The theatre studies program produces two shows per academic year, one in the fall and one in the spring. The goal with our productions is to create exciting opportunities for students to learn and experience design, and performance and to develop technical skills. We are dedicated to providing opportunities that coincide with our mission in that they both “provoke and entertain.”

The remaining 2011/2012 season will include:

The Love of the Nightingale  
 by Timberlake Wertenbaker

In this treatment of the Philomele myth, war hero Tereus takes his Athenian wife Procne to live in Thrace. She becomes lonely and begs him to fetch her younger sister, Philomele, from Athens to be her companion. During the arduous return journey Tereus rapes Philomele and then cuts out her tongue. Despite Tereus's claim that Philomele died at sea, the two sisters are finally reunited, whereby, through a disturbing puppet show, Philomele reveals her horrific ordeal. The sisters wreak their revenge in true tragic style.

April 13, 14, 19-21, 2012 - 7:30 p.m. - Hall of Fine Arts: Webb Theatre
April 15, 2012 - 2:00 p.m.  A talkback session will be held following the matinee performance.

Recent productions:

The Birds
November 2011

Hay Fever
April 2011

The Laramie Project
October 2010

Book of Days
April 2010

Twelfth Night
November 2009

Tartuffe
April 2009

Frankenstein
November 2008

The Shape of Things
April 2008

Metamorphoses
November 2007

Songs for a New World
April 2007

Fuddy Meers
November 2006

The Glass Menagerie
April 2006

Lives of the Saints
November 2005

View a list of all of our productions since 1967.