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2024-25 Season

The Theatre Department produces an annual season of plays, offering a variety of performance and technical opportunities for both students and community members.

Announcing the 2024-25 season! 

Fall 2024

“The Metal Children” by Adam Rapp

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Directed by Aubrey Urban

Sep. 20-22, 27-29 | Bodker Black Box Theatre

  • 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday
  • 2 p.m. Saturday and Sunday

Words are powerful, and a small American town is about to find out the extent.

After the local school board bans a young adult novel about teen pregnancy, furious debate erupts among teens and adults alike. The wayward author of this controversial book arrives, initially planning to defend his work, instead finding that the book banning has sparked an unusual rebellion in an inspired group of teens.

A timely reflection on the works we deem “safe,” this ambitious play explores the ways fiction reveals our fundamental failures to understand each other.

“The Idiot’s Delight” by Robert E. Sherwood

Directed by Scott Cox

Nov. 15-17, 22-24 | Polsky Theatre

  • Friday and Saturday at 7:30 p.m.
  • Sunday at 2 p.m.

A young English couple on their honeymoon, a German scientist, a French munitions magnate, the inscrutable Irene, and the vulgar but lovable American, Harry Van, are thrown together in a small winter resort in the Alps. For a short time, they are forced to depend upon their own resources under threat of an air-raid, which at the last descends upon the few who are left. The play throw into ironic relief the individual human being who, having brought upon himself the obscene idiocy of wholesale destruction by war, wakes up to find that he can do nothing more than make a futile gesture against the forces he has set in action.

New Works Initiative by selected new playwrights

Dec. 6-8 | Bodker Black Box Theatre

  • Friday and Saturday at 7:30 p.m.
  • Saturday and Sunday at 2 p.m.

Spring 2025

“The Lieutenant of Inishmore” by Martin McDonagh

Directed by Scott Stackhouse

Feb. 21-23, Feb. 28-Mar. 2 | Bodker Black Box Theatre

  • Friday and Saturday at 7:30 p.m.
  • Saturday and Sunday at 2 p.m.

On a lonely road on the island of Inishmore, someone killed an Irish Liberation Army enforcer’s cat. He’ll want to know who when he gets back from a stint of torture and chip-shop bombing in Northern Ireland. He loves his cat more than life itself, and someone is going to pay.

V-Day: We Are Speaking!

Directed by Sheilah Philip

Mar. 7- 8 ONLY | Bodker Black Box Theatre

  • Friday and Saturday at 3 p.m. and 7:30 p.m.

V-Day is an international movement to end violence toward women. Every year, from Feb. 1 through Mar. 8, local communities rise and use their voices to shine a light on the injustice facing survivors of violence.

Experience two performances on International Women’s Day featuring reader’s theater pieces whose monologues and short scenes honor V-Day’s goal. Admission is free, with any donations given to local organizations that empower women who have experienced abuse.

“Rhinoceros” by Eugene Ionesco

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Directed by Trevor Belt

Apr. 18-20, 25-27 | Polsky Theatre

  • Friday and Saturday at 7:30 p.m.
  • Sunday at 2 p.m.

The sublime is confused with the ridiculous in this savage commentary on the human condition, a staple of every theatre classroom and 20th century drama. A small town is besieged by one roaring citizen who becomes a rhinoceros and proceeds to trample on the social order. As more citizens are transformed into rhinoceroses, the trampling becomes overwhelming, and more and more citizens become rhinoceroses. One sane man, Berenger, remains, unable to change his form and identity.