Productions

Oedipus

By Sophocles (adapted by Jo Cattell from a new translation by Robert Bagg)

September 26–October 5, 2024

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 not-to-be-missed theatrical experience.

SEATING/TICKETS are extremely LIMITED for this production, so PLEASE BOOK EARLY!

URPerforming! (20th edition) - CANCELLED

October 10–11, 2024

Please Note:  This season's iteratin of URPerforming! has been cancelled!

Celebrate extraordinary performers from all disciplines in this UR’s Got Talent-format evening of student artists. $1,000 worth of prizes, celebrity judges, and more!

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead

By Tom Stoppard

November 21–December 7, 2024

Tom Stoppard’s magnificent modern classic, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, transforms two minor characters in Shakespeare’s Hamlet into unlikely heroes of a drama not of their own making, but one in which their fate must be fulfilled.  Hilarious and witty, profound and moving, slapstick and philosophical, Stoppard’s beloved masterpiece speaks to all our lives as its hapless and hilarious protagonists wrestle with meaning, destiny, and a self-determination that seems to lie forever beyond their control.

22nd Annual One-Act New Play Festival

March 20–22, 2025

Short student-written, directed, designed, and acted plays by budding young playwrights and directors!

Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812

By Dave Malloy

April 17–25, 2025

Dave Malloy’s multi-award-winning electropop musical, Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812, brings Leo Tolstoy’s monumental novel, War and Peace, to life.  With a ravishing score that crosses all genres, this cult musical’s unforgettable characters wrestle with love, infidelity, and picking up the pieces of lives they fear they might have wasted.  Filled with joy, dancing, heartbreak, and humor, Natasha’s ill-fated love for the roguish Anatole, and Pierre’s search for meaning in a world at war, will touch your heart and make your soul sing.