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2023-2024 Production Season

The UW Theatre & Dance academic production season offers a lively mix of contemporary plays, the classics and Shakespeare, exciting new works, musicals and operas, and a range of modern dance, ballet, jazz, and vertical dance selections.

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Three packs go on sale in September Individual tickets go on sale October 1.

THE LARAMIE PROJECT (WYOpen Stages)

Created by Moises Kaufman and Members of the Tectonic Theater Project
Produced by Matthew Greenberg & Cecilia Aragón
Directed by Jeffrey LaHoste

October 11, 2023, 7:30 p.m.
Buchanan Center for the Performing Arts Main Stage

STAGED READING.
Commemorating the 25th anniversary of Matthew Shepard’s death and the work of Tectonic Theater Project members to interview residents about the attack and its aftermath, this WYOpen Stages reading tells the stories of the real people who lived at the epicenter of one of the nation’s most heinous anti-gay hate crimes.

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METAMORPHOSES

Based on the myths of Ovid
Written by Mary Zimmerman
From the translation by David R. Slavitt
Directed by Joel Shura

October 25 -28, 2023, 7:30 p.m., October 29, 2023, 2:00 p.m.
Buchanan Center for the Performing Arts Thrust Theatre

Ovid’s tales of transformation come to life in this adaptation juxtaposing the mythic and modern. METAMORPHOSES tells the stories of Aphrodite,  Midas, Orpheus, Cupid, and othersin a whimsical and poignant fashion,charting the joys, follies, and heartbreaks  of being human.

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Life/AFTER\ Dark

A Dance-Theatre Work Conceived, Directed, & Choreographed by  Aaron Wood
In Collaboration With Scott tedmon-Jones, Erin Carter, & Jason Banks
Adapted /Co-directed by Matthew Greenberg
Co-Directed by Landee Lockhart

November 1 5 -18, 2023, 7:30 p.m., November 18, 2023, 2:00 p.m. 
Buchanan Center for the Performing Arts Thrust Theatre

Inspired by Lesléa Newman’s poetic exploration of the impact of Matthew Shepard’s death, 'October Mourning," this original dance-theatre work provides audiences, the company, and collaborators a space to connect and experience our shared humanity as we learn to regard one another with light and grace.

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Radical Humanity

Choreographed by Juliana Freude and Cat Kamrath Monsoon
Conducted by Dr. Michael Griffith
Music by Peter Ilych Tchaikovsky

March 1 - 3, 2024, 7:30 p.m.
UW Arts and Sciences Auditorium

Join us for a full-length evening of original contemporary dance works, created by University of Wyoming Department of Theatre and Dance faculty as well as special guest artists and David Dorfman and Rob Kleinendorst, that reflect on the relationships, emotions, and movements that make us human.

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INTO THE WOODS

Music and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim
Book by James Lapine
Originally Directed on Broadway by James Lapine
Orchestrations by Jonathan Tunick
Directed by Matthew Greenberg
Music directed by Zachary McCulley

April 4 - 6, 11 -13, 2024, 7:00 p.m.
April 7 & 14, 2024, 2:00 p.m.
UW Arts and Sciences Auditorium

Sondheim’s ever-popular musical seamlessly fuses fairytale characters with what happens after the “happily ever after.” A Baker, his wife, Cinderella, Jack, Little Red Riding Hood, and the Witch all wish for something, but soon learn that there are consequences to getting what you want.

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