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Misery
2/1


 William Goldman, based on the novel by Stephen King...

Misery
Misery
2/13 - 3/2/2025


This terrifying psychological thriller follows the disturbed mind of a former nurse as she holds her favorite author captive. As the author struggles to escape, ...

King Lear
King Lear
4/10 - 4/27/2025


King Lear has decided to end his reign and divide his country among his three daughters. Loyalties are misjudged and Lear soon finds himself stripped ...


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by BWW Awards - December 16, 2024

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Review: ROUGH CROSSING at Resident Ensemble Players


by Greer Firestone - November 14, 2024

The curriculum vitae of Tom Stoppard is staggering. 1964’s “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead” brought him initial fame in the theatre world. Prolific does not do the man justice. In every theatrical/writing genre he has excelled. Tony Awards, Academy Awards and every other conceivable one. To g...

Tom Stoppard's ROUGH CROSSING to be Presented at the Resident Ensemble Players


by Chloe Rabinowitz - October 16, 2024

Experience Tom Stoppard's hilarious farce ROUGH CROSSING at the Resident Ensemble Players in Newark, DE. Follow the comedic chaos of playwrights on an ocean liner. Learn how to purchase tickets. ...

Review: THE COMPLETE WORKS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (ABRIDGED) at UD Rep Ensemble


by Greer Firestone - September 25, 2024

Aisle Say began reviewing UD REP - Resident Ensemble Players – in a campus gym, long before the capacious and elegant Roselle Center for the Arts became a reality. I was always struck with their overarching quality of both acting and tech. In many reviews called them the pre-eminent acting company i...

REP to Present THE COMPLETE WORKS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (abridged) (revised) (again)


by Chloe Rabinowitz - September 11, 2024

The Resident Ensemble Players present The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged) (revised) (again). Enjoy a fast-paced comedy featuring all 37 of Shakespeare's plays. Learn how to purchase tickets. ...

The Resident Ensemble Players Presents WHAT THE CONSTITUTION MEANS TO ME In September


by A.A. Cristi - August 23, 2024

The Resident Ensemble Players (REP) kicks off its 17th season with Heidi Schreck's What the Constitution Means to Me, performing Sep. 13th through Sep. 22nd at the Roselle Center for the Arts. ...

Resident Ensemble Players Names Steve Tague As Producing Artistic Director


by Chloe Rabinowitz - July 25, 2024

Steve Tague has been appointed as the Producing Artistic Director of the Resident Ensemble Players at the University of Delaware. Learn more!...

The Resident Ensemble Players to Present DEATHTRAP By Ira Levin


by Chloe Rabinowitz - March 18, 2024

Experience the thrilling suspense of DEATHTRAP, a masterpiece by Ira Levin, presented by The Resident Ensemble Players. Don't miss this captivating theatrical event....

Resident Ensemble Players To Present The Delaware Premiere Of PASS OVER


by Chloe Rabinowitz - January 25, 2024

The Resident Ensemble Players presents the Delaware premiere of 'Pass Over,' a powerful and impactful drama that blends poetry and humor. This emotionally charged play explores the value of a young black man's life. ...

Past Shows

Rough Crossing
Rough Crossing
11/7 - 11/24/2024


A hilarious farce where two playwrights, one jealous composer, and most of the cast of a Broadway-bound show attempt to simultaneously finish writing and rehearse ...

The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged) (revised) (again)


This fast-paced comedy is guaranteed to have both lovers and haters of Shakespeare in stitches as it covers  ALL  of Shakespeare's plays and sonnets in ...

What the Constitution Means to Me


Challenging, hopeful, and funny – this ground-breaking play takes a sharp analysis at the biases inherent in the Constitution and imagines how this founding document ...

DEATHTRAP
DEATHTRAP
4/11 - 4/28/2024


Hugely popular on stage and screen, this dark comedy thriller is a perfect blend of schemes, plot-twists, and outrageous humor. Once famous playwright, Sidney Bruhl ...

