Events
Spring 2025
Spring Dance Concert
Three nights: Wednesday April 30th, Thursday May 1st and Saturday May 3rd, 2025 (no performance Friday May 2nd). Free and open to the public; please reserve tickets here: https://bowdointickets.universitytickets.com/
Photo by Michele Stapleton; dancer: Maya Le '25
Previous shows - academic year 2024-25:
mint frappe
Mira Pickus ’25 performs her one-woman show mint frappe on April 17th and 18th at 7:30 p.m. in Wish Theater. Get your free tickets at https://bowdointickets.universitytickets.com/
Supported by the Ray Rutan Fund for the Performing Arts.
The Woman
Written and directed by Oceana Hangret '25.
April 10-11, 2025 - 7:30 p.m. at Wish Theater/Memorial Hall. Free tickets available at https://bowdointickets.universitytickets.com/
Supported by the Ray Rutan Fund for the Performing Arts.
Men On Boats
February 27 - March 1, 2025 / 7:30 p.m. / Wish Theater, Memorial Hall
More information and photos from the show are found under our "Recent Productions" page.
By Jaclyn Backhaus
Directed by Jessica Pearson-Bleyer
Men On Boats was presented by special arrangement with Broadway Licensing, LLC, servicing the Dramatists Play Service Collection. (www.dramatists.com)
December Dance Concert
Dec. 5-7, 2024 / 7:30 p.m. / Pickard Theater, Memorial Hall
More information and photos from the show are found under our "Recent Productions" page.
Presenting their semesters' work, this fall's performing dance classes are:
Making Dances in the Digital Age
Introduction to Hip Hop
Introduction to Modern Dance
Modern II: Repertory and Performance
Afro-Modern II: Techniques and Histories
Advanced Modern Dance
Liturgy|Order|Bridge by Scapegoat Garden
Nov. 15-16 /7:30 p.m. / Wish Theater, Memorial Hall
Liturgy|Order|Bridge is a participatory dance ritual that fuses sacred traditions and secular performance modalities to make porous the border between “audience” and “performance.”
Into the Woods
Nov. 7-9, 2024 / 7:30 p.m. / Pickard Theater, Memorial Hall
More information and photos from the show are found under our "Recent Productions" page.
Music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim
Book by James Lapine
Originally directed on Broadway by James Lapine
Orchestrations by Jonathan Tunick
Directed by Davis Robinson
Music Director: Jeff Christmas / Conductor: Courtney Babbidge
Sponsored by the Alice Cooper Morse Fund for the Performing Arts. Into the Woods is presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI). All authorized performance materials are also supplied by MTI www.MTIshows.com.
Painting by Paul Klee, with poster art by Judy Gailen.
John Waters: Devil's Advocate
Sep. 19, 2024 / 7:30 p.m. / Pickard Theater, Memorial Hall
Sponsored by the Kenneth V. Santagata Memorial Fund.
John Waters. Is he a cautionary contrarian, a reactionary radical, or a true devil’s advocate? In this all-new, fast-moving, part-confessional, part-inquisitional comic spoken word show, the filth elder known for his “transgressive” films and his “subversive” books salutes the new gender-guerilla generation of today for doing the impossible – actually making him nervous.
Together, he demands, we must form a new rainbow of rancid colors and seize back the sexual revolution from the self-righteousness of the left and the intolerance of the right. A new middle-of-the-road madness that uses humor as terrorism, wit as ammunition. John Waters – he’s the Devil’s Advocate and his questions must be answered.
Co-hosted by the Departments of Cinema Studies and Theater and Dance.