Baldwin
Wallace University Department of Theatre & Dance
presents
its 2021-22 Season
Dear by Lily Houghton | Aliens by Annie Baker (STAGED
READING SERIES)
A staged reading double feature! Dear is a play about
college roommates grappling with their relationships to one another and to themselves
after their friend goes missing. It is paired with Aliens, by
Pulitzer-winner Annie Baker. Two angsty young men sit behind a coffee shop and
discuss music and Bukowski. When a lonely high-school student arrives on the
scene, they decide to teach him everything they know. These two plays
juxtaposed offer a fascinating chance to explore friendship, life and death.
September 17-18, 2021 @ 7:30pm
Mainstage Theatre, Kleist Center for Art & Drama
Director, Dear: Martin Friedman | Director, Aliens:
René Copeland
Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare (MAINSTAGE SERIES)
Where music is the food of love, 12th Night will sweep
you into a world of passion, deception, confusion, and a shipwreck
thrown in for good measure. Unrequited love and mistaken
identity take center stage in this romp where no one is quite what they
seem.
September 29 – October 2, 2021 @ 7:30pm, October 3, 2021 @ 2pm
Black Box Theatre, Kleist Center for Art & Drama
Director: Brennan Murphy
Everybody by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins (STUDIO SERIES)
The author of Gloria and An
Octoroon does a modern riff on the fifteenth-century morality
play Everyman, playing with the question, what is real and what is
theatre? And why is God speaking through that usher?
October 20 - 23, 2021 @ 7:30pm, October 24, 2021 @ 2pm
Black Box Theatre, Kleist Center for Art & Drama
Guest Director: Eugene Sumlin
The Modern Prometheus (TESTING GROUND: Fall Edition)
An adaptation of Frankenstein
using text and movement to explore Mary Shelley’s classic tale, and her mindset
as she created it.
Oct 27 - 30, 2021 @ 7:30pm, Oct 31, 2021 @ 2pm
Black Box Theatre, Kleist Center for Art & Drama
Director: Sara Whale
Angels in America, Part
One: Millennium Approaches by Tony Kushner (A
Radio Play)
(LAB SERIES)
This Pulitzer and Tony Award winning play tells the story of
people whose lives intersect amidst the AIDS epidemic, high crime,
homelessness, and drug use in New York City, 1985.
November 18 - 20, 2021 @ 7:30pm, November 21, 2021 @ 2pm
BWTD Acting Studio, Loomis, Room 177
Director: Bryce Kessler
Judge and Jury by Reed Kruger (LAB SERIES)
Liz meets John in a speed dating session, and they have an instant
connection. He's charming, charismatic, witty, and as their relationship
develops, he seems to want nothing but the best for Liz. But there's a serial
killer terrorizing the local area, and when John comes under suspicion, Liz has
to question everything she thought she knew about him. As evidence on both
sides of the question is presented, she must decide what we all must decide--is
he innocent or guilty?
February 10-12, 2022 @ 7:30pm, February 13, 2021 @ 2pm
BWTD Acting Studio, Loomis, Room 177
Director: Reed Kruger
fyoo zh en ’22: Revelry or
Riot
(MAINSTAGE SERIES)
Inspired by Dr. Dale Sheptak’s research on crowd
dynamics. Choreographers use movement to illustrate the fine line between
supporting your team and breaking the law.
February 23-26, 2022 @ 7:30pm
Mainstage Theatre, Kleist Center for Art & Drama
Director: Sara Whale
Radium Girls by D. W. Gregory (STAGED READING SERIES)
Inspired by a true story of the girls who painted the
dials of watches with the glowing miracle cure, radium. Mysteriously, they
began to fall ill, and getting their day in court requires courage and
sacrifice. This fast-moving piece takes a wry, unflinching look at the
peculiarly American obsession with the commercialization of science.
March 18-19, 2022 @ 7:30pm
Mainstage Theatre, Kleist Center for Art & Drama
Director: Anjanette Hall
People, Places and Things by Duncan MacMillan (STUDIO SERIES)
Follow the journey of an actress, Emma, as she
struggles with addiction and issues including isolation and depression. The
New Yorker says this play is "a brilliant evocation of addiction
and what happens to performers when they can't not perform." Something
that everyone who lived through 2020 can relate to!
March 23-26, 2022 @ 7:30pm, March 27, 2022 @ 2pm
Black Box Theatre, Kleist Center for Art & Drama
Director: Keira MacDonald
The Crucible by Arthur Miller (MAINSTAGE SERIES)
An allegory for the reign of terror against 1950's
Hollywood, McCarthyism, Miller has written that this play "starts getting
produced wherever a political coup appears imminent, or a dictatorial regime
has just been overthrown.” The play grapples with questions prompted when
flawed people are faced with a choice between honor and death. What would you
say to save your life? Who would you sacrifice?
April 20-23, 2022 @ 7:30pm, April 24, 2022 @ 2pm
Mainstage Theatre, Kleist Center for Art & Drama
Director: René Copeland
Danceworks in Progress (TESTING
GROUND: Spring Edition)
A chance to see what the BW choreographers and dancers
have been cooking up in the studio! Immediately followed by a feedback session
where you can share your impressions with the artists!
April 27, 2022 @ 6pm
Black Box Theatre, Kleist Center for Art & Drama
Director: Sara Whale