Lawrence University's Department of Theater Arts produces three exciting productions each year.

From well-known plays and musicals to collaboratively-devised works and brand new plays featuring student voices, discover what our Main Stage productions have to offer!

Buy tickets for a theatre production!

Tickets for shows go on sale two weeks before the first performance date. Please call the box office at 920-832-6749 to purchase: 

     Adults $15, Seniors $8, Students $0


LU Theatre Arts 2024-2025 - The 94th Season!

Fall Term

Working (2012 Revised)

Stage Director: Timothy X. Troy | Music Director: Phillip Swan | Choreographer: Mauriah Donegan Kraker

Stansbury Theatre - October 31 and November 1, 2 at 7:30 pm and November 2 at 2:30 pm

Based on Studs Terkel’s 1974 examination of the working condition and private dreams of 26 “average” Americans, Working celebrate the range and diversity of our working lives. With songs by a variety of composers including Stephen Schwartz, Mary Rogers, James Taylor, Susan Birkenhead, and Lin-Manuel Miranda.

 


 

Winter Term

7th Biennial Gaines Student Playwrights Series

Each ending is a new beginning.

This Isn’t How It Happens, by Shira Hanovich

The House on the Hill, by Maddie Guest

Static Cling, by Nina Broberg

      Featured development opportunities:

      Beyond the Myths: The Storyteller, by Kean Zhao - audio production

      Moving Beyond, Diego Garcia – developmental staged reading

Cloak Theatre - February 20-22 at 7:30 pm, and February 22 at 2:30 pm

Timothy X. Troy – Series Artistic Director and stage director for House on the Hill and Static Cling

Jacque Troy – Series Dramaturg, scene coach, and stage director for This Isn’t How It Happens


 

Spring Term

Flora and Ulysses

by John Glore – Based on the novel by Kate DiCamillo

Kathy Privatt, Director

Stansbury Theatre - May 15 - 16 invited school performances; May 17 at 10:30 am and 2:30 pm

This play for young (and old) audiences is about a squirrel who gets sucked up in a vacuum cleaner and comes out with super powers to understand humans . . . and open their hearts.  We’ll bring audiences from area elementary schools to join us here on campus for a fully produced experience.