The University Theater produces 3 to 4 theater & dance main stage productions a year. Productions are staged by students and directed by faculty or guest artists.

  • Two Union soldiers--one Black, one White and each with a secret--fight the same enemy but not the same war. With vibrant theatricality, and live music, Toliver & Wakeman explores the fluidity of American identities, the longing for home, the unrelenting grip of history, and the meanings of freedom.
    November 4, 2024
  • Students of the Spring Dance Concert: DIS/UNITY performance posing in red costumes.
    A dance concert featuring students enrolled in THEA 371: Contemporary Dance in Performance in collaboration with students enrolled in MUSI 208: Jazz Improvisation.
    May 23, 2024
  • Characters of The Good John Proctor standing on stage having a dialogue.
    Step back in time to a world where innocence and fear collide in this thought-provoking reimagining of the Salem Witch Trials.
    May 20, 2024
  • Characters of We Are Pussy Riot or Everything Is P.R. standing in a circle on stage
    After 48 seconds, members of the feminist art collective Pussy Riot were dragged away, arrested, and tried as enemies of the Church and State and sent to prison for hooliganism and inciting religious hatred.
    March 24, 2023
  • Silhouettes of character from Sanctuary City sitting in a large open box frame with video projection in the background.
    A powerful story of two young DREAMers who fight to establish a place for themselves in America, the only country they know as home.
    November 21, 2022
  • Characters of A Date, A Birth, and Business as Usual standing crouched over talking to one another.
    A day in the life of a respectable neighborhood, where 11 commedia dell’arte characters find themselves entangled, connected, and at odds with each other in a series of accelerated events.
    May 5, 2022
  • Collage image of the cast of "The Juniors" standing in a high school hallway of lockers.
    A pitch-black comedy about the ambitious and cut-throat world of high school home economics and the lengths we’ll go to in order to protect what we think is ours.
    November 30, 2021