TheatreOCU's main stage season is dedicated to exploring universal themes through its productions, and strives to educate and enlighten the University community, the greater Oklahoma City community, and the larger communities of the state and nation.

TheatreOCU offers a seven show main stage season, and a collaboration with the other schools in the Margaret E. Petree College of Performing Arts (Music and Dance & Arts Management) in an additional seven productions. The main stage season consists of a mix of fully realized productions of theatre classics and relevant contemporary plays, as well as co-productions with our three professional co-producing partners, and staged readings of plays that deal with important current social issues.

Our performance facilities include the Kirkpatrick Auditorium (1,100 seat proscenium), the Burg Theater (274 seat, 3/4 thrust), and the Petree Recital Hall (500 seats). We also produce shows in the new Black Box Theater (flexible 50-100 seats) in the new Wanda L. Bass Music Center. The $31.5 million, 112,000-square-foot addition, which opened in 2006, has more than doubled the rehearsal and classroom space. We also occasionally perform in the flexible performance space in the CCA (Children's Center for the Arts).

The Stage II season presents four plays each semester in the small, intimate setting of our Black Box Theatre. Stage II's are produced with an emphasis on acting and directing with a use of minimal design and technical elements. Student and faculty directors and designers collaborate together on these experimental, laboratory productions. A wide variety of styles and periods are produced in our Stage II season including contemporary plays that may not be produced in the main stage season. Past productions have included classics such as Othello and The Misanthrope, as well as recent works like Dog Sees God, Bug, and Recent Tragic Events. The Stage II season introduces our students to a level of production opportunities often found in small professional theatres operating throughout the country.

2012-2013 Season

Betrayal
By Harold Pinter
October 4th – October 6th

Tis A Pity She’s A Whore
By John Ford
November 8th – November 10th

Woyzeck
By Georg Buchner
November 15th – November 17th

As Bees in Honey Drown
By Douglas Carter Beane
February 7th – February 9th

Julius Caesar
By William Shakespeare
February 21st – February 23rd

House of Yes
By Wendy MacLeod
March 7th – March 9th

Medea
By Euripides
April 11th – April 13th

Emotional Creature
By Eve Ensler
April 18th – April 20th

All tickets are $5 and are available at the door one hour prior to showtime.

OCUedge is the name of the staged-reading series that happens every year as an extension of the TheatreOCU season.  Typically six plays in  length, material for the OCUedge season is usually picked from very contemporary material, mostly written within the last 5 years.  The staged reading of these very current, and often edgy plays, supports our students study in theatre history, as well as makes opportunities for young directors and actors to get their brains and their mouths around these very modern texts.

A student-run and mostly student-organized theatre company on campus, Out of the Box presents a late-night series of exciting performances.  Recent productions have spanned the gamut of theatrical dramaturgy, from reimagined classics, novel adaptations, plays written by student playwrights, edgy contemporary plays, and campy evenings of scenes and monologues.  Out of the box also produces TheatreOCU's improvisation company.

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