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What are your production opportunities at U-M Theatre?
The Theatre Department presents five fully-mounted mainstage productions each year, with casts comprised of acting majors and, occasionally, faculty actors. These plays are directed and designed by faculty, guest directors and designers.
Recent productions have included: The Burial at Thebes, The Gold Diggers, Romeo and Juliet, The Laramie Project, A Flea in Her Ear, Hot L Baltimore, In Arabia We'd All Be Kings, The Rover. Others include: I Am a Man and The Resurrection of Lady Lester by OyamO, an internationally-renowned playwright and Associate Professor with the Theatre & Drama Department.
The department also presents a number of studio productions throughout the year, featuring the work of acting and movement classes as well as fully developed plays.
Basement Arts
Theatre students produce a variety of plays each year through their own Basement Arts company. Students select the plays which they direct, design and perform. These performances, shown in the Arena Theatre, are free and open to the public.
Musical Theatre, Dance and Opera
Theatre students also crew for the School of Music, Theatre & Dance Opera, Musical Theatre and Dance productions, which are sometimes designed by Design & Production majors. Theatre majors also have the opportunity to take a musical theatre cabaret class and perform in a small studio performance.
Other University of Michigan Productions
Theatre students also direct, design and perform in plays produced by various university groups such as the Gilbert and Sullivan Society, MUSKET, the Residential College Harlotry Players, Soph Show and others.
Michigan Shakespeare Festival
The Michigan Shakespeare Festival attracts audiences from all over the midwest. Each summer, U-M Theatre students perform on stage or work as production crew under the eye of Artistic Director John Neville-Andrews (U-M Associate Professor of Theatre). The Festival is located in Jackson, Michigan--35 miles west of Ann Arbor. Theatre majors have participated in Twelfth Night, Hamlet, The Taming of the Shrew, Romeo and Juliet, A Midsummer Night's Dream, As You Like It, The Comedy of Errors, and Othello.
Local Theatres
A number of our faculty and students work with two local Equity theatres, the Performance Network and the Purple Rose Theater, founded by actor Jeff Daniels, as well as a number of traditional and non-traditional theatre companies in the area.
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