Performances & Events
Enjoy the Creativity of DU Theatre Students
Each quarter, the DU Department of Theatre puts on two productions, built and acted by our theatre majors. The department collaborates with professional guest artists who bring their outside expertise and experience to help students grow creatively.
Shows are performed at DU's JMAC Studios, Byron Flexible Theatre and Byron Studio. Spring quarter is dedicated to the Short Play Festival, which features one-act plays directed by graduating theatre majors.
Current Season
January 18, 2025
Cry It Out, staged reading
by Molly Smith Metzler
A comedy with dark edges, Cry It Out takes an honest look at the absurdities of being home with a baby, the power of female friendship, the dilemma of going back to work, and the effect class has on parenthood in America.
Directed by Lauryn Zepeda
This is a free show. No ticket required.
- 7:30pm
- Williams Recital Salon
February 1, 2025
Wicked Bitter Beasts, staged reading by Kira Rockwell
Estranged from her pastoral family, Zoey is a prodigal daughter on the run from her Evangelical past and the Hellmouth she must fight her way through. An unruly parable that reverberates through time, space, and realms, beckoning you to face the wicked bitter beast(s) in your own life, especially the one looking back in the mirror.
Directed by Aspen McCart
This is a free show. No ticket required.
- 7:30pm
- Hamilton Hall
February 13 – 16, 2025
The Moors
by Jen Silverman
A hopeful governess arrives at a remote mansion on the English Moors after exchanging romantic correspondence with the compelling Mr. Branwell. But when she enters, the only residents appear to be Branwell's two spinster sisters, a maid (or is it two maids?), and a despondent dog. No man to be found, nor child to be cared for. A wild story which simultaneously embraces and satirizes the Gothic lit genre, honors the enduring legacy of the Bronte Sisters, feels contemporary and historic all at once, and most important, explores the terrifying human desire to be intimately seen and known.
Directed by Anne Penner
- Byron Theatre
March 6 – 9, 2025
Great Expectations
Written Charles Dickens
Adapted by Gale Childs Daly
Pip, an orphan boy, has a life-changing encounter one day which starts him on a journey to adulthood full of adventure, excitement, humor, horror, obsession, and passion. It's a bittersweet story of ambition and becoming... falsehoods and misperceptions... devotion and heartbreak... loyalty and forgiveness... surprises and epiphanies... loss and redemption... and of learning what it takes to come of age in a world far more complicated than imagined.
Directed by Rick Barbour
- Byron Theatre
Audition and Apply
No audition is required to declare a theatre major, but students can apply for departmental scholarships by auditioning or submitting a portfolio for review.
