2025-26 Austin Arts Center Events

SPRING 2026

Scroll below for this semester’s regularly updated event details.

JANUARY 2026

Reshaping Tradition:
Contemporary Explorations in East Asian Art
Monday, January 26- Friday, April 3
Reception: Thursday, February 5 (4:00-6:00 PM)
Widener Gallery

Reshaping Tradition brings together five artists – Arnold Chang, Michel Cherney, Fung Ming Chip, Brandon Sadler, and Zhang Xiaoli – who explore diaspora by reimagining traditional East Asian art through global and modern perspectives. The exhibited work, focusing on language, culture, and identity, acknowledges tradition through contemporary mediums and approaches.

Reshaping Tradition was curated by students in Professor Michael Hatch’s AH205 course, East Asian Art to 1850. Sponsored by the Art History Program and the Studio Arts Program, the exhibition is free and open to the public.

AFTER: Poetry Destroys Silence
Film Screening & Panel Discussion with director Richard Kroehling and producer Janet Kirchheimer
Wednesday, January 28 (6:30 PM)
Performance Lab (Trinity Commons)

Please RSVP: [email protected]

In honor of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the Trinity College Jewish Studies Program invites the campus community and the public to a screening of AFTER: Poetry Destroys Silence, followed by a panel discussion with the film’s director, Richard Kroehling, and producer Janet Kirchheimer. The documentary explores how poetry bears witness to Holocaust trauma and gives voice to memory, loss, and survival. The screening will take place on Wednesday, January 28, 2026, at 6:30 PM in the Performance Lab at Trinity Commons. The event is free and open to the public.

Beauty of Korea: Music & Culture
Faculty Recital
Professor Ju-Yong Ha with special guests Heo Yoon Jeong and Bang Ji-won
Thursday, January 29 (7:30 PM)
Goodwin Theater (Austin Arts Center)

Featuring:
Heo Yoon Jeong (Geomungo virtuoso)
Bang Ji-won (Percussionist, composer )
Ju-Yong Ha (Ethnomusicologist, composer, gayageum performer)

Trinity’s Department of Music and Dance presents Beauty of Korea: Music & Culture, which will bring together three leading artists whose work bridges tradition and innovation within contemporary Korean music. Geomungo virtuoso Heo Yoon Jeong, Professor at Seoul National University, is celebrated for her mastery of both classical and modern forms and for her international acclaim as founder of the fusion group Black String. Percussionist and composer Bang Ji-won, a graduate of Seoul National University and certified trainee of the East Coast Byeolsingut (Shaman Ritual, National Intangible Cultural Property No. 82-1), draws inspiration from Korea’s shamanic and ritual traditions to create new expressions that connect sound, movement, and spirituality. Ethnomusicologist, composer, and gayageum performer Ju-Yong Ha specializes in the musical traditions of Korea, Japan, and China, exploring cross-cultural dialogue through performance and scholarship. A former student of the late master Baek In-Young (1945–2012), he integrates classical lineage with global perspectives. Together, the three artists offer a vibrant portrait of Korean music—rooted in tradition yet alive with contemporary imagination.

The Beauty of Korea concert will be preceded by a lecture with Prof. Yoon-jeong Heo from Seoul National University: Thursday, January 29, 12:15-1:15 PM (Gruss Recital Hall)

Experimental Projection and Performances from New England
Thursday, January 29 (7:00 PM)
Cinestudio

Experimental Projection and Performances from New England is a new series presented in collaboration with Cinestudio, spotlighting regional artists working across light, sound, movement, and the moving image. Stepping beyond traditional narrative cinema, these events create live, immersive experiences that can only happen in the room. On January 29, the series launches with three distinctive performances:

• KC1YMF: Vectors of Perception (New Haven) premieres a new work using slide projectors, hand-painted film, circuit-bent electronics, and CRT monitors.

• Monochromatic Pool presents an experimental theatrical performance for microtonal guitar, narrator, and live projection, exploring the exoplanet Proxima Centauri B—a potentially habitable world 4.2 light-years from Earth.

