Organized by the Benaki Museum, Athens, in collaboration with Fairfield University Department of Visual and Performing Arts, the exhibition includes 76 dramatic black and white framed prints featuring Greek antiquities that have been produced from high resolution scans of the original negatives. The exhibition is divided into five units that span 150 years and visually portray the story of the delicate balance between documentation and creative vision in photographs with antiquities as the subject -- from the first photographic attempts of the early travelers in the 19th century through the sophisticated work of the late 20th to early 21st century.

Photographers represented: James Robertson, Dimitrios Konstantinou, William Stillman, Petros Moraitis, Konstantinos Athanasiou, Anton Silberhuber, Frederic Boissonnas, Walter Hege, Herbert List, Goesta Hellner and Socratis Mavrommatis.

While the Facebook social networking website has proven to be enormously popular, linking millions of photographs of faces to searchable biographical data, the notion of collecting and cataloguing pictures of people is not a new one. In the 1920s August Sander created a typological catalogue of more than six hundred photographs of German people from all walks of life, in his monumental lifelong project to document the residents of his native Westerwald, near Cologne.

Through fifty photographs from the nearly 3,000 in the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center collection, the new exhibition Facebook: Images of People in Photographs from the Permanent Collection examines the development of the photographic portrait from the nineteenth century through today.

The exhibition features many of the most influential photographers of the twentieth century: from very early formal portraits to the iconic photographs taken in the early 1900s by August Sander and Walker Evans (the famed chronicler of rural and laboring Americans); from the unique personalities captured by visionary artist Diane Arbus in the 1960s, to the theatrical fictions created by Cindy Sherman in the 1980s; as well as the deadpan views of ordinary New Yorkers shot by Rineke Dijkstra in the 1990s.

Berenice Abbott, Walead Beshty, Richard Avedon, Philip-Lorca DiCorcia, Lee Freidlander, Nan Goldin, Mark Goodman, Lewis W. Hine, Sherrie Levine, Helen Levitt, Sally Mann, Lee Miller, Thomas Ruff, Laurie Simmons, Paul Strand, Larry Sultan, Weegee, and Garry Winogrand are among the other artists whose photographs are seen in Facebook.

Ancient Futures is an exploration into the mental make-up of the U.S. social system: the beauty, ugliness, abstraction, music, and color. The group show acts as both a revival of the 1990s monthly Avant Yard underground art experience in Tribeca, New York  during the early 1990s, as well as an update on emerging artists coming onto the scene.

Featured Artists: Terry Boddie, Fikisha C, Jennifer Crute, Francks Deceus, Joshua Humphries, Dirk Joseph, Laura James, Kip Omolade, William Rhodes, Danny Simmons, Jamel Shabazz, and Malik Yusef Cumbo, the Essential M.C., Game Rebellion, the Welfare Poets, Yolanda Zama, Nucomme, Survival Soundz featuring Carla Csharp Gomez, Lovespace Music, Defrei of Ahficianados, the Majestic Twinsound and Ahficial Music.

1968/2008: The Culture of Collage, a group exhibition of collage and assemblage works from the year 1968 and from the present day.

The first decade of the new century has witnessed enormous social, political, environmental and economic changes. Issues ranging from gay marriage, immigration, the continued spread of HIV/AIDS and global warming to the fall of the U.S. Dollar and the rise of terrorism have dominated the airwaves.

Bringing together a diverse group of historical and new work, the current exhibition points to the myriad ways in which artists continue to explore social, political and cultural themes through the use of found objects and images.

Nora Aslan, Alice Attie, Romare Bearden, Wallace Berman, Joe Brainard, Tamar Cohen, Michael Cooper, Joseph Cornell, Matthew Cusick, Josh Dorman, India Evans, John Evans, Tony Fitzpatrick, Ilse Getz, Nancy Grossman, Al Hansen, Geoffrey Hendricks, Addie Herder, Jess, Jerry Jofen, Ray Johnson, Don Joint, Marcus Kenney, Jiři; Kolář, Thomas Lanigan-Schmidt, Salvatore Meo, Ron Monroe, Michael Oatman, John O’Reilly, Alfonso Ossorio, Javier Piñón, David Poppie, Mac Premo, Robert Motherwell, Holli Schorno, Felix Schramm, Donna Sharrett, Karen Shaw, Jack Smith, Jonathan Solo, Ken Solomon, Maritta Tapanainen, Jacques Villeglé, Mark Wagner, Aaron Wexler, CK Wilde, May Wilson, Miriam Wosk and more…

