Performances - Main Stage Productions and Events
Fall 2025
Event Information
We welcome off-campus guests to attend our performances.
Most reservations for the 2025–2026 season will open about a month before each show through the PAC Box Office. Events are either free or ticketed in a range from $5 to $30, depending on the audience group. For free or low-cost events, we encourage guests to consider a contribution to support our productions and students.
For more information about any of these productions, please email the PAC Box Office: center@purchase.edu
At the Bottom
Maxim Gorky’s The Lower Depths, adapted and directed by Jack Tamburri
Sept 24-27, 2025
CMFT 0061 Performance Theatre
Free Attendance / Suggested Contribution $10
Weds, 9/24 @ 7:30pm
Thurs, 9/25 @ 7:30pm
Fri, 9/26 @ 7:30pm
Sat, 9/27 @ 1:30pm matinee
Sat, 9/27 @ 7:30pm
Featuring the work of BFA Acting Junior Company 51 with Production State Management support from BFA Theatre Design/Technology
At the Bottom is a landmark in dramatic literature for its authentic, unflinching, and darkly comic portraits of people on society’s margins. Set in a notorious flophouse in a rapidly changing industrial city on the eve of revolution, it asks what role fantasy has in a bleak life, and what lengths people will go to gain momentary power over one another.
Playbill here: tba
Acting BFA Company 50 Repertory
Mosquitos
By Lucy Kirkwood, Directed by Katherine Wilkinson
Oct 9-18, 2025
CMFT Studio Theatre (2nd Fl, 2043)
Fee for Attendance: $5-20
Thurs, 10/9 @ 7:30pm
Fri, 10/10 @ 7:30pm
Sun, 10/12 @ 1:30pm matinee
Thurs, 10/16 @ 7:30pm
Sat, 10/18 @ 1:30pm matinee
Featuring the work of BFA Acting Senior Company 50 and BFA Theatre Design/Technology.
Mosquitoes is a sharp, moving drama about science, family, and belief. Set in Geneva near the Large Hadron Collider—the world’s largest and most powerful particle accelerator—it follows two sisters, one a scientist and the other a skeptic, as they clash over truth, loss, and responsibility. With wit and emotional depth, Mosquitoes explores family chaos and the search for meaning in an uncertain universe.
Playbill here: tba
Water by the Spoonful
By Quiara AlegrÃa Hudes, Directed by Kadina de Elejalde
Oct 11-19, 2025
CMFT Studio Theatre (2nd Fl, 2043)
Fee for Attendance: $5-20
Sat, 10/11 @ 1:30pm matinee
Sat, 10/11 @ 7:30pm
Fri, 10/17 @ 7:30pm
Sat, 10/18 @ 7:30pm
Sun, 10/19 @ 1:30pm matinee
Featuring the work of BFA Acting Senior Company 50 and BFA Theatre Design/Technology.
Water by the Spoonful is a powerful drama about trauma, recovery, and connection across generations in a Puerto Rican family. Alongside Elliot, an Iraq War veteran, the play features a diverse online support group of recovering addicts from varied cultural backgrounds. Blending reality and virtual worlds, it explores healing, forgiveness, and the search for belonging in a fractured, multicultural America.
Playbill here: tba
10 out of 12
By Anne Washburn, directed by Attilio Rigotti
Oct 24-Nov 1, 2025
CMFT Performance Theatre (Ground FL, 0061)
Fee for Attendance: $5-30
Fri, 10/24 @ 7:30pm
Sat, 10/25 @ 1:30pm matinee
Sat, 10/25 @ 7:30pm
Weds, 10/29 @ 7:30pm
Thurs, 10/30 @ 7:30pm
Fri, 10/31 @ 7:30pm
Sat, 11/1 @ 1:30pm matinee
Sat, 11/1 @ 7:30pm
Featuring the work of BA Theatre & Performance and BFA Theatre Design/Technology.
10 out of 12 is a sharp, darkly comic exploration of the chaos behind the scenes in a theatre production. Set during a single intense day of rehearsal, the play delves into the lives, power dynamics, and tensions among actors, directors, and production crew. With layered dialogue and biting wit, it exposes the pressures of artistic creation and the blurred lines between reality and performance.
Playbill here: tba
Not by Bed Alone
By Georges Feydeau, translated by Norman Shapiro, and directed by A. Dean Irby
Nov 14-22, 2025
The PAC-Performing Arts Center, Abbot Kaplan-Rep Theatre D
Fee for Attendance: $5-30
Fri, 11/14 @ 7:30pm
Sat, 11/15 @ 1:30pm matinee
Sat, 11/15 @ 7:30pm
Weds, 11/19 @ 7:30pm
Thurs, 11/20 @ 7:30pm
Fri, 11/21 @ 7:30pm
Sat, 11/22 @ 1:30pm matinee
Sat, 11/22 @ 7:30pm
Featuring the work of BFA Acting Junior Company 51 and BFA Theatre Design/Technology.
Not by Bed Alone is a fast-paced farce filled with mistaken identities, witty misunderstandings, and outrageous comedy. The play follows a series of chaotic encounters that unravel through clever timing and sharp dialogue. This classic comedy captures the humor and absurdity of relationships, showcasing Feydeau’s mastery farce.
Playbill here: tba
Mad Forest
By Caryl Churchill, directed by Christopher McCann
Nov 19-24
CMFT Studio Theatre (2nd Fl, 2043)
Free Attendance / Suggested Contribution $10
Weds, 11/19 @ 7:30pm
Thurs, 11/20 @ 7:30pm
Fri, 11/21 @ 7:30pm
Sat, 11/22 @ 1:30pm matinee
Sat, 11/22 @ 7:30pm
Mon, 11/24 @ 7:30pm
Featuring the work of BFA Acting Senior Company 50 and BFA Theatre Design/Technology.
Mad Forest is a gripping, poetic drama inspired by the 1989 Romanian Revolution. Blending documentary-style interviews with imaginative storytelling, it explores political upheaval’s impact on ordinary lives. Through humor and tragedy, Mad Forest examines fear, memory, and resistance, revealing the complexities of freedom and the human spirit during profound change.
Playbill here: tba
New Plays Now
Directed by Cezar Williams
CMFT Studio Theatre (2nd Fl, 2043)
Free Attendance / Suggested Contribution $10
CMFT Studio (CMFT 2043)
Fri, 12/5 @ 7:30pm
Sat, 12/6 @ 1:30pm matinee
Sat, 12/6 @ 7:30pm
A festival of short works written by students in the Playwriting program, featuring Acting Company 51, with Production Stage Management support from BFA Theatre Design/Technology.
Upcoming in Spring 2026 Main Stage
Make it Play
Romeo and Juliet by Shakespeare
Fairview by Jackie Sibblies Drury
Sophomore Debut (tbd)
Flyin’ West by Pearl Cleage
The Castle by Howard Barker