2022/2023 Theatre, Dance and Opera Season
TOPDOG/UNDERDOG
A darkly comic fable of brotherly love and family identity, tells the story of two brothers, Lincoln and Booth names given to them as a joke by their father. Haunted by the past and their obsession with the street con game, three-card monte, the brothers come to learn the true nature of their history
Written by Suzan-Lori Parks
Directed by Webster B. McDonald
The Pulitzer prize-winning play is a darkly comic fable about brotherly love and resentment. Haunted by their past, they are forced to confront the shattering reality of their future.
Topdog/Underdog
Performing Arts Center 116
Studio Theater
(Opening) Friday, April 28 7:30p
Saturday, April 29 2:00p
Saturday, April 29 7:30p
Monday, May 1 7:30p
Thursday, May 4 7:30p
(Closing) Friday, May 5 7:30p
TH 329 “Solo Performance” Finals
Wednesday, May 3, 2023
4:30-6:30 pm
PAC Room 119
NO ADVANCE TICKETING REQUIRED
May 5 at 7:30
Second Round of Opera Workshop scenes and the Showing of the 10 minute newly composed operas for the screen
WHERE DID WE SIT ON THE BUS?
by Brian Quijada
directed by Audrey Crabtree
featuring
Nico Holguin
An electric one-person show pulsing with Latin rhythms. During a third-grade lesson on the civil rights movement and Rosa Parks, a Latinx eight-year-old raises their hand to ask, “Where did we sit on the bus?” and the teacher can’t answer the question. This coming-of-age story examines finding identity in art, family, and culture, and what being Latinx means through the eyes of a child, turned teenager, turned adult.
Please note this is being performed off campus!
Westport Bowery
817 Westport Rd.
Kansas City, 64111
(Opening Night) Thursday, May 4, 2023, 7:30p
Friday, May 5, 2023, 7:30p
Saturday, May 6, 2023, 2:00p
Saturday, May 6,2023, 7:30p
Sunday, May 7, 2023, 7:30p
CAPSTONE PROJECTS
Friday, April 28, 2023 at noon
Hannah Wright
Making Theatre Accessible
Research Presentation
Grant Hall 306
Devyn Eason
Professional Portfolio Review (Lighting)
May 8 at 10:00
Grant Hall 105
Monday, May 1 at 7:00 p.m.
Kat Allison
A Physical/Devised Theatre Piece
Grant Hall 306
May 2 at 7:00 p.m.
Emily Tabor
Pages, a new play by Emily Tabor
Play Reading
Content Warning: This play deals with themes of suicide, sexual assault, incest, and addiction with use of some strong language.
Grant Hall 306
Friday, May 5, 2023 at 4 p.m.
Konrad Brunkhorst
All the Terrible Things, a new play by Bailey McConnell Directing Project
Content Warning: suicide
Grant Hall 306
Friday, May 12, 2023 at 3:30 p.m.
Leo Earl
Traditional Contemporary Post-modern Collegiate Commercially Industrialized American Theatre Theater (TCPMCCIATT) Film screening Funded by a Conservatory Diversity and Inclusion Microgrant Student Union 301