Events
Spring 2025 Events
Spring Theater Production: Dracula: A Feminist Revenge Fantasy, Really
Fri, Feb 28, 7:30pm
Sat, March 1, 7:30pm
Sun, March 2, 2:00pm
Thurs, March 6, 7:30pm
Fri, March 7, 7:30pm
Sat, March 8, 7:30pm
Venue: Mainstage Theater (T121) Janet Wallace Fine Arts Center
The Macalester Theater and Dance department presents our spring mainstage production, a collaboration between Macalester students and guest director Noël Raymond, Co-Artistic Director of Pillsbury House + Theatre. “Equal parts horror and humor, Dracula: A Feminist Revenge Fantasy, Really by Kate Hamill drives a gleeful stake through the heart of the patriarchy. This thrilling adaptation of Bram Stoker’s vampire classic subverts Victorian gender tropes and creates a playground for actors and designers to revel in – filled with blood, mystery and madness, Dracula: A Revenge Fantasy, Really is like no Dracula you have ever seen.” – Noël Raymond, director
Please note: this play contains violence, suicide, themes of predatory sexuality, instances of vomit, and lots of fake blood. Viewer discretion is advised.
Tickets can be reserved here.
Bernabé Screening
Sat, March 1, 1:00pm
Venue: John B. Davis Lecture Hall
The Macalester Theater and Dance department presents a screening of Bernabé, a production by El Teatro Campesino, written by Luis Valdez and directed by Kinan Valdez.
Written in 1970 and revived in 2000, the action of the piece takes place in the small fictional town of Burlap, located in the central San Joaquin Valley of California. With a population of only a couple of thousand inhabitants, Burlap is the hometown of Bernabé, a mentally disabled farm worker who is “touched by cosmic madness.” The performance takes us from the sun-baked reality of the valley into the mythological darkness of Bernabe’s mind. The abstract set reflects the world of its protagonist, blending myth and reality, above and below the surface of the earth.
Description from Hemisphericinstitute.org
Senior Capstone Presentations
Mon, March 10
Venue: T206, Janet Wallace Fine Arts Center
Our seniors will be presenting their capstones on Monday, March 10th. Come learn about their work and enjoy light refreshments!
Performance Trip to Fifty Boxes of Earth
Thurs, March 13
Venue: Theater Mu
Current THDA students are invited to join us for a performance of Fifty Boxes of Earth at Theater Mu. Directed by Macalester’s kt shorb, with set design by Macalester’s Mina Kinukawa, this show is a creative response to Bram Stoker’s Dracula. Fifty Boxes of Earth weaves in choreography and puppetry to consider the heavy costs of leaving a home and putting down new roots. In this world premiere, Q just moved to the neighborhood, but instead of a bed, they brought fifty boxes of earth for the community garden. When Q starts cultivating fantastical, improbable plants, one man’s distrust grows even as his young daughter reaches out in friendship. Recommended for ages 10+. Content includes xenophobia and self harm. Description from Theater Mu’s website. Reserve a seat here.
Student Lunch: Advising and Audition edition
Thurs, March 27
Venue: T205
Join us for our community lunch. We’ll be focusing on giving advice, finding advisors, and the audition process. Eat some good food and get to know what’s up!
Mainstage Spring Dance Concert
Fri, April 11th, 7:30 pm
Sat, April 12th, 2:00 pm and 7:30pm
Venue: Mainstage Theater (T121)
The Macalester Theater and Dance Department presents its 2025 Spring Dance Concert, featuring original choreography by faculty and professional choreographers Wynn Fricke, Abdo Sayegh Rodriguz, and Marciano Silva Dos Santos, along with student choreographers Kai Illig ’25, Ren Lindberg ’27, and Cassandra Wright ’25.
Performance trip to Eiko Otake
Sat, April 12
Venue: Walker Art Museum
The Macalester Theater and Dance Department will be going to the Walker to see Eiko Otake’s performance art.
Eiko Otake’s (Eiko and Koma) austere, haunting movement work has often commemorated death, time, and place. Joining forces with radical dance-theater artist Wen Hui (Living Dance Studio), she returns to the Walker to premiere a poignant new work forged through deep collaboration. This new performance explores how both performers’ lives have been affected by war—Otake grew up in postwar Japan and Wen in China during the Cultural Revolution. Together, the collaborators embody fierceness tempered by emotional honesty. Their formidable performance combines movement, text, and video as it excavates personal memories of war and its global resonances.
Description from walkerart.org.
More information on additional THDA events coming soon!