Onyx Theater, Kennesaw State University

April 23-24, 2020. Thursday, April 23, 7:30 pm; Friday, April 24, 8 pm

Directed by Charles Parrott

The KSU Tellers invite you to join them as they present their best solo-performances from the spring semester.

Cost: $5

April 15-16, 2020, 7:30 pm

Coordinated by Karen Robinson

Anything goes in this evening of new and original works by TPS Alumni.

Cost: $5-$10

April 8-9 & 12, 2019: Wed. - Thursday, 7:30 pm; Sun. 7 pm

The Genesis Project

Directed by Charles Parrot

This experimental retelling of the prehistories of Genesis is generated by the cast, with improvisation and movement inspired by an eclectic blend of classical art and popular culture. The Ge...

Cost: $7-$10

Tuesday-Thursday, 7:30 pm; Friday-Saturday 8 pm; Saturday and Sunday, 2 pm.

By Larry Kramer

Directed by Zachary Elton

Based on true events, Larry Kramer’s The Normal Heart is centered on a group of gay men living during the early years of the AIDS epidemic in America. As countless people become ...

Cost: $10-$12

Onyx Theater, Kennesaw State University. Coordinated by Karen RobinsonDirected by Alex Barrella and Ella HiteCo-produced with LGBTQ Student ProgramsInspiring, celebratory, and thought provoking, this performance features coming-out stories from KSU and metro-area communities performed by KSU student...

Cost: $5

Onyx Theater, Kennesaw State University. By Karen Weinberg, Chloe Johnston, Genevra Gallo-Bayiates, Sean Benjamin, and Andy Bayiates Directed by Damian LockhartA wrestling match, a ballet, a jug band, a vaudeville show, a presidential roast, and so much more. In one play? Oh My! 45 Plays for 45 Pr...

Cost: $5-$12

Onyx Theater, Kennesaw State University. By Karen Weinberg, Chloe Johnston, Genevra Gallo-Bayiates, Sean Benjamin, and Andy Bayiates Directed by Damian LockhartA wrestling match, a ballet, a jug band, a vaudeville show, a presidential roast, and so much more. In one play? Oh My! 45 Plays for 45 Pr...

Cost: $5-$12

Onyx Theater, Kennesaw State University. By Karen Weinberg, Chloe Johnston, Genevra Gallo-Bayiates, Sean Benjamin, and Andy Bayiates Directed by Damian LockhartA wrestling match, a ballet, a jug band, a vaudeville show, a presidential roast, and so much more. In one play? Oh My! 45 Plays for 45 Pr...

Cost: $5-$12

Coordinated by Jim Davis An evening of performances created entirely on the fly - our resident improv ensemble welcomes guest artists to usher in the spring with a hoot or a guffaw (your choice). Side-splitting, surprising and, at times, absolutely silly. This event may not be suitable for audienc...

Cost: Free

"Feathers and Teeth" is a play about the story of Chris, a 15-year-old girl who is struggling with her mother’s death and her father's impending re-marriage. As if this weren’t enough, her father injures an animal on the way home from work and brings it into the house so his family can nurse it back...

Cost: $9.60-$12

Feathers and Teeth is the story of Chris, a 15-year-old girl, who is struggling with family issues and a new feathery friend who wants to kill them all. 

Cost: $5-$12

Feathers and Teeth is the story of Chris, a 15-year-old girl who is struggling with her mother’s death and her father Arthur’s impending re-marriage to his malevolent fiancée Carole. As if this weren’t enough, Arthur injures an animal on the way home from work and brings it into the house so his fam...

Cost: $5-$12

By Charise Castro Smith 

Directed by Jim Davis 

Feathers and Teeth is the story of Chris, a 15-year-old girl who is struggling with her mother’s death and her father Arthur’s impending re-marriage to his malevolent fiancée Carole. As if this weren’t enough, Arthur injures an animal on the way home...

Cost: $5-$12

By Charise Castro Smith 

Directed by Jim Davis  Feathers and Teeth is the story of Chris, a 15-year-old girl who is struggling with her mother’s death and her father Arthur’s impending re-marriage to his 

malevolent fiancée Carole. As if this weren’t enough, Arthur injures an animal on the way hom...

Cost: $5-$12

By Charise Castro Smith 

Directed by Jim Davis  Feathers and Teeth is the story of Chris, a 15-year-old girl who is struggling with her mother’s death and her father Arthur’s impending re-marriage to his 

malevolent fiancée Carole. As if this weren’t enough, Arthur injures an animal on the way hom...

Cost: $5-$12

Directed by Amanda Wansa Morgan. Music Direction by Judy Cole. Musical theatre students showcase selected works from the spring semester.

Cost: Free

Directed by Charles Parrott. The KSU Tellers share their finest original stories from the spring semester.

Cost: Free

Directed by Jamie Bullins. Celebrate spring with the student improv ensemble’s irresistible antics and games.

Cost: Free

Directed by Pamela Joyce and Karen Robinson. TPS continues our multi-year transatlantic collaboration with the University of Paderborn, Germany in this theatrical response to master playwright Suzan-Lori Parks’ 365 Days/365 Plays. Paderborn faculty and student residency at KSU is made possible by ...

Cost: Free

Adapted by Margaret Baldwin and directed by Michael Haverty. The Followers transports The Bacchae, Euripides’ classic tragedy of blind ecstasy and vengeance, to our contemporary landscape of partisan violence, fanaticism, and global unrest. A staged reading.

