2025-2026 Season
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Emory Student Free Ticket Policy
Schwartz Center Box Office: Emory students may receive two free tickets to any production by visiting the Schwartz Center Box Office in person between 12 pm and 6 pm Tuesday through Friday. Must show Emory student ID.
By Phone: Emory students may receive two free tickets to any production by calling the Schwartz Center Box Office at 404.727.5050 between 12 pm and 6 pm Tuesday through Friday. Must present Emory student I.D. when picking up tickets.
Online: You are able to book up to two free tickets for each Theater Emory production. To do so:
- Choose the date of the show you wish to attend and click that link.
- Indicate the number of tickets you wish to reserve. Please note: if you choose more than 2 tickets as an Emory student, you will not be able to proceed. Ticket max is two.
- When you reach the check-out page, press check out to reserve. You will register your Emory email to proceed.
- You MUST provide your Emory email in the check-out process, or your tickets will not be FREE. All Emory students must present their Emory student ID to pick up their tickets at the performance.
In Person: Emory students may also receive two free tickets to any production by visiting the box office the night of the show. Must show student ID.
THEATER EMORY 2025-26 SEASON
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My Foot My Tutor
by Peter Handke
English language translation by Michael Roloff
Directed by Héctor Alvarez
October 2 – 5, 2025
One Weekend Only!
Schwartz Center, Theater Lab
My Foot My Tutor is a wordless, surreal performance that explores control, routine, and resistance through movement, silence, and sound. The playwright, Peter Handke, wrote My Foot My Tutor after creating a series of experimental plays that explored how language limits us. In it, he invites you to lean in, observe, and interpret for yourself as the masked Guardian and his Minor navigate a bizarre domestic world where power is physical, time is warped, and meaning hides in every gesture.
Please be advised: This production contains occasional moments of implied violence and includes the presence of a live domesticated animal.
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peerless
by Jiehae Park
Directed by Wanyu Yang
November 13-23, 2025
Mary Gray Munroe Theater
In this darkly funny satire, twin Asian American sisters, brilliant, ambitious, and inseparable, have dedicated their lives to gaining admission to “The College.” However, when the coveted early decision spot is awarded to someone else, the competition turns deadly. Inspired by Shakespeare’s Macbeth, peerless offers a razor-sharp exploration of academic pressure, identity, and the lengths we’ll go for success. Wickedly clever and bitingly relevant, this play delves into the heart of ambition with humor, horror, and a candid examination of what it takes to win.
Content Notice: This production contains incidents of racism, ableism, death, simulated physical violence, sexualized content, fire, and body shaming.
“Peerless” is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals on behalf of Samuel French, Inc. www.concordtheatricals.com
Brave New Works
Jan 31 & Feb 1, 2026
April 18 & 19, 2026
Schwartz Center, Theater Lab
Brave New Works readings are free and open to the public.
Brave New Works, Theater Emory's biennial festival of new and evolving plays, provides theater professionals and students with the space and resources to conduct creative experimentation and to create new works for the stage.The 2026 festival will include works from four playwrights including student work, Atlanta-based and national playwrights, and Emory’s 2025-2027 playwriting fellow. Specific titles and presentation dates to be announced by November 1, 2025.
Bright Star
Music, Book & Story by Steve Martin & Music, Lyrics & Story by Edie Brickell
Directed & Choreographed by Thomas W. Jones II
Musical Direction by Greg Matteson
March 26 – April 4, 2026
Mary Gray Munroe Theater
Inspired by a true story, Bright Star is a bluegrass-infused musical set in the Blue Ridge Mountains during the 1920s and 1940s. When a young soldier returns home from World War II, his encounter with literary editor Alice Murphy sparks a journey into a hidden past waiting to be uncovered. Bright Star is a moving tale of love, loss, and the redemptive power of hope.
Content Notice: This production includes violence, alcohol use, death and grief, child abandonment, mental health struggles, adoption and reunion, period-specific attitudes, religious themes, war, and its aftereffects.
Bright Star is presented through special arrangement with and all authorized performance materials are supplied by Theatrical Rights Worldwide 1180 Avenue of the Americas, Suite 640, New York, NY 10036. www.theatricalrights.com
Past Productions
Theater Emory is the producing affiliate of Theater Studies within the Department of Theater and Dance at Emory University. Theater Emory, offering performances during the academic school years since the early 1980s, primarily utilizes and showcases student actors in its Fall and Spring productions.