• LOCULUS, a dance and choreography-driven collective from Western Massachusetts, debuts a new work created specifically in dialogue with projected imagery inside Cinestudio.

FEBRUARY 2026

Connecticut Doctor’s Orchestra
Sunday, February 1 (3:00 PM)
Gruss Recital Hall

Citizen James — Open Rehearsal
Monday, February 2 (6:00 PM)
Garmany Hall

The Trail of Early Balanchine Archives with Emily Coates
Tuesday, February 3 (12:30-1:15 PM)
Goodwin Theater

Lunch will be provided in the AAC Lobby, beginning at noon. Reservations Required.

This locally relevant artist talk by Emily Coates and her collaborators Derek Lucci, Charles Burnham, and Adam Lenz comes to Trinity after a sold-out offering at Lincoln Center and before Coates’s new work, Tell Me Where It Comes From, is performed at The Wadsworth on February 26th.

Dancer, writer, choreographer, and Yale professor Emily Coates spent two years mapping far-flung artifacts related to George Balanchine found in archives throughout the northeast United States. This research became part of her Works & Process commission at The Guggenheim, Tell Me Where It Comes From, which premiered there last November. A former dancer with New York City Ballet, Coates searched in holdings at The Wadsworth, Harvard’s Houghton Library, Yale’s Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, the Archives at Jacob’s Pillow, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts’ Jerome Robbins Dance Division, and New York City Ballet Archives, among others. In this artist talk, Coates and her performance collaborators Derek Lucci (co-creator, performer) and Charles Burnham (composer, musician) will share the idiosyncratic trail of ephemera and people they encountered along their journey to move closer to the source of his work, from a great remove, through archival shards. They will be joined by special guest Adam Lenz (Public Engagement and Programs Manager at The Wadsworth). Join us for this unique opportunity to consider the intersecting histories, legacies, place-based cultural ecosystems, and creative processes that feed the development of a new work.

Emily Coates received the School of American Ballet’s Mae L. Wein Award for Outstanding Promise and went on to perform internationally with New York City Ballet, Mikhail Baryshnikov’s White Oak Dance Project, Twyla Tharp, and Yvonne Rainer. Widely commissioned and critically praised, her choreographic projects transform the marginalia of archival findings, collective memory, literature, and science into new forms. A Dance Research Fellow of the Jerome Robbins Dance Division (2019) and Fellow of the Center for Ballet and the Arts at NYU (2016), she is a Professor in the Practice at Yale University, where she founded the program in Dance Studies.

Trinity Organ Series — Lunchtime Thursdays
Thursday, February 5 (Common Hour)
Chapel

Reshaping Tradition:
Contemporary Explorations in East Asian Art
Thursday, February 5 (4:00-6:00 PM)
Widener Gallery

Citizen James: Or A Man Without A Country
HartBeat Ensemble – Trinity College Resident Theater Company
Play by Kyle Bass
Directed by Joann Maria Yarrow
Starring James Alton

Thursday-Saturday, February 12-14 (7:30 PM)
Friday, February 13 (2:00 PM)
Thursday-Friday, February 19-20 (7:30 PM)
Saturday, February 21 (2:00 PM)
Garmany Hall (Austin Arts Center)

A 24-year-old James is an unknown aspiring “Negro” writer whose first novel has yet to be published. He awaits his flight at LaGuardia, having just left his family with the news of his decision to flee America for refuge in Paris. He speaks no French. He has a one-way ticket and $40 in his pocket. Witness James Baldwin as he decides he must do something to save himself from the violent reality of racist America in 1948, a decision that sets him on the path to becoming a brilliant, powerful, and prophetic voice of the Civil Rights era and beyond.

