Past Productions
This page hosts an archive of past productions associated with the Theatre & Dance Department, including a gallery of images and program brochures.
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2020s
New Horizons
Experience the future of dance with New Horizons, our student dance program showcasing innovative student choreography, fresh talent, and captivating performances that push the boundaries of creativity and expression.evening of student chorography.
May 3 and 4 at 8:00 PM
Preus-Brandt Forum
Starmites
Get ready for a sci-fi musical adventure with Starmites! Follow a teenage comic book fan as she's transported into the world of her favorite comics, joining forces with the Starmites, a band of teen superheroes, to battle the evil Shak Graa and save the universe. Don't miss this thrilling, action-packed journey filled with music, laughter, and heroism!
April 19, 20, 21, 22 at 8:00 PM
April 23 at 2:00 PM
Preus-Brandt Forum
by First Name Last Name
Directed by Ken Gardner
Capstone: 10-Minute Play Festival
Experience the magic of student-driven creativity as our talented students take center stage in a unique and captivating one-act play production, with every element from script to spotlight fueled by their vibrant energy and passion, ensuring an unforgettable journey through imaginative storytelling. synopsis
March 17 and 18 at 8:00 PM
Black Box Studio Theatre
The Theatre Arts & Dance Department presents:
Shifting Focus
Shifting Focus, our Dance Winter Showcase, where talented students present a mesmerizing evening of diverse and stunning choreography that celebrates the beauty and artistry of dance.
December 8 and 9 at 8:00 PM
Preus-Brandt Forum
The Theatre Arts & Dance Department presents:
Radium Girls
Rooted in true events, "Radium Girls" casts a revealing light on the formidable challenges faced by young women in early 20th-century radium dial factories as they fought for workers' rights and justice, inviting audiences to join in chronicling this forgotten yet still relevant history.
November 9, 10, and 11 at 8:00 PM
November 16, 17, and 18 at 8:00 PM
November 19 at 2:00 PM
Preus-Brandt Forum
Written by D.W. Gregory
Directed by Kenneth Gardner
Dow
Student Stages and Theatre Arts & Dance Department presents:
The Greek Mythology Olympiaganza
Two battling narrators attempt to cover the entirety of Greek mythology with brevity and theatrical insanity, giving unique twists to myths like Pandora's Box, Cronos and the Titans, Orpheus and Eurydice, and Jason and the Argonauts, culminating in a heart-pounding, five-minute, two-actor version of The Iliad in a fast-paced, wild, and silly play that is a complete blast for all.
October 18, 19, 20, and 21 at 8:00 PM and October 22 at 2 PM
Written by Don Zolidis
Student Directed by Brayden Galante
Expressive Symphonies
An evening of student chorography, with special guest artist Taryn Vander Hoop of Summation Dance
May 5 and 6 at 8:00 PM
Preus-Brandt Forum
Almost Maine
A two act collection of shorter scenes set in an imagined town in Northern Maine
April 19, 20, 21, 22 at 8:00 PM
April 23 at 2:00 PM
Black Box Studio Theatre
by John Cariani
Directed by Ken Gardner
Broadway Bound: A Student Cabaret
with special guest artist Taryn Vander Hoop of Summation Dance
March 17 and 18 at 8:00 PM
Preus-Brandt Forum
A Million Ways to Go
with special guest artist Taryn Vander Hoop of Summation Dance
March 9, 10, 11 at 8:00 PM
March 12 at 2:00 PM
Black Box Studio Theatre
The Theatre Arts & Dance Department presents:
Artistic Odyssey
December 9 and 10 at 8:00 PM
Preus-Brandt Forum
The Theatre Arts & Dance Department presents:
Shakespeare in Love
Shakespeare in Love is the imagined early years of the playwright, William Shakespeare as he begins his career and falls in love.
November 10, 11, 12, 17, 18, and 19 at 8:00 PM
November 20 at 2:00 PM
Black Box Studio Theatre
Adapted for the stage by Lee Hall
Based on the screenplay by Marc Norman and Tom Stoppard
Directed by Michael J. Arndt
Assistant Director: Will Peña
Choreographer/Music Director: Jules Weiss
The Theatre Arts & Dance Department presents:
Roe: A Staged Reading Ä¢¹½´«Ã½ Roe V. Wade
Roe follows the history of the controversial Supreme Court decision through the eyes of the actual figures involved from its inception to the current court reversal decision.
October 19, 20, and 21 at 8:00 PM
Preus-Brandt Forum
by Lisa Loomer
Directed by Red Patterson and Bianca Akbiyik
2010s
- The Love and Loss Project
- Thrill the World
- Devised Works
- Cymbeline
- The Colored Museum
- Capstone 10 Minute Play Festival
- Hansel and Gretel
- Moving Images
- Complete Works of Shakespeare Abridged
- The Fall Sacred Dance Celebration
- Thrill The World Thousand Oaks
- Mr. Burns, A Post Electric Play
- Love and Information
- Moving Images 2017 (student dance concert)
- Underfire
- Chamber Music
- 10 Minute Plays
- Drowsy Chaperone
- Stop Kiss
- Capstone 10 Minute Plays
- Metro General
- Sir Patient Fancy
- Night of the Living Dead
- Songs of a New World
- Spring Awakening: The Musical
- Ten-Minute Play Festival
- Knocked Under
- Trojan Women
- Dido and Aeneas
- Neighborhood 3: Requisition of Doom
- The Bible: The Complete Word of God Abridged
- Summer and Smoke
- Suddenly Last Summer
- Almost, Maine
- Jekyll and Hyde: The Musical
- The Cherry Orchard
- Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead
- The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
- Around the Corner: Ten-Minute Play Festival
2000s
- Pericles, Prince of Tyre
- WE
- A Lonely Impulse of Delight
- Generations
- The Party of the Year!
