The University of Iowa Department of Theatre Arts has announced the five productions that will make up its 2015-16 Mainstage season. Tickets will be available through the Hancher Box Office at the beginning of the fall semester.

The lineup:

American Idiot

• Music by Green Day
• Lyrics by Billie Joe Armstrong
• Book by Billie Joe Armstrong and Michael Mayer
• Directed by John Cameron
• Oct. 16-17 and 21-24 at 8 p.m.
• Oct. 18 and 25 at 2 p.m.
• Mabie Theatre, UI Theatre Building

Green Day's powerhouse album is brought to life in this electric-rock musical of youthful disillusion. The two-time Tony Award-winning hit musical American Idiot, based on Green Day's Grammy Award-winning multiplatinum album, boldly takes the American musical where it's never gone before. Johnny, Tunny, and Will struggle to find meaning in a post-9/11 world. When the three disgruntled men flee the constraints of their hometown for the thrills of city life, their paths are quickly estranged when Tunny enters the armed forces, Michael is called back home to attend familial responsibilities, and Johnny's attention becomes divided by a seductive love interest and a hazardous new friendship.

Arcadia

• By Tom Stoppard
• Directed by Ariel Francoeur
• Nov. 12-14 and 18-21 at 8 p.m.
• Nov. 15 at 2 p.m.
• Mabie Theatre, UI Theatre Building

Widely considered Stoppard’s masterpiece, Arcadia unfolds in a stately manor house, alternating between the early 19th century and the present day. In 1809, Thomasina, a mathematical prodigy, and her tutor Septimus casually solve the secrets of the universe. Love affairs bloom like the roses in the Derbyshire garden, challenges are issued, and the figure of Lord Byron looms like an ever-present specter.

In the present, ambitious scholars Hannah and Bernard search through journals and records that have been collecting dust in the English estate, racing to uncover a mysterious history that may only be a piece of a vastly more perplexing puzzle. As all things move toward their end, the veil that separates the two realities thins, disappears, and reemerges as the tale concludes with a dance of passion and reason worthy of Lord Byron himself.

Food and Fadwa

• By Lameece Issaq and Jacob Kader
• Directed by Marina Johnson
• Feb. 4-6 and 10-13 at 8 p.m.
• Feb. 7 and 14 at 2 p.m.
• David Thayer Theatre, UI Theatre Building

Meet Fadwa Faranesh, an unmarried, 30-something Palestinian woman living in Bethlehem in the politically volatile West Bank. Known for her delectable cooking and deep-seated sense of duty to her family and aging father, our kitchen maven insists on continuing the preparations for the wedding of her younger sister, despite constraints of daily life under occupation. Politics blend with family tensions to create a sometimes humorous and sometimes heartbreaking meal.

Iphigenia Crash Land Falls on the Neon Shell That Was Once Her Heart (a rave fable)

• By Caridad Svich
• Directed by Mario El Caponi Mendoza
• March 3-5 and 9-12 at 8 p.m.
• March 6 at 2 p.m.
• David Thayer Theatre, UI Theatre Building

A rave fable inspired by Euripides' Iphigenia at Aulis, this piece hurls one of Greek tragedy’s most compelling sagas into a sleek netherworld of sex, drugs, and trance music. Iphigenia is the daughter of a political celebrity who embraces sensuous excess with a transgendered glam rock start named Achilles in a desperate attempt to flee her inevitable fate.

Lady from the Sea

• By Henrik Ibsen
• Translated by Rolf Fjelde
• Directed by Nina Morrison
• April 15-16 and 20-23 at 8 p.m.
• April 17 and 24 at 2 p.m.
• Mabie Theatre, UI Theatre Building

Landlocked beyond the walls of her fjord home where her husband Dr. Wangel offers the security of family and responsibility, Ellida is persistently drawn to the sea from where a past love returns, promising the ecstasy of the unknown. Will she remain and suffocate or find freedom across the sea?

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