PASS OVER
PASS OVER
2/8 - 2/18/2024


A mashup of Beckett’s  Waiting for Godot  and the Biblical  Exodus  story told by a bold new American voice. Two young black men, Moses and ...

JOHN BALL'S IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT


August 1962 — a white man is discovered dead in a small town of Alabama. Local police arrest the only stranger in town, a black ...

VITA & VIRGINIA
VITA & VIRGINIA
9/21 - 10/1/2023


Adapted from letters and diaries to deftly weave the story of the improbable love affair and enduring friendship between aristocratic novelist and poet, Vita Sackville-West, ...

MEDEA
MEDEA
4/13 - 4/30/2023


The powerful and timeless Greek tragedy. What is love worth? What is the cost of betrayal? Medeas love and loyalty to Jason was unquestionable until ...

SISTER MARY IGNATIUS EXPLAINS IT ALL FOR YOU


In her lecture, Sister Mary explains her strict beliefs and warns all of the perils of sin.  Her lecture takes an unexpected turn as four of her former pupils ...

A POEM AND A MISTAKE


A Poem and a Mistake  follows the story of Myrrha, a grad student in the classics, who is grappling with how to handle the 50 ...

SUITE BLACKNESS: BLACK DANCE IN CINEMA


This dance performance is a journey through racial and cultural tensions from the 1920s to present day - Showcasing films such as “Stormy Weather”, “The ...

ChambeREP: LOVE LETTERS
ChambeREP: LOVE LETTERS
9/30 - 10/1/2022


Andrew Makepeace Ladd III and Melissa Gardner have exchanged hundreds of letters for over fifty years. Theirs is a relationship that spans childhood crushes, boarding ...

Arsenic and Old Lace
Arsenic and Old Lace
11/3 - 8/20/2022


You thought your family was crazy? Meet the Brewsters.Mortimer Brewster discovers his seemingly sweet old aunts have a nasty habit of poisoning lonely old men ...

A Christmas Carol
A Christmas Carol
12/8 - 12/26/2021


A Christmas Carol is back! The REP is delighted to offer this classic holiday listening opportunity once again to our audience members and their families. ...

Votetrickery: A Spoken Word Symphony


Throughout our history it has been suggested that America does not have a government by the majority, but rather it has a government by the ...

The Murders in the Rue Morgue
The Murders in the Rue Morgue
10/27 - 11/14/2021


The Murders in the Rue Morgue is a frightening tale sure to give you the Halloween chills. Adapted from Edgar Allan Poe's classic thriller by ...

A Scandal in Bohemia
A Scandal in Bohemia
9/29 - 10/17/2021


In this exciting and amusing Sherlock Holmes story, the King of Bohemia enlists the services of the great detective and his faithful friend Dr. Watson ...

The Cornish Mystery
The Cornish Mystery
4/23 - 5/21/2021


The Resident Ensemble Players wraps up the 2020-2021 season with Agatha Christies The Cornish Mystery, the REPs final story in The Poirot Mysteries!The mystery begins ...

The King of Clubs
The King of Clubs
3/26 - 5/21/2021


The Oglander family is enjoying a quiet game of bridge in their drawing room when suddenly a woman, covered in blood, staggers in, with a ...

Arsenic and Old Lace
Arsenic and Old Lace
2/26 - 5/16/2021


The REP's audio adaptation of Joseph Kesselring's Arsenic and Old Lace will have you roaring with laughter as our resident actors portray the colorful characters ...

Talk About Race
2/5 - 2/28/2021


While racial tensions in America are at a peak, the Resident Ensemble Players (REP) continues its imaginative audio season with a daring look at all ...

A Christmas Carol
A Christmas Carol
12/11 - 12/25/2020


Join the Resident Ensemble Players (REP) on air and online this holiday season for the brand new audio presentation of Charles Dicken's heart-warming classic A ...

