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Agatha Christie's AND THEN THERE WERE NONE to be Presented at The REP


by Chloe Rabinowitz - October 01, 2025

Mystery and danger take center stage as the Resident Ensemble Players presents And Then There Were None, Agatha Christie's most haunting and suspense-filled play. Learn more!...

Resident Ensemble Players Reveals New Season Lineup


by Stephi Wild - July 01, 2025

The Resident Ensemble Players (REP), the professional theatre company in residence at the University of Delaware, has announced its upcoming season of productions....

Review: KING LEAR at Resident Ensemble Players


by Greer Firestone - April 16, 2025

Resident Ensemble Players’ King Lear is not a safe, reverential staging—it is a bold, bracing confrontation with one of Shakespeare’s most devastating works. Tt is a production that does what great theatre should: it wounds, it awakens, and it leaves us changed....

KING LEAR to be Presented at the Resident Ensemble Players


by Chloe Rabinowitz - March 12, 2025

The timeless tragedy, King Lear, is set to take center stage at the Resident Ensemble Players (REP) this April. Learn more about the upcoming production and see how to attend! ...

MISERY to be Presented at Resident Ensemble Players in February


by Chloe Rabinowitz - January 15, 2025

Get your scares in at the Resident Ensemble Players with Misery, by William Goldman, based on the terrifying novel by Stephen King. Learn more about the production and see how to purchase tickets. ...

Review: ROUGH CROSSING at Resident Ensemble Players


by Greer Firestone - November 14, 2024

The curriculum vitae of Tom Stoppard is staggering. 1964’s “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead” brought him initial fame in the theatre world. Prolific does not do the man justice. In every theatrical/writing genre he has excelled. Tony Awards, Academy Awards and every other conceivable one. To g...

New York Stage And Film Names Ian Belknap As Next Artistic Director


by Chloe Rabinowitz - October 30, 2024

Ian Belknap has been named as the new Artistic Director of New York Stage and Film, bringing his extensive experience to the organization known for developing innovative theater projects. Learn more about Belknap....

Tom Stoppard's ROUGH CROSSING to be Presented at the Resident Ensemble Players


by Chloe Rabinowitz - October 16, 2024

Experience Tom Stoppard's hilarious farce ROUGH CROSSING at the Resident Ensemble Players in Newark, DE. Follow the comedic chaos of playwrights on an ocean liner. Learn how to purchase tickets. ...

Review: THE COMPLETE WORKS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (ABRIDGED) at UD Rep Ensemble


by Greer Firestone - September 25, 2024

Aisle Say began reviewing UD REP - Resident Ensemble Players – in a campus gym, long before the capacious and elegant Roselle Center for the Arts became a reality. I was always struck with their overarching quality of both acting and tech. In many reviews called them the pre-eminent acting company i...

Past Shows

King Lear
King Lear
4/10 - 4/27/2025


King Lear has decided to end his reign and divide his country among his three daughters. Loyalties are misjudged and Lear soon finds himself stripped ...

Misery
Misery
2/13 - 3/2/2025


This terrifying psychological thriller follows the disturbed mind of a former nurse as she holds her favorite author captive. As the author struggles to escape, ...

Rough Crossing
Rough Crossing
11/7 - 11/24/2024


A hilarious farce where two playwrights, one jealous composer, and most of the cast of a Broadway-bound show attempt to simultaneously finish writing and rehearse ...

The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged) (revised) (again)


This fast-paced comedy is guaranteed to have both lovers and haters of Shakespeare in stitches as it covers  ALL  of Shakespeare's plays and sonnets in ...

What the Constitution Means to Me


Challenging, hopeful, and funny – this ground-breaking play takes a sharp analysis at the biases inherent in the Constitution and imagines how this founding document ...

DEATHTRAP
DEATHTRAP
4/11 - 4/28/2024


Hugely popular on stage and screen, this dark comedy thriller is a perfect blend of schemes, plot-twists, and outrageous humor. Once famous playwright, Sidney Bruhl ...

PASS OVER
PASS OVER
2/8 - 2/18/2024


A mashup of Beckett’s  Waiting for Godot  and the Biblical  Exodus  story told by a bold new American voice. Two young black men, Moses and ...

JOHN BALL'S IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT


August 1962 — a white man is discovered dead in a small town of Alabama. Local police arrest the only stranger in town, a black ...

VITA & VIRGINIA
VITA & VIRGINIA
9/21 - 10/1/2023


Adapted from letters and diaries to deftly weave the story of the improbable love affair and enduring friendship between aristocratic novelist and poet, Vita Sackville-West, ...

MEDEA
MEDEA
4/13 - 4/30/2023


The powerful and timeless Greek tragedy. What is love worth? What is the cost of betrayal? Medeas love and loyalty to Jason was unquestionable until ...

