A division of the University of Connecticut's School
of Fine Arts, the department offers comprehensive and challenging
academic programs and training experiences which prepare students
for professional careers in the theatre and related entertainment
fields including television, film, and video.
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Join us this Summer for a Season of Great Summer Theatre including Wheel of Fortune's Pat Sajak as Felix Unger in The Odd Couple and Broadway legend Terrence Mann returning from his triumphant performance as Henry Higgins last summer to play Don Quixote in Man of La Mancha. Seats for The Odd Couple will likely sell out fast, so the best way to ensure a great seat is to get your subscription!
The stars of last summer's mega-hit My Fair Lady return to star in one of the all-time great musicals, Man of La Mancha. Broadway legend and last season's Henry Higgins, Terrence Mann will return to play Miguel de Cervantes who, at the height of the Spanish Inquisition, is imprisoned and uses the story of the knight-errant Don Quixote to defend himself The story features unforgettable characters such as Sancho Panza, played by UConn alum and last year's Alfred Doolittle, Richard Ruiz and Aldonza played by last season's dazzling Eliza, Alix Paige. With its beautiful Latin-tinged score, the original production of Man of La Mancha ran for six years on Broadway, won the Tony for Best Musical and gave us the indelible anthem of hope, "The Impossible Dream."
When you combine the comic genius of Neil Simon's fictional friendship in The Odd Couple with the extraordinary real life friendship of veteran news anchor Joe Moore and Wheel of Fortune host Pat Sajak, you are guaranteed a hysterical production that will also touch your heart. Friends since their tour of duty in Vietnam, Moore and Sajak will join forces as the desperately mismatched roommates—one sloppy and one neat—who find themselves sharing a not-so-swinging bachelor pad after their marriages break up. Their hilarious battle of wills leads to sheer mayhem for them... and classic laugh-out-loud comedy for us!
Directed by Broadway's Terrence Mann, this pinnacle of musical ridiculousness is as in CRT's My Fair Lady wacky, irreverent and as entertaining today as it was when it first opened in 1879. It is the story of Frederic who was, as a child, apprenticed to a band of orphaned pirates by his nurse—who, being hard of hearing, had mistaken her master's instructions to apprentice the boy to a pilot. By the end, the tenderhearted pirates, a modern Major General—played by last season's audience favorite Steve Hayes (Horton in Seussical), the Major General's bevy of beautiful but unwed daughters, and the timid tap dancing Constabulary all contribute to a comic cacophony that can be silenced only by invoking Queen Victoria's name. Join us for the goofy glory of Gilbert and Sullivan at its hilarious swashbuckling best! |
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The Department of Dramatic Arts and its theatre
production arm, the Connecticut Repertory Theatre (CRT), combine
to create an exciting center for excellence in the dramatic
arts. Each year young theatre artists from across the United
States choose to pursue education, training, and production
experience through undergraduate and graduate study in the
Department of Dramatic Arts and CRT. The goal of the department
is twofold. First, it aims to provide the finest possible
professional training through classroom and studio instruction.
Second, it aims to supplement and enrich that classroom and
studio training by providing maximal opportunities for students
to obtain professional level production experience through
active participation in plays produced by the Connecticut
Repertory Theatre.
Connecticut Repertory Theatre (CRT) is the production organization of the Department
of Dramatic Arts. Through CRT, the Department produces a subscription
series of plays and musicals during the academic year, as
well as a separate series of plays during the summer. In mounting
and producing plays, CRT operates in a manner that is essentially
identical to a typical regional repertory theatre and it does
so with similar artistic aspirations. In fact, CRT seeks to
maintain active, working associations with regional repertory
theatres whereby co-sponsored productions may originate at
CRT and tour to the co-producing professional theatres. The
CRT's contract with the Actor's Equity Association
permits our acting majors, both graduate and undergraduate,
to participate in the Equity Candidacy Program through which
many of them are eligible for union membership upon their
graduation.
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