Frank Wedekind

Review: SPRING AWAKENING at Oceanside Theatre Company
by ErinMarie Reiter - Sep 2, 2025

Oceanside Theatre Company’s “Spring Awakening” directed by Gerilyn Brault with musical direction and choreography by E.Y. Washington, doesn’t tiptoe around the messiness of adolescence: repressed sexuality, parental silence, mental health struggles, and the devastating cost of ignorance. It runs through September 14th at the Sunshine Brooks Theater in Oceanside.

SPRING AWAKENING Opens The Sandbox Collective's 2026 Season
by Oliver Oliveros - Aug 27, 2025

The Sandbox Collective, under the new artistic direction of Sab Jose-Gregorio, will launch its 2026 season with a highly anticipated production of the eight-time Tony Award-winning musical 'Spring Awakening,' opening in February 2026 at the Black Box in Rockwell Center, Makati City.

SPRING AWAKENING Comes to Oceanside Theatre Company With Student-Led Cast and Creative Team
by A.A. Cristi - Jul 25, 2025

Oceanside Theatre Company (OTC) has announced the cast and creative team for its upcoming production of Spring Awakening, the Tony Award-winning rock musical exploring identity, sexuality, and self-discovery.

Review: Chance Theater Presents Intimate New Production of SPRING AWAKENING
by Michael Quintos - Jul 23, 2025

Bursting with powerful, beautifully-rendered musical performances and emotionally-stirring characterizations from a terrific ensemble cast, Chance Theater's incredible-sounding, fiercely-acted, deeply searing new production of SPRING AWAKENING is, according to this critic, one of the best, most satisfying productions of this musical I have seen in a while. With characters you care for and a stunning score that stays with you, the show remains a favorite. And, most of all, the show still f**king rocks.

Photos: SPRING AWAKENING at Chance Theater
by A.A. Cristi - Jul 15, 2025

Chance Theater has released photos of its production of Spring Awakening. Directed by Jocelyn A. Brown, Spring Awakening is based on Frank Wedekind’s groundbreaking play Spring's Awakening. 

Bella Merlin to Present TILLY NO-BODY at Edinburgh Fringe
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Jun 17, 2025

This captivating solo play written and performed by acclaimed actor and author Bella Merlin, Tilly No-Body, reveals the haunting and transformative story of Tilly Wedekind. See it at Edinburgh Fringe!

ESAEM presenta EL DESPERTAR DE LA PRIMAVERA en el Teatro Cervantes el próximo 17 de junio
by Lorena Pastor Romero - Jun 5, 2025

La Escuela Superior de Artes Escénicas de Málaga (ESAEM) presenta el próximo 17 de junio en el Teatro Cervantes una nueva adaptación musical de EL DESPERTAR DE LA PRIMAVERA, bajo la dirección de José María del Castillo.

SPRING AWAKENING Begins This July At Chance Theater
by A.A. Cristi - Jun 5, 2025

Chance Theater will bring the revolutionary Tony Award-winning musical Spring Awakening to Orange County for the first time this summer, running July 11 through August 10, 2025, on the Cripe Stage at the Bette Aitken Theater Arts Center. Directed by Associate Artistic Director Jocelyn A. Brown, the production also features music direction by Robyn Manion and choreography by Mo Goodfellow.

Review: SPRING AWAKENING, Tron Theatre
by Mary Baillie - May 13, 2025

Students at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland upload Anya Reiss’s unique adaptation of Spring Awakening to the Tron this week. Reiss propels Frank Wedekind’s controversial 19th-century tale into the digital age. Set under an umbrella of smartphones, pornographic sites, social media, and online subcultures, the play explores how today’s teens are bombarded with information yet still starved of emotional guidance from adults and society.

SPRING AWAKENING Begins At Ann Arbor Civic Theatre In June
by A.A. Cristi - May 3, 2025

Ann Arbor Civic Theatre will present Duncan Sheik/Steven Sater's alt-rock musical SPRING AWAKENING at the Arthur Miller Theater, University of Michigan on June 5-8, 2025.

MEAN GIRLS, THE SPONGEBOB MUSICAL, and More Set For Beck Center For The Arts 2025-2026 Theater Season
by Stephi Wild - Apr 30, 2025

Beck Center for the Arts has announced its 2025-2026 Professional Theater Season, the 92nd season which includes a big splash, comedies, dramas, musicals, and a new collaboration with Oberlin College & Conservatory Music Theater Program. 

Full Cast Set For SPRING AWAKENINGS At Lazy Susan Theatre Co.
by Emmy Rice - Apr 5, 2025

Lazy Susan Theatre Co. has announced the cast and creative team for the last show of the 2024-2025 season, Spring Awakenings by Frank Wedekind. Check here for more information.

Review: SPRING AWAKENING at Revolution Stage Company
by Kay Kudukis - Jan 21, 2025

Go see it. ​​​​​​​If you check out the history of the musical, Spring Awakening, you will find that it is origins are in a German play titled The Awakening of Spring; underneath that, “A Tragedy of Childhood.” It was so controversial, it make it to stage for 15 years after it was written in 1891.

SPRING AWAKENING; TICK, TICK...BOOM!; and More Set For the Chance Theater 2025 Season
by Stephi Wild - Nov 12, 2024

Chance Theater has announced its 2025 season, featuring bold, groundbreaking musicals, regional premieres, a world premiere from the company's inaugural resident playwright, and beloved holiday and family classics.

SPRING AWAKENING Extends at Rec Room Arts
by Stephi Wild - Sep 25, 2024

 Rec Room Arts has announced the extension of the acclaimed intimate restaging of the Tony Award-winning musical SPRING AWAKENING (book and lyrics by Steven Sater, music by Duncan Sheik, based on the play by Frank Wedekind).

Review: SPRING AWAKENING at Rec Room Arts
by Armando Urdiales - Sep 10, 2024

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Cast Announced for SPRING AWAKENING At Rec Room Arts
by A.A. Cristi - Aug 7, 2024

Rec Room Arts will present SPRING AWAKENING, a powerful musical exploring the trials and tribulations of adolescence.

Photos: First Look At Castle Craig Players Production of SPRING AWAKENING
by A.A. Cristi - Jul 11, 2024

Castle Craig Players' production of Spring Awakening is set to take the stage July 26 through August 11 at the groups intimate Meriden venue! See photos of the cast. 

SPRING AWAKENING to Open Steel Beam Theatre's 2024 -2025 Season
by Blair Ingenthron - Jul 6, 2024

Steel Beam Theatre kicks off its 2024-2025 season with SPRING AWAKENING, a Tony Award-winning rock musical exploring adolescence in 1938 Germany. Directed by Maxwell Peters, performances run August 1-11.

Videos: Watch New Clips From SPRING AWAKENING at the 5th Avenue Theatre
by Stephi Wild - Jun 24, 2024

All new video clips have been released from Spring Awakening at the 5th Avenue Theatre. Check out clips of 'Don't Do Sadness / Blue Wind' and 'The Dark I Know Well' here!