Fall 2024

John Proctor is the Villain by Kimberly Belflower

Directed by Nelson Barre

Friday and Saturday, September 27-28 at 7:30pm and Sunday, September 29 at 2:00pm in Olin Studio Theatre (downstairs)

Rural Georgia high schoolers read Arthur Miller’s The Crucible just as several scandals come to light in their community. The characters navigate their love lives, friendships, and questions about what is right and wrong.

Content advisory: This production contains discussions of sexual assault, grooming, and abuse.

FREE tickets for all Roanoke College students, faculty, and staff. Tickets are $10 for general admission, or $5 for seniors/students. Limited seating for this production, so get your tickets early. Tickets are available by calling 540-375-2333 or by emailing boxoffice@roanoke.edu.

John Proctor is the Villain is presented through special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service.

Machinal by Sophie Treadwell

Directed by Nelson Barre

Thursday, Nov. 14 through Saturday, Nov. 16 at 7:30 p.m. in Olin Theatre

Sophie Treadwell’s classic Expressionist play forces us to consider the cogs of the machine that run our lives, especially for women trying to find their place in a society that forges ahead despite the human desire for something more.

FREE tickets for all Roanoke College students, faculty, and staff. Tickets are $10 for general admission, or $5 for seniors/students. Tickets are available by calling 540-375-2333 or by emailing boxoffice@roanoke.edu.

How to Make Friends and Then Kill Them by Halley Feiffer

Directed by Lizzie Clay

Friday, December 6 and Saturday, December 7 at 7:30 p.m. and Saturday, December 7 at 2:00pm in Olin Studio Theatre

Left to their own devices by their alcoholic mother, Ada and Sam cultivate an insular world into which they soon draw a third wheel—a pockmarked, limping wallflower named Dorrie. In the years spanning childhood to young adulthood, these three troubled girls learn to lean on each other completely, finding ways to fill each other up and tear each other down. But when a horrible accident upends their reality, they find they must decide whether to continue to foster their codependent cycle, or to break free, with or without each other’s aid.

FREE tickets for all, but seating is limited. Tickets are available by calling 540-375-2333 or by emailing boxoffice@roanoke.edu.

How to Make Friends and Then Kill Them is presented through special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service.

Winter 2025

The Grown-Ups by Skylar Fox and Simon Henriques

Saturday, January 25 at 4:00pm outside on the Sutton Terrace

Directed by Danielle Barre

A group of summer camp counselors worry about preparing the campers for the realities of the world when they are barely adults themselves. In doing so, they have to make hard choices that force them to reconsider what they want the future to be.

No tickets are necessary for this free event.

A Monster Calls adapted by Sally Cookson and Adam Peck (from the novel by Patrick Ness)

Thursday, February 20 and Saturday, February 22 at 7:30pm as well as Friday, February 21 at 6:00pm in Olin Theater

Directed by Danielle Barre

One night, 13-year-old Conor is woken by an ancient monster at his window. The monster has come walking and tells Conor stories from when he walked before. And when it’s finished, Conor must tell his own story and face his deepest fears.

Content advisory: this production contains depictions of bullying and harrowing reactions to grief/death.

FREE tickets for all Roanoke College students, faculty, and staff. Tickets are $10 for general admission, or $5 for seniors/students. Tickets are available by calling 540-375-2333, online at https://trcmonster2025.eventbrite.com or by emailing boxoffice@roanoke.edu.

Spring 2024

POTUS, or Behind Every Great Dumbass Are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive by Selina Fillinger

Thursday, April 10 through Saturday, April 12 at 7:30pm in Olin Theater

Directed by Mya Brown

In the heart of the nation's capital, a single four-letter word ignites chaos at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. As the President's inner circle of seven formidable women scrambles to contain the fallout, they're plunged into a high-stakes struggle where wit, determination, and a touch of rebellion are their only weapons against a personal and political world gone mad.

FREE tickets for all Roanoke College students, faculty, and staff. Tickets are $10 for general admission, or $5 for seniors/students. Tickets are available by calling 540-375-2333 or by emailing boxoffice@roanoke.edu.

POTUS is presented through special arrangement with Concord Theatricals.

Audition information here.