Jen Allen and Heart Alchemy: Possibilities
Faculty Concert + CD Signing
Tuesday, Feb 17 (7:30 PM)
Goodwin Theater (Austin Arts Center)

Trinity College’s Department of Music presents Jen Allen and Heart Alchemy. Possibilities unfold with Jen Allen‘s signature introspection and melodic richness, inviting listeners into a soundscape where curiosity, truthfulness, and transformation take root. The album explores what becomes available when we soften our grip on certainty and lean into the unknown. Possibilities offers a deeply personal yet universally resonant meditation on change, resilience, and the quiet power of choosing openness over fear.

Tell Me Where It Comes From
By Emily Coates
Thursday, February 26 (7:30 PM)
Avery Theater (Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art)

Registration required.
A limited number of FREE tickets are available for Trinity community members!

(All other tickets can be purchased at The Wadsworth website.)

Spurred by George Balanchine’s brief yet pivotal 1933 touchdown in Hartford, Connecticut, dancer, writer, and choreographer Emily Coates gathered artifacts of his lingering presence in archives throughout the region. Drawing on her background as a former member of New York City Ballet, Coates creates an unexpected portrait of Balanchine’s choreographic legacy, working in collaboration with Ain Gordon (director), Derek Lucci (performer, co-creator), Charles Burnham (violinist, composer), Melvin Chen (pianist), Krista Smith (lighting design), and Reid & Harriet (costume design) to collage far-flung remains: unanswered letters, lost ballets, old photographs, music exercises, early muses, and more. Filled with hidden movements and quieted voices, Tell Me Where It Comes From meditates on the spark that propels art into existence.

Tell Me Where It Comes From is commissioned by Works & Process for premiere at Guggenheim New York. This performance is presented by The Wadsworth in partnership with Austin Arts Center at Trinity College. Support provided by the Joseph and Robert Cornell Memorial Foundation Fund and the Saunders Foundation Endowment for Music at The Wadsworth.

MARCH 2026

Trinity Organ Series — Lunchtime Thursdays
Thursday, March 5 (Common Hour)
Trinity Chapel

Stupid F**king Bird
Play by Aaron Posner
Directed by Godfrey L. Simmons, Jr.
Thursday-Saturday, March 5-7 (7:30 PM)
Goodwin Theater (Austin Arts Center)

An aspiring young director rampages against the art created by his mother’s generation. A nubile young actress wrestles with an aging Hollywood star for the affections of a renowned novelist. And everyone discovers just how disappointing love, art, and growing up can be. In this irreverent, contemporary, and very funny remix of Chekhov’s The Seagull, Aaron Posner stages a timeless battle between young and old, past and present, in search of the true meaning of it all. Stupid Fucking Bird will tickle, tantalize, and incite you to consider how art, love, and revolution fuel your own pursuit of happiness. Presented by Trinity College’s Department of Theater and Dance. Presented by arrangement with Dramatist Play Service, Inc.

Chapel Singers in Concert
Wednesday, March 11 (7:00 PM)
Chapel

Fabiola Mendez
Thursday, March 12 (7:30 PM)
Goodwin Theater (Austin Arts Center)

Trinity’s Department of Music is thrilled to present Fabiola Méndez in Concert. Fabiola Méndez is a Puerto Rican cuatrista, singer, educator, and Emmy-nominated composer. Her artistic vision and original music focus on the exploration of her culture, her ancestry, and her identities. Fabiola’s mission has always been to share and celebrate the cuatro, folk music, and collective story-telling. In doing so, she’s had the honor of performing at venues such as the NPR Tiny Desk, Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC, Celebrity Series of Boston, New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña, among many others. She has also collaborated with many local and international artists, including Bad Bunny, the Puerto Rico Symphony Orchestra, Pedro Capó, Andy Montañez, Danny Rivera, the Chicago Philharmonic, and the Boston Landmarks Orchestra.

