Mainstage Season 25-26
Myth to Momentum:
Stories of Reckoning and Renewal
Fordham Theatre is proud to announce its 2025–26 MainStage season: Myth to Momentum: Stories of Reckoning and Renewal. This season’s productions resonate deeply with our community, engage with the urgent questions of our time, and invite bold artistic risk and creative exploration. Through mythic journeys and modern reflections, each story challenges us to reckon with the past while imagining bold new futures.
By the way, meet vera stark
By Lynn Nottage
Directed by Adrienne D. Williams
Dates: October 9-17, 2025
We open the season with two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Lynn Nottage’s razor-sharp and mischievously political comedy By the Way, Meet Vera Stark. Inspired by 1930s screwball films, this play takes a wry, incisive look at racial stereotypes in Hollywood.
Spanning seventy years in the life of Vera Stark—an ambitious maid and aspiring actress—Nottage skewers the history of typecasting and reclaims the power of performance.
Directing is Adrienne D. Williams, acclaimed actor, director and educator.
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the tempest
By William Shakespeare
Directed by Ryan Quinn
Dates: November 13-22, 2025
Next, faculty member and director Ryan Quinn brings his vision to Shakespeare’s The Tempest, a sweeping tale of magic, betrayal, and transformation.
Exiled to a remote island, Prospero wields powerful magic to control spirits and stage a reckoning with those who wronged them. As their daughter Miranda comes of age, a story unfolds of revenge, reconciliation, and the healing power of forgiveness.
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a lunar rhapsody
World Premiere
Written and Directed by José Rivera
Dates: February 20-28, 2026
Following the success of last year’s Horoscope by Rajiv Joseph, we continue our Fordham Firsts: New Works Initiative with a world premiere from Oscar-nominated writer and visionary playwright José Rivera.
In A Lunar Rhapsody, a super blue blood moon rises over an urban basketball court, drawing together an eclectic constellation of characters—cosmic refugees known as the Dimensionals, a group of teens, an elderly couple, and three roommates—each searching for meaning under the lunar sky. Rivera’s newest play is a meditation on identity, connection, and the shared mystery of existence.
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eurydice
By Sarah Ruhl
Directed by Dawn Akemi Saito
Dates: April 16-25, 2026
We close the season with Sarah Ruhl’s Eurydice, a lyrical and poignant reimagining of the Orpheus myth, told through the eyes of its heroine. On her wedding day, Eurydice dies and journeys to the underworld, where she reunites with her father and wrestles with the fading memories of love and language.
Directed by beloved faculty member Dawn Akemi Saito, this play is a moving exploration of memory, loss, and the enduring bonds that transcend life and death.
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