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 2023-2024 - The 93rd Season!

Fall Term

Twin brothers jumping for joy together.

Menaechmi (The Menaechmus Brothers)

by Plautus, translated by David Christenson

Kathy Privatt, Director

Stansbury Theatre - October 26, 27, 28 at 7:30 pm and October 28 at 2:30 pm

A comedy set in EpiDAMnus, which is a h*ll of a place to live with some d*mn screwed up values that seem awfully familiar!  Oh, and some mistaken identity issues too.

 


 

Winter Term

Two female cousins lean together to share a secret thought.

As You Like It

by William Shakespeare

Timothy X. Troy, Director

Cloak Theatre - February 15, 16, 17 at 7:30 pm, and February 17 at 2:30 pm

Having trouble keeping up with the latest developments in love at first sight, gender fluidity, political intrigue, and shattered loyalties? Join us in the Forest of Arden where love explains all confusions, clarifies murky waters, and restores our faith in each other. Belovéd recent alumn, Olivia Gregorich, joins the production team for script preparation, scene coaching, and full cast workshops for a lyrical romp in Cloak Theatre winter term.

 (Bonus feature: learn how this play invented the Tweet 425 years ago!)


 

Spring Term

Dancer laying on ground with arm outstretched

The Show Is Over

Devised work with Mauriah Donegan Kraker, Professor of Dance

Stansbury Theatre - May 9, 10, 11 at 7:30 pm and May 11 at 2:30 pm

THE SHOW IS OVER is a devised work created in collaboration with Theatre Arts/Professor of Dance Mauriah Donegan Kraker and student composers, musicians, actors, dancers. Real and virtual worlds collide in a murky manifesto for disorientating patterns of physicality and language.