Set in a Calgary Canada in WWII, five women gather to work for the war effort while their men are away. The audience is invited to share in their lives as each survives in her own way. “We lasted, we made it,” is their ultimate cry as the armistice is announced.

 ScHNEIDER HALL November 12-15 Wellesley College Theatre

WAITING FOR THE PARADE
by John Murrell, directed by: Nora Hussey


ONCE WE WERE MOTHERS

by Lisa Evans, directed by Nora Hussey



A moving and powerful play about the joy and heartbreak that motherhood brings to three very different mothers. Ali the dancer was still dancing the day she gave birth, careful Kitty waits for an absent daughter and Milena protects her children, but harbors a dark secret.

 ScHNEIDER HALL
 April 15-18 The Upstage Series

THE DINING ROOM
by A. R. Gurney, directed by Bailey Brame A mosaic of interrelated scenes - some funny - some rueful - create an in-depth portrait of a vanishing species: the WASP.

 ScHNEIDER HALL OCTOBER 5-18


UP

by Bridget Carpenter, directed by Sarah Moazeni
The story of an intrepid adventurer who struggles to nurture his dreams and to escape the daily pragmatism of family life.
 ScHNEIDER HALL DECEMBER 3-6
LUCKY STIFF

by Ahrens and Flaherty, directed by Rachel Kaston
A zany, rarely produced musical wherein a shoe salesman takes the corpse of his recently-murdered uncle on a week-long vacation. ScHNEIDER HALL February 18-21
EURYDICE

by Sarah Ruhl, directed by Elizabeth Stone
A retelling of the myth of Orpheus which focuses on his wife and her choice to return to earth or to stay in Hades with her father.
 ScHNEIDER HALL April 8-11
 home current season performance calendar faculty course offerings student research contact us photos This comedy of bad manners centers on Elyot and Amanda, two stylish Brits divorced for five years who meet once again on their respective honeymoons with new spouses. The play embodies Coward’s trademark sophisticated romance and style with a bittersweet edge. ScHNEIDER HALL
JANUARY 7-31 Wellesley summer theatre

PRIVATE LIVES
by Noel Coward, directed by: Nora Hussey

 Horton Foote’s beloved story of the strength and dignity that permeates even the smallest life has been described by Ben Brantley in the New York Times as a story that possesses “a sense of rootlessness, erosion, and the pain and pleasure of memory.”
 ScHNEIDER HALL June 3 - 27
TRIP TO BOUNTIFUL

by Horton Foote, directed by: Nora Hussey
Returning for the fourth year, this troupe brings Shakespeare’s tale of love, betrayal and redemption to vivid life. Presented in the spare and elegant style of previous years’ wildly successful productions of Hamlet, Winter’s Tale and Macbeth, this acting company is a theatrical tour de force. Performances on the Houghton Memorial Chapel September 24 - 26 ACTORS FROM THE LONDON STAGE

King Lear
by William Shakespeare




BLUR

by Melanie Marnich, directed by Emile Bordelon
Dot, a 17-year-old girl, discovers that she can’t see her feet in the onset of a rare disease that threatens to leave her suddenly blind.
 ScHNEIDER HALL
 March 11-14 wellesley summer theatre
THESIS

by Caitlin O’Connell, directed by Caitlin O’Connell
This thesis project, completely probed and explored by Wellesley’s own Caitlin O’Connell.
 ScHNEIDER HALL April 29 - May 2