A new season of UNCG School of Theatre productions is almost here. Over the 2019-2020 school year, there will be a great selection of plays and musicals at the Taylor and Sprinkle theatres.
In addition to individual tickets, a full season pass is available for $100. And, a six-show pass for current and retired UNCG Faculty/Staff is available for only $60.
The shows in the next theater season will be:
- Pippin: Pippin, heir to the Frankish throne, searches for the secret to true fulfillment in battle, romance, and politics, before discovering it lies not in extraordinary quests, but in the simple moments of the everyday. Dates: Sept. 27-29 and Oct. 2-5. Sign Interpreted Performance: Oct. 4
- The Wolves: A girl’s soccer team navigates adolescence, interpersonal conflict, and tragedy through conversations over the curse of pre-game warmups, in this award-winning play. Dates: Oct. 24-27.
- The Normal Heart: A searing drama about one man’s lonely fight against public and private indifference to the AIDS crisis of the mid-80s. Dates: Nov. 7-10.
- Roald Dahl’s The Witches: An adaptation of the classic children’s book, about a boy and his grandmother who must fight a cadre of evil witches. Dates: Nov. 16-17 and 19-23. Sign Interpreted Performance: Nov. 23
- The Tempest: One of Shakespeare’s most iconic plays, The Tempest concerns the exiled magician Prospero, who draws a group of his enemies to his isolated island. Dates: Feb. 14-16 and 19-22. Sign Interpreted Performance: Feb. 21
- Tales of the Arabian Nights: A new adaptation of the “Arabian Nights” stories, also known as “The Thousand and One Nights,” which brings folk tales of the Islamic Golden Age to children’s theater. Dates: Mar. 10-15.
- Flyin’ West: Flyin’ West is the story of a group of African American woman who settle in an all-black frontier town in 1898, and the personal and interpersonal struggles they grapple with. Dates: Mar. 27-29 and Apr. 1-4.
- Urinetown: The Musical: A satirical comedy about a town where, due to a water shortage, the public have to pay to use toilets, and the group of rebels who fight against the social order. Dates: Apr. 17-19 and 22-25. Sign Interpreted Performance: April 24.
For more information, and to purchase tickets, see the website here.
Copy from UNCG School of Theatre
Edited by Avery Campbell
