Friedman, book by Alex Timbers)
• Circle Mirror Transformation
  Playwrights Horizons (by Annie Baker)
• Fela
  The Eugene O’Neill Theatre (book by Jim Lewis, arrangements by Antibalas)
• Finn
  Mabou Mines, The Skirball Center (by Jocelyn Clarke)
• Fuerza Bruta
  The Daryl Roth Theatre (created by Diqui James)
• Hair
  The Al Hirschfeld Theatre (directed by Diane Paulus)
• Happy Now?
  Primary Stages, 59E59 Theaters (by Lucinda Coxon)
• In the Heights
  Richard Rodgers Theatre (by Lin-Manuel Miranda)
• Next to Normal
  The Booth Theatre (music and lyrics by Tom Kitt and Brian Yorkey)
• Race
  Barrymore Theatre (by David Mamet)
• Smudge
  Julia Miles Theatre (by Rachel Axler)
• The Book of Grace
  The Public Theatre (by Suzan-Lori Parks)
• The Temperamentals
  New World Stages (by Jon Marans)