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The department of Theatre & Dance's production season typically consists of three faculty-directed plays and one faculty-choreographed dance concert in Johnson Theatre, three or four student works in the Studio Theatre, the student-directed Winthrop One-Act Play Festival annually, and the student-choreographed Senior Choreography Showcase.

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High School students, students at other universities and senior citizens (65+) should inquire at the box office about special prices.  

For reservations, call the theatre and dance box office at 803/323-4014 or e-mail boxoffice@winthrop.edu.

The Box Office is open one hour before curtain and 11 a.m.- 2 p.m. (M-F) throughout the week when each production is running.


2023-2024 Season Productions


      By Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
      Wednesday, October 4 through Saturday, October 7 at 7:30 p.m.
      Sunday, October 8 at 2 p.m.
      Tickets:  Wednesday and Thursday $5 with Winthrop ID/$10 general public
      Friday through Sunday $8 with Winthrop ID/$15 general public
      Johnson Studio Theatre, Johnson Hall

      This modern riff on the 15th Century morality play Everyman follows Everybody (chosen from amongst the cast by lottery at each performance) as they travel down a road toward life's greatest mystery. 

      By Jonathan Larson
      Wednesday, October 25 through Saturday, October 28 at 7:30 p.m.
      Sunday, October 29 at 2 p.m.
      Special Outreach performance Friday, October 27 at 10 a.m.
      Tickets:  $10 with Winthrop ID/$15 general public
      Johnson Theatre, Johnson Hall

      La Vie Boheme! Jonathan Larson's iconic Pulitzer Prize-winning musical that shaped a generation of audiences and taught us all to measure our life in love.  Based loosely on Puccini's La Boheme, Rent follows a year in the life of a group of impoverished young artists and musicians struggling to survive and create in New York's Lower East Side, under the shadow of HIV/Aids.
      This production contains mature content and may not be suitable for children. 

     

      Friday, November 17 and Saturday, November 18 at 7:30 p.m.
      Saturday, November 18 and Sunday, November 19 at 2 p.m.
      Tickets:  $5 with Winthrop ID/$10 general public
      Johnson Studio Theatre, Johnson Hall

      A lively, entertaining and eclectic mix of one-act plays directed by advanced theatre students.
      This production contains mature content/language and may not be suitable for children.  

      Thursday, November 30 through Saturday, December 2 at 7:30 p.m.
      Sunday, December 3 at 2 p.m.
      Special Outreach performance Friday, December 1 at 10 a.m. 
      Tickets:  $5 with Winthrop ID/$10 general public
      Johnson Theatre, Johnson Hall 

      A full evening of works choreographed by faculty, guest artists and advanced students, featuring a variety of dance genres.  

      An Experimental Devised Piece
      Student created by Ami Hughey
      Wednesday, February 14 through Saturday, February 17 at 7:30 p.m.
      Sunday, February 18 at 2 p.m.
      Tickets: Wednesday and Thursday $5 with Winthrop ID/$10 general public
      Friday through Sunday $8 with Winthrop ID/$15 general public
      Johnson Studio Theatre, Johnson Hall

      The story takes the audience through the slings and arrows of what it means to create theatre, bringing them into an entire spectrum of emotional atmospheres.  As the characters learn to deal with the idea of emotions, they trek through a tumultous journey surrounding the central question: "What does it mean to exist?" 
      Contains mature language and content

      By Michael Frayn
      Wednesday, February 21 through Saturday, February 24 at 7:30 p.m.
      Sunday,  February 25 at 2 p.m.
      Special Outreach performance Friday, February 23 at 10 a.m.
      Tickets: $10 with Winthrop ID/$15 general public
      Johnson Theatre, Johnson Hall

      Conceived when English playwright Michael Frayn was watching a performance from the wings, he said, "It was funnier from behind than in front, and I thought that one day I must write a farce from behind." In this rip-roaring classic, the audience is treated to a hilarious behind-the-scenes peek at an acting troupe rehearsing and performing the farce Nothing On. Despite nerves, dropped lines and technical difficulties, they make it through rehearsal and open the show. As time goes by, things deteriorate until pandemonium ensues and axe-wielding co-stars, drunken cast members and misplaced sardines take center stage during a disaster of a performance that threatens to jinx the old saying, "The show must go on." This play within a play was meta before meta was meta.
       

      By William Shakespeare 
      Thursday, March 28 through Saturday, March 30 at 7:30 p.m.
      Tickets: $10 with Winthrop ID/$15 general public
      Johnson Studio Theatre, Johnson Hall

      From historic feud to ill-fated union, Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet finds new significance in Winthrop's intimate Studio Theatre. Verona is sick. Its structures broken and its citizens in a state of desperation. When a system favours the few, the many are left with nothing but unhealthy choices.  Admist the violence, bloodshed, fear and unrest, two teenagers find unexpected relief in each other.  But will love be enough to save them from Society's sickness? 

