Upcoming Productions
The Schoolcraft College Theatre Department &
the James R. Hartman Theatre
proudly present the
2024-2025 Theatre Season!
Evening performances at 7:30pm
Matinee performances at 2pm
General Admission Tickets $20
Students (with valid ID) $15
PROOF
by David Auburn
Directed by Paul Beer
Winner of the 2001 Pulitzer Prize and the 2001 Tony and Drama Desk Awards for Best Play, PROOF is the story of Catherine, a young woman who sacrificed her own education to care for her brilliant, but unstable father, a famous mathematician. Now, following his death, she confronts her own emotions, the arrival of her estranged sister, Claire, and her father’s grad student Hal, who hopes to discover valuable work in the notebooks Catherine’s father has left behind. In the long weekend following her father’s death, Catherine confronts a budding relationship with Hal, the discovery of a mysterious notebook, and the fundamental question of how much of her father’s madness — or genius — she has inherited.
Performance Dates: October 25, 26, 27 (Matinee), November 1, 2
Recommended for 13-year-olds and up for mild language and thematic elements.
A Night of One Act Plays
Directed by Paul Beer
Three outstanding one-act plays by award-winning playwrights:
MAKING PURPLE, by Michael Alan Herman, examines the tense relationship between two competing artists vying for exhibition space and the hilarious extremes to which they’ll go to win.
A VERY STAR WARS CHRISTMAS, by Joseph Zettelmaier, tells the comic story of a long-time holiday tradition upset by the introduction of a new character in the mix.
CRAZY EIGHTS, by David Lindsay-Abaire, shows the humorous antics of Connie and Bennie as they move from a professional relationship to something more romantic, complicated by Connie’s charming buddy Cliff.
Performance dates: February 7 & 8
CLARKSTON
by Samuel D. Hunter
Directed by Michael Alan Herman
Award-winning playwright and MacArthur “Genius Grant” Fellow Samuel D. Hunter examines the lives of two young men who meet working in a Costco in Clarkston, Washington. Jake is from the East Coast and attended an elite liberal arts college, but suffers from a fatal illness. He is on his way to see the ocean when his illness slows him down. Chris is a local Clarkston boy with a meth-addict mother and a dead-end life. The young men form an awkward bond. Both are gay, but they have led vastly different lives. Can they learn to help each other?
Performance dates: April 4, 5, 6 (Matinee), 11, 12
Recommended for 13-year-olds and up for mild language and thematic elements.
