2 0 1 5 - 1 6 S E ASON
Oklahoma City University School of Theatre
Per f or m a n ce S ch e d u l e Peter and the Starcatcher Co-Produced with City Rep September 18 - 27
Oxygen October 23 - 25
Festival of Solo Performance October 28 - 31
The Man Who Came to Dinner December 4 - 12
The Giver Co-Produced with Oklahoma Children’s Theatre February 5 - 13
The Last Days of Judas Iscariot February 26 - 28
As You Like It April 7 - 10
2015/ 1 6 S E A S O N | okcu.e d u/t ick et s
Lyric Theatre of Oklahoma is the state’s leading professional theatre company. For 50 years, Lyric has produced classic and contemporary musicals and plays featuring both nationally known Broadway stars and local favorites. Lyric produces four smaller works in the Plaza Theatre during the spring, fall, and winter, as well as four large scale, fully orchestrated musicals at the Civic Center Music Hall each summer. Lyric operates under an URTA contract with Actors’ Equity Association and employs members of the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers and United Scenic Artists. lyrictheatreokc.com
Oklahoma City Ballet is the resident dance company of the Civic Center Music Hall in Oklahoma City and tours as part of the Oklahoma Arts Council’s touring program. It also tours under the auspices of the Mid-America Arts Alliance, the National Endowment for the Arts Dance Touring Program and the Heartland Arts Fund. Oklahoma City Ballet seeks to inspire its audience through classical and contemporary dance performances, a strong educational program, and community service. okcballet.com
Par t ne r sh i p s
Oklahoma City Repertory Theatre (CityRep)
As a professionally based training program,
provides a vital service to the community
it is critical for TheatreOCU students to work
by presenting arts programming that is
within the industry as their collegiate career
reflected in major metropolitan areas around the country. Under the leadership of an Oklahoma City University School of Theatre alumnus, Artistic Director Donald Jordan, CityRep produces four productions each year at the Civic Center Music Hall in downtown Oklahoma City. For Oklahoma professional theatre artists of the past, present, and future, CityRep provides a professional local venue and artistic home. CityRep operates under an agreement with Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.
evolves. At the Oklahoma City University School of Theatre we strive to involve our students in the industry in a wide range of opportunities. Therefore, it is our pleasure to co-produce our mainstage season alongside these incredible performing arts companies located throughout Oklahoma City.
Please continue to support their seasons, in addition to our 93rd season.
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Oklahoma Children’s Theatre (OCT) is the professional children’s theatre company for the state of Oklahoma, and is in residence on the Oklahoma City University campus. OCT provides extraordinary live theatre and interactive educational experiences for young audiences. OCT offers a number of productions and educational programs for young audiences throughout the year, a statewide touring production, a youth theatre program, an arts collaboration program with local daycare centers, as well as educational classes and camps held during the summer at Oklahoma City University. oklahomachildrenstheatre.org
okcu.e d u/ti cketS | 2015/16 Season
PE% TE R
AND THE
ST R CA T C H E R SEPTEMBER
18-27
BURG THEATRE
A huge hit straight from Broadway, Peter and the Starcatcher is a wildly theatrical, hilarious, and innovative retelling of how a miserable orphan came to be The Boy Who Never Grew Up. A 13-year-old Molly Aster, a Starcatcher Apprentice, finds herself in the company of pirates, a giant crocodile, and angry mollusks as she and three orphan boys (one of whom happens to be unnamed) attempt to return a trunk of precious starstuff to her father. Adventures abound as a mustached pirate captain and his sidekick, Smee, pursue them. Along the way, Molly learns what it means to grow up, and is reunited with her father. The nameless orphan and his friends take up residence on this island where dreams are born and time is never planned—the island where that nameless orphan is christened Peter Pan.
Staged Reading at Walker Center
OXYGEN
OCTOBER
23-25
Fri 10.23 at 8pm Sat 10.24 at 8pm Sun 10.25 at 2pm
What motivates a scientist? One key factor is the pressure from the competition to be the first to discover something new. The moral consequences of this are the subject of the play Oxygen, dealing with the discovery of this allimportant element. The focus of the play is on chemical and political revolutions, as well as the Nobel Prize, which will be awarded for the 100th time in 2001. The action takes place in 1777 and 2001; the play is written for 3 actors and 3 actresses who play a total of 11 characters.
