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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.

  • Character of Hamlet the Sponger performing a monologue.
    In order to continue creating and making theater safely during a global pandemic, the Department of Theater had to do things a little bit differently for the University Theater spring 2021 production. This take on Shakespeare’s “Hamlet” involved virtual rehearsals, individual filming, and video editing.
    April 30, 2021
  • Character of For Z standing on stage looking out into an empty theater.
    From the pre-made geometry of virtual rubrics, we share on screens, a group of students are willing to ask the question: Is it still possible to experience moments of heightened attention together?
    December 15, 2020
  • Silhouettes of characters from Antigone
    In an era of economic inequity, social inequality, climate distress, and civil unrest these ancient voices reach across the millennia and the grave to ask, time and time again, “Will you help me? Will you help me lift the body?”
    March 26, 2020
  • Characters of Dance Nation posing after a dance number.
    Somewhere in America, an army of pre-teen competitive dancers plots to take over the world. It is a world where one knows not the power she possesses because it is against one’s time, a world that fights for the allowance of female ambition and deep kinship of sisterhood through pain and sacrifice.
    November 26, 2019
  • Dancers performing in the Spring 2019 Dance Concert
    A collection of innovative dance works, featuring choreography by students, faculty, and a guest artist. Performed by Colgate students.
    May 10, 2019
  • Character of Far Away sitting at a desk looking out into the distance with factory workers behind him pushing yellow carts.
    Far Away written by Caryl Churchill depicts human survival in a dystopian world. Four characters and a large ensemble face the reality of what was feared the most, at the time. 
    May 7, 2019
  • Cast sitting around a table with a yellow and white plaid tablecloth with a seagull sitting in top of the table.
    In Colgate’s pared-down version of The Seagull, Chekhov's first great play reveals the full force of its comedy and cruelty — whether it’s love, sex, incredible fame, or simply a trip into town, each character is denied the thing they most crave.
    December 20, 2018
  • Three actors in costume converse in character while seated on stage
    This new play before us erupts out of Shakespeare’s tumultuous, violent love story and brings forth a world with the logic and physics of the dream. A dream where the familiar blows into the absurd and the nightmare, for all too understood reasons, is reality.
    June 14, 2018
  • Student dancers and actors on stage
    ARCH: A Dance Concert showcased original works by contemporary dance students at Colgate.
    June 7, 2018