Event Series
Theater 2022–23 Season
We pride ourselves on cultivating a dynamic and supportive theater culture that encourages experimentation, collaboration, and the creation of new connections across fields. New forms of community demand stories, old stories retold, and new ones never before heard. Oberlin Theater is about telling stories by making living art.
Past Events
Theater Lab Series: The Amateurs
Thursday, November 3, 2022
7:30 pm
Kander Theater
A rag-tag troupe of actors races across medieval Europe, struggling to outrun the Black Death in 14th-century Europe, performing biblical “morality plays” (“Noah’s Flood...
Theater Lab Series: The Amateurs
Friday, November 4, 2022
7:30 pm
Kander Theater
A rag-tag troupe of actors races across medieval Europe, struggling to outrun the Black Death in 14th-century Europe, performing biblical “morality plays” (“Noah’s Flood...
Theater Lab Series: The Amateurs
Saturday, November 5, 2022
2:00 pm
Kander Theater
A rag-tag troupe of actors races across medieval Europe, struggling to outrun the Black Death in 14th-century Europe, performing biblical “morality plays” (“Noah’s Flood...
Theater Lab Series: The Amateurs
Saturday, November 5, 2022
7:30 pm
Kander Theater
A rag-tag troupe of actors races across medieval Europe, struggling to outrun the Black Death in 14th-century Europe, performing biblical “morality plays” (“Noah’s Flood...
Theater Lab Series: The Amateurs
Sunday, November 6, 2022
2:00 pm
Kander Theater
A rag-tag troupe of actors races across medieval Europe, struggling to outrun the Black Death in 14th-century Europe, performing biblical “morality plays” (“Noah’s Flood...
Theater Lab Series: The Death of Midas
Thursday, November 17, 2022
7:30 pm
Kander Theater
Midas is ancient history, his gold mines are crumbling, and few even remember his name, but his legacy remains. How do people make sense of their polluted world? What will everyone choose to do with...
Theater Lab Series: The Death of Midas
Friday, November 18, 2022
7:30 pm
Kander Theater
Midas is ancient history, his gold mines are crumbling, and few even remember his name, but his legacy remains. How do people make sense of their polluted world? What will everyone choose to do with...
Theater Lab Series: The Death of Midas
Saturday, November 19, 2022
7:30 pm
Kander Theater
Midas is ancient history, his gold mines are crumbling, and few even remember his name, but his legacy remains. How do people make sense of their polluted world? What will everyone choose to do with...
Theater Lab Series: The Death of Midas
Sunday, November 20, 2022
2:00 pm
Kander Theater
Midas is ancient history, his gold mines are crumbling, and few even remember his name, but his legacy remains. How do people make sense of their polluted world? What will everyone choose to do with...
Theater Mainstage: Or
Thursday, December 8, 2022
7:30 pm
Irene and Alan Wurtzel Theater
Sprung from debtor’s prison in seventeenth-century London, after a disastrous overseas espionage mission, poet Aphra Behn is desperate to get out of the spy game. Dreaming of a destiny to...
Theater Mainstage: Or
Friday, December 9, 2022
7:30 pm
Irene and Alan Wurtzel Theater
Sprung from debtor’s prison in seventeenth-century London, after a disastrous overseas espionage mission, poet Aphra Behn is desperate to get out of the spy game. Dreaming of a destiny to...
Theater Mainstage: Or
Saturday, December 10, 2022
2:00 pm
Irene and Alan Wurtzel Theater
Sprung from debtor’s prison in seventeenth-century London, after a disastrous overseas espionage mission, poet Aphra Behn is desperate to get out of the spy game. Dreaming of a destiny to...
Theater Mainstage: Or
Saturday, December 10, 2022
7:30 pm
Irene and Alan Wurtzel Theater
Sprung from debtor’s prison in seventeenth-century London, after a disastrous overseas espionage mission, poet Aphra Behn is desperate to get out of the spy game. Dreaming of a destiny to...
Theater Mainstage: Or
Sunday, December 11, 2022
2:00 pm
Irene and Alan Wurtzel Theater
Sprung from debtor’s prison in seventeenth-century London, after a disastrous overseas espionage mission, poet Aphra Behn is desperate to get out of the spy game. Dreaming of a destiny to...
Theater Mainstage: Ophelia: A Prism
Thursday, February 2, 2023
7:30 pm
Irene and Alan Wurtzel Theater
Ophelia: A Prism shifts focus from Shakespeare’s Hamlet to the ingénue Ophelia- or rather, three aspects of herself. These contrasting Sister Selves (Green, Brass, and Orange) take...
Theater Mainstage: Ophelia: A Prism
Friday, February 3, 2023
7:30 pm
Irene and Alan Wurtzel Theater
Ophelia: A Prism shifts focus from Shakespeare’s Hamlet to the ingénue Ophelia- or rather, three aspects of herself. These contrasting Sister Selves (Green, Brass, and Orange) take...
