University Of Wyoming Theatre

A town hall-style meeting to inform the public of the construction activities for the planned University of Wyoming Performing Arts Center project is set for January 25th.

The improvisational troupe "This Just In" will be performing two shows at the UW Union Ballroom at 7:00 and 9:00 on October 25th.

The University of Wyoming's Snowy Range Summer Theatre decided to kick off summer by tickling your funny bone. "The Santaland Diaries" is based on the true chronicles of humorist David Sedaris' experience as Crumpet the Elf in Macy's Santaland display and is playing nightly at 7:30 p.m. through Saturday, June 9, in the UW Fine Arts Studio Theatre.

From April 17th-21st, the University of Wyoming Theatre will be performing Gilbert and Sullivan’s comic opera The Mikado. Gilbert and Sullivan have also written the well-known plays, The Pirates of Penzance and the H.M.S. Pinafore. Set in Japan, The Mikado is a comic love story about two disadvantaged lovers trying to make their love work in the face of suitors and Japanese laws.

Over the past few weeks we have come across quite a few tickets to concerts and events coming up in the month of April around Laramie, and we are giving all of them away! Here is a quick look at the performances that we are giving you a chance to see this month and how to win.

This Friday, March 23rd, the renowned Aquila Theatre will perform in the Arts and Sciences Auditorium at 7:30pm. The Aquila Theatre company performs classical theatre, such as Shakespeare, but in a non-traditional manner. They maintain the themes and controversies of classical plays while putting them in new settings and time periods.

The final concert for the University of Wyoming Department of Theatre and Dance 2011-2012 season will feature new works of contemporary ballet, jazz, and modern dance works in, "The Unknown Exposed."

It has been a little while now since there have been any theatre and dance performances at UW due to the holidays, but their first show of the new spring season, "The Beaux Stratagem," kicks off on February 7th and plays through the 11th. Nightly performances will be held at the Fine Arts Main Stage and start at 7:30 PM. Tickets, which you can buy online or by contacting the box office, are $7 for students, $14 for the general public and $11 for seniors.

Happiness and its dysfunctional and often hilarious pursuit is the theme of a new comic musical premiering at the University of Wyoming this fall. “Rainy Day People,” composed, written, directed, and music directed by celebrated UW alumnus Sean Stone (“Good Morning, Athens”), kicks off the Department of Theatre and Dance’s 2011-2012 production season Sept. 28 through Oct. 1 at 7:30 p.m. and O

The University of Wyoming Department of Theatre and Dance is thrilled to welcome the celebrated Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company (BTJ/AZ) and company founder Bill. T. Jones as the 2011-2012 Eminent Artists-in-Residence.