'Art'
9/19 - 10/11/2020


Resident Ensemble Players Yasmina Reza, translated by Christopher Hampton...

Round and Round the Garden
Round and Round the Garden
4/23 - 5/10/2020


by Alan AyckbournDirected by Maria AitkenAPR. 23 MAY 10A hilarious tale of three couples looking for love and satisfaction anywhere but their own bedrooms. Annie ...

The Whipping Man
The Whipping Man
4/16 - 5/10/2020


By Matthew LopezDirected by Steve TagueAPR. 16 MAY 10The Civil War is over; the Confederacy has fallen. On the eve of Passover, Caleb, a young ...

The Crucible
The Crucible
3/5 - 3/22/2020


By Arthur MillerDirected by Ben BarnesMAR. 5 - MAR. 22When a group of teenage girls is caught dancing naked in the woods outside of a ...

Starer Pistol
1/16 - 2/2/2020


Thompson Theatre: Starter Pistol...

Starter Pistol
Starter Pistol
1/16 - 2/2/2020


By Michael GotchDirected by Mark LamosJAN. 16 FEB. 2After last seasons wildly successful Minor Fantastical Kingdoms, Michael Gotch returns with a darker look at middle ...


adapt: Ken Ludwig; dir: Sanford Robbins....

Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Orient Express


Adapted for the Stage by Ken LudwigDirected by Sanford RobbinsNOV. 7 - NOV. 24An opulent train stranded in the snow-whipped mountains, a dining car packed ...

August: Osage County
August: Osage County
9/26 - 10/13/2019


By Tracy LettsDirected by Jackson GaySEP. 26 OCT. 13This funny, furious family reunion from hell begins when patriarch Beverly Weston disappears into the hot summer ...

Fences
4/25 - 5/12/2019


Winner of the New York Drama Critic's and Tony® Awards as well as the Pulitzer Prize, this sensational drama starred James Earl Jones as Troy ...

Mauritius
4/17 - 5/12/2019


Studio Theatre: Theresa Rebeck; dir: Stephen Pelinski....

Woman in Mind
11/8 - 12/2/2018


Alan Ayckbourn; dir: Jackson Gray....

Lettice and Lovage
9/13 - 10/7/2018


MTG presents Lettice and Lovage, the hit comedy by Peter Shaffer, author of Amadeus and Equus. Lettice Douffet, a docent at Fustian House, one of ...

The Seafarer
9/20 - 10/7/2018


Conor McPherson; dir: Ben Barnes....

A Flea in Her Ear
3/1 - 3/18/2018


adapt: David Ives from Georges Feydeau; dir: Mark Lamos. Thompson Theatre:...

Dial
1/18 - 2/4/2018


Frederick Knott; dir: Charles Fee....

The Mountaintop
9/14 - 10/8/2017


The night before his untimely death, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. returns to his room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis after delivering a speech ...

You Can't Take It with You
9/21 - 10/8/2017


A girl from a family of freethinkers falls for the son of a conservative banker. The date for the families to meet is misunderstood and ...

TARTUFFE
4/20 - 5/7/2017


dir: Maria Aitken....

THE ELEPHANT MAN
3/2 - 3/19/2017


In 1880s London, John Merrick is a horribly deformed young man – a victim of rare skin and bone diseases. Under the care of celebrated ...

THE BELLS
1/19 - 2/5/2017


Theresa Rebeck; dir: Theresa Rebeck. Thompson Theatre:...

CLYBOURNE PARK
11/10 - 12/4/2016


Home is where the heart—and history—is in Clybourne Park, a "buzz-saw sharp new comedy" (The Washington Post) that cleverly spins the events of A Raisin ...

CLYBOURNE PARK
11/10 - 12/4/2016


Home is where the heart—and history—is in Clybourne Park, a "buzz-saw sharp new comedy" (The Washington Post) that cleverly spins the events of A Raisin ...

