A play by American playwright Clifford Odets, Waiting for Lefty is about a group of exploited taxi drivers debating a strike during the Great Depression. The play features vignettes that reveal the struggles of the working class against economic hardship and corruption. Waiting for Lefty is a powerful mosaic of the American working class deeply relevant to today’s society and one of the most celebrated and significant plays of the modern American theatre.

Winner for the Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Musical, The Rocky Horror Show premiered in 1973 and is a cult classic rock musical by Richard O’Brien. Enjoying a resurgence on Broadway for a limited run and a featured film staple of Halloween, The Rocky Horror Show follows strait-laced couple Brad and Janet who stumble upon the castle of the scientist Dr. Frank-n-Furter, leading to a night of B-movie-inspired sci-fi, horror, and sexual liberation, featuring iconic songs like “Time Warp” and “Sweet Transvestite”. The show, is known for its audience participation and promises to be a raucous evening of fun for UWSP!

Featuring work from dance majors and minors, costume, lighting, scenic design by student designers. It’s a special evening of dance fully created by students. It celebrates experimentation and the variety of dance styles and choreographic approaches.

Everybody (A Staged Reading) by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins is a modern, comedic adaptation of the medieval morality play Everyman, which follows the character “Everybody” on a journey to face death, exploring themes of mortality, friendship, and the meaning of life. A key feature is a lottery system where actors, who memorize the entire script, are randomly assigned roles each night, including the lead role of Everybody, symbolizing the randomness of death and ensuring diverse representation. The play updates the original’s religious allegory with contemporary language and humor, asking what truly matters as one faces the end.

On a central Wisconsin dairy farm, Uncle Johnny is pondering life, love and what it means to be living in today’s America. Farm life is shaken up when the homestead is visited by a Professor from UWSP and his all too charming wife. Family struggles reveal new fissures, while exposing the heart of living in a divided America where rural and urban life do not always see eye to eye.

Developed during Professor Tyler Marchant’s fall sabbatical, Uncle Johnny is freely adapted from Uncle Vanya, the seminal work of Russian playwright, Anton Chekhov.

The Dolly Parton musical 9 to 5 is based on the 1980 hit movie about three female coworkers, pushed to the boiling point by their egotistical boss, who concoct a plan to get even. Set in the late 1970s, this hilarious story of friendship and revenge in the Rolodex era is outrageous, thought-provoking, and just a little romantic.

New choreography by dance faculty Michael Estanich, Kate Gomez Moore, Chris Kaiser, and a to be announced guest artist.