Tisch Drama is a community devoted to creation and collaboration. Our degree program combines rigorous conservatory training across ten professional training studios with a robust academic curriculum in Theatre Studies. Through the dynamic production process, students have the opportunity to synthesize critical thinking and practical training in the context of creation.
This production schedule marks the TISCH DRAMA STAGE current season and the lineup of spring 2024 studio productions. Together they're just a glimpse into the various creative works presented by the department.
Tisch Drama Stage, 2023-24
The Rover
Anxiety is the Dizziness of Freedom
Anxiety is the Dizziness of Freedom is an adaptation of a short story by master speculative fiction writer Ted Chiang, a story about a reality in which people are able to communicate with their paraselves through technology called a PRISM. The production will activate and utilize the full text, casting an ensemble to narrate and play all the characters in the story.
Anxiety is the Dizziness of Freedom
By Ted Chiang
Adapted & directed by Mei Ann Teo
November 16-18, 8:00pm
November 19, 1:00 pm and 7:00 pm
Abe Burrows Theater
721 Broadway, 1st Floor
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Perhaps The World Ends Here
Perhaps the World Ends Here is a sci-fi epic that blends video game culture and Choctaw cosmology in the style of Theatre of the Ridiculous.
Frankie Brown is a young Choctaw woman with big dreams and an even bigger destiny. Hopelessly devoted to becoming a professional video gamer and e-sports star despite some serious ineptitude, she pawns her personal belongings to pay rent and further her dreams. After unwittingly losing the key to the universe, she must undertake a journey of epic proportions accompanied by her queer best friend, her granddad, and a fearsome hopaiyai to prevent a great cataclysm.
Perhaps The World Ends Here
By Daniel Leeman-Smith
February 29-March 2, 8:00pm
March 7-8, 8:00pm
March 9, 2:00pm and 8:00pm
Abe Burrows Theater
721 Broadway, 1st Floor
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Rent
Set within the height of the AIDS Crisis and the Tompkins Square Riots protesting the gentrification of Alphabet City, Rent tells the stories of Queer artists bravely reckoning together with how to make meaning and care for each other in defiance of the systemic violence that impacts them.
With ferociously heart-centered resonance and a 90s grunge rock score, this classic musical invites us all to risk everything for what we know is right and, most of all, to measure our lives in love.