Los Desastres de la Guerra is Francisco de Goya’s (1746-1828) illustrates man’s inhumanity towards his fellow man, precipitated by Spain’s War of Independence against Napoleon’s forces (1808-1814), and suggests the complete collapse of the Age of Enlightenment. The original set of 85 etchings was most likely completed by Goya between 1810 and 1820, and entitled Fatales consequencias de la sangrienta guerra en España con Buonaparte. Y otros caprichos enfáticos. (Fatal consequences of Spain’s bloody war with Buonaparte. And other emphatic caprices). The set of proofs was bound and given to his friend Juan Agustín Ceán Bermúdez to review, and is currently located in the British Museum. The prints were not published in Goya’s lifetime. In 1863, the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando published the first edition of 80 aquatints as Los Desastres de la Guerra, bound as a book.

Over sixty years old and deaf when the war began, it is unlikely Goya witnessed firsthand all of the atrocities he depicts in the series, however his portrayal of the events under French occupation serve as profound statements on this war and on war in general. The first half of the plates renders the horrors of war and its effects; the subsequent plates illustrate famine as a consequence of war; the last group of plates depicts allegorical images referring to the trauma of the postwar period.

On the heels of Iron Man the movie starring Robert Downey Jr., this exhibition features approximately 60 ensembles including movie costumes, avant-garde haute couture, and high-performance sportswear to reveal how the superhero such as Iron Man serves as the ultimate metaphor for fashion and its ability to empower and transform the human body.

Designers in the exhibition include Atair, Giorgio Armani, Balenciaga, Pierre Cardin, Dolce & Gabbana, Jean Paul Gaultier, Eiko Ishioka, Alexander McQueen, Julien Macdonald, Moschino, Thierry Mugler, Nike, Rick Owens, Gareth Pugh, Speedo, Spyder, As Four, Walter van Beirendonck, Versace, and Bernhard Willhelm.

Objects are organized thematically around specific superheroes, whose movie costumes and superpowers are catalysts for discussion of key concepts of superheroism and their expression in fashion. Superman and Spider-Man costumes address the subject of The Graphic Body, relating Superman's 'S' chevron to designer logos and branding.

The Flash – a character who possesses superhuman speed - addresses the Aerodynamic Body as manifest in high-tech sportswear including Speedo's "Fastskin LZR Racer" designed by Rei Kawakubo for Michael Phelps and the 2008 United States Olympic swim team, Nike's "Swift Suit" for running, and Descente's "Muscle Suit" for speed skating. Batman and Iron Man represent The Armored Body, and examine avant-garde fashion that merges flesh and metal, skin and chromium. The Mutant Body, denoted by the X-Men, highlights clothing that morphs men into beasts. Ghost Rider (the biker-demon with flaming skull) and The Punisher (the vigilante who sports a giant death-skull emblem on his T-shirt) symbolize The Postmodern Body that suggests an anti-hero identity through the eclectic mixing of street styles.

In Action/Abstraction: Pollock, de Kooning, and American Art, 1940-1976, over fifty key works by 32 artists – among them Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Helen Frankenthaler, Mark Rothko – are viewed from the perspectives of influential, rival art critics Clement Greenberg and Harold Rosenberg, the artists, and popular culture.

Context rooms in the exhibition feature documents – including personal correspondence, magazines and newspapers, film and television clips, and photographs – that shed light on the cultural and social climate of the 1940s to the 1970s. The works in the exhibition, arranged in thematic sections, are grouped to evoke the rivalry of Rosenberg (he promoted action – his idea of the creative, physical act of making art) and Greenberg’s (belief in abstraction and the formal purity of the art object).

The American painter Philip Guston (1913–1980) was a prolific draftsman who often turned to drawing to explore new directions in his art before applying them to painting.

Organized by the KunstMuseum Bonn, and the Staatliche Graphische Sammlung Munich, in cooperation with the artist’s estate, Philip Guston: Works on Paper examines the importance of drawing throughout key periods of Guston’s career, from the mid-1940s to 1980.

The Morgan Library & Museum’s presentation of the exhibition features more than one-hundred drawings, including many rarely seen works that were left in the artist’s studio after his death as well as major loans from museums and private collections.

A national hands-on exhibition for children ages 6 and older.

Budding archaeologists can visit the Temple of Zeus at Olympia and assist in the reconstruction of a 3-D temple, learn about column construction, sculptures, and the giant statue of Zeus (one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World).

