Current Season
This season you’ll enjoy dramatically different dramas, hit musicals, Shakespeare and more. We are grateful for your continued support of NWU Theatre!
In close families, no emotion runs deeper than love—except maybe for hate. Passions young and old, hot and cold, clash in the greatest tragic love story ever told.
Fearless telephone operators in World War I played an essential role in wartime communications. They were also overlooked heroes in the fight for gender equity. Rediscover their stories in this new musical about joy in service, love in humanity and growth in society.
If laughter is the best medicine, Neil Simon prescribes us a powerful dose of Chekhov. This play’s writer/narrator deals with his writer’s block by hopping from story to story in Chekhov’s colorful medicine cabinet.
Student-directed spotlight.
The snowed-in setting of this countryside guesthouse could’ve been the stuff of Christmas carols. But this is Agatha Christie we’re talking about, and there’s a killer on the loose. This spine-tingling whodunnit has run for a record-setting 70 years and counting in London.
A Midwestern school district doesn’t want the spectacle of a school dance open to same-sex dates. So they cancel the prom. Spectacle arrives anyway in the form of some fading Broadway stars hungry for a publicity bump as they advocate for inclusive student participation. Who will have the last dance?