Trinity Organ Series — Twilight Tuesdays
Christopher Houlihan
Tuesday, March 24 (7:30 PM)
Trinity Chapel

Theater + Dance Senior Theses — Thursday, March 26-Tuesday, April 8

Thursday, March 26 (7:30 PM) — Kenna Harrison
Friday, March 27 (7:30 PM) —  Sydney Young (Performance Lab, Trinity Commons)
Friday, March 27 (9:00 PM) — Adrien Braun (The Mill)
Tuesday, March 31 (7:30 PM) — Steven Shen (Performance Lab, Trinity Commons)

Reshaping Tradition: Brandon Sadler Performance
Tuesday, March 31 (6:30 PM)
Garmany Hall (Austin Arts Center)

APRIL 2026

Theater + Dance Senior Theses — Thurs, Mar 26-Tues, Apr 8

Tuesday + Wednesday, April 7+8 (7:30 PM) — Lily Mellitz (Performance Lab, Trinity Commons)

Trinity Organ Series — Lunchtime Thursdays
Thursday, April 9 (Common Hour)
Trinity Chapel

Trinity International Hip Hop Festival
Thursday-Saturday, April 9-11 (Various Locations)
4:00-6:00 PM — Training Day workshop
12:00-1:30 PM — Panel Discussion
5:00-11:30 PM — Dance Battle + Competition (Parkville Market)

THEATER + DANCE ALUMNI WEEKEND
Thursday, April 16-18 (Various Locations)

Ways to Move: Black Insurgent Grammars
Jonathan Gonzalez Reading and Book Signing
Thursday, April 16 (Common Hour)
Location TBA

Moving between archival fragments, rehearsal notes, and speculative memory, Ways to Move: Black Insurgent Grammars traces the embodied frequencies and assembled states of Black life. González theorizes Blackness as a grammar, occupying the interstices of white colonial culture; Black movement and expression are both defined by and break down the hegemonic. Through a consideration of land, politics, magic, and movement, this hybrid work performs the perpetually unfinished task of resistance.

Ancestral Echoes: Looking Back, Moving Forward
Thursday-Saturday, April 16-18 (7:30 PM)
Goodwin Theater (Austin Arts Center)

Presented by Trinity’s Department of Theater and Dance, Ancestral Echoes: Reaching Back, Moving Forward is a centerpiece of the department’s Alumni Weekend. Trinity Alum Mellissa Craig ‘02 (a choreographer, dancer, cultural organizer, and Visiting Lecturer in Theater and Dance) directs this project, which will feature African dance choreographed by Craig and performed by live drummers, singers, and professional and student dancers. The concert will focus on African diasporic dance created by Trinity alums and rooted in the Hartford community, serving as a tribute to the Theater and Dance department’s past and a call to the future.

Alumni Roundtables
Friday, April 17 (12:00-3:00 PM)
Location TBA

Alumni Mixer
Friday, April 17 (3:00 PM)
Location TBA

Student Theater Showcase
Saturday, April 18 (12:00 PM)
Location TBA

Music Class Ensembles Week

Tuesday, April 21 — Ensembles Concert (Gruss Recital Hall, Common Hour)
Tuesday, April 21 — Jazz Concert (GoodwinTheater, 7:30 PM)
Thursday, April 23 — Lessons Concert (Trinity Chapel, Common Hour)

Senior Organ Recital: Christopher Yi
Friday, April 24 (7:30 PM)
Trinity Chapel

18th Annual Samba Fest
Saturday, April 25 (11:00 AM-6:00 PM)
Gates Quad in Front of the Austin Arts Center

Last Night
Wednesday, April 29 (5:30 PM)
Performance Lab (Trinity Commons)

FALL 2025

SEPTEMBER 2025

Welcome Back Cookout
Wed, Sept 3 (5:00-7:00 pm)
Austin Arts Center Lobby + Patio

Join us in meeting, greeting, and celebrating the start of a new academic year with other arts and arts-curious faculty, staff, and students! Sponsored by TrinArts Collaborative.

Trinity Organ Series
Thurs, Sept 5 (12:10–1:15pm)
Trinity Chapel

Trinity College Chapel and Department of Music present the Trinity Organ Series, featuring Ellen Dickinson (College Carillonist) and Duo MG (Jacquelyn Matava, mezzo-soprano, and Samuel Gaskin, organ) in recital. Our exceptional pipe organ, built by the Austin Organ Company of Hartford, contains over four thousand pipes that range in size from pencils to large trees. Each pipe has its own unique sound, combining to create a thrilling sonic experience.