The tour guides are the great gods Zeus, Poseidon and Athena who reminisce about their powers and responsibilities. Visitors can also climb inside a 12½ foot tall Trojan Horse before stepping into Homer’s great epic poem, The Odyssey. Plus, visitors explore actual examples of ancient Greek artifacts: painted pottery, coins, votives, drinking cups, loom weights, arrowheads and sling bullets.

Melani: Litanie per la Beata Vergine Maria for nine voices and basso continuo

Scarlatti: Messa per il Santissimo Natale

Pergolesi: Missa Romana (“di S. Emidio”)

The ever-inventive Pilobolus in three programmes:

PROGRAM 1: Lanterna Magica is the new full-company work by Pilobolus Co-Artistic Director Michael Tracy. This work uses ritual and mythology to create a mysterious and isensual celebration of the supernatural.

Program 1: Lanterna Magica, Pseudopodia, Memento Mori, Ocellus, Megawatt

PROGRAM 2: Razor: Mirror Jonathan Wolken's new quintet explores the hidden space that almost separates the worlds of the sane and the irrational..

Program 2: Razor:Mirror, Pseudopodia, Gnomen, Persistence of Memory, Rushes

PROGRAM 3: Borderless Innovation Pilobolus' second annual International Collaborators Project brings shadow play to the stage through the talents of the company's Co-Artistic Directors Robby Barnett and Jonathan Wolken, joined by acclaimed puppeteer Basil Twist.

Program 3: B'zyrk, Symbiosis, Basil Twist collaboration, Day Two

The Joyce Theater
175 Eighth Avenue (at the corner of 19th Street)
New York, NY 10011

Grammy Award winner, Kanye West brings his Glow in the Dark tour to Seattle in support of his latest release, “Graduation”. West won this year’s Grammy Awards for Best Rap Solo Performance for “Stronger,” Best Rap Album for “Graduation,” and Best Rap Song for “Good Life.”

One of the biggest names in Hip Hop today the American record producer and rapper Kanye West's mascot and trademark is a teddy bear, which has appeared on the covers of his three albums as well as the single cover for his song "Stronger". 

Also performing on the Glow in the Dark Tour is this year’s Grammy Award winner for Best Rap/Sung Collaboration for “Umbrella,” Rihanna, along with N.E.R.D. and Lupe Fiasco.

After playing for ten sold-out weeks in five cities in Australia, Walking with Dinosaurs – The Live Experience is now on tour in North America for two years.

Drawing its inspiration from the internationally acclaimed BBC documentary series Walking With Dinosaurs - seen by a world-wide audience of over 700 million - the live arena production credits TV series’ creator/ producer Tim Haynes.

Fifteen life-like and life-size dinosaurs have been brought to life by a team of specialist engineers employing technologies and techniques from film, animatronics, conventional puppetry and physical theater.

Ten species are represented from the entire 200 million year reign of the dinosaurs.

The show includes the Tyrannosaurus Rex, the terror of the ancient terrain, as well as the Plateosaurus and Liliensternus from the Triassic period, the Stegosaurus and Allosaurus from the Jurassic period and Torosaurus and Utahraptor from the awesome Cretaceous. The largest of them, the Brachiosaurus is 36 feet tall, and 56 feet from nose to tail. It took a team of 50 – including engineers, fabricators, skin makers, artists and painters, and animatronic experts – a year to build the original production. The show depicts the dinosaurs’ evolution, complete with the climatic and tectonic changes that took place, which led to the demise of many species. Walking with Dinosaurs has scenes of the interactions between dinosaurs, and the audience sees how carnivorous dinosaurs evolved to walk on two legs, and how the herbivores fended off their more agile predators.

The history of the world is played out with the splitting of the earth’s continents, and the transition from the arid desert of the Triassic period is given over to the lush green prairies and forces of the later Jurassic. Oceans form, volcanoes erupt, a forest catches fire -- all leading to the impact of the massive comet, which struck the earth, and forced the extinction of the dinosaurs.

Coinciding with the 2008 election and providing insight into New York’s often pivotal role in American electoral politics, Campaigning for President:  New York and the American Election covers presidential politics from the inauguration of George Washington on lower Manhattan’s Wall Street, to the current volatile and unpredictable campaign.

