The Playshop Theatre at Allegheny College was inaugurated by Alice Huntington Spalding in 1929 with her production of Dear Brutus in Arter Hall. In the intervening 79 years, the Playshop has produced over 500 plays including classic works by Shakespeare, Molière, Shaw, Williams, O’Neill, Miller, Wilder, and Coward, contemporary playwrights such as Sam Shepard, Tom Stoppard, Suzan-Lori Parks, Wendy Wasserstein and Tina Howe, and musicals including The Pirates of Penzance and Carousel, as well as original works by faculty, students and visiting artists. In 2009 we moved into our new home in the Vukovich Center for Communication Arts. The Playshop season will now be performed in the Gladys Mullenix Black Theatre.

2009-2010 Performance Schedule

Chewing Your Fingers to the Bone by Beth Watkins
Devised by Brian Thummler, Beth Watkins, and the Company
Original Music by Bob Michel
Postponed to November 20-21  (Fri-Sat), 2009 at 8:00 pm

The Pillowman by Martin McDonagh
Directed by Mark Cosdon
November 5-7 (Thu-Sat), 2009 at 8:00pm, November 8 (Sun) at 2:30pm

Angels in America by Tony Kushner
Directed by Dan Crozier
March 4-6 (Thu-Sat), 2010 at 8:00pm, March 7 (Sun) at 2:30 pm

Love’s Labor’s Lost by William Shakespeare
Directed by Beth Watkins
April 15-17 (Thu-Sat), 2010 at 8:00pm, April 18 (Sun) at 2:30pm