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For more info or ticket reservations, call the Department of Theatre & Dance box office at 610-436-2533 unless otherwise noted.
Wit
Directed by Michael Durkin '08
On the MainStage
September 27-29, 2007 at 8 p.m.
September 29-30, 2007 at 2 p.m.
Winner of the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, and the Lucille Lortel Award for Best Play. In this extraordinary first play, Margaret Edson has created a work that is as intellectually challenging as it is emotionally immediate. Vivian Bearing, Ph.D., a renowned professor of English who has spent years studying and teaching the brilliant and difficult metaphysical sonnets of John Donne, has been diagnosed with terminal ovarian cancer. Her approach to the study of Donne: aggressively probing, intensely rational becomes the foundation of how she faces her personal crisis. This fascinating character comes to reassess her life and work with a profundity and humor that are transformative both for her and the audience.
Student Written One-Acts
Supervised by Harvey Rovine
In the J.Peter Adler Studio Theatre
October 3-6, 2007 at 8 p.m.
Aspiring WCU student playwrights have the opportunity to see their work move from the written page to live performance.
Cole
Directed by Bob E. Bytnar
In the Performing Arts Center Theatre
October 26 – 27, 2007 at 8 p.m.
October 31, 1 and 3 at 8 p.m.
October 28 at 2 p.m. and November 4 at 1 p.m.
Cole is a lively musical revue based on the life of the legendary composer, Cole Porter. Set to the incredible music that Porter himself composed, the ensemble cast of Cole tells his life story. Porter was an American songwriter and composer for almost fifty years, from 1910 to 1958. Porter wrote lyrics and music for 26 Broadway shows and at least five Hollywood films. The first act introduces the audience to Cole Porter and then covers his time at Yale and Harvard, his time in Paris, and his return to Manhattan and Broadway. Each segment has musical numbers he wrote during those phases of his life, along with narratives about him. Act II is a musical montage of some of his romantic songs, and his return to Broadway.
AIDS Benefit
In the Performing Arts Center Theatre
December 1, 2007
Our 5th year of raising awareness and funds for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights Aids
University Dance Company- Tabula Rasa
Annual Fall Concert
Director: Gretchen Studlien-Webb
In the Performing Arts Center Theatre
December 7-8, 2007 at 8 p.m.
December 8, 2007 at 2 p.m.
Tickets: $8/$12, for tickets call 610-436-2266
Tabula Rasa will premiere works by two WCU faculty. Three guest choreographers from Philadelphia and the surrounding area are brought in to set new and exciting dances on the Company. In addition, there will be a few select student choreographers.
The Compleat Worx of Wilm Shksp (Abridged)
Supervised by Leonard Kelly
In the J.Peter Adler Studio Theatre
February 1-2, 2008 at 8 p.m.
February 2-3, 2008 at 2 p.m.
The Compleat Worx of Wilm Shksp (Abridged) is a parody of the plays written by William Shakespeare with all of them being performed (in shortened form) during the show by only three actors. "The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged) embodies one of comedy's most essential impulses: the adolescent urge to take a baseball bat to the culturally revered. A mix of pratfalls, puns, willful misreadings of names and dialogue, clunky female impersonations, clean-cut ribaldry, and broad burlesque. The gung-ho vitality is impossible to resist." — Ben Brantley, The New York Times”
Boy Gets Girl
Directed by Harvey Rovine
On the MainStage
February 15-16, 22-23, 2008 at 8 p.m.
February 16, 17, 23, 24 at 2 p.m.
Named Time Magazine’s #1 Play of the Year in 2000, Boy Gets Girl is a psychological chiller about romance gone wrong. After a failed date, Theresa’s world begins to spin out of control when a casual relationship turns into a personal nightmare. Ultimately, Theresa must fight to save herself from being devastated by actions which call into question the assumptions at the very heart of romantic pursuit. Boy Gets Girl is cautionary tale that must be seen. Contains strong language and adult situations.
Noises Off
Performing Arts Center Theatre
Directed by Leonard Kelly
March 28 – 29 and April 2-5, 2008 at 8 p.m.
March 29, 30 and April 5, 6, 2008 at 2 p.m.
From the brilliant Michael Frayn (Copenhagen, Democracy) comes this riotous comedy of backstage politics and onstage pandemonium. As a third-rate theater troupe tours the third-rate farce Nothing On, the actors create a first-rate farce of their own – forgetting lines, dropping trousers, and losing countless plates of sardines. Behind the scenes, love triangles and ruined affairs add fury and revenge to the mayhem under the lights, leading to pratfalls, flying props and more than one bloody nose. In the end, at the frenetic final performance, the two farces merge into one perfectly ravaged and wholly uproarious theatrical nervous breakdown.
University Dance Company –Breaking Pointe
Annual Spring Concert
Co-Artistic Directors: Liz Staruch and Lisa Lovelace
Emilie K. Asplundh Concert Hall
April 17-19, 2008 at 8 p.m.
April 19, 2008 at 2 p.m.
Tickets: $8/$12, for tickets call 610-436-2266
The spring student concert always proves to be high energy, thought provoking and entertaining. Breaking Pointe will present a mixture of dance genres ranging from jazz, lyrical, modern, ballet, tap, and hip hop. You will be amazed at the talent in choreography, dancing, and full theatre production presented by WCU students.
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