Live theatre and dance performances return to UWSP

Metro Wire Staff

Live theater and dance performances will return to the UW-Stevens Point this fall, bringing two musicals, a drama, an original play, two dance concerts, and two staged readings back to audiences at university stages.

The school’s Department of Theatre and Dance “Back to the Boards” season packages, First Nighters dinner series, and individual show tickets are on sale starting Wednesday, Sept. 1. For prices and options, go to tickets.uwsp.edu, call 715-346-4100, or visit the Information and Tickets Office in Dreyfus University Center.

Two different staged readings will be offered during the year at the UW-Stevens Point campuses in Stevens Point, Marshfield, and Wausau. Other shows will be held in the UW-Stevens Point Noel Fine Arts Center’s Jenkins and Studio theatres.

“We are eager to welcome you back to our spaces to experience the vibrant energy that only a live performance creates—a remarkable shared experience between audience and performer,” said Michael Estanich, department chair, in a press release on Tuesday.

            Performances will include:

• “Passage,” Sept. 23-24 at UW-Stevens Point main campus, Sept. 25 at UWSP at Marshfield, and Sept. 26 at UWSP at Wausau
  Staged reading – The play explores relationships among people from different countries and how power imbalances affect personal dynamics.
• “Red Velvet,” Oct. 8-10 and 14-16, UWSP Studio Theatre
  This drama is set in the Theatre Royal in London in 1833 as a black American actor has been cast in a lead role while the public riots in the streets over the abolition of slavery.
• “Into the Woods,” Nov. 5-7 and 11-13, UWSP Jenkins Theatre
  Stephen Sondheim’s musical follows fairy tale characters as they cross paths and weave their stories together, making choices and dealing with consequences.
• “Afterimages 2021,” Dec. 3-5, UWSP Jenkins Theatre
  A student-directed, choreographed, performed, and designed show of original dance.
• “The Shadow Box,” Feb. 9 at UWSP at Marshfield, Feb. 10-11 at UWSP, and Feb. 12 at UWSP at Wausau
  Staged reading – Three families come to terms with the inevitability of death in this eloquent, humorous, and haunting play.
• An original, devised play, March 4-6 and 10-12, TBA
  The play will be directed and devised by Visiting Assistant Professor Elizabeth Parks with a student ensemble.
• “Cabaret,” April 15-16 and 21-23, UWSP Jenkins Theatre
  This musical explores the dark and seedy life of 1929 Bohemian Berlin as Germany slowly yields to the sinister emergence of the Third Reich.
• “Danstage 2022,” May 6-8 and 11-13, UWSP Studio Theatre
  A dance concert featuring new premieres by dance program faculty and guest artists.