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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 

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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 

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