Produced by: DramaTech Theatre
Location: Ferst Center for the Arts
Directed by: Ryan Evans
Lighting Design by: Will Pieper
Description: Lee Blessing's provocative piece travels down a dark and frightening road into the mind of a serial killer. Down the Road centers on Bill Reach, a convicted serial killer, and the husband and wife writing team hired to help him write an account of his crimes. The killer, Bill Reach, has admitted to the murders of nineteen women, but there may have been more. Over many weeks of interviews, the couple—Dan and Iris Henniman—grow more and more uncertain of the ethics of what they are doing. Are they simply relating terrifying events, or are they helping readers consume rape, murder and mutilation as if they are consuming any other product of our society? Are they, in fact, helping to turn Bill Reach into a celebrity?
Produced by: Town & Gown Theatre
Location: Town & Gown Theatre
Directed by: Matt Jones
Scenic Design by: Nathan Altman
Lighting Design by: Will Pieper
Description: The Last Five Years is a musical written by Jason Robert Brown. The story explores a five-year relationship between Jamie Wellerstein, a rising novelist, and Cathy Hiatt, a struggling actress. The show uses a form of storytelling in which Cathy's story is told in reverse chronological order (beginning the show at the end of the marriage), and Jamie's is told in chronological order (starting just after the couple have first met). The characters do not directly interact except for a wedding song in the middle as their timelines intersect.
Produced by: The Thalian Blackfriars
Location: UGA Cellar Theatre
Directed by: Ali Olhausen & Thaddaeus Abbott
Scenic Design by: Angel Borden
Lighting Design by: Will Pieper
Description: Fright Night is a new work, compiled by our directors. Presented as a movement heavy piece, the first act is Dracula and the second act is Frankenstein; with an overarching theme and narrative that tie the two worlds into one. This show is a re-imagination of the classic tales and how they co-exist in the same universe. A thrilling, suspenseful, and frightful night, indeed.
Produced by: The Town & Gown Players
Location: Athens Theatre
Directed by: John Patrick Bray
Scenic Design by: Jonathan Sparks
Scenic Painting by: Nathan Altman
Lighting Design by: Will Pieper
Description: Set in New York City's gritty East Village, the revolutionary rock opera RENT tells the story of a group of bohemians struggling to live and pay their rent. "Measuring their lives in love," these starving artists strive for success and acceptance while enduring the obstacles of poverty, illness and the AIDS epidemic.
Produced by: University of Georgia Theatre
Location: UGA Cellar Theatre
Directed by: Marla Carlson
Lighting Design by: Will Pieper
Description: The Bakkhai, by Euripedes, translated by Robert Bagg.
An arrogant ruler scorns a new god—who happens to be his cousin—and is torn apart by his own god-crazed mother. This mythical family’s tragedy parallels the decline of a great democracy, torn apart by factional strife as well as seemingly endless wars.
Produced by: The Thalian Blackfriars
Location: UGA Arena Theatre
Directed by: Victoria Vasquez
Scenic Design by: Cody Thomas
Lighting Design by: Will Pieper
Description: On a cold, clear, moonless night in the middle of winter, all is not quite what it seems in the remote, mythical town of Almost, Maine. As the northern lights hover in the star-filled sky above, Almost's residents find themselves falling in and out of love in unexpected and often hilarious ways. Knees are bruised. Hearts are broken. But the bruises heal, and the hearts mend—almost—in this delightful midwinter night's dream. (Description courtesy of Dramatists Play Service)
Produced by: The Thalian Blackfriars
Location: UGA Cellar Theatre
Directed by: Jasmine Thomas
Scenic Design by: Dalton Sapp
Lighting Design by: Will Pieper
Description: Meet neuropsychiatrist Dr. Stone, leading expert on the science of love. When three young couples embark on a retreat to his world-renowned physiology lab, the fracture lines in each relationship slowly oxidize with every test. LOVE LAB, a new dark comedy by Lila Feinberg, explores the desperate measures we take to choose our life partner, in an age when everlasting love is an unpromising statistic.
Produced by: The Academy Street Theatre Group
Location: Sequoyah High School Theatre
Directed by: Janice Lewis & Reed Christian
Scenic Design by: Dino Bekas
Lighting Design by: Will Pieper
Description: Once Upon a Mattress is a musical comedy with music by Mary Rodgers, lyrics by Marshall Barer, and book by Jay Thompson, Dean Fuller, and Marshall Barer. The play is written as a comical adaptation of the Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale The Princess and the Pea.
