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

FREE TICKETS AVAILABLE NOW!



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

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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