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University Theatre Past Productions

University Theatre presents multiple productions each academic year. Students from any major or minor are welcome to audition and participate backstage. Students enrolled in Stagecraft, Costume Construction, and Scenic Painting, along with other Performance and Communication Arts courses in design and technical theatre, frequently support the productions through class projects and lab hours.

Many productions involve over 50 students and faculty working collaboratively to bring a production to the audience. The theatre becomes an extension of the classroom. It is a site where students learn valuable practical skills from devoted faculty mentors. It is also a place where students forge friendships and build lasting memories of their time at SLU. 

Past Productions

2022-2023

Spring 2023

  • Mr. Burns: a Post-Electric Play by Anne Washburn

  • Dance Concert

Fall 2022

  • Silent Sky by Lauren Gunderson
  • Wilde Tales by Jeremy Bloom (DIY Theatre production)
  • Neighborhood 3: Requisition of Doom (student-directed production)
  • Dance Concert

2021-2022

Spring

  • 30 Neofuturist Plays from Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind by Greg Allen
  • Red Days by Rachel Bublitz (student-directed production)
  • Dance Concert

Fall

  • She Kills Monsters by Qui Nguyen

2020-2021

Spring

  • This is Modern Art by Idris Goodwin and Kevin Coval (livestreamed via Zoom)

Fall

  • Sweat by Lynn Nottage (staged reading via Zoom)

 

 

2019-2020

Spring 

  • #metooandslu (an original devised production) --cancelled due to COVID-19

Fall 

  • The Bakkhai by Anne Carson
  • Dance Concert

2018-2019

Spring

  • In the Next Room (or the vibrator play) by Sarah Ruhl
  • Bocon by Lisa Loomer (produced by DIY Theatre class)
  • Dance Concert

Fall 

  • Spring Awakening, music by Duncan Sheik and a book and lyrics by Steven Sater
  • Dance Concert

2017-2018

Spring

  • Dark Water by David Stallings
  • Dance Concert

Fall

  • Wonder of the World by David Lindsay-Abaire
  • Dance Concert

2016-2017

Spring

  • Everyman by Carol Ann Duffy
  • Dance Concert

Fall 

  • Legally Blonde
  • Dance Concert