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.

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A theatrical performance of Shakespeare's Hamlet on stage, featuring actors in period military-style costumes with a regal set design, red and white flags, ornate thrones, and a dramatic backdrop. The scene shows characters engaged in dialogue at center stage, flanked by cast members on either side under grand arches and medieval-style decor.

"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 intensity of lives lived in the in-between spaces of contemporary society. In this production, shaped by the ProbabilisticStages approach, Sanctuary City becomes a live system of shifting meaning, where every gesture, pause, and presence creates new emotional realities in the moment of performance. The stage is stripped of superimposed meaning and becomes a charged field of possibility. Here, meaning is not prescripted; it emerges, collapses, and re-forms in real time—a theatre of discovery, not repetition.

Promotional image for Sanctuary City by Martyna Majok. A fist punches through a rain-streaked glass window, creating dramatic cracks. Bold white text reads “Sanctuary City by Martyna Majok” over the blue-toned background.

"CABARET"

November 7 - 9 & 12 - 15, 2025 | Stieren Theatre

Directed by Dr. Nathan Stith

Wilkommen!  Originally produced on Broadway in 1966 and updated in a 1998 revival, John Kander and Fred Ebb’s Cabaret explores the dark and tumultuous lives of Berlin’s natives and expatriates as Germany slowly yields to the emerging Third Reich.  American writer Clifford Bradshaw falls for British cabaret performer, Sally Bowles, and Fraulein Schneider, a boarding house proprietor, begins a romance with Herr Schultz, a mild-mannered fruit seller who happens to be Jewish.  Meanwhile, the Emcee at the hedonistic nightclub the Kit Kat Klub, invites the audience to forget their troubles because, “life is a cabaret, old chum!”

 

Promotional poster for the musical Cabaret featuring bold, distressed white text on a red curtain background. Two raised legs in high heels—one in black stilettos and the other in red heels with fishnet stockings—frame the title. Text credits music by John Kander, lyrics by Fred Ebb, book by Joe Masterhoff, and notes the show is based on the play by John Van Druten and stories by Christopher Isherwood.

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   

Promotional graphic for Trinity Theatre’s Open Mic Night. The image features bold cream-colored text on a deep red background reading "Open Mic Night" beside a vintage-style microphone illustration and the Trinity Theatre logo.

Spring Semester performances will be posted soon