EMPAC at RPI presents STAGING GROUNDS with Korakrit Arunanondchai, Li Yi-Fan, Na Mira, Jewyo Rhii, and Samson Young staging grounds is an open platform for performance, installation, and public programs. By staging our shared experiences, how might we open up new forms of collective possibility? A staging ground is the architecture for…
RPI Players are looking for both Directors and Music Directors for our Spring ’26 mainstage show, Something Rotten!! To any non-students in the capital region looking to get involved with us, please consider applying by filling out the following form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdoAcy1DVTAJAOOphwGXqpNeZbphJ1xjQHJ1laJKT8DtmytCw/viewform?usp=header (This form will close on December 20th, 2025, at…
Murder on the Orient Express Auditions Saturday, Sept. 6th at 11:00am West Hall Auditorium – RPI ❈❈❈ Contacts Directors – for questions about creative direction Michael Ciaravella, Director (Email: MCiaravella@gmail.com) Casey Duncan, Asst. Director, General (Email: duncac5@rpi.edu Discord: @legend_of_lonk) Nikki Walen, Asst. Director, Intimacy (Email: walenn@rpi.edu Discord: @04nikkiw) Mark Belle-Isle, Asst. Director, Combat (Email: bellem5@rpi.edu Discord: @charoite) Producers –…
All are invited! The experimental music theater work ONTOPOIESIS asks, What connects us to our world and shapes our experience of it? How do we in turn shape the world? EMPAC at RPI in Troy invites Capital District Theater audiences to experience the world premiere of ONTOPOIESIS by Rama Gottfried…
All are invited! MY TOWN by Jack Ferver takes a queer departure from the classic American play Our Town by Thornton Wilder. EMPAC at Rensselaer in Troy invites Capital District Theater audiences to experience the world premiere of MY TOWN by Jack Ferver on Friday, March 21 at 7PM. Presented…
All are invited! GHOST IMAGES by Korakrit Arunanondchai is a FREE work-in-progress event that dissolves the boundaries between film, performance, and atmosphere. EMPAC at Rensselaer in Troy invites Capital District Theater audiences to experience GHOST IMAGES by Korakrit Arunanondchai on Tuesday, February 11 at 7PM. Presented in the EMPAC Studio…
Two traveling eulogists encounter one another in a declining architectural estate. Riffing on official political stances, they gradually open a dreamlike grasping after the principles of revolutions and their failures. EMPAC at Rensselaer in Troy invites Capital District Theater audiences to the one-night-only American premiere of Permanent Trespass by filmmaker…
Follow award-winning choreographer and performer Dana Michel as she unravels the orderly world of mechanical labor in MIKE. EMPAC at Rensselaer invites Capital District Theater audiences to MIKE by Dana Michel, Friday, October 4 at 6PM and Saturday, October 5 at 2PM. Presented in EMPAC Studio 1-Goodman Theater and the…
