2022-2023 Season Performances:
These Shining Lives
by Melanie Marnich
directed by Jennifer Hunter
September 1-10, 2022
Patsy Miller Studio Theatre
"These Shining Lives" revolves around the real-life circumstances of women in the 1920s who worked in a watch factory painting watch faces with glowing radium-rich paint. While the characters and company in "These Shining Lives" are fictitious, the story of the Radium Girls and the toxic and deadly levels of radium poisoning of over 4,000 factory workers is true. The real-life Radium Girls took their company to court and achieved a long-lasting victory over corporations with poor workplace conditions and worker's compensation that is still in effect today.
Recommended for ages 12 and above.
Little Women
by Jennifer Hunter,
based on the classic by Louisa May Alcott
directed by Jennifer Hunter
November 3-12, 2022
Knight Performance Hall
This brand new world premier adaptation of Louisa May Alcott's novel "Little Women" covers all of your favorite parts of the original novel. Jo, Meg, Beth, and Amy March are four sisters living with their mother in New England. Their father is away serving as a chaplain in the Civil War, and the sisters struggle to support themselves and keep their household running despite the fact that the family recently lost its fortune. As the girls grow older, each faces her own personal demons and moral challenges.
Recommended for ages 6 and above.
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A Christmas Carol
by
Daniel McLaughlin, based on the classic by Charles Dickens
directed by Daniel McLaughlin
December 6-10, 2022
Patsy Miller Studio Theatre
A CHRISTMAS CAROL adapted and directed by Daniel McLaughlin, is a new adaptation of Dickens’ timeless classic, a story that captures the warmth and goodwill of the holiday season. The festival also includes 4 student-written 10-minute plays. This UNW tradition is a yearly delight for audiences and families of all ages.
Recommended for ages 6 and above.
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Anything Goes
original book by P.G. Wodehouse & Guy Bolton and Howard Lindsay & Russel Crouse; new book by Timothy Crouse & John Weidman
directed by Jennifer Hunter
March 16-25, 2023
Knight Performance Hall
This comedic musical features dancing, singing, and madcap antics aboard an ocean liner bound from New York to London. Billy Crocker is a stowaway in love with heiress Hope Harcourt, who is engaged to Lord Evelyn Oakleigh. Nightclub singer Reno Sweeney and Public Enemy Number 13, "Moonface" Martin, aid Billy in his quest to win Hope. The musical introduced such songs as "Anything Goes," You're the Top", and "I Get a Kick Out of You."
Recommended for ages 12 and above.
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The Hobbit
by Patricia Gray, based on the Classic by J.R. Tolkien
directed by Megan Liesmaki
April 14-22, 2023
Patsy Miller Studio Theatre
Bilbo Baggins lives a simple life with his fellow hobbits in the shire, until the wizard Gandalf arrives and convinces him to join a group of dwarves on a quest to reclaim the kingdom of Erebor. The journey takes Bilbo on a path through treacherous lands swarming with orcs, goblins and other dangers, not the least of which is an encounter with Gollum and a simple gold ring that is tied to the fate of Middle Earth in ways Bilbo cannot even fathom.
Recommended for ages 6 and above.
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