Student Capstone Projects in Theater
Senior Showcase
Student Capstone Projects in Theater
Senior Showcase
In their final year, Theater majors present a capstone project, which they devise and produce. Projects range from fully-realized theater productions to design presentations to panel discussions.
Senior Showcase January 2025
A performance project presented by Alex McPartland ’25
‘Danny and The Deep Blue Sea’
Starring Alex McPartland ’25 and Skye McCashion ‘24
Written by John Patrick Shanley
Directed by Thomas Schwans
Set at a desolate bar in the Bronx, ‘Danny and the Deep Blue Sea’ explores the deep need for human compassion and the power that can come from speaking out about the dark things that trouble a person’s soul. Danny is a day laborer who lives with his mom. Roberta is a divorcée with a teenage son. As the pair engage in a stand-off over who’s got it worse, verbal blows turn physical, and the outcasts bare the deepest parts of themselves.