HopKins Black Box theatre

Last night was EPIC! If you missed it no worries you have 4 more chances to catch this dynamic duo! Reserve your seat today! https://forms.gle/Fj3so7xtQFKaP8wy6

What do all of these things have in common?! Well you’ll have to find out when the Standard Deviation meets The Things We Carry. Running now through Sunday April 26! Link in our bio!

🕯️🎲MEET THE CAST🃏🪦

Shuffle the deck see who you pull the DM and the NPCs are ready to meet you.

Choose your player carefully your fate will be sewn with them.

Come see Things We Carry Double Billed with Standard Deviation April 22-26 at the HBB!

Reservation Link in our Bio!

Next week the HBB will host BACK-TO-BACK graduate student shows.

Standard Deviation is a one woman exploration of fragmented memories through the lens of jazz. Does being the outlier mark error, or is there freedom in the dissonance?

Standard Deviation is to be immediately followed by The Things We Carry.

You lost another game. It says, ‘game over,’ & you restart a life. But in what other ways does death permeate our lives? How many times do we die before we stop dying? The Things We Carry explores Death, sometimes scary and sad, sometimes funny and heartwarming, and connects these parts to explore the common experiences we will share with one another. Imagine the worlds we’ll rewrite, & the possibilities of new life, all with a roll of the dice.

Performances are at 7:30 Wednesday- Saturday with a Sunday matinee at 2:30.

Come play with us👯‍♀️🎲🎯

Tonight! The Eraric Forms Video Essay Festival graces our screens with six brand new video essays with topics ranging from aliens to abstract art everyone will find something to love! See you at 7:30!

Sign up ahead and beat the crowd here —> https://www.bit.ly/reservehbb

Coming soon . . . 4144/G, an avant-garde performance showcase adapted from installation work done by students in CMST 4144 (G) Fall semester 2025.

Coming next week!
HUMANINALIA by Vince LiCata
This performance-lecture asks how different humans really are from other animals. Current research on animal cognition, evolution, and communication is explored through storytelling, lecture, tiny puppetry, scary animal drag, poorly sung songs, and the music of Morrissey. This is not a children’s show, suggested age range is 13+ due to some discussion of animals in distress.

On Tuesday (9/30), the HBB has the privilege to host Dr. Heidi Rose (Villanova University) for the 4th Annual Place of Performance lecture.

Dr. Rose’s talk—“On Being a ‘Good Thief’s Adaptation and How Performance Helps Me Live”—explores her experience creating performance as no less than a life-giving, and life-sustaining, enterprise. Braiding three moments—her work with ASL poetry, adaptation and staging of the novel “Parakeet,” and recent intertextual performance “Between Girls…Absent and Present”—Dr. Rose recounts her approach to adapting texts for audiences, amplifying what it means to be a “good thief.”

It’s going to be a great time; come and see it at 7:30pm!

🚨🚨SWIPE ➡️ to read more about each show in our 2025-2026 performance season!

Ever wonder if the people teaching you performance are actually any good at it themselves?

They are. But don’t take my word for it! Come see the graduate and faculty showcase this Wednesday in the HopKins Black Box!! You’ll see some of your favorite professors show off their chops. Stay tuned for the rest of the season coming soon👀

🌼 SPRING SHOWCASE 🌸

Students from our introductory courses will display their talent and creativity with a delightful evening of poetry, prose, and compiled performances.

No reservation required. Doors open at 7:15 and show starts at 7:30 PM!