2025-2026
New Works Festival | Past Seasons
Directions to Keck Theater and Thorne Hall
Spring 2026
Calf Scramble
Written by Libby Carr
Directed by Alana Dietze
April 2-4 at 7:30pm in the Remsen Bird Hillside Amphitheater
Deep in a dusty East Texas barn, five teenage girls raise calves and wrestle with what it means to be good at school, at God, at girlhood. CALF SCRAMBLE is a fiercely original, darkly funny coming-of-age tale soaked in sweat, scripture, and competition, where faith is tangled with survival, and tenderness bucks like a wild animal.
Head Over Heels the Musical
Written by James Magruder and Jeff Whitty
Directed by Laurel Meade
Music Direction Desiree Lavertu
April 17-19 & 24-26 at 7:30pm, and May 16 at 8:30 in the Keck Theater
HEAD OVER HEELS is a musical comedy. This laugh-out-loud love story is set to the music of the iconic 1980s all-female rock band the Go-Gos, including the hit songs, We Got the Beat, Our Lips Are Sealed, Vacation, Belinda Carlisles Heaven is a Place on Earth, and Mad About You.
A hilarious, exuberant celebration of love, HEAD OVER HEELS follows the escapades of a royal family on an outrageous journey to save their beloved kingdom from extinctiononly to discover the key to their realms survival lies within each of their own hearts.
Fall 2025
POTUS or, Behind Every Great Dumbass Are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive
Written by Selina Fillinger
Directed by Hannah Wolf
Thursday - Saturday, November 20 - 22, at 7:30pm and Sunday, November 23, at 2:00pm in the Keck Theater
One four-letter word is about to rock 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. When the President unwittingly spins a PR nightmare into a global crisis, the seven brilliant and beleaguered women he relies upon most risk life, liberty, and the pursuit of sanity to keep the commander-in-chief out of trouble.
Selina Fillingers brilliant, all-female farce took Broadway by storm in a star-studded production that earned three 2022 Tony nominations.
Rumors
Written by Neil Simon
Directed by Wanlass Visiting Artist Tyrone Davis
Thursday - Saturday, November 6 - 8 at 7:30pm and Sunday November 9 at 2:00 pm.
At a large, tastefully-appointed Sneden's Landing townhouse, the Deputy Mayor of New York has just shot himself. Though it's only a flesh wound, Charlie Brock's self-inflicted injury sets off a series of events causing four couples to experience a severe attack of farce.
As their tenth wedding anniversary party commences, Charlie lies bleeding in another room, and his wife Myra is nowhere in sight. The first guests, lawyer Ken Gorman and his wife Chris, scramble to get the story straight before the other guests arrive. As the confusions and miscommunications mount, the evening spins off into classic farcical hilarity.
G. William Hume Fellowship in the Performing Arts
Performance Friday October 24, at 7:30pm
Masterclass Saturday October 25 at 2:00pm
This year The Fall 2025 Hume Fellow is is a Tony nominee and MacArthur genius grant recipient who joins us with Obie Award-winning composer, pianist, and longtime collaborator for a one-night-only concert. Dubbed a shape shifter of the highest order by The New York Times, Mac creates experimental theater work that pushes the boundaries of performanceas in the Pulitzer Prize finalist epic A 24-Decade History of Popular Music. Join us for a night of music, connection, and joy as Taylor and Matt perform from their celebrated canon and share the new.
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