Performing Arts at Brooklyn College

The Department of Theater is pleased to offer Brooklyn College alumni a discount to its 2019–20 performances. Use code BCALUM when you purchase your tickets.

Fall 2019 Schedule

Pass Over

By Antoinette Nwandu
Directed by Cristina Duarte

Don Buchwald Theater

Friday, October 11, 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, October 12, 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m.
Tuesday–Thursday, October 15–17, 7:30 p.m.

Inspired in part by the trial of Trayvon Martin's murderer, Pass Over follows two black men, Kitch and Moses, who are stuck on a purgatorial street corner.

Gloria

By Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
Directed by Michael Page

New Workshop Theater

Friday, October 25, 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, October 26, 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m.
Monday–Wednesday, October 28–30, 7:30 p.m.

Gloria is set primarily in a Manhattan magazine publishing office in an environment as combustive as an ongoing Twitter thread and follows the survivors in the aftermath of an office shooting.

Sweat

By Lynn Nottage
Directed by Tara Elliott

Don Buchwald Theater

Friday, November 15, 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, November 16, 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m.
Tuesday–Friday, November 19–22, 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, November 23, 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m.

Examining the collapse of the American factory system, Sweat follows steelworkers in a small Ohio town as they come to terms with the destruction of the American Dream in their professional and personal lives.

The Last Days of Judas Iscariot

By Stephen Adly Guirgis
Directed by Matthew Williams

New Workshop Theatre

Friday, December 6, 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, December 7, 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m.
Monday–Wednesday, December 9–11, 7:30 p.m.

If God is a forgiving God, can God forgive the man who betrayed his beloved Son? Similar to popular TV shows like Lucifer and The Good Place, in The Last Days of Judas Iscariot the playwright Stephen Adly Guirgis confronts fundamental questions of Christian ideology.

Spring 2020 Schedule

A Winter's Tale

By William Shakespeare
Directed by Duane Boutte

Don Buchwald Theater

Friday, February 14, 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, February 15, 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m.
Tuesday–Friday, February 18–21, 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, February 22, 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m.

Classified by scholars as both a romance and a comedy, A Winter's Tale follows the fall and literal rise of a once beloved queen accused of adultery by a jealous king and then stripped of her child.

Small Mouth Sounds

By Bess Wohl
Directed by Ann Noling

New Workshop Theatre

Friday, March 27, 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, March 28, 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m.
Monday–Wednesday, March 30–April 1, 7:30 p.m.

Small Mouth Sounds begins with a note from the playwright: "Everyone in this play is in some kind of agony." With the cast of characters deep in the throes of their personal pain and tasked with a vow of silence at a weeklong spiritual retreat, the play seeks to understand exactly how does one speak their mind when they can't say a word?