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This experience was priceless. Our teachers worked with us in a professional manner, we had the good fortune of seeing Broadway and Off-Broadway shows twice a week, and New York City was our playground. I will always look back on that semester and everyone who was a part of it, fondly.”
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 2014 Theater Attended
- Arlington
Vineyard Theatre (book and lyrics by Polly Pen, directed by Carolyn Cantor) - Bridges of Madison County
Schoenfeld Theatre (music and lyrics by Jason Robert Brown, directed by Bartlett Sher) - Cabaret
Studio 54 (co-directed and choreographed by Rob Marshall, directed by Sam Mendes) - Hedwig & the Angry Inch
Belasco Theatre (book by John Cameron Mitchell, directed by Michael Mayer) - If/Then
Richard Rodgers Theatre (music by Tom Kitt, directed by Michael Greif) - Intimacy
The Acorn Theatre (by Thomas Bradshaw, directed by Scott Elliott) - Kung Fu
Signature Theatre (by Henry David Hwang, directed by Leigh Silverman) - Love and Information
New York Theatre Workshop (by Caryl Churchill, directed by James Macdonald) - Magnet Theater Improvisation
Magnet Theater - Matilda
Shubert Theatre (by Roald Dahl, directed by Matthew Warchus) - Middle of the Night
Keen Company (by Paddy Chayefsky, directed by Jonathan Silverstein) - No Man’s Land
Cort Theatre (by Harold Pinter, directed by Sean Mathias) - Of Mice and Men
Longacre Theatre (by John Steinbeck, directed by Anna D. Shapiro) - Richard III
Belasco Theatre (by William Shakespeare, directed by Tim Carroll) - Rocky
Winter Garden Theatre (book by Thomas Meehan, directed by Alex Timbers) - Sleep No More
McKittrick Hotel (created by Punchdrunk) - Stage Kiss
Playwrights Horizons (by Sarah Ruhl, directed by Rebecca Taichman) - The Civilians The Great Immensity
The Public Theater (written and directed by Steven Cosson, songs by Michael Friedman) - The Cripple of Inishmaan
The Cort Theatre (by Martin McDonagh, directed by Michael Grandage) - The Glass Menagerie
The Booth Theatre (by Tennessee Williams, directed by John Tiffany) - The Tribute Artist
Primary Stages (by Charles Busch, directed by Carl Andress) - Twelfth Night
Belasco Theatre (by William Shakespeare, directed by Tim Carroll) - Violet
American Airlines Theatre (music by Jeanine Tesori, directed by Leigh Silverman) - Waiting for Godot
Cort Theatre (by Samuel Beckett, directed by Sean Mathias)
Spring 2013 Theater Attended
- All in the Timing
Primary Stages (by David Ives, directed by John Rando) - Annie
Palace Theatre (book by Thomas Meehan, Charles Strouse & Martin Charnin, directed by James Lapine) - Belleville
New York Theatre Workshop (by Amy Herzog, directed by Anne Kauffman) - Bunty Berman Presents…
The New Group (book & lyrics by Ayub Khan Din, directed by Scott Elliott) - Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Richard Rodgers Theatre (by Tennessee Williams, directed by Rob Ashford) - Faust
Metropolitan Opera (composer Charles Gounod) - Fragments
Theatre for a New Audience (by Samuel Beckett, directed by Peter Brooks and Marie Helene Estienne) - Fuerza Bruta: Look Up
Daryl Roth Theater (created by Diqui James) - Hands on a Hardbody
Brooks Atkinson Theatre (book by Doug Wright, lyrics by Amanda Green, directed by Neil Pepe) - Here Lies Love
The Public Theater (concept & lyrics by David Byrne, directed by Alex Timbers) - Julius Caesar
Brooklyn Academy of Music (by William Shakespeare, directed by Gregory Doran) - Kinky Boots
Al Hirschfeld Theatre (book by Harvey Fierstein, score by Cyndi Lauper, directed by Jerry Mitchell) - Magnet Megawatt - Improvisation
Magnet Theater - Old Hats
Signature Theatre (created by Bill Irwin & David Shiner, directed by Tina Landau) - Passion
Classic Stage Company (music & lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, directed by John Doyle) - Really Really
MCC Theater (by Paul Downs Colaizzo, directed by David Cromer) - Sleep No More
McKittrick Hotel (created by Punchdrunk) - The Big Knife
Roundabout Theatre Company (by Clifford Odets, directed by Doug Hughes) - The Call
Playwrights Horizons & Primary Stages (by Tanya Barfield, directed by Leigh Silverman) - The Last Five Years
Second Stage Theatre (written & directed by Jason Robert Brown) - The Mound Builders
Signature Theatre (by Lanford Wilson, directed by Jo Bonney) - The Mystery of Edwin Drood
Roundabout Theatre Company (by Charles Dickens, directed by Scott Ellis) - The North Pool
Vineyard Theatre (by Rajiv Joseph, directed by Giovanna Sardelli) - The Old Boy
Keen Company (by A. R. Gurney, directed by Jonathan Silverstein) - The Revisionist
Rattlestick Playwrights Theater (by Jesse Eisenberg, directed by Kip Fagan) - Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Booth Theatre (by Edward Albee, directed by Pam MacKinnon)
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)