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LU Theatre Arts 2026-2027 鈥 The 96th Season!
Fall Term
Come From Away
Book, Music and Lyrics by Irene Sankoff and David Hein
Kathy Privatt, Stage Director | Phillip A. Swan, Music Director | Mauriah Donegan Kraker, Choreographer
Stage Manager: Brigid Kroh
October 29, 30, 31 鈥 7:30 p.m.
October 31 鈥 2:30 p.m.
Stansbury Theatre
On September 11, 2001, 38 planes were diverted to the airstrip in Gander, Newfoundland. The people on those planes didn鈥檛 know why they鈥檇 been sent there, but they were worried, and hungry, and angry, and heartsick. Embracing these folks who 鈥渃ame from away,鈥 the town responded with food, shelter, comfort and resilience 鈥 forming a community of and for all of them.
Winter Term
The 8th Biennial Fred Gaines Student Playwrights Series
Timothy X. Troy, Series Artistic Director | Jacque Troy, Series Dramaturg
Jean Ngyuen: Production Stage Manager
Staged Productions: March 4, 5, 6 at 7:30PM
Staged Readings: March 6 at 2:30PM
Cloak Theatre
The map is not the territory. | Five world premieres of student written one-act plays.
Staged Productions:
- Better Art Thou, by Alice Miller
- Cold of Winter, by Merle Mayes
- Petrol Family, by Kennedy McKinney
Staged Readings:
- Under the Bed, There is a Man, by Noah Redmore
- Dream Lover, by Byrd Gilissen
Spring Term
Dancing at Lughnasa
by Brian Friel
Timothy X. Troy, director
Stage Manager: Byrd Gilissen
May 13-15 鈥 7:30 p.m.
May 15 鈥 2:30 p.m.
Stansbury Theatre
Dancing at Lughnasa by Brian Friel, winner of the Tony Award for Best Play in 1992, is a lyrical memory play set in 1930s rural Donegal, Ireland. It follows five unmarried Mundy sisters navigating poverty, repressed joy, and cultural change, as the return of their missionary brother and the ancient harvest festival of Lughnasa unravel their fragile world.