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IU presents Pipeline
Dominique Morisseau’s Pipeline comes to Indiana University.
Indiana University Department of Theatre, Drama and Contemporary Dance continues their 2023/2024 theatrical season directed entirely by women with their production of Pipeline by Dominique Morisseau beginning February 29th!
Dominique Morisseau is a record-breaking playwright whose works portray the lives of individuals and communities grappling with economic and social changes, both current and historical. With a background as an actor and spoken-word poet, she uses lyrical dialogue to construct emotionally complex characters who exhibit humor, vulnerability, and fortitude as they cope with sometimes desperate circumstances.
Dominique Morisseau’s Pipeline comes to Indiana University
Indiana University Department of Theatre, Drama and Contemporary Dance continues their 2023/2024 theatrical season directed entirely by women with their production of Pipeline by Dominique Morisseau beginning February 29th!
IU presents World Premiere Musical, VOX POP!
The IU Theatre and Dance is back for an exciting twelfth year featuring a world premiere musical as its showcase production with book, music, and lyrics by third year M.F.A. playwriting candidate David Davila and direction by third year M.F.A. directing candidate Lauren Diesch. , takes us ten-thousand years into the future to find a group of rebel troubadours surrounded on all sides by the deadly forces of an oppressive regime. In their last few moments of freedom they have only one chance left to pass along the tale of “Vox Populi,” a sacred secret that tells of the rise and fall of a great mythical society. Can they pass along the legend before they're captured, and save future democracies from corruption?
IU Theatre + Dance announces 2023-2024 season directed entirely by women
IU Theatre + Dance announces 2023-2024 season directed entirely by women, including beloved musicals, a Shakespearean classic, contemporary masterpieces, twists on old favorites, dance spectaculars, and a world premiere new musical as part of the At First Sight New Play Festival.
Indiana University Summer Theatre presents Sondheim’s Into The Woods
Indiana University Summer Theatre presents Sondheim’s
IU Theatre & Dance presents Something Rotten! a Shakespearean crowd-pleasing musical spoof
IU Theatre Presents the eleventh annual At First Sight New Play Festival, March 3-10
IU Theatre & Dance will present new works from our graduate and undergraduate playwrights in the upcoming 11th annual At First Sight New Play Festival. This year’s festival will feature Why Liliya Why by third year MFA playwright Annalise Cain and 1970's College Sex Comedy by second year MFA playwright David Davila. The festival will also showcase several panels with esteemed guests, and Undergrad Shorts, an evening of short plays written by undergraduate playwrights.
IU Theatre & Dance takes on infamous musical adaptation of Stephen King’s Carrie
IU Theatre & Dance continues its triumphant return to live productions with Carrie: the Musical.
IU Theatre Presents Four New Plays in the 10th Annual At First Sight Festival of New Plays
IU Theatre & Dance will present new works from our graduate and undergraduate playwrights in the upcoming 10th annual New Play Festival. This year’s festival will feature two productions of new plays in repertoire by third year MFA playwright Jayne Deely and visiting professor of playwriting Diana Grisanti. The festival will also showcase staged readings of new plays by MFA playwriting candidates, Annalise Cain and David Davila, several panels with esteemed guests, and , an evening of short plays written by undergraduate playwrights.
IU Theatre & Dance presents Bertolt Brecht’s The Threepenny Opera
IU Theater & Dance’s Season of Return to in-person theater continues with Bertolt Brecht’s classic The Threepenny Opera.
IU Theatre & Dance presents The Well of Horniness, the Sapphic soap-opera the patriarchy doesn’t want you to see.
For its first post-pandemic production, IU Theatre is pleased to present The Well of Horniness, by Holly Hughes.
IU Department of Theatre, Drama, and Contemporary Dance Announces 2021–2022 Season
IU Department of Theatre, Drama, and Contemporary Dance Announces 2021–2022 Season
Indiana University Summer Theatre Announces Return with 2021 Line-Up
Bloomington, IN - The summer heats up as the Indiana University Department of Theatre & Dance presents the season.
IU Contemporary Dance Seniors show off some New Moves
IU Contemporary Dance proudly presents New Moves, a concert of choreographic capstone projects created by the B.F.A. class of 2021.
IU Theatre & Dance presents Little Women: The Broadway Musical based on the novel by Louisa May Alcott
IU Theatre’s first ever virtual season continues with Little Women: The Broadway Musical by Allan Knee, music by Jason Howland, and lyrics by Mindi Dickstein.
IU Theatre Presents 3 New Plays in the first virtual At First Sight Festival
IU Theatre & Dance will present new works from the three M.F.A playwrights in the upcoming 9th annual, and 1st virtual, At First Sight Festival.
IU Theatre & Dance presents William Shakespeare’s classic romantic comedy, Twelfth Night
IU Theatre continues its first-ever virtual season with Shakespeare’s classic romantic comedy, Twelfth Night.
IU Theatre continues reading series Amplified: A Series of Plays by Black Authors beginning February 5
IU Theatre opens its spring 2021 season with Amplified: A Series of Plays by Black Authors featuring readings of Adored You by Rachel Lynett and Stick Fly by Lydia R. Diamond.
IU Contemporary Dance Unites Dance, Dissent, and Resilience with Winter Concert
IU Contemporary Dance takes the virtual stage with their Winter Dance Concert: Sounding Bodies, an evening of choreography and performance uniting dance and protest.
Femme Rage and Reclamation Stirs in IU’s production of BONNETS
IU Theatre commences its 2020-2021 main stage season with BONNETS: (How Ladies of Good Breeding are Induced to Murder) by Jen Silverman.
IU Theatre presents new reading series of vital voices with Amplified: A Series of Plays by Black Authors
IU Theatre opens the 2020 – 2021 season with Amplified: A Series of Plays by Black Authors featuring readings of Black Super Hero Magic Mama by Inda Craig-Galván and Time Is On Our Side by R. Eric Thomas.
IU Theatre Presents Three New Plays in the At First Sight Festival
IU Theatre & Dance will present new works from the three MFA playwrights in the upcoming 8th annual At First Sight Festival.
IU Theatre launches the spring semester with Ascendant, a new devised work on the addiction epidemic
IU Theatre will begin its 2020 spring season with the new devised work, Ascendant, part of the “From the Ground Up” series, by faculty playwright Peter Gil-Sheridan.
IU Theatre & Dance presents William Shakespeare's classic revenge tragedy, HAMLET
IU Theatre continues its Bicentennial 2019–2020 season with Shakespeare’s classic tragedy, Hamlet.
Memories, Connection, and Redemption churn in IU's production of Water by the Spoonful
IU Theatre continues the Bicentennial 2019–2020 season with the Pulitzer Prize winning play Water by the Spoonful by Quiara Alegría Hudes.
IU Theatre cast its net and brought in a Big Fish
IU Theatre continues the Bicentennial 2019–2020 season with the delightful hit musical, Big Fish.
IU Theatre opens 2019–2020 Bicentennial season with Irish drama BY THE BOG OF CATS
IU Theatre opens the Bicentennial 2019–2020 season with Marina Carr’s By The Bog of Cats. Loosely based on Euripides' tragedy Medea, this provocative drama discloses one woman's courageous attempts to lay claim to that which is hers. Set on the ghostly landscape of the Bog of Cats, Carr’s play is a furious, uncompromising tale of greed and betrayal, of memory and profound self-sacrifice.
IU Contemporary Dance Class of 2019 Takes Center Stage
The IU Contemporary Dance Class of 2019 takes center stage in New Moves, a concert of choreographic capstone projects.
Wonderful Town comes to B-Town
IU's production of Wonderful Town comes to B-Town!
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