2025-2026 Season Overview
Trinity Theatre’s 2025-26 main stage season brings you four contemporary works dramatizing urgent social issues across the globe and beneath it – the crisis of undocumented people in our communities; the rise of the Third Reich in 1930s Berlin; an avant-garde critique of life in modern China, and a meditation on our place in the natural world. The annual Open Mic Night showcases the talents of students from across campus, and our Student Lab Series offers performances completely produced by students throughout the school year. Trinity Theatre showcases its commitment to a holistic approach to theatre-making through works that challenge our students and entertain our audiences.
"SANCTUARY CITY"
October 3 - 5 & 8 - 11, 2025 | Attic Theatre
Directed by Prof. Roberto Prestigiacomo
Sanctuary City by Martyna Majok is a raw and urgent story of two undocumented teenagers fighting for love, safety, and a future in a country that promises protection, but often fails to deliver it. Set in post-9/11 Newark, the play unfolds through nonlinear moments within a nondeterministic reality, capturing the disorientation and uncertainty of lives lived in the in-between spaces of contemporary society.
"GRAFTING, ROOTING, GROWING"
October 25, 2025 | Attic Theatre
Written and performed by Leah Woehr ('20)
Trinity alum Leah Ai Ling Woehr (’20) will present a performance piece she developed during her graduate studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The piece, recently performed at the FLIPT Festival in Italy, is titled Grafting, Rooting, Growing. It is an autoethnographic solo performance that explores Chinese transnational adoption and Chinese-American identity.
"CABARET"
November 7 - 9 & 12 - 15, 2025 | Stieren Theatre
Directed by Dr. Nathan Stith, music direction by Dr. James Worman
Willkommen! Originally produced on Broadway in 1966 and updated in a 1998 revival, Kander and Ebb’s Cabaret explores the dark and tumultuous lives of Berlin’s natives and expatriates as Germany slowly yields to the emerging Third Reich. The story follows two couples: Clifford Bradshaw, an American writer who falls for British cabaret performer Sally Bowles; and Fraulein Schneider.
Trinity Theatre Open Mic Night
November 20, 2025 | Stieren Theater
Trinity Theatre Open Mic Night is an opportunity for any member of the Trinity community to share their talent on stage at the Stieren Theatre. Sing a song, recite a poem, perform a monologue, do some stand-up comedy, anything goes! More information about signing up for a time slot will be available on LeeRoy. Any questions, contact Dr. Nathan Stith
"THE BUS STOP"
February 20 - 22 & 25 - 28, 2026 | Stieren Theater
Directed by Dr. Chloë Edmonson
Set at a bus stop in a city suburb, The Bus Stop by Gao Xingjian centers on a group of people waiting for a bus that never arrives. Often hilarious and sometimes profound, the characters’ interactions and personal revelations also serve as critiques of societal stagnation and the human condition. The play's absurdist elements and its critical perspective on social issues led to its ban in mainland China in 1983.
Trinity Theatre Spring Open Mic Night
8:00pm, March 5, 2026 | Stieren Theater
Trinity Theatre Open Mic Night is an opportunity for any member of the Trinity community to share their talent on stage at the Stieren Theater. Sing a song, recite a poem, perform a monologue, do some stand-up comedy, anything goes! More information about signing up for a time slot will be available on LeeRoy. Any questions, contact Faith Olabanji (@email).
"EURYDICE"
March 26 - 28, 2026 | Attic Theatre
Directed by Grace Keller and Arwen Loxsom as part of the Student Lab Series
Eurydice by Sarah Ruhl is an intricate, often funny, always poignant retelling of the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice. Set in an indiscriminate past, the play explores the differences between romantic love and the love between a father and a daughter. In addition to Orpheus and Eurydice, Ruhl includes a new cast of characters, including three Stones that alternatively taunt and teach.
"IS THIS A ROOM"
April 2 - 4, 2026 | Attic Theatre
Directed by Lyndee Pinkerton as part of the Student Lab Series
Is This a Room by Tina Satter follows Reality Winner, a former ██ Air Force Airman, as she is interrogated by the FBI in her home for leaking classified documents pertaining to Russian ██████ in the 2016 election. Prior to her arrest and during her trial, she was ██████ described as a terrorist.
"THE GREAT GOD PAN"
April 16 - 18, 2026 | Attic Theatre
Directed by Kunsh Tyagi as part of the Student Lab Series
An alluring contemporary play about the unknown and fragmented nature of traumatic fugue, The Great God Pan runs April 16 & 17, 7:00pm, and April 18, 8:00pm in the Attic Theater. Written by Amy Herzog, the play follows Jamie, an investigative journalist, as he tries to reconcile his fragmented memory after learning of a possible childhood trauma he cannot remember.
"NOT EVERY MOUNTAIN"
April 23 - 26, 2026 | Stieren Theater
Created and presented by Stieren Guest Artists Rude Mechs as part of the Stieren Arts Enrichment Series