Past Seasons

2023-2024

• Speech & Debate
• W&L Dancers Create...
• Bentley Musical Opera, Dido & Aeneas
• W&L Repertory Dance Company
• Begets: Fall of A High School Ronin

2022-2023

• W&L Dancers Create...
• Treasure Island
• Bentley Musical, Beehive, The 60’s Musical
• W&L Repertory Dance Company
• Lenfest/Dance Master Class: MOMIX
• Dance Master Classes-Injury Prevention for Dancers & Movement Based Conditioning for Dancers: Sarah Gosslin; Hip Hop led by Jasmine Shaw

2021-2022

• Staged Reading of Heroes of the Fourth Turning
• W&L Dancers Create...
• The Dramatic Circle
• Thumbelina
• W&L Repertory Dance Company and University Jazz Ensemble
• Bentley Musical, tick, tick...BOOM! Musical
• The Moors
• TDFS Master Class: Puppetry 101 Master Class by Joshua Holden; Kamishibai Workshop with Natsu Onoda Power
• Lenfest/Dance Master Class: Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo
  Dance Master Classes-Modern Technique by Eric Rivera; Baroque Master Class by Anne Van Gelder; Dunham Master Class by Kehinde Ishangi

2020-2021

• TARTUFFE
• W&L Dancers Create...
• W&L Repertory Dance Company
• Bentley Musical, Little Women the Broadway Musical
• BURN
• Aerial Dance

2019-2020

• A Midsummer Night’s Dream
• W&L Dancers Create...
• Everybody
• Bentley Musical, Considering Matthew Shephard
• W&L Repertory Dance Company

2018-2019

• Bentley Musical, Priscilla Queen of the Desert, the Musical
• Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike
• W&L Dancers Create...
• The Cherry Orchard (Brustein)
• W&L Repertory Dance Company

2017-2018

• Bentley Musical, The Addams Family, a New Musical
• W&L Dancers Create...
• Dancing with Professors
• James and the Giant Peach
• The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet
• W&L Repertory Dance Company

2016-2017

• Bentley Musical, Theory of Relativity
• W&L Dancers Create...
• Dancing with Professors
• Sense and Sensibility
• Dracula
• W&L Repertory Dance Concert

2015-2016

• Desdemona, a Play about a Handkerchief Sessoms’ Fund Guest Artist
• Believe None of Us
• Love’s Labors Lost
• Dancing with Professors
• W&L Dancers Create…
• Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet)
• Bentley Musical, Legally Blonde
• Dance Concert

Master Classes

• A Musical Theater Workshop lead by Todd Hunter
• Two Part Improvisation/Performance led by Jonathan Chapman Cook
• Shakespearan Residency with cast of Love’s Labors Lost taught by Ben Crystal
• The Art and Crafts of Arts Management led by Amanda Nelson
• Master Class with cast of Legally Blonde taught by Laura Bell Bundy
• The Art of the Business of the Theater led by Mitch Weiss
• Lenfest/Theater Residency with Actors From the London Stage
• Lenfest/Dance Master Class with Jessica Lang Dance

2014-2015

• The Night of the Iguana
• W&L Dancers Create...
• Dancing with the Professors
• Bentley Musical, Monty Python’s Spamalot
• W&L Repertory Dance Company Concert

10-Minute Plays, Faculty Advisor: Jemma Alix Levy

• The Scary Question
• The Death of the Hired Man
• The Individuality of Streetlamps

Master Classes

• Dance: Danah Bella, Sept. 2014; Elizabeth Reynolds, Oct. 2014; Emily Ann Cargill
• Theater: Devised Theater Master Class taught by Alex Fthenakis, Oct. 2014; Vivian Majkowski, Voice Workshop Nov. 2014; Joshua Productions, Feb. 2015; Lisa Wolpe, Cross Gender Perf., March 2015.
• Lenfest/Theater Master Class: Aquila Theatre Company
• Lenfest/Dance Master Class: Alonzo King LINES Ballet

2013-2014

• The Nerd
• W&L Dancers Create...
• Dancing with the Professors
• Departmental Collaborative Project: be [you] ty The Beauty Project
• Lenfest/Theater/Music Master Class: Ivan Rutherford, Les Miserables