The show features selections from the nation's largest and most comprehensive collection of campaign artifacts alongside objects from the Museum’s collection, notably selections from a monumental, 1.25 million artifact collection amassed by Jordan Wright, a media entrepreneur and devotee of American politics who died on 11 May at his home in Atlantic Beach, New York at the age of 50. His collection reveals not only the key platforms of particular candidates, but also the subtle and not-so-subtle strategies employed by vote-seekers.  Wright's collection forms the basis of the Museum of Democracy and is richly portrayed in a book titled Campaigning for President (available in the Museum’s shop).  Highly expressive buttons, banners, posters, hats, dresses, and other campaign materials on view highlight the role of visual propaganda in the electoral process (especially from times when many voters were illiterate).  Collectively they reveal the underpinnings of today’s mass-media campaigns, demonstrating that U. S. politics has for centuries been characterized by sloganeering, promissory mantra-making, and abundant, often gleefully vicious mud-slinging, which prevails from the 19th century through today.

On view are examples of alternately inspiring, thought-provoking, scandalous, hilarious, and plain-old corny campaign huckstering, including (among many others):

 - a poster lampooning “King Andrew” that asks the question: shall Andrew Jackson “reign over us, or shall the people rule?”
a translation of Abraham Lincoln and Aesop’s Fables into the Santee Sioux language

 - mechanical “nose-thumbers” produced for James Garfield’s campaign
a one-of-a-kind porcelain and cloth doll depicting, when held upright, William McKinley, and when turned upside-down, an African-American baby, in vicious response to accusations that the candidate had fathered an illegitimate black child

 - a cloth rose lapel pin bearing the likeness of Theodore Roosevelt an anti-Republican Party door hanger in the shape of a teapot, referencing President Warren Harding and the infamous Teapot Dome scandal

 - a campaign button with Socialist candidate Eugene Debs identified as “convict no. 9653”

 - Al Smith pins in the shape of his signature derby hat
a “negative-campaigning” poster for Thomas Dewey associating vice-presidential candidate Harry Truman with the Ku Klux Klan

 - “I Like Ike” socks

 - a paper mini-dress promoting Robert Kennedy

 - Good Humor Ice Cream wrappers promoting Richard M. Nixon (and John F. Kennedy)

 - a yarmulke promoting Al Gore and a Time magazine cover picturing him as President-elect

The award-winning gay rap opera Bash'd, created and performed by Chris Craddock and Nathan Cuckow in the charachters of Feminem & T-Bag, the show features music by Aaron Macri and is directed by Ron Jenkins.

Bash'd chronicles the tale of Jack and Dillon; two star-crossed lovers who must cope with the reality of hatred when one is brutally beaten. Fuelled by the increase of gay bashings that happened during Premier Ralph Klein's refusal to legalize gay marriage in Alberta, Canada, one of the lovers decides to reverse the discrimination and go out and bash innocent heterosexuals. It is told entirely through rap, spoken word and poetry, turning the often-homophobic musical genre on its ear. Even though the topic is serious, the musical is high energy, irreverent, and provocative. Bash'd was a smash hit at the 2007 Toronto International Fringe Festival.

Catholics in New York 1808-1946 explores the social and political history of the diverse group of people who established the formidable Catholic presence in New York.
The exhibition is organized around three central themes:

- How Catholic community life revolved around New York's parishes, starting with the earliest, such as St. Peter's, old St. Patrick's, and St. Brigid's in Manhattan, and the distinctive subculture that arose in their heavily Catholic neighborhoods;

- The creation of a vast system of health, education, and social welfare institutions, including parochial schools, the New York Foundling Hospital, and healthcare centers such as St. Vincent's Hospital in Manhattan and St. Mary’s Hospital in Brooklyn, originally founded by Catholics to provide services that embraced their religion and that would be insulated from anti-Catholic prejudice; and

- The rise of Catholics as a force in New York politics, framed by such New York figures as William R. Grace (1832-1904), the Irish-born businessman who in 1880 was elected the first Catholic mayor of New York City; Alfred E. Smith (1873-1944), the governor from the Lower East Side who became the first Catholic to be nominated by a major political party for President of the United States, in 1928; Vito Marcantonio (1902-1954), the Congressman and American Labor Party leader from East Harlem; and many others.

Woven throughout all three sections is how this "community of immigrants" defended its Catholic identity in response to widespread anti-Catholicism.  The exhibition begins with a prologue that looks at anti-Catholicism in the colonial period; it concludes with the implementation of the G.I. Bill, which paved the way to higher education, low-cost home mortgages, and ultimately the migration to the suburbs for many of New York’s Catholics, and with an epilogue that presents the new face of Catholic New York since World War II.