- The Most Massive Woman Wins
- Home Free
- Anatomy of Gray
- Flooding the Grand
- Bright Ideas
- Into the Woods
- Love All Around: Ten-Minute Play Festival
- The Learned Ladies
- No Exit
- The Kitchen
- Ohio
- All in the Timing
- Maids of Honor
- Our Town
- Don't Drink the Bong Water
- The Dumbwaiter
- Measure For Measure
- The Shape of Things
- The Threepenny Opera
- Still Awake
- Period
- Festival of the Arts
- Tape
- Deuces Wild
- Metamorphoses
- An Actor's Nightmare
- Wasp
- Candide
- The Tragedy of Tragedies: The Life and Death of Tom Thumb the Great
- Does this Woman Have a Name?
- Blueberry Pie
- At Home
- Split
- Isabella Met a Fella
- Hamlet, Disco Dane of Denmark
- Dancing in Hell
- Qualities of Boiled Water
- Loyalties
- Hay Fever
- Dancing at Lughnasa
- Southern Illinois Nights
- I'm in Love with Musical Theatre
- Company
- Blood Wedding
- Five Women Wearing the Same Dress
- I've Got Gym Shorts in my Briefcase
- A View from the Bridge
- Quilters
- Suburbia
- Antigone
- Invasion of the Baud iSnatchers
- The Frogs
- Opposing Pessimism
- The Audition Book
- A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
- Battle in the Body (or Return of Immuno-Guy)
- Falling In and Out of Love
1990s
- A Flea in her Ear
- Mr. Bundy
- The Gentleman Cole
- The Baby Dance
- The Cowboy, the Indian & the Fervent Feminist
- Skin of our Teeth
- A Servant of Two Masters
- West Side Story
- Talking to Myself
- The Serpent
- Vinegar Tom
- The Heidi Chronicles
- Marvin's Room
- David Ives
- You're a Good Man Charlie Brown
- Kiss Me Kate
- Androcles and the Lion
- De Donde
- Hans Brinker and the Silver Rollerblades
- Cries from Our Mother
- Hedda Gabler
Jungle Book
Anything Goes
The Frog Prince
Love's Labor's Lost
The Nightingale
The Grapes of Wrath
- The Real Inspector Hound and After Magritte
- A Prison for Elizabeth
- The Memorandum
- Cabaret
- El Lago Encantado
- The Beeple
- Bus Stop
- Come Back to the 5 and Dime, Jimmie Dean, Jimmie Dean
- The Boys Next Door
- The Importance of Being Ernest
- Pinocchio
- Romeo and Juliet
- And the Masks Live On
- Godspell
- Cinderella
1980s
- Step on a Crack
- The Diviners
- Quilters
- Rumpelstiltskin
- Gotta Dance
- Twelfth Night
- Mark Twain and the Ghost of the Stagecoach Inn
- Three Sisters
- Princess and the Pea
- Mixed Bag of Theatrical Treats
- Pippin
- Entertainment Through the Ages
- My Sister in This House
- Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
- Luv
- Ohio
- The Shoes That Were Danced to Pieces
- Mother Courage
- Take Me to your Litre
- Annie Get Your Gun
- The Arkansas Bear
- Student Directed One Acts
- The Frog Prince
- Echoes
- Androcles and the Lion
- Which Direction is Up
- A Midsummer Night's Dream
- The Emperor's New Clothes
- Crimes of the Heart
- Peer Gynt
- The Ugly Duckling
- Student Directed One Acts
- A Bench at the Edge
- Look Back in Anger
- The Adventures of Leif the Lucky
- West Side Story
- Tartuffe
- Jack and His Magic Sack
- Getting Out
- The Runner Stumbles
- Moonchildren
- The Thwarting of Baron Bolligrew
- The Madwoman of Chaillot
- Hello, Mr. Appleseed
- The Elephant Man
- Brigadoon
- An Evening of Theatrical Desserts
- Rhinoceros
- As You Like It
- Cinderella
- The Sunshine Boys
- Snow White and Rose Red
- The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
- Invisible People
- The Tragical History of Dr. Faustus
- Abe Lincoln
- Dames at Sea
- The Merry Wives of Windsor
- "For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enough"
- A Christmas Carol
1970s
- A Christmas Carol
- God's Favorite
- Come Blow Your Horn
- Red Shoes
- The Glass Menagerie
- Steambath
- Rapunzel and the Witch
- Faust
- I, Berlin
- Winnie the Pooh
- How the Other Half Loves
- East Lynne
- Huckleberry Finn
- Amphitryon
- Brecht on Brecht
- Play it Again Sam
- The Wizard of Oz
- The Crucible
- Puss in Boots
- Little Nell
- Tom Sawyer
- A Midsummer Night's Dream
- The Imaginary Invalid
- Hansel and Gretel
- Play Strindberg
- Antigone
- The Dancing Donkey
- The Tempest
- The Odd Couple
- No Exit
- The Chairs
- Banjo on My Knee
- Company
- 1776
- You're a Good Man Charlie Brown
- Ten Nights in a Bar Room
- Godspell
- Tom Sawyer
- John Brown's Body
- Barefoot in the Park
- George M.--The Yankee Doodle Musical
- Dirty Work at the Crossroads
- Cinerella and Tizzie Twinkle