Theatre Productions

Theatre Productions

The Department of Theatre fills the academic calendar with five main stage productions and several Second Stage productions each year. All of our students, regardless of major or class year, are invited to audition or to serve in a technical capacity.

From day one, our students work closely with faculty in practical production positions. Even first-year students can work as assistant designers and assistant stage managers for main stage productions, and experienced students often serve as lighting or scenic designers, under faculty supervision.

2024-2025 Season

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Main Stage Season

The main stage season offers classic plays, historical drama and a popular musical production. 

Equus by Peter Shaffer
Dr. Martin Dysart, a psychiatrist, is confronted with Alan Strang, a boy who has blinded six horses in a violent fit of passion. This very passion is as foreign to Dysart as the act itself. To the boy’s parents, it is a hideous mystery; Alan has always adored horses. To Dysart, it is a psychological puzzle that leads both doctor and patient to a complex and disturbingly dramatic confrontation.

This international success reached new acclaim in London and on Broadway when revived in 2008. 
— Concord Licensing

Content warning: The Equus production contains nudity and acts of violence.

Jesus Christ Superstar by Tim Rice & Andrew Lloyd Webber
A thrilling rock opera based on the last week of Jesus’ life, Jesus Christ Superstar has wowed audiences for over 50 years. — Concord Licensing

One-Act Play Festival
A festival of one-act plays directed by senior theatre performance students

Blood Relations by Sharon Pollock
Pollock’s play coyly explores the whys and wherefores of the 1892 double murder of the Bordens in her psychological exploration of their daughter, the woman who was Lizzie Borden.

These Shining Lives by Melanie Marnich
These Shining Lives chronicles the strength and determination of women considered expendable in their day, exploring their true story and its continued resonance. Catherine and her friends are dying, it’s true; but theirs is a story of survival in its most transcendent sense, as they refuse to allow the company that stole their health to kill their spirits, or endanger the lives of those who come after them. — Dramatists Play Service

Second Stage Season

The second stage season features a collection of mostly student-generated productions focusing on bare-bones performances of challenging works in unconventional spaces.

24-Hour Play Festival
Student teams conceptualize, write, rehearse and perform exciting new short works in a single day.

In the Corner from the Main Stage by Mariia Lytvynchuk ’25
A staged reading of a new work by a Susquehanna University student playwright is featured during this performance.

A Night on Broadway CABARET
A night of student-directed and performed songs from Broadway musicals.

Measure for Measure by William Shakespeare
This annual audience favorite is an energetic, large-cast excursion into the work of the Bard, often characterized by whimsical staging and “found objects” design.

Past Production Seasons