Highlights of the exhibition include:

- over 100  family photographs showing the diverse people of pre-war Catholic New York, collected through a massive outreach to New Yorkers conducted by Museum of the City of New York curatorial staff; also included will be parochial school report cards and yearbooks from the late 19th and early 20th centuries, sports uniforms and trophies, parish publications, and audio interviews with New Yorkers recalling their experiences growing up Catholic;

- documents related to the life of Pierre Toussaint (1766-1853), a former slave who supported church organization and whose charitable works have earned him consideration for sainthood;

- an original Test Book from the Emigrant Industrial Savings Bank, listing the name of Archbishop John Hughes (1797-1864) as one of the first depositors in 1850;

- a handwritten note from a Catholic mother who left her child with the New York Foundling Hospital in 1877.

Alfred Hitchcock meets Monty Python in this whodunit, part espionage thriller and part slapstick comedy, adapted for the stage from the famous film and novel. This production had its NYC premiere earlier this season by the Roundabout Theatre Company.

Cast: Arnie Burton, Charles Edwards, Jennifer Ferrin, Cliff Saunders

Adapted by Patrick Barlow
Maria Aitken, director
Sets: Peter McKintosh

The exhibition features approximately 60 ensembles including movie costumes, avant-garde haute couture, and high-performance sportswear to reveal how the superhero serves as the ultimate metaphor for fashion and its ability to empower and transform the human body.

Designers in the exhibition include Atair, Giorgio Armani, Balenciaga, Pierre Cardin, Dolce & Gabbana, Jean Paul Gaultier, Eiko Ishioka, Alexander McQueen, Julien Macdonald, Moschino, Thierry Mugler, Nike, Rick Owens, Gareth Pugh, Speedo, Spyder, As Four, Walter van Beirendonck, Versace, and Bernhard Willhelm.

Objects are organized thematically around specific superheroes, whose movie costumes and superpowers are catalysts for discussion of key concepts of superheroism and their expression in fashion. Superman and Spider-Man costumes address the subject of The Graphic Body, relating Superman's 'S' chevron to designer logos and branding.

The Flash – a character who possesses superhuman speed - addresses the Aerodynamic Body as manifest in high-tech sportswear including Speedo's "Fastskin LZR Racer" designed by Rei Kawakubo for Michael Phelps and the 2008 United States Olympic swim team, Nike's "Swift Suit" for running, and Descente's "Muscle Suit" for speed skating. Batman and Iron Man represent The Armored Body, and examine avant-garde fashion that merges flesh and metal, skin and chromium. The Mutant Body, denoted by the X-Men, highlights clothing that morphs men into beasts. Ghost Rider (the biker-demon with flaming skull) and The Punisher (the vigilante who sports a giant death-skull emblem on his T-shirt) symbolize The Postmodern Body that suggests an anti-hero identity through the eclectic mixing of street styles.

George Stevens, Jr.: Thurgood

A new play about Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall. According to the press release, "Marshall rose from the backstreets of Baltimore to the Supreme Court of the United States, overcoming whatever obstacles society placed in his way. Thurgood is his remarkable story, a triumph of courage—not just for the man, but for the nation he bravely challenged and proudly served."

Cast: Laurence Fishburne

Leonard Fogliam, director

Now in its first Broadway revival, South Pacific features  Kelli O'Hara (The Light in the Piazza) and baritone Paulo Szot in the leading roles with direction by Bartlett Sher (The Light in the Piazza and Awake and Sing).

Music by Richard Rodgers
Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II
Author, Tales of the South Pacific
James Michener

Cast:

Kelli O'Hara , Paulo Szot
Matthew Morrison , Danny Burstein , Loretta Ables Sayre , Sean Cullen , Victor Hawks , Luka Kain , Li Jun Li , Laurissa Romain , Skipp Sudduth , Noah Weisberg, Becca Ayers , Wendi Bergamini , Genson Blimline , Grady McLeod Bowman , Charlie Brady , Matt Caplan , Christian Carter , Helmar Augustus Cooper , Jeremy Davis , Margot De La Barre , Christian Delcroix , Laura Marie Duncan , Mike Evariste , Laura Griffith , Lisa Howard , Maryann Hu , Zachary James , Robert Lenzi , Garrett Long , Nick Mayo , George Merrick , William Michals , Kimber Monroe , Emily Morales , Darius Nichols , George Psomas , Andrew Samonsky , Jerold E. Solomon

In the Heights is a musical about three days in the life of Washington Heights, a vibrant and tightly knit, but diverse Latino community at the top of the island of Manhattan. It's a place where the coffee from the corner bodega is light and sweet, the windows are always open, and the breeze carries the rhythm of three generations of music. In the Heights is the tale of a community at a crossroads. Find out what it takes to make a living, what it costs to have a dream, and what it means to be home In the Heights.

