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Learn the skills that will enrich your future as an actor, director, playwright, or backstage technician.
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A full range of classes and opportunities cater to students interested in technical theatre and stage management.
Prospective Students
Find out about our unique Theatre Program and the amazing opportunities it offers all students, regardless of major.
An IMMERSIVE OEDIPUIS NOT to be MISSED!
A curse, a riddle, a killing, an act of mercy, a plague: what happens when the source of all that ails your world turns out to be you yourself? Sophocles’ most profound and celebrated play, Oedipus—a shocking, suspenseful murder-mystery as much as a meditation on fate, guilt, and family—confronts us questions of responsibility, governance, free will and the blindness of power that are as current today as they were 2,500 years ago when this masterpiece of Western thought and art was written. In a new translation by poet, Robert Bagg, Jo Cattell’s immersive and site-specific production, in which the audience moves between spaces, and events happen simultaneously, promises to be an extraordinarily exciting and not-to-be-missed theatrical experience. Get your tickets today!
Have a talent? Win $1000! Be part of the UR's premiere talent context, URPerforming! Info here.
Interested in our One Act New Play Festival? Attend the Info Meeting!
Looking for a class? The Theatre Program offers courses for every interest and at every level! For a full list of offered courses, click here. Interested in knowing more about some classes we're spotlighting? Find out more!
Download our digital season brochure (pdf) or, for jpgs: Cover, Productions, Classes, Auditions, and More.
Want to know why you should be involved in Theatre? Because (as the NYTimes puts it): Theatre Kids Rule the World! Article here or here.
2024-25 Season Dates
- Oedipus (by Sophocles)September 26–October 5
- URPerforming!October 11–October 12
- Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (by Tom Stoppard)November 21–December 7
- 22nd One-Act New Play FestivalMarch 20–March 22
- Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812 (by Dave Malloy)April 17–April 26
Support YoUR Theatre
Gifts to the International Theatre Program help us to maintain and continue to build our program with the ambition, quality, and scope needed to make the program, its students and artists thrive.
Historic Todd Union!
Todd Union earns historic designation
The Georgian Revival Building, constructed in 1930, was a student center and the birthplace of the University of Rochester’s Gay Liberation Front. Discover more here.
