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3 days until the troupe's 19th birthday so we're retrospectively counting down continuing with Year 17 when the world more reopened and when faced what was expected to be the final Marcon (our premiere science-fiction convention) we decided to go out with a bang and stage our second adaptation of a play briefly scene in the pages of the "Girl Genius" gaslamp fantasy graphic novel series, the infamous and incredibly ribald "Heterodyne Boys & the Socket Wench of Prague"!

(By chance our countdown for this bawdy and scandalous show landed on National Pin-Up Day today!)

Happy Earth Day, everyone!

This year we are exploring commedia dell'arte pastorale plays with settings in a fantastical natural paradise! While we might not be able to find the mystical island of Arcadia, it's within our power to make our world into such a beautiful garden for all Earth Days to come!

(This clip is from "Adoration on Arcadia", our first pastorale for Commedia Day 2025 and features the nymph Clori basking in th wonders of the natural world around here.)

4 days until the troupe's 19th birthday so we're retrospectively counting down continuing with Year 16 we could stage in-person commedia dell'arte again though we now had two different sets of masks such as the premiere of "The Horrible and Terrifying Deeds and Words of Niphleseth, Queen of the Wild Island of Chitterlingonian Sausages" for the Popular Cultural & the Deep Past historic conference at the Ohio State University Center on Medieval & Renaissance Studies inspired by the 16th Century satirical novels by François Rabelais!

Did you know #Caturday is a great day to catch William Shakespeare's "A Comedy of Errors" at our alma mater Case Western Reserve University?!

We went yesterday but you can still catch this play tonight and matinee tomorrow!

Though this play shares a lot of elements with commedia dell'arte it's actually inspired by the same Roman comedies that influenced commedia. But it's all that good farcical fun we love!

Get your tickets here: Theater.Case.Edu/Tickets