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2024-2025<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

This year, the Department of Theatre presented “Old Stories, New Voices.” Each show in the 2024\/2025 season is a contemporary adaptation, a spinoff, or a modern reimagining of a world classic\u2014a play that has stood the test of time and brilliantly articulates universal themes that offer revelations, insights, and clarity to readers and theatregoers of any era. Each of the shows in the season will give a fresh take on these classic stories, and each of the four plays will be accompanied by a secondary event that explores the original source material and asks the question: What makes a story a classic? The season included <\/em>Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure<\/em>, Playboy of the Western World, Clybourne Park, and Antigone Now.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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2023-2024<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

This year, the Department of Theatre presented Legally Blonde The Musical<\/em>, with music and lyrics by Laurence O’Keefe and Nell Benjamin and book by Heather Hach,  a new musical by Visiting Professor Margarette Joyner, The New South Part 1: How We Got Here<\/em>, The Caligari Project <\/em>based on the landmark, German Expressionist film, “The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari,” and BBC’s Welcome to Our Village, Please Invade Carefully<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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2022-2023<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

This year, the Department of Theatre presented Melanie Marnich’s These Shining Lives, Annie Baker’s The Antipodes, <\/em>Lynn Nottage’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play Sweat, <\/em>and As You Like It<\/em> based roughly on Shakespeare’s “As You Like It”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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2021-2022<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

This year, the Department of Theatre presented Georgina Escobar’s Migrant X<\/em>, Gather \u2013 <\/em> a series of short plays by students and alumni, Charly Evon Simpson’s Jump, <\/em>and the musical Pippin<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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2019-2020<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

This year, the Department of Theatre presented Far Away<\/em>, Everybody, <\/em>and Detroit ’67.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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2018-2019<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

This year, the Department of Theatre presented a Circus Arts showcase, Archipelago<\/em>, Twelfth Night<\/em>, The Servant of Two Masters<\/em>, and Blues for an Alabama Sky.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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2017-2018<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

This year, the Department of Theatre presented Baltimore<\/em>, Women of Trachis<\/em>\u200b, The Long Christmas Ride Home<\/em>, and The Wiz.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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2016-2017<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

This year, the Department of Theatre presented The Aliens\u200b, She Kills Monsters<\/em>, The Children’s Hour<\/em>, and Trikster’s Tales.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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2015-2016<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

This year, the Department of Theatre presented The Plays of Constance Congdon<\/em>, The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark<\/em>, Hamletmachine<\/em>, and 36-in-6: A Celebration – As We Like It<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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2014-2015<\/h3>\n\n\n\n