Upcoming Productions
Dances We Dance: Fall Showcase
November 30 and December 1 | University Theatre, FAU Boca Raton
Dances We Dance is a capstone experience for students enrolled in all genres and levels of dance in the Department of Theatre and Dance. FAU students create dances, learn choreography, work collaboratively, exhibit technical skills, explore expressiveness and give thrilling performances of dance in a wide array of genres.
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Repertory Dance Theatre Ensemble
February 1–February 3 | University Theatre, FAU Boca Raton
An engaging program of diverse dance works by emerging and established artists. The dancers, classically trained, multi-generational and contemporary/modern focused, perform an array of dance genres with technical and artistic merits. The mixed-bill program includes solos, duets and dance for the camera.
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Equus
by Peter Shaffer
February 15–February 24 | Studio One Theatre, FAU Boca Raton
A suspenseful drama that tells the story of a psychiatrist who attempts to treat a young man convicted of blinding six horses.
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A musical adaptation of Aristophanes
Lysistrata
April 12–April 21 | Studio One Theatre, FAU Boca Raton
A story about an Athenian housewife who organizes a strike among Greek women urging them to refuse sex with their husbands until the men end the Peloponnesian War.
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Dances We Dance: Spring Showcase
April 26 and April 27 | University Theatre, FAU Boca Raton
Dances We Dance is a capstone experience for students enrolled in all genres and levels of dance in the Department of Theatre and Dance. FAU students create dances, learn choreography, work collaboratively, exhibit technical skills, explore expressiveness and give thrilling performances of dance in a wide array of genres.
1-800-564-9539 |
www.fauevents.com
Please notify the Department of Theatre and Dance at (561) 297-3810, five working days in advance of event, if special accommodation for a disability is needed.
All shows, artists, dates and times are subject to change. Please note there are no refunds or exchanges.
Past Productions
2012
Thérèse Raquin
by Neal Bell,
Adapted from the novel by Emile Zola
September 28–October 7 | Studio One Theatre, FAU Boca Raton
Psychological drama that tells the story of an unhappily married young woman who enters into a tragic affair with a friend of her selfish and overbearing aunt.
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FAU Repertory Dance Theatre Ensemble
University Theater, FAU Boca Raton
This program contains partial nudity
which may not be appropriate for all
audiences.
Wonder of the World
by David Lindsay-Abaire
Studio 1 Theatre, FAU Boca Raton
Unhappy Cass attempts to leave behind her deadly dull life and husband by fleeing to Niagara Falls. There she becomes entangled with various neurotics – a heartbroken tour-boat captain, a half-hearted would-be suicide nutcase, a pair of incompetent but heartless private eyes- all of whom, before the play is over, discover they are connected in a weird comical lattice of coincidence.
Les Liaisons Dangereuses
(Dangerous Liaisons)
by Christopher Hampton
Studio 1 Theatre, FAU Boca Raton
Set in France shortly before the French Revolution, this story revolves around the Marquise de Merteuil and the Vicomte de Valmont, two rivals who use sex as a weapon of humiliation and degradation, all the while enjoying their cruel games. The play reveals the excesses of power and the complexity of manipulation for sadistic pleasure.
Dances We Dance: Spring Concert
Showcasing works by students, faculty and guest choreographers.
Dances We Dance Tickets:
Adults, faculty, staff, students and alumni $10;
children under age 12 $5.
Showtune
A Jerry Herman Musical Revue
University Theatre, FAU Boca Raton
Showtune is a popular Off-Broadway musical revue celebrating the words and music of Broadway composer Jerry Herman. Songs featured in Showtune come from the Herman Broadway musicals: Milk and Honey (1961), Hello, Dolly! (1964), Mame (1966), Dear World (1969), Mack & Mabel (1974), The Grand Tour (1979), A Day in Hollywood/A Night in the Ukraine (1980) and La Cage aux Folles (1983).
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Love’s Labour’s Lost
by William Shakespeare
Studio One Theatre, FAU Boca Raton
William Shakespeare’s Love’s Labor’s Lost is considered his most intelligent and elevated comedy. In this upbeat and funny story, four young men resolve to give up wine, women and song. With the arrival of a princess from Paris and her entourage in Key West, however, each of the young men’s resolve is tested. While each tries to hide their infatuations from each other, in the end their trysts are too hard to keep quiet. The play ends as they are all revealed and join in a gigantic celebration and dance.
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Hits of the Swing Era
A Festival Rep Big Band Finale
University Theatre, FAU Boca Raton
FAU’s all-Florida College Jazz Band will close the summer season with an evening of hits from the 30s, 40s and 50s. Authentic music of Big Band sensations like Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Glenn Miller and Benny Goodman will fill the air. The greatest music of the Greatest Generation lives on for this special night.
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Summer and Smoke
by Tennessee Williams
Studio One Theatre
Theatre, FAU Boca Raton
A simple dramatic love story between two people with vastly divergent attitudes toward life.
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A Dissertation Theatre Documentary Project:
With Their Voices Raised
by Kate Morris
University Theatre, FAU Boca Raton
benefiting FAU Veteran OWLS Association
The documentary, With Their Voices Raised, was developed from the recorded testimonies of fifty-one Pearl Harbor and Hiroshima survivors. These narratives begin by describing the shock and horror felt on the respective days of December 7, 1941 and August 6, 1945 and end with a shared desire for a more peaceful future.
With Their Voices Raised seeks to build a bridge between theatre and history in order to further cultivate cross-cultural understanding. A talk-back discussion will be held following this performance.
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2011
FAU REPERTORY
Repertory Dance Theatre Ensemble
Main Stage, University Theatre
On the Boca Raton Campus
ANTON IN SHOW BUSINESS
~ By Jane Martin
A comedy about what goes on behind the stage in a world of theatre. The play tells the story of three struggling actresses and an ill-fated production of Anton Chekhov's The Three Sisters in San Antonio, Texas
Main Stage, Studio One Theatre
On the Boca Raton Campus
DUCK HUNTER SHOOTS ANGEL
~ By Mitch Albom
Comedy about two Alabama duck-hunting brothers who think they accidentally shot down an angel. Themes of race, north vs. south and redemption are all explored.
Main Stage, Studio One Theatre
On the Boca Raton Campus
DANCES WE DANCE
Spring Performance Showcase
General Admission, University Theatre
On the Boca Raton Campus
"Hooray for Hollywood"
by Bruce Linser
University Theater- Boca Raton Campus
"The 1940's Radio Hour"
by Walton Jones
University Theater- Boca Raton Campus
"Hooray for Hollywood"
by Bruce Linser
Mos'Art Theater
Widows by Ariel Dorfman
Studio 1 Theatre, FAU Boca Raton
Women of a small village in South America await the return of their husbands, sons and fathers from war. With news that many of the men have died, the women begin to claim the bodies of men hat have washed ashore onto the riverbanks of the village. The ensuing tension with local police produces startling results.
Dances We Dance:
Celebrating the Holidays
University Theater, FAU Boca Raton
A celebration of the holiday season (Thanksgiving, Kwanzaa, Hanukkah, Christmas, the Winter Solstice and the New Year) as envisioned by students, faculty and guest choreographers.
CONTACT INFORMATION
1-800-564-9539 |
www.fauevents.com
Please notify the Department of Theatre and Dance at (561) 297-3810, five working days in advance of event, if special accommodation for a disability is needed.
