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Each Concordia Theatre season presents a full and varied experience for students and audience alike.
There are usually two productions each semester — drawing from genres such as classical and contemporary dramas, new works, issue-orientated plays, and comedies. Students will experience a wide variety of styles, genres, and themes during their time at Concordia.
Our 2023-24 Theatre Season Dates:
“At the Wedding” by Bryna Turner
Directed by David Wintersteen8 p.m. Oct. 5-7
2 p.m. Oct. 8
Lab Theatre, Frances Frazier Comstock Theatre
Lab Theatre, Frances Frazier Comstock Theatre
In this bittersweet comedy, a woman attending her ex-girlfriend's wedding reception attempts to make it through the night without drinking too much, talking too much, or otherwise ruining the occasion.
8 p.m. Nov. 9-11 and 16-18
“Guys and Dolls” by Frank Loesser, Joe Swerling, and Abe Burrows
Directed by Denise Holland Bethke8 p.m. Nov. 9-11 and 16-18
2 p.m. Nov. 12
8 p.m. Nov. 16-18
8 p.m. Nov. 16-18
Mainstage, Frances Frazier Comstock Theatre
Set in Depression-era Times Square, the golden age classic “Guys and Dolls” follows big city gamblers and the women who love them. It tells the overlapping stories of high-roller Sky Masterson, who falls in love with mission worker Sarah Brown, and lovable rapscallion Nathan Detroit, engaged for 14 years to Miss Adelaide (much to her frustration).
“The Bald Soprano” by Eugène Ionesco
Directed by Caden Nestler8 p.m. Feb. 15-17
2 p.m. Feb. 18
Lab Theatre, Frances Frazier Comstock Theatre
Eugène Ionesco’s “The Bald Soprano” is a masterful classic of the Theatre of the Absurd. One English evening, an English couple, the Smiths, sit in their English home after an English supper, awaiting the arrival of their English friends, the Martins, for an English dinner party. Throughout the evening, the party slides into chaos as tempers flare and communication breaks down entirely.
“The Laramie Project” by Moisés Kaufman
Advanced Directing Production8 p.m. April 25-27
Mainstage, Frances Frazier Comstock Theatre
In October 1998 in the middle of the prairie outside Laramie, Wyoming, Matthew Shepard, a 21-year-old student at the University of Wyoming, was tied to a fence post, severely beaten, robbed, tortured, and left alone to die. He was rushed to the hospital and put on life support and died five days later. The reason for this brutal crime? Matthew Shepard was gay.
The Tectonic Theater Project, led by their founder Moisés Kaufman, traveled to Laramie in the aftermath of the murder with the intent of creating a theatrical portrait of a town coming to grips with hate-fueled violence. Out of the interviews that were conducted, journal entries, and found texts, The Laramie Project was born.