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  The 2022 Classroom Project: Land of Ours

  Otterbein Theatre and Dance Department

  LAND OF OURS is a brand-new play devised in rehearsal by an ensemble of Otterbein University actors, designers, stage managers, and directors. The play explores the centrality of travel and journeying to human experience. Drawing on the ensemble's personal experiences, stories of mythical travel from legend and folklore, and travel explorations invented in rehearsal, LAND OF OURS is a theatrical journey that will transport you beyond the theater walls to a destination of the imagination.

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  Something Rotten!

  Otterbein Theatre and Dance Department

  Something Rotten takes place in 1595 London, England. The Bottom brothers, Nick and Nigel are trying to find success by writing plays, but are outshined by the rock-star playwright of the Renaissance, William Shakespeare. Desperate to find success Nick gets help from a soothsayer for the next big hit.

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  The Heidi Chronicles

  Otterbein Theatre and Dance Department

  A feminist art historian and her friends, male and female, gay and straight, mature from the 1960s to the 1980s as they search for political, professional and personal fulfillment, in Wendy Wasserstein's Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning play.

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  A Lie of the Mind

  Otterbein Theatre and Dance Department

  Sam Shepherd, a mastermind of dark humor and powerful drama, out does himself with this story of two dysfunctional families joined by marriage in the American West, each trying to hold on to the ideal picture of stability without ever having experienced it. Jake believes he may have killed his wife, Beth, during a domestic dispute and, to calm his concerns, his brother Frankie attempts to get the real story by traveling to Beth’s family home in Montana. While he is relieved to see Beth alive, though severely injured from the incident, Frankie is suddenly entangled in a bizarre familial web of jealousy, love, and revenge. There are always two sides of the story, and sometimes, our minds prevent us from choosing the one of truth.

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  A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder

  Otterbein Theatre and Dance Department

  Join us as we celebrate a return to live theater with a very special staged concert version of the show that was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic in March of 2020. While we are unable to fully realize the elaborate design of this hilarious knock-em-dead musical romp, the script will be performed in full with much of the original cast, and you will not leave without having a hearty laugh. Poor, low-born Monty Navarro is desperate to inherit the dukedom by surpassing no fewer than eight members of the well-to-do D’Ysquith family in line before him. Just wait until you see if and how Monty decides to knock off his unsuspecting relatives while in constant danger of being caught and while managing multiple, increasingly challenging, love affairs…all for the grand title of the ninth Earl of Highhurst.

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  The Pajama Game

  Otterbein Theatre and Dance Department

  Based on the novel 7 ½,The Pajama Game tells the story of a labor furor over a seven-and-a-half-cent pay raise at a pajama plant that complicates the course of true love for Sid Sorokin, the new factory superintendent, and Babe Williams, the feisty firebrand heading the Union Grievance Committee.

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  The Launch 2021: A Senior Cabaret

  Otterbein Theatre and Dance Department

  A fundraiser for the New York Senior Showcase, the ninety-minute program will include the favorite songs, dance, scenes and monologues of the Class of 2022. It will be an afternoon of celebration and joy, the perfect opportunity for you to see these rising stars one last time before they are “launched” into the professional world of show business. All proceeds, including donations beyond the admission fee, will benefit the NY Senior Showcase.