Resources for Community & Visitors
The DU campus is a hub of scholarship, creativity and activity in the Denver area. We invite visitors to participate in our vibrant community. Join us for theatre performances and explore other events and activities held on our campus.
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
- Williams Recital Salon
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
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Newman Center for the Performing Arts
The Newman Center holds many of the Department of Theatre's theatrical performances.
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J-Mac is home to the White Box and Black Box theatres, two intimate spaces which are also used for departmental productions.
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