Three Sisters
adapted from Anton Chekhov’s classic
directed by Brian Brophy
April 23, 24, 25 at 7:30pm
April 26 at 2:30pm
Ramo Auditorium
From the source material of Anton Chekhov’s classic 1901 play, this co-created adaptation to the target culture of California in the mid 1950s, serves as a fresh exploration between aspirations and reality, yearning for a better future, and the comic-tragic cost of inaction.
MACH 33 Festival
May 13-16, 2026
Frautschi Hall (2nd Floor), Hameetman Center, Caltech
Suggested donation: $10
MACH 33:
The Heat of the Sun’s Rays by Katherine Vondy
Haunt Me by James Still
Sing For Me by Cris Eli Blak
Launchpad:
River of Night by Randal K. Jackson
Parity by Howard Ho
Hubble by Simon Bowler
This year’s program features an exciting, multifaceted collection of works-in-progress spanning genre, theme, and scientific focus, showcasing the range of science-driven theater as an art form.
Join us for the MACH 33 Festival for readings of the MACH 33 plays and readings of selections from the Launchpad plays!
Time Travel Jams
May 19 & 21
The Caltech Time Travel Jam is a unique orientation to time travel, worldbuilding, and character creation — for actual use. No prior experience with either time travel or performance is required. Just a willingness to commit to the process and see where it leads. In either of two intimate jam sessions, you’ll develop a character from another time — past or future, near or distant: your choice.
These sessions, informed by some of our community’s leading lights in both physics and science fiction, will be a singular experiment and social gathering in their own right. But they are also a prelude to a larger, more far-reaching, and ambitious experiment: Caltech’s first ever Time Travelers’ Party, to be held on the evening of Friday May 29, 2026. The Party will be a public reception at which intertemporal visitors of all sorts arrive in character and remain so for the duration, encountering uninitiated guests throughout. With this event, the university joins rare and notable company: a Time Travel Convention held at MIT in 2005, and Stephen Hawking’s famous, and famously unattended, experiment at Cambridge in 2009. Here is Caltech’s answer to both.
The Workshop will be led on campus at TACIT House by two visiting artists at Caltech: Kari Coleman and Stuart Candy, world-renowned in improvisational performance and experiential futures respectively — practices that between them offer tools for authentic presence in any situation, real or imagined. If you’d like to be part of making time travel history, two jam sessions are available: Tuesday May 19 or Thursday May 21, both from 7:00–10:00PM. Choose whichever works for you. Attending both sessions is welcome but not expected.
Places are limited and registration is required. So register if you want to come, and be sure to come if you register. This event is free of charge, and open to anyone with a Caltech or JPL email address. (Applications from others in the immediate community will be considered on a case-by-case basis.)
October Immersive Futures Jam
Immersive Futures (IF) Jam is a weekend-long event, led by futurist Stuart Candy. The cohort of participants will be drawn from the undergrads / grads / postdocs / JPL community to explore how our world could look decades from now, across domains like climate, AI, energy, and biotech. During this intensive weekend (October 10, 6-9pm; October 11 and 12, 10am-5pm), participants will render these imagined scenarios as interactive performances, to think and feel at a visceral level with researchers and others and through a series of scenarios developed in workshop.