Memorial Piano Recital
in honor of Michael Mahoney and Raymond Bahor
Featuring Concert Pianist Fiachra Garvey
Sun, Sept 21 (3:00p)
Gruss Music Hall

This memorial recital honors the life and legacy of Dr. Michael Mahoney (Genevieve Harlow Goodwin Professor of the Arts, Emeritus) and his partner, Raymond Bahor, following their recent passing. As a companion to a memorial concert at the Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C., distinguished concert pianist Fiachra Garvey will present an afternoon of music for the friends and family of Mahoney and Bahor, as well as the wider Trinity community. Join us for a reception following the concert.

An Afternoon with the Yootay Singers
Wed, Sept 24 (4:00-6:00 pm)
Washington Room, Mather Hall

Albert Schweitzer Organ Festival
Trinity Chapel

Jacob Gruss, organ
Fri, Sept 26 (7:30 pm)
2024 Young Professional First-Prize and Audience-Prize Winner

Biennial High School Competition
Sat, Sept 27 (starting at 10:00 am)
Young organists compete for $14,000 in prizes. Refreshments and a light lunch are provided.

Festival Concert: Psalms for Choirs, Organ, and Percussion
Sat, Sept 27 (7:30 pm)

Gabriel Löfvall, conductor
Christopher Houlihan, organ
Amanda Evans Carabase, harp
Ling-Fei Kang, oboe
Doug Perry, percussion
Chorus Angelicus and Gaudeamus; Schola Cantorum of the Cathedral of Saint Joseph; Choirs of St. James’s Church; The Chapel Singers

Featuring the North American Premiere of A Psalm for Chichester by Joanna Marsh, and Leonard Bernstein’s Chichester Psalms

Now over 25 years old, the Albert Schweitzer Organ Festival is proud to be one of the top competitions for young organists in North America. The festival’s mission is to support and encourage young organists in the earliest stages of their education and careers, and to increase appreciation of organ music in the general public. At the heart of the Festival is an annual, national competition for young organists hosted at Trinity College, Hartford. Alternating biennially between a High School and Young Professional Division (up to age 26), competitors earn significant cash prizes to support their education and career endeavors.

Where We Stand
Open Rehearsal
Tues, Sept 30 (6:30-7:45pm)
Goodwin Theater (in AAC)

Austin Arts Center and HartBeat Ensemble invite the Trinity community to an Open Rehearsal of the upcoming production of Where We Stand by Donnetta Lavinia Grays. An Open Rehearsal is an opportunity for select audience members to deeply engage with the creative process of making a piece of theatre. Join Director Vernice Miller and multifaceted performer Laugh Sanchez as they explore this play about accountability and forgiveness in a democracy.

OCTOBER 2025

Trinity Organ Series
Thurs, Oct  2 (12:10–1:15pm)
Trinity Chapel

Trinity College Chapel and Department of Music present the Trinity Organ Series, featuring Ellen Dickinson (College Carillonist) and Nicholas Capozzoli (Organist) in recital. Our exceptional pipe organ, built by the Austin Organ Company of Hartford, contains over four thousand pipes that range in size from pencils to large trees. Each pipe has its own unique sound, combining to create a thrilling sonic experience.

Are You Also Divergent, Friend?
An Exhibition by Dennis Delgado
Mon, Oct 6-Fri, Dec 5
Reception: Thurs, Nov 6 (4-6pm)
Gallery Hours: Mon–Fri, 10 am – 5 pm, and by appointment
Widener Gallery (AAC)

Are You Also Divergent, Friend? addresses the experience of being a person of color in a new age of automated and algorithmic surveillance. Four projects by artist Dennis Delgado, including video, tapestries, installation, and collage, explore how technologies of vision shape the discursive formation of the “Other.” Sponsored by the Studio Arts Program, the exhibition is free and open to the public.

