Category Archives: Spotlight

The Quarter-life Crisis, a piece of “mockumentary” theatre, is a montage of events and ideas that surround Generation Y. Every scene is inspired by real events, people, movies, shows, cats, and places. Affinity Theatre has created a cacophony of hilarity that speaks to the nature of their generation; a generation raised on the internet; a generation of first world problems; and a generation in crisis. The Quarter-life Crisis will run in ACE 207 on:

Tuesday, March 26 at 7:30 (PWYC preview) | Wednesday, March 27 at 2:00 and 7:30 |Thursday, March 28 at 7:30. Email yorkdt2013@gmail.com to reserve a ticket and you can pick it up/pay at the door.

Penumbra Collective presents EX WHY ZED. Bound in a bathroom, three selves know nothing of the outside world. In order to survive, they construct habits based on what they are taught by the shadows that have found them. They mindlessly perform their day-to-day routines, until one of them finds a way out…

EX WHY ZED will run in ACE 207 on:
Thursday, March 21 at 7:30 (PWYC preview) | Friday, March 22 at 7:30 | Saturday, March 23 at 2:00 and 7:30 | Email yorkdt2013@gmail.com to reserve a ticket and you can pick it up/pay at the door. See the video in the sidebar for an in depth interview with the members of the Penumbra Collective.

MFA Director Timothy Askew directs 3rd-year York Conservatory actors in
the rarely produced controversial play ‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore by John Ford.
First published in 1633, ‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore is perhaps the most
popular and frequently performed play by John Ford, considered by many
scholars to be the last major dramatist of the English renaissance. The studio production runs in CFT 139 this week, Thursday through Saturday night at 7pm with a matinee this Friday at 2pm. Though seating is limited there are regularly seats available to those
who sign up on the waiting list — the sign-up sheet is located outside CFT 139. Admission is free! (More)

The first show of the first Devised Theatre Festival is outLET, created, performed and produced by The Catalyst Project.
outLET is a 50-minute multimedia experience that explores the consequences of violating the social contracts that govern our lives. Five young people come to a house of illusions to enact their deepest desires – dreams of power, sex, violence, death, and immortality. But what happens when the game changes, the rules disappear, and fantasy becomes reality?
outLETwill run in ACE 207 on:
Thursday, March 14 at 7:30 (PWYC preview) |
Friday, March 15 at 7:30 |
Saturday, March 16 at 2:00 and 7:30 | Email yorkdt2013@gmail.com to reserve a ticket and you can pick it up/pay at the door.

The Third Year Devised Theatre students presented their Winter presentation Adapted March 12th, at 8:00 p.m. in ACE 207. The class was divided into four ensembles each looking at an adaptation of a filmed version of a staged show.

The Third Year BFA Actors presented Job by Oskar Kokoschka, directed by Alison Humphrey (MFA Directing 2013), last week in CFT 139. Check out our photo gallery!