2024-2025 Productions
Featuring Orange Julius, The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, Notes From The Field, and Legally Blonde
Orange Julius
By Basil Kreimendahl
Directed by Kelly Howe and Emm Socey
September 23 - October 3, 2024
This tender and funny working-class family drama pulses with poignant insights about war, gender, class, and intergenerational (mis)understanding. Nut, the youngest child of Julius, a Vietnam veteran, leaps through time and memory, tracing the complex intimacy between father and child when the child is transgender, fighting for a mutual recognition before it’s too late.
The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui
By Bertolt Brecht
Translated by Jennifer Wise
Directed by Mark E. Lococo
October 24-November 3, 2024
Crime. Corruption. Cauliflower. Bertolt Brecht’s cutthroat satire chronicles gangster Arturo Ui’s bloody ascension to power. Set in Chicago amidst a city-wide scandal, The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui gets to the heart of hometown corruption and global fascism. Boundaries are blurred between high and low art, rich and poor crime, broken and fixed systems. In responding to the rise of tyranny in 1940s Germany, Brecht conducts a disturbingly timeless takedown of who runs systems and who lets them.
Notes From The Field
By Anna Deavere Smith
Directed by Deron S. Williams
February 13-23, 2025
When fiction isn't enough, stories must be told as they actually happened. Using verbatim transcripts of real-life interviews, Notes From the Field tackles incarceration, police brutality, and systematic educational issues with heart and hope. Anna Deavere Smith's striking piece of documentary theatre shows the school-to-prison nexus not in allegorical critique, but in grotesquely real detail. Shattering notions of punishment and the justification of violent force, Notes From the Field interrogates what is activism, what is performance, and what you can do about it.
Legally Blonde
Music and Lyrics by Laurence O'Keefe & Nell Benjamin
Book by Heather Hach
Directed by Cristin Carole
March 27-April 6
Elle Woods had it all figured out- great friends, great car, great dog. When it all starts falling apart, Elle leaves behind her sunny sorority for the stuffy Harvard Law School, tackling this exclusive environment with optimism and ambition. The verdict? An inspiring and wildly entertaining take on identity and power. Based on the hit movie and filled with show-stopping songs, Legally Blonde celebrates the trial and victories of being yourself.
2024-2025 Second Stages
In AOC We Trust
Lead by Grace Herman and Annika Halonen
Fall 2024
In the new play, In AOC We Trust, the first entirely non-male student government bill in Nettleton High School's history comes face to face with corruption, complexity, and brokenness of the American education system. As their world becomes increasingly absurd, the six students have to decide how much responsibility they have as student leaders, both over their own education, and to their peers, faculty, and school district at large.
Poseidon's Priestess: a Preview
Lead by Megan Parent
Fall 2024
Poseidon's Priestess is an original musical about a fictional seaside village that worships the Greek Goods, it is home to two women trying to strike a balance between falling in love, finding happiness, and most importantly, not getting smited.
Trojan Women- Reimagined
Lead by Kate Wexler
Fall 2024
Elle Woods had it all figured out- great friends, great car, great dog. When it all starts falling apart, Elle leaves behind her sunny sorority for the stuffy Harvard Law School, tackling this exclusive environment with optimism and ambition. The verdict? An inspiring and wildly entertaining take on identity and power. Based on the hit movie and filled with show-stopping songs, Legally Blonde celebrates the trial and victories of being yourself.
Memento Mori
Leady by Grace-Elizabeth Mealy
Fall 2024
Elle Woods had it all figured out- great friends, great car, great dog. When it all starts falling apart, Elle leaves behind her sunny sorority for the stuffy Harvard Law School, tackling this exclusive environment with optimism and ambition. The verdict? An inspiring and wildly entertaining take on identity and power. Based on the hit movie and filled with show-stopping songs, Legally Blonde celebrates the trial and victories of being yourself.
Neo Futurism @ Loyola
Lead by Emma Smith
Spring 2025
Elle Woods had it all figured out- great friends, great car, great dog. When it all starts falling apart, Elle leaves behind her sunny sorority for the stuffy Harvard Law School, tackling this exclusive environment with optimism and ambition. The verdict? An inspiring and wildly entertaining take on identity and power. Based on the hit movie and filled with show-stopping songs, Legally Blonde celebrates the trial and victories of being yourself.
The Most Lamentable Comedy and Most Cruel Death of Pyramus and Thisbe
Lead by Molly Livesay
Spring 2025
Elle Woods had it all figured out- great friends, great car, great dog. When it all starts falling apart, Elle leaves behind her sunny sorority for the stuffy Harvard Law School, tackling this exclusive environment with optimism and ambition. The verdict? An inspiring and wildly entertaining take on identity and power. Based on the hit movie and filled with show-stopping songs, Legally Blonde celebrates the trial and victories of being yourself.
Azazel's Gift
Lead by Alex de Foy
Spring 2025
Elle Woods had it all figured out- great friends, great car, great dog. When it all starts falling apart, Elle leaves behind her sunny sorority for the stuffy Harvard Law School, tackling this exclusive environment with optimism and ambition. The verdict? An inspiring and wildly entertaining take on identity and power. Based on the hit movie and filled with show-stopping songs, Legally Blonde celebrates the trial and victories of being yourself.