10-Minute Plays, Faculty Advisor: Joseph Martinez

• The Battle of Bull Run Always Makes Me Cry
• Post-Its
• T-4-2
• Replay
• Gloom, Doom, And Soul-Crushing Misery

Readings

• Really Really
• Everything Is Probably Going To Be Okay
• The Laramie Project
• I Am

2012-2013

• Bentley Musical, Bye Bye Birdie
• Mrs. Warren’s Profession
• Arsenic and Old Lace
• W&L Repertory Dance Company Concert
• Lenfest/Dance Master Class: Trisha Brown

2011-2012

• A Comedy of Errors
• Mask Maker David Knezz (guest)
• Guest Flournoy Technical Director Anthony Lawrence
• Bentley Musical, Cabaret
• W&L Dancers Create…
• W&L Repertory Dance Company
• Rigging D2 Flying Effects
• The James Baldwin Project
• Romeo’s Dream Spring Term Project
• W&L Dance Company performance at American College Dance Festival
• Sweden Study Abroad Trip led by Shawn Paul Evans
• Lenfest/Dance Master Class: River North Dance Chicago

10-Minute Plays

• Two Truths and a Lie
• Counting Rita
• DUMBO (Down Under Manhattan Bridge Overpass)
• Table for Three

2010-2011

• Bentley Musical, Assassins
• Eurydice
• Flournoy Festival: A Kindly Visitation Musical Biography
• Contemporary Art in Appalachia, DR Mullins
• W&L Repertory Dance Company
• Lexington’s Letters to the Editor
• Lenfest/Theater Master Class: Walnut Street Theatre
• Lenfest/Dance Master Class: Ailey

2009-2010

• Lenfest/Dance Master Class: Momix
• Lenfest/Theater Master Class: Kevin Sprirtas
• Flournoy Playwright Festival: Lucy Thurber
• Where We’re Born
• Reading of Scarcity
• 10-Minute Plays
• W&L Repertory Dance Company
• Bentley Musical, Chicago
• Student Showcase Movie

2008-2009

• Lenfest/Dance Master Class: Lula Washington
• Lenfest/Dance Master Class: the Russian National Ballet
• Student showcase 2008
• Play It Again, Sam
• Flournoy Playwright Festival: Christopher Cartmill ’84
• The Apotheosis of Vacla Drda
• The Nebraska Dispatches (solo performance)
• A Reading of The Robbers of Madderbloom
• Dance Concert 2009
• One Acts 2009
• Bentley Musical, The Secret Garden

2007-2008

• Othello
• Father Frances
• Bentley Musical, Little Shop of Horrors
• Student Showcase
• Repertory Dance Company Concert

One Acts, Directing Advisor: Joseph Martinez

• Birth of A Blues
• The Interrogation
• Mosquito Dirigible Aerosol Deodorant
• Perfect
• The Rothko Room

Theater Master Classes

• Musical Theater with Matt Bogart and Jessica BoeversActing For The Camera with Elaine Bromka
• Lenfest/Theater Masterclass: Aquila Theatre Catch-22
• Lenfest/Theater Master Class: Marvin Hamlisch

Guest Dramaturgs

• Todd Ristau – Hollins College and Mill Mountain Theatre
• Michelle Volansky – Washington College
• Sarah Endloe – American Shakespeare Center

Dance Master Classes

• Contact Improvisation with Brad Stoller
• Ideokinesis with Liza Deck
• A Conversation with Jack Arnold
• Plastic Musik with Jeremy Price
• Lenfest/Dance Master Class: Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet
• Lenfest/Dance Master Class: Tango Buenos Aries Dance Company performance at American College Dance Festival
• Reading Days Trip with students to New York City

2006-2007

• tits and blood at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe
• Flournoy Playwright Festival with Paula Vogel
• How I Learned To Drive
• The Long Christmas Ride Home
• Oscar and Felix: A New Look At The Odd Couple
• Bentley Musical, Kiss Me, Kate
• Student Showcase
• W&L Repertory Dance Company Concert
• A Man In A Cage – Wendy Wasserstein Festival at Hollins College
• My Name is Rachel Corrie – Paten Hughes, Science, Society and the Arts at Washington and Lee
• Guest Artist (puppet master): Nancy Aldrich
• Guest Artist (Costume Design and Make-up Artist): Becky Arnold