Cost: $5

By award-winning Atlanta playwright Addae Moon. Directed by Angela M. Farr Schiller. A poetic, coming-of-age drama about a young African-American man and his siblings as they wrestle with the realities of adulthood while coping with a tragic loss. A staged reading.

Cost: $5

Directed by Karen Robinson. Pulitzer prize-winner Suzan-Lori Parks offers a startling contemporary response to The Scarlet Letter in this darkly comic and heartrending portrait of a homeless mother striving to raise her five children on the streets.

Cost: $5-$12

Directed by Charles Parrott.The KSU Tellers share their finest original stories from the fall semester.

Cost: Free

Directed by Jamie Bullins. Join the student improv ensemble as they usher in the change of seasons with an outlandish and hilarious showcase of the unscripted and unexpected.

Cost: Free

Directed by Jamie Bullins. Join the student improv ensemble as they usher in the change of seasons with an outlandish and hilarious showcase of the unscripted and unexpected.

Cost: Free

Directed by Jessica Duvall and Karen Robinson. Co-produced with GLBTIQ Student Retention Services. Funny, inspiring, and celebratory, this event features coming-out stories from the KSU and metro-area communities performed by KSU students.

Cost: $5

By Eugène Ionesco. Translated by Michael Feingold. Directed by Peter Campbell. Coordinated and designed by Rebecca Makus.This reimagining of Ionesco’s play about failed utopias explores the use of new media in performance with spoken language and movement, followed by film and a shadow play.

Cost: $5-$12

Production conception, English lyrics, additional materialby Eric Blau and Mort Shuman, based on Jacques Brel’slyrics and commentary, music by Jacques Brel. Directed by Henry Scott. Music Direction by Judy Cole. The poignant, passionate, and profound songs of Belgian songwriter Jacques Brel are br...

Cost: Free

Join the KSU Tellers as they share their best original storytelling performances from the spring semester. These performances are intended for mature audiences.

Cost: Free

Directed by Jamie Bullins. Infectiously fun performances by the student improv ensemble to usher in the change of seasons. Fully on the fly. This event may not be suitable for audiences under the age of 16.

Cost: Free

Adapted and directed by John Gentile. A staged reading of a new adaptation of Hawthorne’s classic tale of love, shame, and redemption.

Cost: $5

By Sean Daniels, Matt Horgan and Tim Stoltenberg.Music by David Keeton. Directed by Jamie Bullins.Follow Lewis & Clark & Sacagawea as they cheat,swindle, lie, and sing their way along the riproaringRoad to the Pacific! A staged reading.

Cost: Free

By Charles Parrott. Co-directed by Charles Parrott and Jim Davis. This world premiere explores the history and mysteries surrounding the creation of comic books in America and the code that almost crushed them.

Cost: $5-$12

Directed by Henry Scott. Music Direction by Carolyn Dorff. Around the clock, at malt shops, band stands, sit-ins, and disco-techs…join us on the train of soul as you travel through the years of American rock and roll.

Cost: Free

STUDENT STORYTELLING CONCERT. Directed by Charles Parrott. Join the KSU Tellers as they share their finest original storytelling performances from the fall semester. These performances are intended for mature audiences.

Cost: Free

Co-directed by Jessica Duvall and Karen Robinson. Co-produced with GLBTIQ Student Retention Services. Humorous, poignant, and celebratory, this evening features performances of coming-out stories from across the campus community.

Cost: $5

Directed by Jamie Bullins. Infectiously fun performances by the student improv ensemble to usher in the change of seasons. Fully on the fly. This event may not be suitable for audiences under the age of 16.

Cost: Free

By Steven Dietz. | Directed by Ariel Fristoe. Nothing is ever quite what it seems in this dark comedy of suspicion, theatrical illusion, and romantic truth.

Cost: $5-$12

Coordinated by Jamie Bullins. The perfect blend of planning and spontaneity. In only 24 hours, student writers, directors, actors, and designers transform their ideas into inventive theatre.

Cost: $5

Original storytelling performances. Ages 16+

Cost: Free

Student improv ensemble performances. Ages 16+

Cost: Free

Ten minute plays by students and a reading of Bloody Pulp. Ages 16+.

Cost: Bloody Pulp $5. Ten Minute Plays are free.

A co-production with 7 stages, the performance features tabletop puppetry, live actors, projected silhouettes, and animation.

Cost: $10-$12

Student improv ensemble performances. Ages 16+.

Cost: Free

Join the KSU Tellers as they share their original storytelling performances. Ages 16+.

Cost: Free

Musical of a non-traditional family in a time of astonishing change. Ages 16+.

Cost: $12

A mystery journey in and out of the plays, poems, and novels of Irishman and Nobel laureate Samuel Beckett.

Cost: $12

Student Improv Ensemble, Coordinated by Jamie Bullins. An evening of performances created entirely on the fly—our resident improv ensemble welcomes guest artists to usher in the seasons with a hoot or a guffaw (your choice). Side-splitting, surprising and, at times, absolutely silly. This event m...

Cost: Free (donations welcome).

Directed by Charles Parrott. Join the KSU Tellers as they show off their best original storytelling performances from each semester. This event may not be suitable for audiences under the age of 16

Cost: $5.00

Two experimental performances: About Silence explores paranoia, beauty, and the pain of intimate human relationships. The Ubu Project engages themes of existential absurdity, empathy, and hope, in the creation of an exhilarating performance installation.

Cost: $5

Coordinated by Charles Parrott. Come witness a series of original 10-minute productions created by students in a single 24-hour period.

Cost: $5