Choral Evensong
The Chapel Singers
We, Oct 8 (5:15pm)
Trinity Chapel

Choral Evensong is a contemplative choral and organ music to mark the close of day; all are welcome to this 45-minute offering.

Where We Stand
Written by Donetta Lavinia Grays
Directed by Vernice Miller
Starring Laugh Sanchez

Thurs-Sat, Oct 9-11 (7:30p)
Sat, Oct 11 (2pm)
Tues-Fri, Oct 14-17 (7:30pm)
Goodwin Theater (in AAC)

The Austin Arts Center and HartBeat Ensemble present Where We Stand, a long-form poem with humor, heart, and music that tells the story of a man standing before his town asking them for forgiveness after he has made a deal with a mysterious stranger on their behalf. More than a recounting of events, this piece both engages and implicates the audience in determining the man’s fate. “Where We Stand” asks what it means to practice compassion, forgiveness, and accountability in a democracy. Join HartBeat Ensemble members, director Vernice Miller and multifaceted performer Laugh Sanchez, for this uniquely theatrical experience where the outcome is in your hands. Part of Greater Hartford Arts Council Theater Week.

PRESENTED AS PART OF GREATER HARTFORD ARTS COUNCIL’S THEATER WEEK.

Sat, Oct 18 (5:00 pm)
Goodwin Theater (AAC)

Concluding the two-week run of Where We Stand, HartBeat Ensemble and the Austin Arts Center continue our exploration of forgiveness, empathy and accountability in capitalist democracies through the Encounters Series from UConn’s Dodd Human Rights Impact Program. The Encounters Series is dedicated to fostering unexpected conversations around divisive issues and obscure knowledge. The program dives deeply into subjects that are of interest to the Greater Hartford community through facilitated, small-group dialogues followed by a question-and-answer style conversation with UConn faculty and community partners. HartBeat Ensemble is the only theatre company in Connecticut that regularly partners with Encounters for its productions.

A Bouquet of Romances
Marcia Lehninger (violin), Virginia Eskin (piano), Peter Guidi (horn)
Faculty Recital with Guest Artists
Tu, Oct 21 (7:30pm)
Trinity Chapel

A Bouquet of Romances will feature Brahms’ Horn Trio and works by Clara Schumann, Saint-Saëns, Dvořák, and Scriabin.

The recital will be preceded by a Women Composers lecture during common hour earlier that day:

Women Composers Lecture
Tu, Oct 21 (Common Hour)
Gruss Music Hall

The Wolves
Written by Sarah Delappe
Directed by Kristen Moriarty
Th-Sa, Oct 23-25 (7:30pm)
Sa, Oct 25 (2pm)
Garmany Hall (in AAC)

The Wolves is a highly physical ensemble play about a girls’ indoor high school club soccer team. Every Saturday morning, as the girls gather to take on another team, their pregame warmup provides a glimpse into their experiences as girls who are becoming adults—menstruation, teen pregnancy, war, immigration, relationship to authority, their own interpersonal dynamics, and themselves.

“The Wolves” is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals on behalf of Samuel French, Inc. www.concordtheatricals.com.

NOVEMBER 2025

Trinity Organ Series
Th, Nov 6 (12:10–1:15pm)
Trinity Chapel

Trinity College Chapel and Department of Music present the Trinity Organ Series, featuring Ellen Dickinson (College Carillonist) and the Trinity Organ Studio (students of Christopher Houlihan, Artist-in-Residence). Our exceptional pipe organ, built by the Austin Organ Company of Hartford, contains over four thousand pipes that range in size from pencils to large trees. Each pipe’s unique sound combines to a thrilling sonic experience.

mayfield brooks
Alumni Residency
Tues-Wed, Nov 11-12

Class Visit to Improvisation as Composition class
Tues, Nov 11 (1:30-2:45pm)
Performance Lab (in Trinity Commons)

