Our Production Season is richly varied, engaging students on the stage and behind it at every level of production. The Theatre division's robust season provides many opportunities to "learn by doing" and ranges听from classical texts听to musical theatre to听new work. The听Dance division is invested in the creation, performance, and interrogation of new work, experimenting with technology, the fusion of forms, and somatic-based social justice.

Cornerstones of our department include our student-run New Play Festival, MFA and BFA dance concerts, and a multitude of guest artist residencies supported by endowments like the Roe Green Visiting Artist Series听补苍诲听Roser Visiting Artist Progam.

2024-2025 Season

Roe Green Theatre

  • The Conversation Series:听Stitching the Geopolitical Quilt to Re-Body Belonging
  • Antigone:听By Jean Anouilh, translated by Jeremy Sams.
  • Something Rotten:听By John O'Farrell and Karey Kirkpatrick.

Loft Theatre

  • Let The Right One In:听Oskar is a bullied, lonely teenage boy living with his mother on a housing estate at the edge of town when a spate of sinister killings rock the neighborhood.
  • John Proctor is the Villain:听At a rural high school in Georgia, a group of lively teens are studying 鈥淭he Crucible鈥� while navigating young love, sex ed and a few school scandals.

Charlotte York Irey Theatre

  • Revel:听An evening of works presented by MFA candidates in Dance.
  • FRESH:听Enjoy a potential mix of Hip-Hop, fusion forms and improvised offerings crafted by undergraduate and graduate dance students.
  • Catapult:听Emerging BFA choreographers craft new dance works in an exciting fusion of genres that explores a variety of personal themes.
  • Open Space:听Be moved by dance works that lilt, groove and tumble across a spectrum of styles in this student-produced and CU Dance Connection-curated series.
  • The Current:听Dance works by faculty and guest artists

Acting Studio

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  • ShakesFear: An Autumn's Tale, an Immersive Shakespearean Experience听
  • The Importance of Being Earnest, A Trivial Comedy for Serious People, by Oscar Wilde
  • Antigone, presented by the girls of St. Catherine's, by Madhuri Shekar
  • [UN] W.R.A.P., curated by CU Dance faculty and alumni
  • MFA Showcase
  • Always/Already: Caroline Butcher MFA Thesis
  • FRESH: a CU dance concert

听

  • Catapult: a BFA dance concert
  • Open Space, curated by CU Dance Connection
  • Company, A Musical Comedy, Music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, Book by George Furth
  • The Current*, dance works by faculty and guest artists
  • FRESH: a CU dance concert

Acting Studio

  • The Performers, by David West Read
  • around the dinner table, a new work
  • Barbecue Apocalypse by Matt Lyle
  • Mary Shelly, a new work
  • 24 Hour Play Festival
  • Yo Soy Una Mujer
  • 5 Lesbians Eating a Quiche
  • Macbeth

  • Climate Cabaret, a joint production with Climate Change Theatre Action in New York City
  • Kaidan+, a collection of Global Ghost Stories adapted by Cecilia Pang, Heather Kelley and Kevin Rich
  • Gallathea, a play by John Lyly Airness, a play by Chelsea Marcantel
  • They Promised Her The Moon, a play by Laurel Ollstein
  • 2021-22 New Play Festival

  • Dancing on the Edge of Cinema: the Premiere of Sans Souci Festival, curated by CU Dance faculty and alumni
  • The Laramie Project, a play by Mois茅s Kaufman and the Members of Tectonic Theater Project
  • [un]WRAP: (un)doing and (re)making, curated by CU Dance faculty & ED&I
  • She Kills Monsters: Virtual Realms, a play by Qui Nguyen
  • FRESH: Fall 2020, a CU dance concert
  • Measure for Measure, a play by William Shakespeare
  • LoveFest: A Concert of Songs, Scenes and Stories from Loveville High, selections from a musical by David Zellnik and Eric Svejcar
  • 2020-21 New Play Festival
  • Open Space, curated by CU Dance Connection
  • Appropriate, a play by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins

All 2020-2021听productions were听听

University Theatre

  • A Broadway Christmas Carol, a musical by Kathy Feininger
  • Spring Awakening, a musical by听Steven Sater and Duncan Sheik

Acting Studio

  • Gruesome Playground Injuries, a play by Rajiv Joseph听
  • on Display, an original devised piece听
  • Baby Food听by David Lindsay-Abaire, a staged reading听
  • 72 Miles to Go听by Hailary Bettis, a staged reading听
  • Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind听by Greg Allen听
  • 24-Hour Play Festival听
  • Art & Gallery Night听
  • Latin Heritage Night听
  • Kingdom of My Heart听by Noah Carlson, a staged reading听
  • Julius Caesar听by William Shakespeare听

Loft Theatre

  • Burning the Old Man, by Kelly McAllister
  • Shakuntala, an adaptation of the play by Kalidasa
  • The Popular Mechanicals, a play by Keith Robinson, Tony Taylor, and William Shakespeare
  • As You Like It*, a play by William Shakespeare

Charlotte York Irey Theatre

  • [UN] W.R.A.P. Dances That Don't Look Like Dances
  • Sans Souci: Festival of Dance Cinema, curated by CU Dance faculty and alumni
  • re-membering, an MFA dance concert
  • Lacunae, an MFA dance concert
  • Catapult, a BFA dance concert
  • Open Space, curated by CU Dance Connection
  • The Current*, dance works by faculty and guest artists
  • FRESH: Spring 2020*, a CU dance concert

19-20 Season Rack Card

*cancelled due to the coronavirus

University Theatre

  • Hecuba, a world premiere adaptation by Diane Rayor
  • Into the Woods, a musical by Stephen Sondheim听
  • The Current, dance works by faculty and guest artists

Acting Studio

  • Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead, a play by Bert V. Royal
  • The House of Ramon Iglesia, a play by Jose Rivera
  • The Voice of the Prairie, a play by John Olive
  • Poltergeist, a play by Alika Magas
  • Fourth Annual New Play Festival

Loft Theatre

  • Great Expectations, a play adapted from the novel by Charles Dickens
  • Almost, Maine, a play by John Cariani
  • Falstaff in Love, a new play by Scott Kaiser

Charlotte York Irey Theatre

  • [UN] W.R.A.P. Traversing Memory, performing Resistance and Resilience
  • Next to Normal, a musical by Brian Yorkey and Tom Kitt
  • Provenance, an MFA dance concert
  • FRESH: Fall 2018, a CU dance concert
  • Catapult, a BFA dance concert
  • Open Space, curated by CU Dance Connections
  • FRESH: Spring 2019, a CU dance concert

18-19 Season Rack Card