Events
Spring 2026
Every Brilliant Thing
By Duncan Macmillan
With Jonny Donahoe
Directed by Lindsay Livingston
February 26 & 27 at 7:30 p.m. / February 28 at 2:00 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. / Wish Theater in Memorial Hall
Limited seating; free and open to the public. Reserve your spots on our ticketing webpage.
Every Brilliant Thing is an exhilarating and heartwarming journey through one person’s life and the many reasons they find to remain hopeful. Told through a list of every beautiful, brilliant, joyful thing that makes life worth living, this is a theatrical experience unlike any other.
In each performance at Bowdoin College, the Narrator will be played by a different student actor, offering four distinct points of view of the same story. Performers are:
Eve Foley (’28)
Franceska Drejaj (’27)
Michael Bagnoli (’26)
Rithmaka Karunadhara (’26)
Content Advisory: Every Brilliant Thing contains themes of suicide and depression. The production has partnered with the Bowdoin Counseling Center and Active Minds to offer mental health resources and support.
Recommended for ages 12 and up
Sponsored by the Alice Cooper Morse Fund for the Performing Arts.
Bunk Beds
Performed by Big Boy Dance
April 3rd and 4th - 7:30 p.m. - Wish Theater
Bunk Beds is a new response in a series of choreographic works by Tristan Koepke | Big Boy Dance inspired by the creative and amorous relationship between Merce Cunningham and John Cage, social media thirst traps, queer melancholia, speculative masculinities, and romance novel tropes. Building on Big Boy Dance's recent performances, There’s Only One Bed (2023) and There’s More Than One Bed (2024), and drawing from Andie Nordgren’s manifesto for relationship anarchy, Bunk Beds asks what happens when creative process, love, and friendship accumulate and reverberate over time. Seeking to reframe and transcend conventional narratives of Cunningham and Cage’s twentieth century avant-guard collaborations, which often diminish their queer romance and radicalism, Bunk Beds catalyzes the ways in which LGBTQ+ artistic legacies are created, preserved, embodied, and reimagined.
The show is free and open to the public; a ticket link will be available shortly!
Sponsored by the Alice Cooper Morse Fund for the Performing Arts and the June Vail Fund for Dance.
Spring Dance Concert
April 29th, 30th and May 2nd (no show on May 1st)
7:30 p.m. in Pickard Theater.
Come see the culmination of the semester's work! Our choreographers for this show are Aretha Aoki, Adanna "Dr. J" Jones and Gwyneth Jones.
Free and open to the public. Reserve your seats on our ticketing webpage today!
Sponsored by the Alice Cooper Morse Fund for the Performing Arts and the June Vail Fund for Dance.
Prior events from this academic year:
December Dance Concert
December 4-6, 7:30 p.m. in Pickard Theater.
This show is a celebration of what our dance classes have learned and collaborated on during the semester, and is always a fun time! Our choreographers for this show are Aretha Aoki, Adanna Jones, Gwyneth Jones and guest choreographer Mariana Valencia.
Free and open to the public. Reserve your spots today on our ticketing site!
Sponsored by the Alice Cooper Morse Fund for the Performing Arts and the June Vail Fund for Dance.
Guys and Dolls
A Musical Fable of Broadway - Based on a Story and Characters of Damon Runyon
Music and Lyrics by: Frank Loesser / Book by: Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows
November 6-8, at 7:30 p.m. in Pickard Theater
Directed by Dr. Jessica Pearson-Bleyer, Guys and Dolls is a Golden Age musical that has been called the “perfect musical comedy.” This production reimagines this classic show for the 21st century.
Sponsored by the Alice Cooper Morse Fund for the Performing Arts.
Guys and Dolls was presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI). All authorized performance materials are also supplied by MTI. (mtishows.com)