October
26-31 St. Nicholas
Mon 10.26 & Tues 10.27 at 8pm
The Darling Wed 10.28 & Thurs 10.29 at 8pm
Bent to the Flame: A Night in the Life of Tennessee Williams Fri 10.30 & Sat 10.31 at 8pm
TheatreOCU is excited to bring in three solo performance artists, highlighting the best and the most exciting work that’s being done in this genre for both our students and our wider audience. Movement faculty member Luke Eddy brings humor and horror to Conner McPherson’s Irish ghost/vampire story St. Nicholas. Lisa Dalton, fresh from touring her show on the Fringe Festival circuit, brings poignancy and a challenging philosophical bent to Anton Checkov’s The Darling. And the incredibly talented Doug Tompos brings the playwright Tennessee Williams to life in his acclaimed Bent to the Flame: A Night in the Life of Tennessee Williams.
MAN
THE
WHO CAME TO
DINNER DECEMBER
4-12
Burg Theatre
Fri 12.4 at 8pm | Sat 12.5 at 8pm | Sun 12.6 at 2pm Thurs 12.10 at 8pm | Fri 12.11 at 8pm | Sat 12.12 at 8pm
In this classic and revered American comedy, famous writer Sheridan Whiteside, having dined at the home of the Stanleys, slips on ice on their doorstep, breaking his hip. A tumultuous six weeks of confinement follow. The Stanley living room is monopolized by the irascible invalid; ex-convicts are invited to meals; and transatlantic calls bring a $784 phone bill. It would take a stoical housewife to harbor penguins in her library, an octopus in her cellar, and 10,000 cockroaches in her kitchen. When Maggie, Whiteside’s secretary, falls in love with a local reporter, Bert Jefferson, Whiteside pulls out all the stops to thwart the relationship and keep his secretary by his side. A holiday hit for the whole family!
THE
GIVER
FEBRUARY Thursdays at 11am
4-13
Fridays at 11am & 8pm Saturdays at 8pm Sundays at 2pm
BURG THEATRE
Co-Produced with Oklahoma Children’s Theatre
Jonas’s world is perfect. Everything is under control and safe. There is no war or fear or pain. There are also no choices. Every person is assigned a role in the community. But when Jonas turns 12, he is chosen for special training from the Giver—to receive and keep the memories of the community. The Giver is the only person who holds the memories of real pain and real joy. Now Jonas will learn the truth about life—and the hypocrisy of his utopian world. Through this astonishing and moving adaptation, discover what it means to grow up, to grow wise, and to take control of your own destiny.
THE
LAST DAYS OF
ISCARIOT A Staged Reading at the School of Law
FEBRUARY
26-28
Fri 2.26 at 8pm Sat 2.27 at 8pm Sun 2.28 at 2pm
The Last Days of Judas Iscariot tells the story of a court case over the ultimate fate of Judas Iscariot. Set in a timebending, darkly comic world between heaven and hell, the play reexamines the plight and fate of the New Testament’s most infamous and unexplained sinner. A fierce and questing story that refuses to settle for glib answers, and which identifies with life’s losers and gives them an eloquence by finding poetry in lowdown street talk. The play uses flashbacks to an imagined childhood, and lawyers who call for the testimonies of such witnesses as Mother Teresa, Caiaphas, Saint Monica, Sigmund Freud, and Satan. This staged reading is rated for mature audiences.
As You
It Like April
7-10
Thurs 4.7 at 8pm Fri 4.8 at 8pm Sat 4.9 at 2pm & 8pm Sun 4.10 at 2pm
Burg Theatre
As You Like It is considered by many to be one of Shakespeare’s greatest comedies. The heroine, Rosalind, is praised as one of his most inspiring characters and has more lines than any of Shakespeare’s female characters. Rosalind, the daughter of a banished duke, falls in love with Orlando the disinherited son of one of the duke’s friends. When she is banished from the court by her usurping uncle, Duke Frederick, Rosalind switches genders and as Ganymede travels with her loyal cousin Celia and the jester Touchstone to the Forest of Arden, where her father and his friends live in exile. Observations on life and love follow (including love, aging, the natural world, and death), friends are made, and families are reunited.
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