One Acts, Directing Advisor: Joseph Martinez

• The G Word
• After You
• Heights
• Mafia on Prozac

Theater Master Classes

• Unarmed Stage Fighting with Colleen Kelly
• Musical Theater with Matt Bogart
• A Conversation with Paula Vogel

Dance Master Classes

• Urban Bush Women with Maria Bauman
• Afro-Cuban Dance with Sandra Meythaler
• Classical Ballet with Unar Gunaajav
• Lenfest/Dance Master Class:  Koresh Dance Company
• Lenfest/Dance Master Class: Moscow Festival Ballet
• Dance Company performance at American College Dance Festival
• Reading Days Trip with students to New York City
• Spring Term London Study Abroad Theater Program

2005-2006

• Dance Concert – Winter
• Dance Concert – Spring/Ten-Year Anniversary Concert
• Lenfest/Dance Master Class: The Richmond Ballet
• Reading Days Trip with students to New York City
• Lenfest/Theater Master Classes: The Flying Karamazov Brothers
• Co-sponsor of the Neil LaBute Film Festival
• Flournoy Playwright Festival with playwright Neil LaBute: The Shape of Things

Playwright Readings

• Fat Pig
• The Mercy Seat
• Student Showcase
• No Exit
• The House of Bernarda Alba
• The Pirates of Penzance

One Acts, Directing Advisor: Joseph Martinez

• Recklessness
• Portrait of a Madonna
• Time Flies
• You Can’t Trust The Male

2004-2005

• Robert O. and Elizabeth M. Bentley Ignaural: A Blossoming of the Arts
• Dance Concert – Winter
• Dance Concert – Spring
• Lenfest/Dance Master Class: Pilobolus
• Theater Guest : David Bergeron/University of Kansas
• Reading Days Trip with students to New York City
• Flournoy Playwright Festival with playwright Bo Wilson
  • War Story
  • My Uncle’s Business
• Dreaming and Duelling (dv)
• The Tamer Tamed

One Acts, Advisor: J.D. Martinez

• Bunnies
• The Night No One Died
• American Tropical
• The Bone Violin
• The Intervention
• Porcelain and Pink

2003-2004

• Flournoy Playwright Festival: The Notebook
• Uncommon Women and Others
• Metamorphoses
• Hair
• The Golden Goose
• Open Stage: Women in Distress
• Dance Concert – Winter
• Dance Concert – Spring
• Lenfest/Dance Master Class: Ailey II
• Lenfest/Theater Master Classes: Capitol Steps and Drummers of West Africa
• Reading Days Trip with students to New York City
• Spring Term London Study Abroad Theater Program

Readings with Playwrights

• Monument Avenue
• Reign of Tara
• The High Water Mark

One Acts

• You Oughta Be in Pictures
• The Perm
• Broken Bones
• Blind Harassment
• What She Found There

2002-2003

• Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
• Working
• Top Girls

One Act Plays

• Who Made Robert Deniro King of America?
• The Most Massive Woman Wins
• Black Comedy
• Flores de Papel
• Zoo Story

2001-2002

• The Colored Museum
• Spinning into Butter
• Godspell (student production of Mindbending Productions)
• Wild Oats
• The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse

One Act Plays

• Andrea’s Got Two Boyfriends
• Pitching to the Star
• Wildwood Park
• Caution to the Wind

2000-2001

• School for Scandal
• Oleanna
• Greater Tuna
• The Elephant Man
• Company

One Act Plays

• Crime Pays After All
• The Bald Soprano
• The Original Last Wish Baby
• The Author’s Voice

1999-2000

• Arms and the Man
• Biloxi Blues
• Falstaff (Chimes at Midnight)
• Servant of Two Masters

One Act Plays

• The St. Valentine’s Day Massacre
• Foreplay of the Art of the Fugue
• Misreadings
• Teeth
• Molly and James
• Reverse Transcription
• For Whom the Southern Belle Tolls

1998-1999

• Rosencrantz and Guilderstern Are Dead
• Secret Service
• Eccentricities of a Nightingale

Festivals of One Act Plays

• You Belong to Me
• The Midlife Crisis of Dionysus
• An interview
• The Actor’s Nightmare
• Nice People Dancing to Good Country Music

