Making the Way
BY Willamette University Dance Theatre
- ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Virginia Belt
- PREVIEW Nov. 20, 7:30 p.m.
- OPENING NIGHT Nov. 21, 7:30 p.m.; Gala reception to follow
- RUNS Nov. 22–23, 7:30 p.m.; Sunday matinee, Nov. 23, 2 p.m.
Willamette University faculty and students choreograph works exploring diverse dance and music styles, incorporating theatrical elements of design, acting and narrative.
Beauty Queen of Leenane
BY Martin McDonagh
- DIRECTED BY Susan Coromel
- PREVIEW Feb. 19, 7:30 p.m.
- OPENING NIGHT Feb. 20, 7:30 p.m.; Gala reception to follow
- RUNS Feb. 21–March 7
- Thursday–Saturday, 7:30 p.m.; Sunday matinees, 2 p.m.
This dark, offbeat comedy takes place in a small house on a big hill in County Galway, Ireland, where the Folan women live out an uneasy truce. Forty-year-old Maureen and her elderly but iron-willed mother, Mag, spend their days in endless rounds of petty insults and physical threats as each maneuvers for control of their isolated existence. But when an old family friend reappears and offers Maureen a chance at love and a new life, this once-benign terrain grows treacherous, and the two women, bound by blood but driven by desperation, will do anything to survive.
Woyzeck
BY Georg Büchner
- DIRECTED BY Jonathan Cole
- PREVIEW April 16, 7:30 p.m.
- OPENING NIGHT April 17, 7:30 p.m.; Gala reception to follow
- RUNS April 18–May 2
- Thursday–Saturday, 7:30 p.m.; Sunday matinees, 2 p.m.
- Special Saturday matinee, May 2, 2 p.m.
Franz Woyzeck is an impoverished soldier in a small town. Bullied by his captain and subjected to bizarre medical experimentation by an army doctor, Woyzeck’s nerves are already strained when he begins to suspect that his common-law wife, Marie, is having an affair with a drum major. Through a series of vignettes, the play charts Woyzeck’s increasing distrust and anger until, overcome with jealousy and despair, he is driven to destroy the only thing he has ever loved.
Twelfth Night
BY William Shakespeare
- DIRECTED BY Michael Brusasco
- With guest actor Brent T. Barnes as Malvolio
- PREVIEW October 16, 7:30 p.m.
- OPENING NIGHT October 17, 7:30 p.m.; Gala reception to follow
- RUNS October 18–November 1
- Thursday–Saturday, 7:30 p.m.; Sunday matinees, 2 p.m.
- Special Saturday matinee, November 1, 2 p.m.