Performance Archives

By Christopher Pickler
The Triangle Factory Fire Project uses eyewitness accounts, court transcripts and other archival material to create a dramatic moment-by-moment account of this historic fire and the social upheaval that followed. It culminates in the manslaughter trial of the factory owners, Isaac Harris and Max Blanck, the repercussions of which shaped social, political and economic policies for decades to come.

By Walton Jones
A different time is evoked in this marvelously theatrical award-winning show, a live broadcast of a The Mutual Manhattan Variety Cavalcade from the Hotel Astor’s Algonquin Room on Dec. 21, 1942. The spirit of that bygone era, when the world was at war and pop music meant “Strike Up the Band” and “Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy” (both are performed in the show) is accurately captured as the harassed producer copes with a drunk lead singer, the delivery boy who wants a chance in front of the mic, the second banana who dreams of singing a ballad, and the trumpet playing sound effects man who chooses a fighter plane over Glenn Miller.

By Arthur Miller
Since it was first performed in 1949, DEATH OF A SALESMAN has been recognized as a milestone of the American theater. In the person of Willy Loman — the aging, failing salesman who makes his living riding on a smile and a shoeshine — Arthur Miller redefined the tragic hero as a man whose dreams are at once insupportably vast and dangerously insubstantial. He has given us a figure whose name has become a symbol for a kind of majestic grandiosity — and a play that compresses epic extremes of humor and anguish, promise and loss, on the journey down the road to the American Dream.

By Tom Stoppard
“On the Razzle” tells the story of two clerks who want to experience adventure in the Big City while they still can. The only thing wrong with their plan is the clerks keep winding up in the same locations as their boss! Audiences will laugh out loud as the characters engage in several shenanigans, have problems with mistaken identities and go through the always-complicated issue of romance.

By David Lindsay-Abaire
A hilarious dark comedy by Pulitzer prizewinning playwright David Lindsay-Abaire. Amnesiac Claire is having a heck of a day: She wakes up to with no memory every morning to find herself married to a husband that is too nice and a son who is too stoned. When a mysterious masked man with a lisp pops into her life to take her away, it begins a twisted odyssey of kidnapping, foul mouthed puppets, stolen lives, and bacon that lead her to piece together her puzzling past.

By William Shakespeare
Shakespeare’s most famous tragedy, set in the modern world of surveillance cameras and cell phones, Theatre & Performance will be combining film and live theatre to explore the Tragedy of the Danish Prince as he strives to unravel the mystery of his father’s death and chooses to the path of revenge.