1997-1998

• Uncle Vanya
• The Ninth Step
• Crimes of the Heart
• Twelfth Night

One Act Plays

• Impromptu
• Here We Are
• Businessman’s Lunch
• Gladiator
• Raimie
• The Philadelphia
• The Love Talker

1996-1997

One Act Plays

• Cannibal Masque
• Bad Habits
• You Can’t Trust the Male
• Am I Blue
• Importance of Being Earnest Jeffrey
• The Rainmaker
• Into The Woods

1995-1996

• Children of a Lesser God
• Pretty Fire
• Faust
• Noises Off

One Act Plays

• Sound of a Voice
• Wild Rose Branches
• Noon
• Dreamer
• Stonewater Rapture
• Cowboy, Indians and Fervent Feminist

1994-1995

• Other People’s Money
• Come Down Burning (staged reading, no poster)
• She Stoops to Conquer

One Acts

• Self-Torture and Strenuous Exercise
• The Other Side
• Graceland
• Hopscotch
• Macbeth

1993-1994

• The Flies
• The Lady’s Not for Burning
• Blithe Spirit

One Acts

• Eleemosynary
• Sure Thing
• Brilliant Traces
• The Valentine Fairy
• Marriage of Figaro (opera)

1992-1993

• The Imaginary Invalid
• The Heidi Chronicles
• Miss Julie

One Acts

• Dreams of Glory
• Hidden in this Picture
• Talk to me Like the Rain and Let me Listen
• Say I Love You, but Whisper
• Becca

1991-1992

• Saint Joan of the Stockyards
• Perfect Servants
• True West

One Acts

• The Monkey’s Paw
• Naomi in the Living Room
• Riders to the Sea
• Penguin Blues
• Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (musical)

1990-1991

• The Skin of our Teeth (Feb.)
• On the Verge
• Talley’s Folly (no poster)
• Evita (musical)

1989-1990

• Aladdin
• K2
• Graceland
• Love’s the Best Doctor
• Romeo and Juliet

1988-1989

• Steel Magnolias
• No Exit
• Arden of Feversham

One Acts

• Self Torture
• Strenuous Exercise
• Wormwood
• The Stronger
• Little Shop of Horrors

1987-1988

• Three Sisters
• Mass Appeal
• Six Characters in Search of an Author

One Acts

• Suicide in B flat, The Frog Prince
• L’Histoire du Soldat
• Wake of Jamie Foster
• Henry Street  Playhouse
• Torebbeaus Mikado
• Of Thee I Sing

1986-1987

• Roscius
• Cabaret
• Strange Snow

One Acts

• The Lesson
• The Tiger
• Ballad of the Sad Cafe

Henry Street Playhouse

• Charley’s Aunt
• Babes in Arms
• Our Town

1986

• Merchant of Venice
• Bleacher Bums
• Lysistrata

One Acts

• Master Harold and the Boys
• Sister Mary Ignacious
• Fool for Love
• God
• That Championship Season
• Viktor Frankenstein

Henry Street Playhouse

• Gigi
• Good News
• Harvey

1985

• June and the Paycock
• Purlie Victorious
• Of Mice and Men
• Galileo
• Two Lovers of Verona

Henry Street Playhouse

• Life with Father
• Annie Get your Gun
• Murder at the Vicarage

1984

• Roshamon
• Love Poems
• Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
• One Acts
• Death Knocks
• The Informer
• Regan Rex
• Fantasticks

Henry Street Playhouse

• Streets of New York
• Peter Pan
• Born Yesterday

1983

• Man For All Seasons
• American Dream
• Life in the Theatre
• Tea and Sympathy
• Midsummer Nights Dream

Henry Street Playhouse

• Mornings at Seven
• Kiss Me Kate
• Seven Year Itch

1982

• Cloud Nine
• The Country-Wife
• Man of La Mancha
• Scapino

Henry Street Playhouse

• Pirates of Penzance
• Night Must Fall
• You Can’t Take it With You

1981

• Devil’s Disciple
• Fulgens and Lucrese
• The Ninth Step
• Look Homeward Angel Diamond Studs

Henry Street Playhouse

• Wonderful Town
• Our American Cousin
• Blithe Spirit

1980

• Hamlet
• Weeds
• Pippin
• The Dark of the Moon Glass Menagerie

Henry Street Playhouse

• Anything Goes
• Under the Gaslight
• Arsenic and Old Lace