by George Brant
Directed by Professor Domenick Scudera
Lenfest Stage
Sept. 26-29
September 26th - 7:30pm
September 27th - 7:30pm
September 28th - 7:30pm
September 29th - 2:00pm - ASL Interpreted Performance
It is 1942 and a local theater's director and leading men are off fighting in World War II. Back home, the director's determined wife proposes an all-female version of Shakespeare's Henriad and she assembles an unexpected team of amateurs to keep the theater alive. This hilarious and heartfelt backstage comedy is a celebration of the collaboration and persistence that inspires us when the show must go on!
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Afternoon at the Seaside & The Patient
Directed by Dr. Meghan Brodie
Black Box Studio Theater, Kaleidoscope Performing Arts Center
October 31 - November 3
Thursday, October 31, 7:30pm
Friday, November 1, 7:30pm
Saturday, November 2, 7:30pm
Sunday, November 3, 2pm - ASL Interpreted Performance
A priceless emerald necklace goes missing and everyone enjoying a beach holiday becomes a suspect in the one-act play Afternoon at the Seaside. Will Inspector Foley catch his culprit? Nothing is quite as it seems in this imaginative mystery by the dame of detective fiction, Agatha Christie. In The Patient, after falling from a second-story balcony, Mrs. Wingfield, narrowly escaping death, is hospitalized and it is Inspector Cray's job to investigate whether Mrs. Wingfield fell, jumped, or was pushed. Christie keeps audiences guessing in this mystery-thriller one act! Each performance includes both Afternoon at the Seaside and The Patient.
home is Here/hear
Directed and produced by Assistant Professor Michael J. Love
Lenfest Stage
December 5-7
With Home Is Here/ Hear, the Ursinus College Dance Company will engage in an embodied and sound-based exploration of notions of community and belonging. In this cohesive, narrative dance-theatre piece, the work of faculty, special guest, and select student choreographers will reimagine East Main Street as a composite geographic and temporal location—a simultaneously urban, suburban, and rural thoroughfare of the then, now, and thereafter upon which myriad visions of “home” may be cast.
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By Savannah Reich
Directed by AZ Espinoza
Black Box Studio Theater, Kaleidoscope Performing Arts Center
February 27- March 2
Thursday, February 27, 7:30pm
Friday, February 28, 7:30pm
Saturday, March 1, 7:30pm
Sunday, March 2, 2pm - ASL Interpreted Performance
Why are there so many meetings? And why are they all terrible? Are we just not trying hard enough? Our facilitators have spent the past year meeting once a week to figure out what is wrong with all our meetings and now, they are ready to share their findings with you at a one-time only, very special meeting- so well planned, so thoughtful, so perfect that it will heal everything that divides us.
Join us for a talkback with the playwright after the performance on Friday, February 28th!
music by Jeanine Tesori, book & lyrics by Lisa Kron
Directed by Professor Domenick Scudera
Lenfest Stage
April 3-6
April 3rd - 7:30pm
April 4th - 7:30pm
April 5th - 7:30pm
April 6th - 2:00pm - ASL Interpreted Performance
This Tony-Award-winning Best Musical is adapted from Alison Bechdel's groundbreaking and acclaimed graphic novel, Fun Home. Moving between past and present, Alison relives her unique childhood home life as she attempts to unlock the secrets of her father's mind and her own heart. Ursinus students have been reading Fun Home in our Common Intellectual Experience course for years and now this innovative musical brings the memoir to life in beautiful and thought-provoking ways.
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UCDC PResents:
When I think of home
Directed and produced by Dr. Karen Clemente
Lenfest Stage
April 24-26
Thursday, April 24th, 7:30pm
Friday, April 25th, 7:30pm
Saturday, April 26th, 7:30pm
In this heart-warming spring dance concert that mixes nostalgia with future paths, the Ursinus College Dance Company “welcomes home” alums who have forged a life in dance. When I Think of Home…promises to be an exciting mix of works by faculty, guest and student choreographers as they consider themes that define home as a place of memory, love, challenge, affirmation, and power.