      By William Shakespeare 
      Wednesday, April 3 through Saturday, April 6 at 7:30 p.m.
      Sunday, April 7 at 2 p.m.
      Special Outreach performance Friday, March 29 at 10 a.m.
      Tickets: $10 with Winthrop ID/$15 general public
      Johnson Studio Theatre, Johnson Hall

      From historic feud to ill-fated union, Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet finds new significance in Winthrop's intimate Studio Theatre. Verona is sick. Its structures broken and its citizens in a state of desperation. When a system favours the few, the many are left with nothing but unhealthy choices.  Admist the violence, bloodshed, fear and unrest, two teenagers find unexpected relief in each other.  But will love be enough to save them from Society's sickness? 

      Friday, April 12 through Saturday, April 13 at 7:30 p.m.
      Sunday, April 14 at 2 p.m.
      Tickets: $5 with Winthrop ID/$10 general public
      A full evening of works choreographed by faculty, guest artists and advanced students, featuring a variety of dance genres.  

      Musical Theatre Workshop
      Wednesday April 17 through Saturday, April 20 at 7:30 p.m.
      Sunday, April 21 at 2 p.m.
      Tickets:  $5 with Winthrop ID/$10 general public
      Johnson Studio Theatre, Johnson Hall


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past productions

      No Exit   (1158 KB)
      The Addams Family  (1176 KB)
      Love Song (2458 KB) 
      Winthrop Dance Theatre (1128 KB)
      Fall One-Act Festival Group A (669 KB)
      Fall One-Act Festival Group B (669 KB)
      Senior Choreography Showcase (1307 KB)
      For Colored Girls who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf (2273 KB)
      A Midsummer Night's Dream
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      Emotional Creature  (CANCELLED DUE TO COVID-19)
      Blithe Spirit  (CANCELLED DUE TO COVID-19)
      Spring One-Act Festival  (CANCELLED DUE TO COVID-19)
      Student Choreography Showcase (CANCELLED DUE TO COVID-19)

      The Book of Liz 
      Jungalbook 
      Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992 
      Winthrop Dance Theatre 
      Senior Dance Showcase
      Fall One-Act Play Festival 
      Travels With My Aunt 
      Cyrano de Bergerac 
      South Carolina Dance Festival 
      Boston Marriage 
      Much Ado About Nothing 
      Spring One-Act Festival
      Student Choreography Showcase

      Vanities
      Blithe Spirit
      Wake
      Winthrop Dance Theatre '04
      Senior Dance Showcase '04
      Fall One-Act Play Festival
      The Vast Difference
      Kiss Me Kate
      Topdog/Underdog
      Reckless
      Spring One-Act Play Festival
      Choreography Showcase

      Feeding the Moonfish 
      Desdemona: A Play about a Handkerchief 
      Twelfth Night 
      Miss Julie 
      Winthrop Dance Theatre '03 
      Senior Dance Showcase '03 
      Fall One-Act Play Festival 
      What the Butler Saw 
      A Lie of the Mind 
      American Buffalo 
      The House of Bernarda Alba 
      Spring One-Act Play Festival
      Choreography Showcase

      *Dept of Theatre 50th Anniversary Season

      Extremities
      Benedictions
      The Yellow Boat
      Winthrop Dance Theatre
      Senior Dance Showcase
      Fall One-Acts
      Suburbia
      A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
      Anton in Show Business
      Tartuffe
      Spring One-Acts
      Choreography Showcase

      Learning to Ride a Bicycle
      The Madwoman of Chaillot 
      The Trial of Goldilocks
      Winthrop Dance Theatre
      Senior Dance Showcase 
      Fall One-Acts
      For the Love of Broadway
      A Piece of My Heart
      Day of Absence
      It Had to be You
      Our Town
      Spring One-Acts
      Choreography Showcase

      The Destruction of Two Men in Two Axe
      The Lion in Winter
      The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
      Agamemnon
      Winthrop Dance Theatre
      Senior Dance Showcase
      Fall One-Acts
      Old Times
      Hamlet
      The Death of the Last Black Man in the Whole Entire World
      Noises Off
      Choreography Showcase
      Spring One-Acts
      Rhythm Quest
      Dance Theatre

      The Cherry Orchard
      Roses for Roy Lee
      Dance Theatre
      One-Act Play Festival
      Come Back to the Five and Dime Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean
      Machinal
      The Boys Next Door
      Rhythm Quest
      Choreography Showcase

      Six Characters in Search of An Author
      We Won't Pay! We Won't Pay!
      Antigone
      The Serpent
      The Tempest

      Catfish Moon
      A Dream Play
      The Way Of The World 
      Getting Out
      Into The Woods
      Inez de Castro
        

      As You Like It
      Oleanna
      The Rimers of Eldritch
      Kelly and Du
      Equus

       The Fantasticks
      My Children! My Africa!
      The Sea
      The Trojan Women
      Scapino! 

      A Touch of the Poet
      On the Open Road
      A Flea in Her Ear
      'night Mother
      A Midsummer Night's Dream

      Picnic
      The Baltimore Waltz 
      The Love of the Nightingale
      A Lesson from Aloes
      The Lady's Not for Burning
      Brigadoon

     

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Daniel Gordon

Daniel Gordon

Department Chair; Professor of Theatre

Office: 115 Johnson
Phone: 803/323-4938
E-mail: gordond@winthrop.edu