Theatre Arts & Studies > Past Productions

JHU Theatre’s Mainstage season features a Fall and a Spring production, at the John Astin Theatre. Our secondary season, The Playshop, brings student-led productions, experimental performances and other events into the Astin Theatre. For information on auditions, and on creating something for The Playshop, see our Playmaking page.

Glowing figure in a cave. Poster for Passage.

Fall 2024: Passage, By Christopher Chen

Directed by James Glossman

Starring: Omotayo Adenugba, Emrullah Cakir, Kate Ketelhohn, Kunal Joshi, Finnigan Keane, Jewels Seeger, Qiushi (Chris) Tian, Christina Xi, Noni Zhang

Man in robe speaks with a mosquito.
Two people kneel in a temple, in discussion.
A hiker, in a pith helmet, walks through a cave.
Two people, in colorful clothing, sit on stairs.
Three people at a bar, drinking bottles of beer.
Man in robe speaks to man and woman, drinking tea.
Two people on a boat, looking out over the water.
The whole ensemble of Passage, standing and stitting.
Picture of Earth and planets, in Ptolemaic system.

Spring 2024: Galileo, By Bertolt Brecht

Directed by: James Glossman

In collaboration with the Space Telescope Science Institute

Starring: Omotayo Adekunle Adenugba, Hanna Al-Kowsi, Tessa Barcelo, Shruthi Bare, Katherine Budinger, Allison Chen, Ander Diez, Camille Do, Audrey Douglas, Mark Gonzales, Paloma Lucero Hancock, Lulu Hassanein, Jiaming He, Max Hsu, Kate Ketelhohn, Jasmine Lafita, Melissa Shohet, Sara Pantoja, Benjamin Roberts, Bjorn Springer, Gemma Watson, Asa Woo.

Read the review in the Johns Hopkins News-Letter.

Galileo speaks to the boy Andrea.
The Pope, with image from the Webb telescope behind.
Images from the Webb Telescope projected on stage.
Cosimo de Medici and the Florentine court.
Images of galaxies from the Webb telescope.
Galileo, in the Florentine court.
Virginia and the Cardinal Inquisitor speak.
Galileo and Federzoni look through the telescope.
Monks mocking Galileo.
The Old Cardinal resists Galileo's innovations.
Galileo speaks to the Venetian assembly, with telescope.
Poster for The Clouds. Greek columns and smoke.

Fall 2023: The Clouds, By Aristophanes

Directed by: Gerrad Alex Taylor

Devised and adapted by: the JHU Theatre 2023 Fall Ensemble: Audrey Douglas, Jiaming He, Darrel La, Benjamin Roberts, Gurtejan Swaich, Kathy Yella

Read the review in the Johns Hopkins News-Letter.

Socrates in blue robe and garland.
Strepsiades in yellow robe
Chorus member in Greek clothing.
Chorus works with the Da Vinci Machine.
Strepsiades beats on Phidippides.
The Chorus of Clouds, with Strepsiades and Socrates.

Other Recent Productions

  • Spring 23: The Cherry Orchard, by Anton Chekhov
  • Spring 23 Playshop: Untitled annoying sad theater teens, by Sigrid Edson
  • Fall 22: The Glass Menagerie, by Tennessee Williams
  • Spring 22: A Doll’s House Part 2, by Lucas Hnath
  • Fall 21: Escape, by Nicky Glossman
  • Yankee Tavern
  • Sunday on the Rocks
  • Dura Mater
  • Good Television
  • U.S.A.
  • Kick the Can
  • Top Girls
  • Legion
  • The Real Inspector Hound
  • Anton in Show Business
  • Fool for Love
  • The House of Blue Leaves
  • Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow
  • Spoon River Anthology
  • Under Milkwood
  • Simpatico
  • Fuddy Meers
  • The Big Knife
  • Bus Stop
  • La Ronde
  • Twelfth Night
  • Fifth of July
  • Book of Days
  • Five Women Wearing the Same Dress
  • The Marriage of Bette and Boo
  • Crimes of the Heart
  • Boy Meets Girl
  • Krapp’s Last Tape
  • Charley’s Aunt
  • Bluff
  • Our Town