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2008 Tony Award Nominee – Best Book of a Musical
2006 Obie Award Winner – Best Book, Music & Lyrics
and Direction of a Musical

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October 28-November 12, 2011

Through his allegorical narrative of Ti-Jean’s tête-à-tête with a Devil hunting for humanity, Caribbean playwright and scholar Derek Walcott challenges his audiences in this moving West Indian folk parable. Through this simultaneously fanciful and politically provocative play, Walcott engages with issues of imperialism, colonialism, and oppression as the tricked becomes the trickster and the persecuted thwarts the persecutor. After almost 50 years, this thought-provoking dramatic interpretation of Afro-Caribbean folk traditions continues to challenge audiences to consider the power of stories from the margins.

November 18-December 10, 2011

Direct from the pages of “The World’s Only Reliable News,” University Theatre presents the 100% true* story of the infamous half bat/half boy straight from Hope Falls, West Virginia! Learn the challenges of life and love, when you grow up a mutant, and prepare yourself to discover the shocking truth behind Bat Boy’s identity in this blackly funny, HORRORific musical spoof.

*licensed through Weekly World News

March 2-17, 2012

In a crumbling south side Chicago recording studio in 1927, playwright August Wilson creates a somber world for the narrative of blues legend, Gertrude “Ma” Rainey, her supporting band, and the white recording managers who control these African American artists’ lives. With this fictional interpretation of a seemingly inconsequential night of recording Rainey’s famous blues tune, “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom,” Wilson explores the complicated dynamics that constrained African American artists during the first half of the twentieth century. Through the story of Ma, Levee, Slow Drag, and Toledo, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom not only celebrates the beauty and artistry of the blues, but also exposes the complexities of race, economics, power and domination associated with this African American performance genre.

March 23-31, 2012

“No quiero perder la oportunidad de crecer ¡No quiero, no!” This season’s poignant Theatre for Youth production, an English-language premiere of Argentinean playwright María Inés Falconi’s award-winning drama, transports young audiences to a world in which young people negotiate the influence of war as they play soccer, attend school, and experience their childhoods. After a bombing raid, Pedro, a young boy, finds himself trapped in the rubble of his school with an elderly neighbor, don José. Through a tender exchange of stories with Mr. Joseph, Pedro learns about the resiliency of the human spirit and the power of imagination to restore and sustain humanity even in times of crisis.

April 20-May 5, 2012

Come see what started it all! In what many Shakespeare scholars consider to be the Bard’s first (and shortest!) play, witness the first examples of Shakespeare’s favorite tropes, including star-cross’d lovers, gender-bending heroines, and scene-stealing servants. Join the MFA acting class of 2012 as they explore mix-ups, marriages, and madness in Milan with The Two Gentlemen of Verona!