Current and Past Seasons
Current
Season
Be More Chill
- Music and Lyrics by Joe Iconis, Book by Joe Tracz
- Based on the novel by Ned Vizzini
- October 17-20, 2024
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Fall Dance Concert
- November 8-9, 2024
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Eumenides
- By Aeschylus
- November 21-24, 2024
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Red Bike
- By Caridad Svitch
- February 27- March 2, 2025
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Student Written One Acts
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By the Students of THA313
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Rent
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Book, Music and Lyrics by Jonathan Larson
April 3-6, 2025
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Spring Dance Concert
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April 24 - 26, 2025
University Dance Company’s annual Spring Dance Concert celebrates the creative choreography of WCU students in a variety of dance styles.
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Subscription & Tickets
Department of Theatre and Dance productions are held in J. Peter Adler Studio Theatre (E.O. Bull Center for the Arts), MainStage Theatre (E.O. Bull Center for the Arts), and Madeleine Wing Adler Theatre (Swope Music Building). Both Buildings are located on High Street, near the intersection of Rosedale Ave. For GPS, use 817 South High Street, West Chester, PA 19383. Free parking is available behind both buildings.
Both buildings are located on High Street, near the intersection of Rosedale Ave. (For GPS, use 817 South High Street, West Chester, PA 19383)
Free parking is available behind both the E.O. Bull Center for the Arts and Madeleine Wing Adler Theatre. Enter from South Matlack Street, South High Street or the drive on E. Rosedale Ave.
Ticket Prices
Individual Tickets
Single tickets will go on sale in September and can be purchased two ways:
- Online at wcupatix.com/theatreanddance
- In person at the Theatre and Dance Box Office, ground floor, E.O. Bull Center for the Arts, 2 E. Rosedale Ave.; M-F 1-3p. For more info, call 610-436-2533. Tickets can be purchased one hour before curtain (if not already sold out) at the E.O. Bull Center Box Office.
Subscriptions
Subscriptions are available for our 55th Season! The following roles for subscribers are now being cast:
- Walk On | $64.50 | 1 season pass
- Supporting | $126.00 | 2 season pass
- Leading | $184.50 | 3 season pass
- Star | $240.00 | 4 season pass
Each season pass provides six tickets to our season at the lowest price. All subscribers enjoy priority seating, program listing, free ticket exchange, and ticket insurance if tickets are lost or misplaced.
Interested in purchasing a subscription? Call Carolyn Chalmers at (610) 436-3463 to make your purchase.
Past Productions
2023-2024
- Kiss Me, Kate
- Grounded Bodies: Fall Dance Concert
- Me, War and Toy Grenade
- Three Sisters
- Student Written One Acts
- Silent Sky
- Immersed | in | dance: Spring Dance Concert
2022-2023
- Spring Awakening
- Multiplicity, Fall Dance Concert
- Eurydice
- Charlotte’s Web
- Student Written One Acts
- Twelfth Night
- Vibrations, Spring Dance Concert
2021-2022
- Pride and Prejudice
- Fall Dance Concert
- The Triangle Factory Fire Project
- The Winter's Tale
- Student Written One Acts
- Into the Woods
- Spring Dance Concert
2020-2021
- Unmute Yourself, a devised work
- Fall Dance Concert
- She Kills Monsters: Virtual Realms by Qui Nguyen
- House Arrest by Anna Deavere Smith
- An Evening of One Acts
- Cabaret a la Carte
- Adaptation, The Spring Dance Concert
2019-2020
- Macbeth
- Fall Dance Concert
- Fefu and Her Friends
- The Visit
- An Evening of One Acts*
- Spring Awakening*
- Spring Dance Concert*
*Cancelled due to Covid-19 pandemic
2018-2019
- Antigone
- My Fair Lady
- Revival, a dance concert
- Local Girls
- An Evening of One Acts
- Progressions, a dance concert
- The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales
2017-2018
- Romeo and Juliet
- Exit The King
- Moving Reflections, a dance concert
- Never Have I Ever
- Mosaic, a dance concert
- Berlin to Broadway with Kurt Weill, A Musical Voyage
- An Evening of One Acts
2016-2017
- Once Upon a Mattress
- Veer, to alter a direction or course
- The Long Christmas Ride Home
- Blithe Spirit
- The Honorable Maid
- Serendipity, a dance concert
- An Evening of One Acts
2015-2016
- Company
- Visual Transparency, a dance concert
- Ghosts
- What The Water Gave Me
- The Tempest
- Unframed Art, a dance concert
- An Evening of One Acts
2014-2015
- Dead Man's Cell Phone
- The Wedding Singer
- Imprints, a dance concert
- All's Well that Ends Well
- Spoon River Project
- An Evening of One Acts
- United Diverse Creations, a dance concert
2013-2014
- Endgame & Come and Go
- Godspell
- Poetics of Space, a dance concert
- Machinal
- The Rivals
- Student Written One-Acts
- Perpetual Motion, a dance concert
2012-2013
- Student Written One-Acts
- She Loves Me
- Coalescence, a dance concert
- The Mousetrap
- A Year with Frog and Toad
- A Midsummer Night's Dream
- #OccupyUDC, a dance concert
2011-2012
- Student Written One-Acts
- Cabaret
- Cause and Effect, a dance concert
- Dark at the Top of the Stairs
- Make Me A Song
- Kaleidoscope, a dance concert
- Macbeth
2010-2011
- Sorrows and Rejoicings
- The Pajama Game
- Student Written One Acts
- Reception/Perception, a dance concert
- A Festival of New Female Playwrights
- The Misanthrope
- Merge Ahead, a dance concert
- Fables & Fairytales, Children's Theatre
2009-2010
- The Rocky Horror Show
- Student Written One Acts
- E Pluribus Unum, a dance concert
- Love's Fire
- As You Like It
- Wonder Think Feel, a dance concert
2008-2009
- Psychopathia Sexualis
- Student Written One Acts
- Assassins
- Then to Now, a dance concert
- tick…tick…BOOM! (Student-directed: Andrew Lowy)
- Trojan Women
- Exploring the Spectrum, a dance concert
Auditions
All auditions for the Department of Theatre and Dance productions are open to the entire campus community.