With music and lyrics by Lin-Manuel Miranda and a book by Quiara Alegria Hudes, In the Heights is directed by Thomas Kail and choreographed by Andy Blankenbuehler. Alex Lacamoire is music director, and music arrangements and orchestrations are by Alex Lacamoire and Bill Sherman. Miranda and Kail are both members of the hip-hop improv troupe Freestyle Love Supreme and head a 22-member cast.

Andrea Burns, Janet Dacal, Robin De Jesus, Carlos Gomez, Mandy Gonzalez, Christopher Jackson, Priscilla Lopez, Olga Merediz, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Karen Olivo, Seth Stewart

Stew, a popular performer at Joe's Pub, was commissioned by The Public Theater of New York to develop this heartfelt and hilarious story of a young bohemian who charts a course for “the real” through sex, drugs and rock and roll. Loaded with soulful lyrics and overflowing with passion, the show takes us from black, middle-class America to Amsterdam, Berlin and beyond on a journey towards personal and artistic authenticity.

The score includes such Stew tunes as "Amsterdam," "Keys/It's Alright," "Love Like That," "Come Down Now," and "Arlington Hill."

Cast: Stew (Book, Lyrics, Co-Composer, Co-Orchestrator, Narrator), Daniel Breaker, de'Adre Aziza, Eisa Davis, Colman Domingo, Chad Goodridge, Rebecca Naomi Jones, Heidi Rodewald, Jon Spurney, Christian Cassan

Music: Stew & Heidi Rodewald
Annie Dorsen, director
Sets: David Korins
Karole Armitage, choreographer

Passing Strange has received 7 Tony Award Nomimations including Best Musical.

Fight Night Fights originated in the basement space of the Church Street Boxing Gym in lower Manhattan. The limited seating capacity and ever growing demand prompted Fight Night Fights to move to a larger venue, the basement of St. Paul the Apostle's Church behind Columbus Circle. This old school fight club has become popular with everybody from blue collar toughs to Wall Street investment bankers to New York style editors and hipsters.

The Friday Night Fights NYC Series features a variety of fighting styles. Muay Thai Boxing, Amateur Boxing and White Collar Boxing are just some of the types of fights that are featured at fight nights.

The new musical Spring Awakening arrives on Broadway following a sold-out run at the Atlantic Theater. The show features music by Grammy Award nominee Duncan Sheik, book and lyrics by Steven Sater, choreography by Bill T. Jones, and direction by Tony Award nominee Michael Mayer.

Based on Frank Wedekind's The Awakening of Spring, Spring Awakening is the contemporary musical adaptation of one of literature's most controversial plays.

It’s Germany, 1891.  A world where the grown-ups hold all the cards.  The beautiful young Wendla explores the mysteries of her body, and wonders aloud where babies come from, till Mama tells her to shut it, and put on a proper dress.

Elsewhere, the brilliant and fearless young Melchior interrupts a mind-numbing Latin drill to defend his buddy Moritz – a boy so traumatized by puberty he can’t concentrate on anything.  Not that the Headmaster cares.  He strikes them both and tells them to turn in their lesson.

One afternoon – in a private place in the woods – Melchior and Wendla meet by accident, and soon find within themselves a desire unlike anything they’ve ever felt.

Spring Awakening

As they fumble their way into one another’s arms, Moritz flounders and soon fails out of school.  When even his one adult friend, Melchior’s mother, ignores his plea for help, he is left so distraught he can’t hear the promise of life offered by his outcast friend Ilse.

Naturally, the Headmasters waste no time in pinning the “crime” of Moritz’s suicide on Melchior and expel him.  And soon Mama learns her little Wendla is pregnant.  Now the young lovers must struggle against all odds to build a world together for their child.

Michael Longoria 
Christian Hoff - Tony Award Winner
Sebastian Arcelus
J Robert Spencer

Book by Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice
Music and Lyrics by Bob Gaudio and Bob Crewe
Directed by Des McAnuff
Choreography by Sergio Trujillo