SISTER MARY IGNATIUS EXPLAINS IT ALL FOR YOU


In her lecture, Sister Mary explains her strict beliefs and warns all of the perils of sin.  Her lecture takes an unexpected turn as four of her former pupils ...

A POEM AND A MISTAKE


A Poem and a Mistake  follows the story of Myrrha, a grad student in the classics, who is grappling with how to handle the 50 ...

SUITE BLACKNESS: BLACK DANCE IN CINEMA


This dance performance is a journey through racial and cultural tensions from the 1920s to present day - Showcasing films such as “Stormy Weather”, “The ...

ChambeREP: LOVE LETTERS
ChambeREP: LOVE LETTERS
9/30 - 10/1/2022


Andrew Makepeace Ladd III and Melissa Gardner have exchanged hundreds of letters for over fifty years. Theirs is a relationship that spans childhood crushes, boarding ...

Arsenic and Old Lace
Arsenic and Old Lace
11/3 - 8/20/2022


You thought your family was crazy? Meet the Brewsters.Mortimer Brewster discovers his seemingly sweet old aunts have a nasty habit of poisoning lonely old men ...

A Christmas Carol
A Christmas Carol
12/8 - 12/26/2021


A Christmas Carol is back! The REP is delighted to offer this classic holiday listening opportunity once again to our audience members and their families. ...

Votetrickery: A Spoken Word Symphony


Throughout our history it has been suggested that America does not have a government by the majority, but rather it has a government by the ...

The Murders in the Rue Morgue
The Murders in the Rue Morgue
10/27 - 11/14/2021


The Murders in the Rue Morgue is a frightening tale sure to give you the Halloween chills. Adapted from Edgar Allan Poe's classic thriller by ...

A Scandal in Bohemia
A Scandal in Bohemia
9/29 - 10/17/2021


In this exciting and amusing Sherlock Holmes story, the King of Bohemia enlists the services of the great detective and his faithful friend Dr. Watson ...

The Cornish Mystery
The Cornish Mystery
4/23 - 5/21/2021


The Resident Ensemble Players wraps up the 2020-2021 season with Agatha Christies The Cornish Mystery, the REPs final story in The Poirot Mysteries!The mystery begins ...

The King of Clubs
The King of Clubs
3/26 - 5/21/2021


The Oglander family is enjoying a quiet game of bridge in their drawing room when suddenly a woman, covered in blood, staggers in, with a ...

Arsenic and Old Lace
Arsenic and Old Lace
2/26 - 5/16/2021


The REP's audio adaptation of Joseph Kesselring's Arsenic and Old Lace will have you roaring with laughter as our resident actors portray the colorful characters ...

A Christmas Carol
A Christmas Carol
12/11 - 12/25/2020


Join the Resident Ensemble Players (REP) on air and online this holiday season for the brand new audio presentation of Charles Dicken's heart-warming classic A ...

Round and Round the Garden
Round and Round the Garden
4/23 - 5/10/2020


by Alan AyckbournDirected by Maria AitkenAPR. 23 MAY 10A hilarious tale of three couples looking for love and satisfaction anywhere but their own bedrooms. Annie ...

The Whipping Man
The Whipping Man
4/16 - 5/10/2020


By Matthew LopezDirected by Steve TagueAPR. 16 MAY 10The Civil War is over; the Confederacy has fallen. On the eve of Passover, Caleb, a young ...

The Crucible
The Crucible
3/5 - 3/22/2020


By Arthur MillerDirected by Ben BarnesMAR. 5 - MAR. 22When a group of teenage girls is caught dancing naked in the woods outside of a ...

Starter Pistol
Starter Pistol
1/16 - 2/2/2020


By Michael GotchDirected by Mark LamosJAN. 16 FEB. 2After last seasons wildly successful Minor Fantastical Kingdoms, Michael Gotch returns with a darker look at middle ...

Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Orient Express


Adapted for the Stage by Ken LudwigDirected by Sanford RobbinsNOV. 7 - NOV. 24An opulent train stranded in the snow-whipped mountains, a dining car packed ...

August: Osage County
August: Osage County
9/26 - 10/13/2019


By Tracy LettsDirected by Jackson GaySEP. 26 OCT. 13This funny, furious family reunion from hell begins when patriarch Beverly Weston disappears into the hot summer ...

FEVER
4/18 - 5/4/2013


Thompson Theatre: - Theresa Rebeck; dir: Sanford Robbins....

Hamlet
2/28 - 3/17/2013


Thompson Theatre: - William Shakespeare; dir: Mark Lamos....

THE THREEPENNY OPERA
1/17 - 2/12/2013


An artistic destiny fulfilled, visionary director Robert Wilson (Quartett, 2009 Next Wave) joins the world-renowned Berliner Ensemble for its New York debut in a bold ...

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