2021-2022

Date: September 30-October 3

Location: Wilner Auditorium

Directed by: Amy Baker Schwiethale

Description: A musical celebration of legacy and light. Join us for an evening of Musical Theatre scenes and songs that celebrate the WSU Musical Theatre Program and the joy of storytelling.

Date: October 22

Location: Wilner Auditorium

Description: Join us to celebrate the culminating capstone projects of Musical Theatre seniors graduating in December.  

This show is free for everyone.

Date: November 18-21

Location: Wilner Auditorium

Directed by: Paula Makar

Description: In Shakespeare’s delightful and lighthearted comedy Love’s Labour’s Lost, the King of Navarre and his three companions commit to a life of study and self-improvement for three years. To help them keep their oath, the King demands that all women must remain at least a mile from the court. As the King and his men are settling down to a life of study, the Princess of France and her three ladies-in-waiting arrive. The women are forced to camp a mile away. But it isn't long before the King and his men find themselves falling for the charms of the ladies, and their carefully laid plans are soon abandoned. What follows leads us to a somewhat clever and unexpected ending!

Date: December 3-5

Location: Online

Description: The Wichita State Dance Program has created a new format for the annual Kansas Dance Festival—The Kansas Screendance Festival. In response to the global pandemic, the dance program found a new format to express emotion and capture the creative spirit of dance. Choreographers from the Midwest will share their digital dance works on Dec. 3-5.  

Wichita State will present Brave New World/Re-imagined for Film - an experimental work of dance and physical theatre inspired by the book by Aldous Huxley. The work examines the effects of a conformist society when confronted by the behavior of outcast individualists. 

Date: February 24-26

Location: Wilner Auditorium

Description: Dance returns to the stage with an eclectic evening of dance. The Wichita Contemporary Dance Theatre Spring Concert will be a repertory dance concert featuring the faculty works of Denise Celestin, Cheyla Clawson Chandler, Nick Johnson, Sabrina Vasquez and guest artists.

Date: March 11 @ 7pm

Location: Wilner Auditorium

Description: Help us celebrate the culminating capstone projects of Musical Theatre seniors graduating in May. 

$5.00 suggested donation at the door

Date: March 31 & April 1 (updated date) @ 7 pm

Location: Litwin Theatre, Heskett Center

Description: Mid-America Dance Theatre presents a student showcase of choreography, creativity and love of performance!  

A suggested donation of $5 at the door.

A colaborative production between the School of Music and the School of Performing Arts.

Date: April 8-9 @ 7 pm

Location: Miller Concert Hall, DFAC

Directed by: Alan Held

Description: Based on Nathaniel Hawthorne’s cautionary tale of puritanical patriarchy, this American opera by Lori Laitman had its professional premiere at Opera Colorado in 2016. Laitman is considered one of the most prolific and fluent song and opera composers of our time.

Date: April 14 @ 6 pm

Location: Litwin Theatre, Heskett Center

Description: Senior dance students will present their culminating capstone projects in the Litwin Theatre, Heskett Center.

A suggested donation of $5 at the door.

Winner of the 2021 Bela Kiralyfalvi National Student Playwriting Competition

Date: April 21-23 @ 7:30 pm

Location: Welsbacher Theatre

Description: In 1951 Hollywood, at the height of the second Red Scare, a group of friends grapple with the fear and anxiety that sets in when your entire livelihood could be snatched away at any moment. When noted screenwriter Eliza Everett is called before the House on Un-American Committee to testify, her response to questioning sends shockwaves through the industry, including the people closest to her. As she negotiates how to move forward, she must decide what’s most important – her career or her family.

Description: A timid filmmaking student must navigate the chaotic pathway to completing her senior film for school.

Stagestruck Audio Theatre's 5-episode audio show

Episodes dropped throughout the year on Apple Podcasts & Podomatic

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Directed by: 

Description: A covert group of dysfunctional American spies discover an organization bent on anarchy.