Theatre Arts
The Department of Theatre Arts presents a balanced season of award-winning drama, comedy, and musicals each academic year. These stage productions receive critical and popular acclaim from local and regional media and patrons.
2007-2008 Theatre Arts Season
Women of War, an adaptation by Hilary Tate of Iphigenia at Aulis and The Trojan Women by Euripides · November 1-11, 2007 in the Center Square Theatre
Arcadia by Tom Stoppard · November 8-18, 2007 in the Center Stage Theatre
Many Moons by James Thurber, adapted by Charlotte Chorpenning · February 15-March 2, 2008 in the Center Square Theatre
Urinetown by Mark Hollmann and Greg Kotis · February 21-March 9, 2008 in the Center Stage Theatre
Hunting Cockroaches by Janusz Glowacki, translated by Jadwiga Kosicka · May 15-25, 2008 in the Center Square Theatre
Metamorphoses by Mary Zimmerman · May 22-June 1, 2008 in the Center Stage Theatre
2006-2007 Theatre Arts Season
The White Plague by Karel Capek · November 2-12, 2006
The Philadelphia Story by Philip Barry · November 9-19, 2006
The Phantom Tollbooth, adapted by Susan Nanus from Norton Juster's novel · February 16-March 4, 2007
Hotel Paradiso by Georges Feydeau and Maurice Desvallieres; translated by Peter Glenville · March 1-11, 2007
Swimming in the Shallows by Adam Bock · May 17-27, 2007
Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare · May 24-June 3, 2007
2005-2006 Theatre Arts Season
Who's Happy Now? by Oliver Hailey · November 3-12, 2005
Big Love by Charles L. Mee · November 10-19, 2005
The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling, adapted by Monica Flory · February 24-March 5, 2006
Entertaining Strangers by David Edgar, music by Bo Leyden · March 2-12, 2006
Ghosts by Henrik Ibsen, translated by Lanford Wilson · May 11-21, 2006
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum by Larry Gelbart and Burt Shevelove, music and lyrics by Steven Sondheim · May 18-June 4, 2006
2004–2005 Theatre Arts Season
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck · November 11-21, 2004
The Threepenny Opera, book and lyrics by Bertolt Brecht, music by Kurt Weill, English adaptation by Marc Blitzstein · February 3-19, 2005
Fable Tales, adapted from Aesop by Maggie McClellan · February 25-March 6, 2005
The Water Engine by David Mamet · May 5-15, 2005
Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare · May 12-28, 2005
2003–2004 Theatre Arts Season
Quilters by Molly Newman and Barbara Damashek · November 6-23, 2003
The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail by Robert E. Lee and Jerome Lawrence · November 13-23, 2003
Toad of Toadhall by A.A. Milne, adapted by Grahame Kenneth · February 19-March 7, 2004
Phedre by Jean Racine, translated by Paul Schmidt · February 26-March 7, 2004
Comic Potential by Alan Ayckbourn · May 6-16, 2004
The Matchmaker by Thornton Wilder · May 13-30, 2004
2002–2003 Theatre Arts Season
Parallel Lives by Mo Gaffney and Kathy Najimy · November 7-10, 2002
The Oresteia by Aeschylus, translated by Ted Hughes · November 14-24, 2002
Winnie the Pooh by A.A. Milne, adapted by Steven C. Anderson · February 20-March 2, 2003
The House of Blue Leaves by John Guare · February 27-March 9, 2003
Dream of a Common Language by Heather McDonald · May 8-18, 2003
The Man With a Load of Mischief by Ben Tarver, music by John Clifton, lyrics by Ben Tarver and John Clifton · May 15-June 1, 2003
2001–2002 Theatre Arts Season
Raised in Captivity by Nicky Silver · November 1-4, 2001
The Laramie Project by Moises Kaufmann · November 8-18, 2001
Measure for Measure by William Shakespeare · February 14-24, 2002
Scapin! by Moliere, adapted by Bill Irwin and Mark O'Donnell · February 21-March 10, 2002
Keely and Du by Jane Martin · May 9-12, 2002
Cabaret by Joe Masteroff, music by John Kander, lyrics by Fred Ebb · May 16-June 2, 2002
2000–2001 Theatre Arts Season
Top Girls by Caryl Churchill · November 2-5, 2000
Dracula by Steven Dietz, based on Bram Stoker's novel · November 9-19, 2000
Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett · February 15-18, 2001
The Musical Comedy Murders of 1940 by John Bishop · February 22-March 11, 2001
Zastrozzi by George F. Walker · May 17-20, 2001
The Crucible by Arthur Miller · May 24-June 3, 2001
1999–2000 Theatre Arts Season
Angels in America, Part One: Millennium Approaches by Tony Kushner · November 11-21, 1999
BORN Yesterday by Garson Kanin · February 17-March 5, 2000
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard · May 18-28, 2000
The Medea by Euripides, adapted by Robinson Jeffers · November 4-7, 1999
'night Mother by Marsha Norman · January 19-21, 2000
Woyzeck by Georg Büchner, translated by Dr. Dale Luciano and Ruth Rush · February 10-13, 2000
On the Verge by Eric Overmyer · May 11-14, 2000
