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08/27/2026

Happy first day of MainStage Auditions Rams! Break legs!!

08/26/2026

Welcome back Rams!!

We hope you have a wonderful first day of classes and hope that you will join us THIS EVENING at 5:30PM in POPE AUDITORIUM for our first TOWN HALL of the year!!

We will be announcing our Denzel Washington Chair and giving a warm welcome to our freshman class!!

08/25/2026

Be a part of our last Mainstage of the season, The Fordham’s New Work Initiatives. Sign up to audition and help bring a brand new story to life on the Fordham Theatre Mainstage!

Fordham Firsts: New Works Initiative
World Premiere
Written by Mona Mansour
Directed by Dr. Fadi Skeiker

Following the success of last year’s A Lunar Rhapsody by José Rivera, we continue our Fordham Firsts: New Works Initiative with a world premiere from award-winning (Steinberg, Kesselring and Helen Merrill Award) playwright, tv and screenwriter, Mona Mansour. Inspired and devised with Fordham Theatre students, Mona Mansour brings her searing intellect, sly humor and poignant writing to Pope Auditorium.
Dates: April 15th-24th

08/24/2026

Come eat cake amid the chaos of Versailles! Sign up to audition for Maire Antoinette!

MAIRE ANTOINETTE

by David Adjmi
Directed by Alexis Kulani Woodard

Marie Antoinette is a wildly theatrical, darkly comic portrait of a queen trapped inside a crumbling monarchy. As revolution brews outside the palace walls, Marie Antoinette clings to luxury, performance, and fantasy while the world around her spirals toward collapse. Blending modern language, biting satire, and punk sensibility, David Adjmi reimagines the infamous monarch as both absurd spectacle and deeply human figure in a provocative exploration of power, celebrity, excess, and denial.

Dates: February 26-March 6, 2027

08/23/2026

Step into Shakespeare’s world of power, desire, and deception. Our second Mainstage show running November 12th-21st. More information below in the caption. Sign up to audition for Measure for Measure through the link in our linktree!

MEASURE FOR MEASURE

by William Shakespeare
Directed by Kholoud Sawaf

An intellectual and political thriller that grapples with moral hypocrisy and abuse of power. When her brother Claudio is sentenced to death under a long-forgotten law, a young novitiate, Isabella, pleads for mercy from the unyielding authoritarian, Angelo. What follows is a dangerous battle between morality and desire, as Shakespeare exposes the hypocrisy lurking beneath the surface of power.

08/21/2026

Lastly in our Student Summer Work Spotlight: Junior Jyonnah Ware got the opportunity to be in the Off Broadway show Forget I Said Anything written and directed by Samantha Rose Roberts.

Here’s what she had to say about the experience:
“New work is always exciting, especially when it’s a new musical! Working with our cast to bring this music to life was so fun because we all got a chance to rejuvenate this music and make it our own. It was such a thrill doing this show with this talented cast and to create this world”

Congrats Jyonnah! Fordham Theatre is so proud of all the students from our program that got involved this summer. If you want to be involved with these students or the program itself, check out our linktree and sign up for our Mainstage Auditons. Auditions are next week and the form is due Monday!

08/20/2026

Sign up to audition for our first Mainstage of the 2026-27 season! For a little more about the show check the rest of the caption. The link for the Mainstage Audition form can be found in our linktree.
SWEAT
by Lynn Nottage
Directed by K. Lorrel Manning

Opening our season, legendary writer and two-time Pulitzer winner, Lynn Nottage’s Sweat, a gripping, sobering portrait of the unraveling of the American dream. Set in Reading, Pennsylvania in 2008, the play follows a tight-knit group of factory workers whose lives are upended as layoffs, economic anxiety, and rising tensions begin to fracture their community. Inspired by Nottage’s years of interviews with residents of Reading, one of America’s hardest-hit post-industrial cities, this Tony-nominated drama captures the anger, loyalty, humor, and heartbreak of people fighting to hold onto dignity in a system leaving them behind.

08/19/2026

Next up in our Summer Student Work Series, we wanted to spotlight Twin Pines Theatre Company’s production of Hamlet this past summer. Fordham students got to be a part of this production in Guilford, Connecticut. Using skills learned within the program, they tackled this heightened text and had a sold out run. We’re so proud of our rams!

This production featured:
Mariana Miranda: Director (Class of ‘27)
Ben Miller: Assistant Director (Class of ‘28)
Izzy Diaz: Horatio (Class of ‘27)
Trudy Cohen: Guildenstern/Marcellus (Class of ‘27)
Carrie Johnson: Gertrude (Class of ‘26)
Salvatore Dilluvio: Claudius (Class of ‘27)
Carlos Bravo: Polonius (Class of ‘27)
Leah John: Player (Class of ‘27)

08/18/2026

ATTENTION ALL FORDHAM THEATRE STUDENTS!

Mark your calendars for the Fordham Theatre Mainstage Auditions, happening August 27th-30th! Check out our Linktree, your emails, and our story for links to sign up.

Fordham Theatre invites you to be a part of the 2026-27 MainStage Season: Rise and Resistance: Acts of Defiance. With leading innovative directors and designers at the helm of each of the four plays, we hope that you will take advantage of the opportunity to further your artistry and expand your community by auditioning for each Fordham Theatre production. It’s an opportunity for you to share your talents with the wider community and continue in practice the lessons from the classroom.

08/17/2026

This next week we want to highlight all the beautiful work our current Fordham Theatre students have been working on throughout the summer outside of Fordham!

First up, we want to shoutout Blackout, written by rising senior Catherine Otero-Canton. What started as a studio show this past Fall is now on its way to The Tank tonight at 9:30pm! Tonight is sold out but there will be an in-person waitlist at the door. For more info check out BLACKOUT.

Featured in this production is:
Playwright: Catherine Otero-Canton (Class of ‘27)
Director: Mariana Miranda (Class of ‘27)
Assistant Director: Ben Miller (Class of ‘28)
Costume Designer: Sophia D’Orio (Class of ‘27)
Production Manager: Soraya Rastegar (Class of ‘28)
Producer: Jilliyn Acosta (Class of ‘28)
Producer: Michiho Shimasaki (Class of ‘28)
Photos: Carlos Bravo (Class of ‘27)
CAMILA: Olivia Rain (Class of ‘28)

AND Featured Alumni:
Production Stage Manager: Jessica Stekloff (Class of ‘26)
Scenic and Props Designer: Ian Rios-Vasquez, Maia Kraskouskas (Class of ‘26)
Lighting Designer: Elijah Warrington (Class of ‘26)
Sound Designer: John Wikaine (Class of ‘26)

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