Class Visit to the Theater + Dance Senior Capstone class
Wed, Nov 12 (4:15-5:30pm)
THDN Lounge (Trinity Commons)

Whale Fall Screening and Artist Talk
Wed, Nov 12 (7:00pm)
Cinestudio

Join mayfield brooks ’95 (movement-based performance artist, vocalist, urban farmer, writer) for an artist talk and screening of their experimental dance film, Whale Fall, which earned mayfield a 2021 Bessie/New York Dance and Performance Award. Since 2021, mayfield has explored the life and death cycle of whales. From the metaphor of the whale fall, their project has expanded to explore the musicality of whale song and the history of the whaling industry (one of the first integrated industries drawing heavily on Black and Indigenous labor). At its core, Whale Fall asks the question: what becomes possible, inevitable, and necessary when systems break down? Read more about the Whale Fall project in this New York Times article. This alumni residency is co-sponsored by the Department of Theater and Dance.

Choral Evensong
The Chapel Singers
We, Nov 12 (5:15pm)
Chapel

Contemplative choral and organ music to mark the close of day; all are welcome to this 45-minute offering

The Mix: Meditations on Space (THDN)
Directed by Peter Kyle
Th-Sa, Nov 20-22 (7:30pm)
Various throughout AAC

Marking the 60th anniversary of Trinity’s Austin Arts Center (AAC), The Mix: Meditations on Space will call attention to and celebrate the AAC building, in expected and unexpected ways. Meditations on space provides a framework for animating different parts of AAC with a variety of creative projects ranging from professional restagings of historic works—including Simone Forti’s Dance Construction, Slant Board, and Judy Dworin’s My Body, My Body—to original student work created for the production. Don’t miss this artful journey through AAC’s architecture, times, sounds, and people on stage and beyond.

DECEMBER 2025

Ensembles Concert
Tues, Dec 2 (Common Hour)
Gruss Music Hall (GMC in AAC)

Jazz Concert
Tues, Dec 2 (7:30pm)
Goodwin Theater (AAC)

Steel + Hand Drum Concert
Wed, Dec 3 (7:30pm)
Goodwin Theater (AAC)

Chamber Ensemble Concert
Thurs, Dec 4 (Common Hour)
Gruss Music Hall (GMC in AAC)

THEATER + DANCE SENIOR CAPSTONE PROJECTS

ATHENA
By Gracie Gardner
Directed by Kathleen Kelly ’26
Thurs, Dec 4 (7:30pm)
Performance Lab (Trinity Commons)

Mary Wallace and Athena are brave, and seventeen, and fencers, and training for the Junior Olympics. They practice together, they compete against each other, they spend their lives together. They wish they were friends.
Athena” is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals on behalf of Samuel French Inc. www.concordtheatricals.com.

School Girls
Or, The African Mean Girls (excerpts)
Play by Jocelyn Bioh
Directed by Kelly Asefa ’25
Sat, Dec 6 (7:30pm)
Performance Lab (Trinity Commons)

Christmas Festival of Lessons and Carols
Sun, Dec 7 (4pm and 7pm)
Trinity Chapel

Last Night
Mon, Dec 8 (5:30pm)
Performance Lab (Trinity Commons )

A joy-filled and comradery-building showcase of projects and coursework from the Department of Theater and Dance this semester.

Trinity/La Mama Showcase
Wed, Dec 10 (7:30pm)
Performance Lab (Trinity Commons)

An evening of original multidisciplinary theater and dance performances created by the students of the Trinity/La MaMa study away class of Fall 2025. This performance is the culmination of TLM, an intensive performing arts program, where throughout the semester the cohort immerse themselves in the diverse art scenes and everyday life of New York City. They explore a wide range of approaches to creating performance: from puppetry to butoh, clowning to vogueing, improvisation to writing solo performance. This show is the culmination of their artistic experiences, experimentations, and on-going discoveries.

To find out more about the Trinity/La MaMa program and how you can apply, please visit our website: www.trinitylamama.org