Fall 2026 Season!
The Storm Play
October 22-23
'92 Theater
By Freya Grant '29
A divine storm strikes Woodward, Vermont, causing religious panic & 17-year-old Angeline, Ilia’s best friend & the girl she loves, to disappear. Sixty years later, severe storms strike Woodward again, leaving 77-year-old Ilia, who believes she saw an angel the night Angeline disappeared, stranded outside a gas station in the rain with four others, each searching for some God & wondering what actually happened sixty years ago. The Storm Play explores loss, queer love, & a mysterious holiness.
Written and Directed by Freya Grant ‘29
Assistant Directed by Izzy Haick ‘29
Stage Managed by Ember Mahnke ‘29
Instagram: @thestormplay
Clue
October 30-31
Russell House
By Sandy Rustin
Clue is a stage adaptation of the classic movie based on the board game. This comedy involves six anonymous dinner guests who have all been mysteriously blackmailed, as they try to unravel a hilarious murder mystery with the charge led by the eccentric butler, Wadsworth.
Directed by David Flatau-Jones
Stage Managed by Oliver Mazner and Arielle Gold
Instagram @clue.wes
The Accidental Death of an Anarchist
November 6th-7th
Russell House
By Dario Fo
This thought-provoking Italian political farce is set soon after the true death of Giuseppe Pinelli, a railroad worker who was an anarchist and (according to reports) passed away in a police station in Italy by seemingly “having a fit” and throwing himself out a window. In the play, a Suspect infiltrates the police station through multiple disguises ranging from a judge to a priest, conducting his own investigation of the Pinelli case. Through tricking detectives, inspectors, and a well-known journalist, we discover that maybe...just maybe, the death was not an accident. With fourth wall breaks, disguises, irony, and even slapstick, the play comically tells the story and poses important questions about the lengths those in authority will go to in order to maintain their version of the truth, and the choices we have to make about sacrificing the status-quo for the greater good.
Directed by Har-El Shrem '29
Stage Managed by Luke Slater '29
Instagram: @anarchistwes
House of Stars
November 13th-14th
WestCo Cafe
By Anastasia Zhu '29
After the passing of a trans elder, 5 trans women inherit the house and scramble to make ends meet
amidst 2026 pressures both materially and emotionally. Through hardships and struggles, they make their
dreams a reality against all odds!!! They don't. Kat Blaque’s not on tumblr and we don’t have to pretend to
like Contrapoints. It’s 2026, get real. Rethinking the trans tragedy trope, notions of hope, fate, and destiny are
challenged in blunt explorations of trans life. We are asked to question: what should they have done? What
could they have done?
Directed by Anastasia Zhu '29
Stage Managed by Orion Kolek '29
Instagram: @houseofstars_wes
Bug
November 20th-21st
WestCo Cafe
By Tracy Letts
Exploring themes of paranoia and conspiracy theories, the play tells the story of a woman who, as she spends time with a newly acquainted man in her seedy Oklahoma motel room, starts sharing more and more of his paranoias - specifically, that they are infested with millions of tiny bugs.
Directed by Gryphon Magnus and Gabby Hoefner
Instagram: @bug_wesleyan
Cabaret
December 4th-5th
WestCo Cafe
Script written by Joe Masteroff, Music written by John Kander, Lyrics written by Fred Ebb, Based on the play by John Van Druten
In 1940s Germany, in the seedy and hedonistic Kit Kat Klub, Cliff Bradshaw, a romantic American author, meets Sally Bowles, a doomed and delusional cabaret singer. They become infatuated with one another as the world descends into fascism and neighbors go missing around them. Fraulein Schneider, an old German landlord, and Herr Schultz, an old Jewish fruit vendor, learn to love again before the regime asks how much they’re willing to lose for each other. The Emcee, the Klub’s host, always keeps the show going with a wink and a raunchy joke, no matter how loud the marching gets in the background.
Directed by Simon Sidney and Gabrielle Walker
Stage Managed by Natalie Cohen
Instagram: @kitkatklubwes