Theater Mainstage: Ophelia: A Prism
Saturday, February 4, 2023
2:00 pm
Irene and Alan Wurtzel Theater
Ophelia: A Prism shifts focus from Shakespeare’s Hamlet to the ingénue Ophelia- or rather, three aspects of herself. These contrasting Sister Selves (Green, Brass, and Orange) take...
Theater Mainstage: Ophelia: A Prism
Saturday, February 4, 2023
7:30 pm
Irene and Alan Wurtzel Theater
Ophelia: A Prism shifts focus from Shakespeare’s Hamlet to the ingénue Ophelia- or rather, three aspects of herself. These contrasting Sister Selves (Green, Brass, and Orange) take...
Theater Mainstage: Ophelia: A Prism
Sunday, February 5, 2023
2:00 pm
Irene and Alan Wurtzel Theater
Ophelia: A Prism shifts focus from Shakespeare’s Hamlet to the ingénue Ophelia- or rather, three aspects of herself. These contrasting Sister Selves (Green, Brass, and Orange) take...
Theater Lab Series: Sideways Stories from Wayside School
Thursday, March 2, 2023
7:30 pm
Kander Theater (Entrance off of Willard Court)
Sideways Stories from Wayside School centers on a 4th-grade classroom on the thirtieth floor of Wayside School, which the architect “was supposed to build … with th irty classrooms all...
Theater Lab Series: Sideways Stories from Wayside School
Friday, March 3, 2023
7:30 pm
Kander Theater (Entrance off of Willard Court)
Sideways Stories from Wayside School centers on a 4th-grade classroom on the thirtieth floor of Wayside School, which the architect “was supposed to build … with th irty classrooms all...
Theater Lab Series: Sideways Stories from Wayside School
Saturday, March 4, 2023
1:00 pm
Kander Theater (Entrance off of Willard Court)
Sideways Stories from Wayside School centers on a 4th-grade classroom on the thirtieth floor of Wayside School, which the architect “was supposed to build … with th irty classrooms all...
Theater Lab Series: Sideways Stories from Wayside School
Saturday, March 4, 2023
7:30 pm
Kander Theater (Entrance off of Willard Court)
Sideways Stories from Wayside School centers on a 4th-grade classroom on the thirtieth floor of Wayside School, which the architect “was supposed to build … with th irty classrooms all...
Theater Lab Series: Calypso
Thursday, April 6, 2023
7:30 pm
Kander Theater
Abandoned by the Gods, Calypso is stuck on an island alone and longing for more. A sudden storm strikes and brings with it a man, Odysseus, who has lived the life she wishes to lead. As the two grow...
Theater Lab Series: Calypso
Friday, April 7, 2023
7:30 pm
Kander Theater
Abandoned by the Gods, Calypso is stuck on an island alone and longing for more. A sudden storm strikes and brings with it a man, Odysseus, who has lived the life she wishes to lead. As the two grow...
Theater Lab Series: Calypso
Saturday, April 8, 2023
2:00 pm
Kander Theater
Abandoned by the Gods, Calypso is stuck on an island alone and longing for more. A sudden storm strikes and brings with it a man, Odysseus, who has lived the life she wishes to lead. As the two grow...
Theater Lab Series: Calypso
Saturday, April 8, 2023
7:30 pm
Kander Theater
Abandoned by the Gods, Calypso is stuck on an island alone and longing for more. A sudden storm strikes and brings with it a man, Odysseus, who has lived the life she wishes to lead. As the two grow...
Theater Lab Series: Calypso
Sunday, April 9, 2023
2:00 pm
Kander Theater
Abandoned by the Gods, Calypso is stuck on an island alone and longing for more. A sudden storm strikes and brings with it a man, Odysseus, who has lived the life she wishes to lead. As the two grow...
Theater Mainstage: Stonewallin’
Thursday, April 13, 2023
7:30 pm
Irene and Alan Wurtzel Theater
"The witches are up to something in the small-town South. When Marsha moves from Berkeley to rural Virginia to reconnect with her family’s roots, she finds a barista with an astrology...
Theater Mainstage: Stonewallin’
Friday, April 14, 2023
7:30 pm
Irene and Alan Wurtzel Theater
"The witches are up to something in the small-town South. When Marsha moves from Berkeley to rural Virginia to reconnect with her family’s roots, she finds a barista with an astrology...
Theater Mainstage: Stonewallin’
Saturday, April 15, 2023
7:30 pm
Irene and Alan Wurtzel Theater
"The witches are up to something in the small-town South. When Marsha moves from Berkeley to rural Virginia to reconnect with her family’s roots, she finds a barista with an astrology...
Theater Mainstage: Stonewallin’
Sunday, April 16, 2023
2:00 pm
Irene and Alan Wurtzel Theater
"The witches are up to something in the small-town South. When Marsha moves from Berkeley to rural Virginia to reconnect with her family’s roots, she finds a barista with an astrology...