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4 evenings of student written new works presentation!

The plays are the products of the TH 275 Course in Playwriting.

There will be twenty-five student written plays - six per evening and each play running between fifteen and twenty minutes-long.

All will be staged readings and range from dramatic adaptations of short stories and fairytales, to contemporary comedies, to family dramas, and everything in between, featuring close to a hundred characters!

One Weekend. Dozens of Artists. Hundreds of Audience Members. Memories for a lifetime...

Professor Štĕpán Šimek reflects on his recent production, Danse Macabre, at Hand2Mouth Theatre in Portland, Oregon. He also speaks to his philosophies around teaching theatre and the pathway that led him to Lewis & Clark.

Evening A:  Wednesday & Friday, April 20 & 22
Evening B: Thursday & Saturday, April 21 & 22

Friday, Saturday, March 4, 5, 7:30pm
Sunday, March 6, 2pm
Thursday, Friday, Saturday, March 10, 11, 12, 7:30pm

Costumes, clothes, accessories, + WIGS!

Theatre/Dance welcomes Tiffany Mills as the Fall 2021 Guest Resident.

Fall 2021 Main Stage Play
By Sarah Ruhl
Directed by Rebecca Lingafelter

September 30, October 1 & 2, 7:30pm
Black Box, Fir Acres Theatre

The supportive liberal arts community Ben Kolligs BA ’18 found at L&C provided him opportunities to discover his passion in robotics and to advance his career, even before he graduated. Next up, graduate studies in robotics at Carnegie Mellon University!

The Secretaries, a campy horror-comedy that exemplifies feminist, queer theatre took performativity to extremes by showing violence and intimacy while remaining six feet apart.