Mia Farrow and Patti LuPone, longtime friends, had no intention of returning to Broadway until a script about two women sharing a house caught their eye. The play, called “The Roommate,” was written by Jen Silverman (2011 Theatre MFA), and had a 2017 run, with a different cast, at the Williamstown Theater Festival, where the New York Times critic Jesse Green called it “a kind of chemistry experiment. Can two women of utterly different temperaments and backgrounds help each other? Can they help each other too much?”

Iowa Playwriting MFA alum David Adjmi's new play 'Stereophonic' has been nominated for THIRTEEN Tony Awards including Best New Play. “Stereophonic” is now the most-nominated play in Tony Awards history.

"In the Red and Brown Water," directed by Assistant Professor Caroline Clay, received a glowing review in Black Dance Magazine, which praised our artists' authentic representation of Black, Caribbean, and African dance and cultural practices and aesthetics.

Iowa Playwrights Workshop alums David Adjmi and Jen Silverman both have plays on Broadway in 2024. They met when Silverman was getting her MFA at the University of Iowa and Adjmi came back to campus as a guest artist. Silverman interviewed Adjmi for BOMB Magazine.

The School of Music’s spring opera—composed by a Jazz Studies professor—features UI students from across the Performing Arts At Iowa and beyond