The University Theater produces 3 to 4 theater & dance main stage productions a year. Productions are staged by students and directed by faculty or guest artists.

  • Characters of We Are Pussy Riot or Everything Is P.R. standing in a circle on stage
    After 48 seconds, members of the feminist art collective Pussy Riot were dragged away, arrested, and tried as enemies of the Church and State and sent to prison for hooliganism and inciting religious hatred.
    March 24, 2023
  • Silhouettes of character from Sanctuary City sitting in a large open box frame with video projection in the background.
    A powerful story of two young DREAMers who fight to establish a place for themselves in America, the only country they know as home.
    November 21, 2022
  • Characters of A Date, A Birth, and Business as Usual standing crouched over talking to one another.
    A day in the life of a respectable neighborhood, where 11 commedia dell’arte characters find themselves entangled, connected, and at odds with each other in a series of accelerated events.
    May 5, 2022
  • Collage image of the cast of "The Juniors" standing in a high school hallway of lockers.
    A pitch-black comedy about the ambitious and cut-throat world of high school home economics and the lengths we’ll go to in order to protect what we think is ours.
    November 30, 2021
  • Character of Hamlet the Sponger performing a monologue.
    In order to continue creating and making theater safely during a global pandemic, the Department of Theater had to do things a little bit differently for the University Theater spring 2021 production. This take on Shakespeare’s “Hamlet” involved virtual rehearsals, individual filming, and video editing.
    April 30, 2021
  • Character of For Z standing on stage looking out into an empty theater.
    From the pre-made geometry of virtual rubrics, we share on screens, a group of students are willing to ask the question: Is it still possible to experience moments of heightened attention together?
    December 15, 2020
  • Silhouettes of characters from Antigone
    In an era of economic inequity, social inequality, climate distress, and civil unrest these ancient voices reach across the millennia and the grave to ask, time and time again, “Will you help me? Will you help me lift the body?”
    March 26, 2020