On Oct. 9th, 2025, at 8 p.m., Marymount Manhattan College students performed “Comedy of Errors” in the Theresa Lang Theatre. Laughter filled the theatre as the performers brought their characters to life on the stage.
Comedy of Errors is a comedic story of two men on the search for their long lost twin. During this search, all of the characters around them confuse them for their twin. This starts a series of mistaken identities, which all leads to love, arrests, and creepy old men. Marymount Manhattan College added a modern spin to the story, by setting the play in the lower east side of New York City during the 70’s, and by adding a live band. The band, all MMC performers, started the show, as they entered through the audience shouting, “We’re late, we’re late!”.
“Comedy of Errors” ran from Oct. 9-12th, with 17 performers, and was directed by Peter Romano.
“My favorite parts of this process were getting to craft the “bits”,” Romano said. “Once we were in tech with full costumes and design elements, we really got to collaborate and make moments snap to life.”
The modern elements of the play were popular among the audience. They loved the band, and what the technology added to the show.
“I really liked the part where they used the digital camera,” freshman Nora Morrison said. “I really liked all of the props they used and the technical effects like the projected sun.”
Another freshman, Elyse Duffield, said that she “thought the entire band aspect was very interesting”.
“I thought it was so cool how the band was a part of the cast in scenes and also contributing through their music,” Duffield said.
The stage manager of the show, Lori Zepp, described the production process as a collaboration between the directors and the student designers.
“The design for the set and the costumes started out with inspiration from the directors, and then the directors would meet with the student designers, and that’s when things would start to come together,” Zepp said.
Marymount Manhattan’s production of Comedy of Errors left a lasting impression on all of the cast and the crew, along with the audience.