GOD OF CARNAGE
9/15 - 10/9/2016


A playground altercation between eleven-year-old boys brings together two sets of Brooklyn parents for a meeting to resolve the matter. At first, diplomatic niceties are ...

GOD OF CARNAGE
9/15 - 10/9/2016


A playground altercation between eleven-year-old boys brings together two sets of Brooklyn parents for a meeting to resolve the matter. At first, diplomatic niceties are ...

WAITING FOR GODOT
9/22 - 10/9/2016


St. Dunstan's Theatre's Stage 2 presents Waiting for Godot. For tickets and more information, visit the website....

WAITING FOR GODOT
9/22 - 10/9/2016


St. Dunstan's Theatre's Stage 2 presents Waiting for Godot. For tickets and more information, visit the website....

RED
4/13 - 5/8/2016


Under the watchful gaze of his young assistant—and the growing competitive presence of a new generation of artists—Rothko takes on his greatest career challenge yet: ...

THINGS WE DO FOR LOVE
4/20 - 5/8/2016


Alan Ayckbourn; dir: Sanford Robbins....

TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD
3/2 - 3/20/2016


adapt: Christopher Sergel; dir: Sanford Robbins....

WAIT UNTIL DARK
1/20 - 2/6/2016


A blind housewife becomes the target of three con-men searching for heroin hidden in a doll that her husband innocently brought back from Canada. This ...

HEARTBREAK HOUSE
11/11 - 12/6/2015


Geroge Bernard Shaw; dir: Maria Aitken....

THE PATSY
9/23 - 10/11/2015


adapt: Greg Leaming from Georges Feydeau; trans: Greg Leaming; dir: Steve Tague....

All in the Timing
4/15 - 5/10/2015


David Ives; dir: Stephen Pelinski....

The 39 Steps
4/23 - 5/10/2015


Mix a Hitchcock masterpiece with a juicy spy novel, add a dash of Monty Python and you have The 39 Steps, a fast-paced whodunit for ...

Juno and the PayC*CK
3/5 - 3/22/2015


The Vortex entry in ABQ's Irish Theatre Festival is one of the epic plays of the 20th century. O'Casey's gritty tale of poverty, survival, and ...

The Millionairess
1/22 - 2/8/2015


George Bernard Shaw; dir: Ian Belknap....

Wit
4/24 - 5/10/2014


Wit, a one-act play written by Margaret Edson, is a powerful and poignant exploration of mortality and the human spirit in the face of terminal ...

Faust
3/6 - 3/23/2014


Thompson Theatre: adapt: Heinz-Uwe Haus from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe; dir: Heinz-Uwe Haus....

The Mousetrap
1/23 - 2/9/2014


After a local woman is murdered, the guests and staff at Monkswell Manor find themselves stranded during a snowstorm. It soon becomes clear that the ...

The Servant of Two Masters
11/14 - 12/8/2013


Thompson Theatre: adapt: Jeffrey Hatcher, Paolo Emilo Landi from Carlo Goldoni; trans: Jeffrey Hatcher, Paolo Emilo Landi; dir: Paolo Emilo Landi....

The Night of the Iguana
The Night of the Iguana
9/26 - 10/13/2013


Contemporary Theatre of Dallas is proud to present Tennessee Williams' The Night of the Iguana; the last of the distinguished American playwright's major artistic, critical, ...

FEVER
4/18 - 5/4/2013


Thompson Theatre: - Theresa Rebeck; dir: Sanford Robbins....

Hamlet
2/28 - 3/17/2013


Thompson Theatre: - William Shakespeare; dir: Mark Lamos....

THE THREEPENNY OPERA
1/17 - 2/12/2013


An artistic destiny fulfilled, visionary director Robert Wilson (Quartett, 2009 Next Wave) joins the world-renowned Berliner Ensemble for its New York debut in a bold ...

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Milton Theatre (12/5 - 12/22)
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