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Current Season | 2025-26

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 2025-26 season! 

Fall 2025

“The Moors” by Jen Silverman

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Directed by Aubrey Urban

Sep. 19-21, 26-28 | Bodker Black Box Theatre

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

Two sisters and a dog live out their lives on the bleak English moors, dreaming of love and power. The arrival of a hapless governess and a moorhen set all three on a strange and dangerous path. “The Moors” is a dark comedy about love, desperation, and visibility.

“Machinal” by Sophie Treadwell

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Directed by Scott Cox

Nov. 14-16, 21-23 | Polsky Theatre

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

A powerful expressionist drama from the 1920s about the dependent status of women in an increasingly mechanized society, based on the true story of Ruth Snyder. Sophie Treadwell was a campaigning journalist in America between the wars. Among her assignments was the sensational murder involving Snyder, who with her lover, Judd Gray, had murdered her husband and gone to the electric chair.

New Works Initiative by a selected student playwright

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Directed by Leslie Coats

Dec. 5-7 | Bodker Black Box Theatre

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

 

 

Spring 2026

“The Cherry Orchard” by Anton Chekhov

Directed by Scott Cox

Feb. 20-22, 27-28, Mar. 1 | Bodker Black Box Theatre

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

In “The Cherry Orchard,” Chekhov’s last full-length play in a new translation by master dramatist Tom Stoppard, an impoverished landowning family is unable to face the fact that their estate is about to be auctioned off. Lopakhin, a local merchant, presents numerous options to save it, including cutting down their prized cherry orchard. But the family is stricken with denial. “The Cherry Orchard” charts the precipitous descent of a wealthy family, and in the process creates a bold meditation on social change and bourgeois materialism.

V-Day: We Are Speaking!

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Directed by Sheilah Philip

Mar. 6-7 | 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, local communities rise and use their voices to shine a light on the injustice facing survivors of violence.

Experience two performances 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.

“Urinetown” by Greg Kotis & Mark Hollman

Directed by Trevor Belt

Apr. 17-19, 24-26 | Polsky Theatre

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

Winner of three Tony Awards, three Outer Critics Circle Awards, two Lucille Lortel Awards and two Obie Awards, “Urinetown” is a hilarious musical satire of the legal system, capitalism, social irresponsibility, populism, environmental collapse, privatization of natural resources, bureaucracy, municipal politics, and musical theatre itself! Hilariously funny and touchingly honest, “Urinetown” provides a fresh perspective on one of America’s greatest art forms.