The Mainstage Season
The Department of Theatre in association with the Robsham Theater Arts Center forms the Boston College University Theatre, which produces six Mainstage productions each academic year, three per semester. The Mainstage season features four full-budget productions directed by Department faculty and distinguished guest directors. Plays are either presented in the 630-seat Robsham Theatre, which features a proscenium-arch stage, or in the more intimate black box Bonn Studio Theatre, which seats anywhere from 100 to 250, depending upon the set design.

Past Mainstage productions include:
2001-2002
Dracula, Good Person of Szechwan, A Summer Evening in Des Moines, Jesus Christ Superstar
2000-2001
Ring 'Round the Moon, Blue Window, The Seagull and Oklahoma!
1999-2000
Carthaginians, The Rivals, Picasso at the Lapin Agile and Patience
1998-1999
Prliminary Stages, The Marriage, Fifth of July and Into the Woods
1997-1998
The Comedy of Errors, Buried Child, Story Theater and The Secret Garden
1996-1997
Our Country's Good, Little Shop of Horrors, Steel Magnolias and The Triumph of Love
1995-1996
The Pirates of Penzanze, Tartuffe, Endgame and The Glass Menagerie
1994-1995
Company, The Children's Hour, As You Like It and On the Verge
1993-1994
Dracula: The Vampire Play, Brighton Beach Memoirs, Evita and The House of Blue Leaves
 

Student Workshop Productions
The Department also produces two student directed and designed Student Workshop Productions. Juniors who have successfully completed the Department's directing program submit play proposals for their senior year. Up to two are selected. Student designers may apply  in the Spring to design the  sets, costumes and lights for the following year's Workshop shows. Directors and designers work under faculty supervision for course credit. Workshop productions are classroom experiences designed to enable qualified students the opportunity to explore and create with full departmental support.

Past Workshop productions include 
2001-2002
Pterodactyls, Rhinoceros
2000-2001
Uncommon Women and Others, The Dreamer Examines His Pillow
1999-2000
Three Days of Rain, Indiscretions
1999 and before:
Betrayal, Top Girsls, The Shadowbox, The Infernal Machine, Agnes of God, Coyote Ugly, Twelve Angry Men, Burn This, Fool for Love, Orphans, 'night, Mother, Godspell, The Foreigner, The Boys Next Door, Whose Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, No Exit and Speed the Plow.

Other Opportunities
Student groups: In addition to the University Theatre productions, various student performance groups present work on campus, most of which rely upon departmentally trained directors and designers. Boston College also sponsors several student improviational comedy troupes.
Dance: The Department offers a range of courses for credit in dance. Student dance groups also operate on campus.
Abbey Theatre Program: Many theatre majors also participate in the Summer Abbey Theatre Program. Sponsored through the Boston College Irish Studies program, students receive course credit for spending five weeks studying at Ireland's most famous theatre.

DRACULA
adapted by John Houchin
Directed by John Houchin
Main Stage
October 11-14

PTERODACTYLS
by Nicky Silver
Directed by Megan Chuprevich
November 1-3

GOOD PERSON OF SZECHWAN
by Bertoldt Brecht
Directed by Dr. Stuart Hecht
November 15-18

A SUMMER EVENING IN DES MOINES
by Charles L. Mee
Directed by Scott Cummings
February 20-24

RHINOCEROS
by Eugene Ionesco
Directed by James Pieser
April 11 - 13

JESUS CHRIST, SUPERSTAR
Music by A. L. Webber; Lyrics by Tim Rice
Directed by Howard Enoch
April 24-28
 
 

Reservations may be made by calling (617) 552-4800 or on the web for mainstage productions, or the Bonn Studio Productions.