Current Productions
2024-2025 Season:
CONNECTION
Theatre and Dance connect us with a world of ideas and emotions. They broaden our perspective and deepen our understanding of ourselves and others.
Join us for these productions of our 2024-2025 season!
Fall 2024
Eurydice
A new spin on a classic Greek myth explores the powerful connection of language and memory in "Eurydice"
Sept. 19-23
The Moors
A pent-up longing for connection shapes the characters in the Victorian Gothic world of "The Moors"
Oct. 24-28
Fall Dance Concert
Connecting movement, music and multimedia, students present original works during the Fall Dance
Nov. 6-9
White Christmas
Romance connects with a worthy cause in the holiday musical favorite, Irving Berlin’s "White Christmas"
Nov. 14-17, 20-22
Eurydice
By Sarah Ruhl
Directed by Karen Sabo
Showings
7:30 p.m. Sept. 19-21 & 23
2:30 p.m. Sept. 22
Venue
Craig Hall Balcony Theatre
Synopsis
After suffering a fatal accident on her wedding day, Eurydice finds herself in a surreal afterlife where human language is forbidden and memories are washed away in the River of Forgetting. Here, she is reunited with her beloved father, who has managed to preserve his memory and ability to read and write. Over time, he helps her to remember her love for her husband, Orpheus, and to contact him. But then she faces a most difficult choice — and the devious Lord of the Underworld has his own plans for these mortals! A contemporary spin on the classic Greek myth, "Eurydice" is a poetic and powerful exploration of memory, grief, and connections that transcend death.
Presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals on behalf of Samuel French, Inc.
Tickets
Adults: $15
Students/Seniors: $12
MSU Students can receive special advance purchase discounts with a MSU ID.
Group Rate: Call Box Office
The Moors
By Jen Silverman
Directed by Nikki Ferry
Showings
7:30 p.m. Oct. 24-26 & 28
2:30 p.m. Oct. 27
Venue
Craig Hall Balcony Theatre
Synopsis
After exchanging romantic correspondence with the mysterious Mr. Branwell, a naive young governess travels to a remote manor on the bleak Yorkshire moors. But rather than finding a family in need of her services, the only residents seem to be two eccentric sisters, a forlorn philosophical dog, and a very odd maid. There is definitely something creepy about the house and its inhabitants! With equal parts humor and horror, "The Moors" evokes the Victorian Gothic world of the Brontë sisters, where the windswept landscape reflects the isolation and suppressed passion of the characters!
Mature content.
Presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals on behalf of Samuel French, Inc.
Tickets
Adults: $15
Students/Seniors: $12
MSU Students can receive special advance purchase discounts with a MSU ID.
Group Rate: Call Box Office
Fall Dance Concert
Coordinated by Brittney Banaei
Showings
7:30 p.m. Nov. 6-9
2:30 p.m. Nov. 9
Venue
Craig Hall Balcony Theatre
Synopsis
Our annual Fall Dance Concert is a program of original pieces conceived, choreographed and performed by our students. Diverse aesthetic visions come to life with music, lighting, multimedia and costumes also designed by students. Experience Dance as a medium of ideas and emotions that connect us all!
Photo credit: Arden Dickson
Tickets
Adults: $15
Students/Seniors: $12
MSU Students can receive special advance purchase discounts with a MSU ID.
Group Rate: Call Box Office
Irving Berlin’s White Christmas
Based upon the Paramount Pictures Film
Written for the Screen by Norman Krasna, Norman Panama and Melvin Frank
Music and Lyrics by Irving Berlin
Book by David Ives and Paul Blake
Original stage production directed by Walter Bobbie
Orchestrations by Larry Blank
Directed and Choreographed by Sarah Wilcoxon
Showings
7:30 p.m. Nov. 14-16 & 20-22
2:30 p.m. Nov. 17
Venue
Craig Hall Coger Theatre
Synopsis
Ten years after World War II, old Army buddies Bob Wallace and Phil Davis have become a successful song-and-dance duo. When they meet the musically talented Haynes Sisters, Phil is instantly smitten by Judy, while Bob is attracted to Betty. Following the sisters to their seasonal singing engagement at a Vermont inn, Wallace and Davis discover that the inn’s owner is none other than their wartime commander, General George Waverley. Due to a lack of snow — and therefore patrons — the inn is about to go under. What better way to boost bookings than to put on a big show! Romantic complications and misunderstandings threaten to derail the plan, but love ultimately prevails in the classic holiday musical, Irving Berlin’s "White Christmas!"
Presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals on behalf of Samuel French, Inc.
Sponsored by KY3, KSMU, Toys for Tots
Tickets
Adults: $25
Students/Seniors: $22
MSU Students can receive special advance purchase discounts with a MSU ID.
Group Rate: Call Box Office
Spring 2025
Rent
Despite poverty and illness, a group of struggling artists seek meaningful connections in the musical "RENT"
Feb. 21-24, Feb. 26-March 2
Blue Stockings
Women join forces for academic and political equality in the relevant historical drama "Blue Stockings"
April 3-6
Spring Dance Concert
Diverse disciplines connect to create exciting new works in the Spring Dance Concert: Collaboration
April 24-27
Rent
Book, Music and Lyrics by Jonathan Larson
Musical Arrangements by Steve Skinner
Original Concept/Additional Lyrics by Billy Aronson
Music Supervision and Additional Arrangements by Tim Weil
Dramaturg Lynn Thomson
"RENT" was originally produced in New York by New York Theatre Workshop and on Broadway by Jeffrey Seller, Kevin McCollum, Alan S. Gordon and the New York Theatre Workshop.
Directed by Dr. Kurt Gerard Heinlein
Showings
7:30 p.m. Feb. 21-22, 24 & Feb. 26 - March 1
2:30 p.m. Feb. 23 & March 2
Venue
Craig Hall Balcony Theatre
Synopsis
Loosely based on Puccini’s opera “La Bohème,” this award-winning musical follows a year in the lives of a group of young, impoverished artists in Lower Manhattan’s East Village. Aspiring filmmaker Mark and punk rocker Roger are roommates who are struggling creatively, financially, and romantically. They and others in their circle of friends live under the constant threat of eviction — as well as the terrifying specter of HIV/AIDS — yet they share a longing to connect with others in meaningful ways. Packed with musical numbers including “One Song Glory,” “Your Eyes” and “Seasons of Love,” "RENT" celebrates the drive to live each day to the fullest.
Mature content.
Presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI). All authorized performance materials are also supplied by MTI.
Tickets
Adults: $25
Students/Seniors: $22
MSU Students can receive special advance purchase discounts with a MSU ID.
Group Rate: Call Box Office
Blue Stockings
By Jessica Swale
Directed by Sarah Wiggin
Showings
7:30 p.m. April 3-5
2:30 p.m. April 6
Venue
Craig Hall Coger Theatre
Synopsis
In an era when a woman riding a bicycle was seen as a scandal, women seeking higher education were branded as “unmarriageable” and a threat to society. So it was in 1896 when Girton College opened its doors to a group of scholarly young women. Against the backdrop of the women’s suffrage movement, they pursue their academic ambitions and push for Cambridge University to award them formal degrees. The women face vehement — sometimes violent — opposition in their quest for equality. An eye-opening historical drama, "Blue Stockings" reminds us that progress has a price, and the struggle continues!
Mature content.
An amateur production by arrangement with Nick Hern Books.
Tickets
Adults: $15
Students/Seniors: $12
MSU Students can receive special advance purchase discounts with a MSU ID.
Group Rate: Call Box Office
Spring Dance Concert: Collaboration
Coordinated by Azaria Hogans
Showings
7:30 p.m. April 24-26
2:30 p.m. April 27
Venue
Craig Hall Coger Theatre
Synopsis
Great works of art do not emerge from a vacuum, but rather from an environment rich with creative energy. Missouri State’s Department of Theatre and Dance, within the university’s new School of the Arts, is that sort of fertile, dynamic environment. Drawing together individuals from across the spectrum of visual and performing arts — and from throughout the campus community — this year’s Spring Dance Concert: Collaboration reflects that diversity of disciplines, talents, and perspectives. Experience the expansive beauty and power of Dance in this exciting new collection of original works conceived, choreographed and performed by our faculty, guest artists and students!
Tickets
Adults: $15
Students/Seniors: $12
MSU Students can receive special advance purchase discounts with a MSU ID.
Group Rate: Call Box Office