Productions & Events

Big Love

By Charles L. Mee

October 8–17, 2026

Fifty brides flee their fifty grooms (who are also their cousins!) and seek refuge at a villa on the coast of Italy.  Pursued by the jilted lovers, 49 of the brides kill 49 of the grooms.  One bride falls in love.  (Statistically, that sounds about right!)  Blending myth, comedy, and brutality, the play takes Aeschylus’s, The Suppliants, and a myriad of Mee’s own interpolations, borrowed text, and other ideas and brings one of the earliest surviving dramas of the Western World, kicking and screaming, into our own time.  Exploring freedom, desire, and the costs of resisting tradition, Big Love will knock your socks off and the bouquet right out of your hand!

Becoming Curious

By Kali Quinn

November 13–15, 2026

What does a buffalo calf wandering the world in the late 1800's have to teach our species in this moment. Through violin loop-pedal songs, movement, shadow puppetry, and her own footage from throughout Turtle Island & the US/Mexico border, UR International Theatre Program Alumnus, Kali Quinn, creates a courageous space for us to wander forward compassionately together. They invite you to come as you are, with the hope that you will leave a little lighter and with a new tune in your heart.  This production is made possible by the Schwartz Fund for the Performing Arts and the Institute for the Performing Arts.

24th Annual One-Act New Play Festival

By Students!

December 12–13, 2026

Short student-written, directed, and acted plays by budding young playwrights and directors! This year's festival will again be a reading series.

ALL TICKETS ARE FREE and only available 1 hour before curtain at the Todd Theatre box office.

The Secretary

By Kyle John Schmidt

February 25–March 6, 2027

An offbeat comedy about safety, love, and guns in a world that's up in arms.​  Ruby runs a small-town gun company that aims to protect women by helping them protect themselves. With products like The Bridesmaid, The Babysitter and The Mallwalker, each of the company's guns is named after a woman who used a gun and saved a life—more often than not, her own.  When an elderly secretary at the local high school confronts a threat in her office, Ruby names her latest gun after the reluctant hero: The Secretary. But as production begins on The Secretary, guns start going off all around town—and no one’s pulling the trigger.  Kyle John Schmidt's contemporary comedy speaks directly to America's obsession with firearms and the NRA's idea that "guns don't kill people; people kill people." A sharp, prescient, and drop-dead funny (you had to go there, didn't you?!) contemporary comedy!

T.I.M.E. (Time, Identity, Memory & the End of History Illusion)

By Nigel Maister (in collaboration with students and community members)

April 22–May 1, 2027

You'll never be as young as you are right now. Or will you? Time, and how we perceive, experience, and engage with it determines how we think about who we are and what we are.  If age is "just a number," how old are we?  And how do memories shape our sense of self, our futures and our pasts?  Basing its text on real interviews conducted with young children, octogenarians, and people on the brink of adulthood, this newly devised theatrical work, T.I.M.E. (Time, Identity, Memory & the End of History Illusion), explores how we see ourselves and examines that most slippery and elusive of concepts: age.  Developed under the UR International Theatre Program's New Voice Initiative with additional support from the Institute for the Performing Arts's Schwartz Fund for the Performing Arts.  World premiere!