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!
An Agatha Christie Double Bill: 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.
UCDC presents: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.
A Series of Meetings bySavannah Reich
Directed by AZ Espinoza Black Box Studio Theater Feb. 26 - March 2, 2025
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.
Fun Home,music by Jeanine Tesori, book & lyrics by Lisa Kron
Directed by Professor Domenick Scudera Lenfest Stage April 3-6, 2025
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.
UCDC presents:When I Think of Home…
Produced by Dr. Karen Clemente Lenfest Stage April 24-26
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.
