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Theatre and Dance

First Look Series 25-26

Just for the Campus Community!

Directed by Aldo Billingslea

Each quarter we will present a free staged reading in the Fess Parker Studio Theatre of plays under consideration for a future season. These showcases are designed to expand our curriculum, engage more voices, and give more people (actors and audiences alike) an opportunity to participate in the offerings of our season.

October 3 @ 7 PM
Text In the Blood by Suzan-Lori Parks in maroon on a pink background

In a 21st century version of the Scarlet Letter, in a society where the odds are stacked against a poor single mother, how can Hester get ahead with her five kids?


January 23 @ 7 PM
Text Shakespeare and the Zombie Plague of 1590 in black on a white background with a cartoon skull

Co-directed by Mitchell Ost

Queen Elizabeth has been kicking MacBeth’s butt on the battlefield so he enlists the witches to create for him a zombie army. Into this fray comes a young minstrel playwright named Shakespeare. Hijinks ensue.


April 13 @ 7 PM
Silhouette of a small Don Quixote tilting at a 21st Century windfarm

“The story of Don Quixote comes alive with a modern twist! In the fictional town of La Plancha, Texas, a brilliant professor battling dementia imagines himself as Cervantes’ titular hero. Enlisting his own Sancho, he embarks on a journey for his long-lost love — confronting border patrol drones rather than windmills” (Portland Center Stage).