Stupid F*cking Bird
By Aaron Posner
Sort of adapted from The Seagull by Anton Chekhov
With songs by Aaron Posner and James Sugg
Directed by Gerrad Alex Taylor
October 31 – November 10, 2024
Proscenium Theatre
Performances:
Thursday, October 31st 8PM Opening Night Reception
Friday, November 1st 8PM Free Performance for UMBC students
Saturday, November 2nd 8PM
Friday, November 8th 8PM
Saturday, November 9th 8PM
Sunday, November 10th 2PM Free Performance for UMBC Students; Prospective Student Day; Actor Talk-Back
In this irreverent, contemporary, and very funny remix of Chekhov’s The Seagull, Aaron Posner stages a timeless battle between young and old, past and present, art and life. Stupid F*cking Bird will tickle, tantalize, and incite you to consider how art, love, and revolution fuel your own pursuit of happiness.
Content Transparency: The play contains sexual situations, references and depiction of suicide and mental illness, references of child loss, sounds of gunshots and the use of a non firing theatrical weapon. This production uses theatrical haze/fog.
Stupid F*cking Bird was developed and received its world premiere in June 2013 at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, Washington, D.C. (Howard Shalwitz, Artistic Director; Jeffrey Hermann, Managing Director)
Down With Love:
An Actor Showcase
Directed by Joseph W. Ritsch
Musical Direction by Andrew Hann
December 6 – 8, 2024
Black Box Theatre
Performances:
Friday, December 6th 8PM Opening Night Reception
Saturday, December 7th 2PM Free Performance for UMBC Students
Saturday, December 7th 8PM
Sunday, December 8th 2PM Free Performance for UMBC Students
Join our acting majors for an evening of songs, scenes, and speeches exploring love’s highs, lows, and everything in between.
Content Transparency: TBA
John Proctor is the Villain
By Kimberly Belflower
Directed by Susan Stroupe
April 3 – 13, 2025
Proscenium Theatre
Performances:
Thursday, April 3rd 8PM Opening Night Reception
Friday, April 4th 8PM Free Performance for UMBC Students
Saturday, April 5th 8PM
Friday, April 11th 8PM
Saturday, April 12th 8PM
Sunday, April 13th 2PM Free Performance for UMBC Students; Prospective Student Day; Actor Talk-Back
In a high school English class, a group of lively teens are studying “The Crucible” while navigating young love, sex education, and the founding of a feminist club. Holding a contemporary lens to the American classic, the kids uncover more than one school scandal and discover their own power in the process. Alternately touching and bitingly funny, this new comedy runs on pop music, fury, and the audacity of a new generation coming-of-age.
Content Transparency: The play contains racist/sexist micro aggressions, depictions of grooming and abusive relationship dynamics, discussion of sexual assault and exploitation.
John Proctor is the Villain is presented by special arrangement with Broadway Licensing, LLC, servicing the Dramatists Play Service collection. (www.dramatists.com)
in the darkest forest
Directed by Nigel Semaj
May 2 – 4, 2025
Black Box Theatre
Performances:
Friday, May 2nd 8PM Opening Night Reception
Saturday, May 3rd 2PM Free Performance for UMBC Students
Saturday, May 3rd 8PM
Sunday, May 4th 2PM Free Performance for UMBC Students
Inspired by the aesthetics of horror films, Semaj and company go on a journey into Shakespeare’s “forest” plays where characters find adventure, terror, and transformation. This new work combines elements from A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Macbeth to explore how the wildness of the psyche is mirrored in the wildness of the natural world.
Content Transparency: This show contains scenes in darkness, loud screams and loud noises, racial epithets and coarse language, depictions of violence and sexual violence, and drug use.
UMBC Theatre events are open for full participation by all individuals regardless of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, or any other protected category under applicable federal law, state law, and the University’s nondiscrimination policy.
Poster Artwork by Eric Abele.