2012-2013Productions

The Department of Theatre & Dance melds rigorous class work with exciting production opportunities. Jenkins and Studio theatres are the laboratories where classroom training gels into our students' art and craft. All performances are at 7:30 PM except as noted.
 

 

2012-2013 Season Performances  

Ticket Information can be obtained by visiting the UWSP Box Office website or by calling 715-346-4100 or 800-838-3378.  On the day of a performance, tickets are available by telephone or at the door but not on line.
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The Importance of Being Earnest

​The Importance of Being Earnest
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A Trivial Comedy for Serious People.

American College Theatre Festival Entry
 
Directed by Stephen Trovillion Smith
 
October 12–14 & 18–20, 2012
October 14th - 2:00 p.m. matinee
Jenkins Theatre
 
This delightful romantic comedy is one of the best loved classics of all time that promises to be a hilarious beginning to the 2012-2013 season. Theatre and Dance faculty member Stephen Trovillion Smith will direct as well as act with a cast of student actors in this year’s American College Theatre Festival entry.
 
Lucky Stiff

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​Musical murder mystery in Monte Carlo.LuckyStiff.jpg

Directed by Bradley Vieth 
 
November 2–4 & 7–10, 2012
November

4th -  2:00 p.m. matinee
Studio Theatre 
 
Experience the glamor and glitz of Monte Carlo, as we take a vacation with Uncle, who isn’t exactly alive! But he enjoys himself anyway, as he’s wheeled through a farcical whirlwind adventure complete with slamming doors, mistaken identities, and six million bucks in diamonds!
 
Afterimages 2012

Afterimages.jpg​New student choreography - emerging artistry!

December 6-9, 2012
December 9th - 2:00 p.m. matinee only
Jenkins Theatre

 
Afterimages is a student directed dance concert that develops the talents of student choreographers and performers in collaboration with student lighting and costume designers. The concert is designed to give students the full experience of creating, presenting, and producing their own work.
 
How I Learned to Drive

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Immensely theatrical, surprisingly funny, yet devastatingHILTDrive_poster_PRINT.jpg tale of survival.  

Directed by Jeffrey Stephens  

February 8-10 & 13-16, 2013 
February 10th - 2:00 p.m. 
For mature audiences only!
Studio Theatre  
 
Learning to drive is a rite of passage and, in this hilarious and heartbreaking play, a metaphor for life. The story is told in reverse through a series of flashbacks, narrated by Li’l Bit as she reflects on how she became an adult. This Pulitzer Prize-winning play explores the psychologically complex relationship between the seducer and the seduced with deep compassion. Playwright Paula Vogel suggests that no matter how tightly we grip the wheel, no matter how keenly we keep our eyes on the road, detours, stops, and curves suddenly appear—sometimes with devastating results.
Big Love

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Ancient Greek story, 21st Century adrenaline.

Directed by Tyler Marchant  
 
March 1–3 & 7–9, 2013 
March 3rd - 2:00  p.m. matinee
For mature audiences only!
Jenkins Theatre  
 
Big Love imagines the wedding of 50 unwilling brides to 50 demanding grooms in a pre-arranged marriage. Told with bold theatricality, this highly physical and luscious world explodes into a climactic and murderous wedding reception!  It’s all here ... love and justice, beauty and violence, pleasure and pain.
 
Danstage 2013

​Faculty premieres & guest chDanstage2013med.jpgoreography!

Directed by Joan Karlen 
 
April 12-14 & 17-20, 2013
April 14th - 2:00 p.m. matinee
Studio Theatre 
 
UWSP’s award winning dancers take the Noel Fine Arts Center Studio Theatre stage to perform exhilarating new works by faculty choreographers Michael Estanich, Jeannie Hill and Joan Karlen, and a premiere by guest choreographer Melinda Myers.
The Producers

​TheProducers.jpgDirector Alan Patrick Kenny

May 3-5 & 8-10, 2013

May 5th - 2:00 p.m. matinee  
Jenkins Theatre
 
Based on the classic cult comedy film by the inimitable Mel Brooks, the record-breaking big Broadway musical THE PRODUCERS is a love letter to old Broadway and to swindlers who try to beat the system.  A down-on-his-luck Broadway producer and his mild-mannered accountant come up with a scheme to produce the most notorious flop in history thereby bilking their backers (all "little old ladies") out of millions of dollars. Only one thing goes awry: the show is a smash hit!