A co-curricular activity of the University, Rockhurst's theatre season is produced by the Theatre Program of the Department of Communication and Fine Arts and is associated with the Rockhurst Players and affiliated with the Center for Arts and Letters. Rockhurst Theatre is a member of and participant in the Kennedy Center/American College Theater Festival. For a complete listing of Cutlural Events, vist our Rockhurst University Calendar.

The 2009-2010 season

The Laramie Project by Moisés Kauffman and the Tectonic Theatre Project
October 1 & 2 at 8:00 p.m.
October 3 & 4 at 2 p.m.

Mabee Theater
$8 General Admission

Just after reports of the death of Matthew Sheppard in October 1998, Moisés Kaufman and members of the Tectonic Theater Project went to Laramie, Wyoming, and over the next twelve months conducted more than 200 interviews with people in the town. From these interviews they formed a collage of their impressions of the life of the town of Laramie after the murder.  The Laramie Project is one of the most performed plays in America today.

The Importance of Being Earnest By Oscar Wilde

Nov 12-13 at 8:00 p.m.

Nov 14-15 at 2:00 p.m.

Mabee Theater

$8 General Admission

Subtitled A Trivial Comedy for Serious People

Join us for a romp through the modes and manners of the English city and country folk at the turn of the 19th to 20th century.

The Last Five Years by Jason Robert Brown

Dec 4 at 8:00 p.m.

Dec 5 & 6 at 2:00 p.m.

Mabee Theater

Donations

A two person musical independent study production. The score explores the beginning and ending of a relationship from two perspectives, the past and the future.

Theatreworks
Feb  22-23 at 8:00 p.m.
Mabee Theater
Free Admission
Free/donations accepted
A fast-moving bill of short dramatic works produced, directed, and/or written by Rockhurst University students. An excellent opportunity to experience works “in progress” as well as many cutting-edge pieces.

Threepenny Opera By Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill

April 22-23 at 8:00 p.m.

April 24-25 at 2:00 p.m.

Mabee Theater

$10 General Admission

Brecht and Weill adapted John Gay's 18th-century "The Beggar's Opera" for their comentary on capitolism and classism. Set in Victorian London, Mack the Knife leads a cutthroat band of robbers, whores, and connivers. He woos and seduces the daughter of one of his fences and is turned in to the police by her parents and sent to prison. His marriage to Polly is suspect when we meet his other two "wives" one of whom helps him escape and the other who turns him in again. He is sentenced to hang but at the last minute as Queen Victoria is about to be crowned she grants merciful reprieves to those at the gallows. The finale is an ironic celebration of the power of the wealthy over life and death.