2019 - 2020 Season
Private Lives
By Noel Coward
Directed by Dr. Andrew B. Harris
October 3, 4, & 5, 2019 at 7:30 pm
October 5 & 6, 2019 at 2:00 pm
$12.50 Students, UNT Faculty/Staff, UNT Alumni, Seniors
$15.00 General Public
RTFP Building - Studio Theater
Private Lives is one of the most sophisticated, entertaining plays ever written. Elyot and Amanda, once married and now honeymooning with new spouses at the same hotel, meet by chance, reignite the old spark and impulsively elope. After days of being reunited, they again find their fiery romance alternating between passions of love and anger. Their aggrieved spouses appear and a roundelay of affiliations ensues as the women first stick together, then apart, and new partnerships are formed. A uniquely humorous play boasting numerous successful Broadway runs. Private Lives is presented by special arrangement with SAMUEL FRENCH, INC.
Nathan the Wise
By Paul D'Andrea after G.E. Lessing
Directed by Akin Babatunde
November 7, 8, & 9, 2019 at 7:30 pm
November 9, & 10, 2019 at 2:00 pm
$12.50 Students, UNT Faculty/Staff, UNT Alumni, Seniors
$15.00 General Public
RTFP Building - University Theater
Nathan the Wise is the Western classic on religious tolerance. It offers a vision of Jews, Christian and Muslims as People of the Book, united by a shared and reverenced text, mutually respectful, giving one another rich gifts of particularity. In Jersalem in 1192, at the time of the Third Crusade, the Muslim sultan Saladin declares a truce in which Muslim, Christian and Jew are to live in harmony. The fragile peace is broken by a fiery young Templar and further threatened by Saladin's sister, the lady Sittah, and Heraklios, the Christian patriarch. Nathan is a wise and wealthy Jewish merchant whose wealth is sought by Sittah and Heraklios. The Christian Templar rescues Nathan's precocious daughter Recha from a fire. The two young people, Jew and Christian, are drawn to each other in love, a love which is fostered by Recha's nurse, Daya. Aided by a ubiquitous friar and a picaresque dervish, the two young people come up with an imaginative resolution to the issue of which is the one true faith, during the trial at which Nathan must defend his life. Produced by special arrangement with THE DRAMATIC PUBLISHING COMPANY of Woodstock, Illinois.
New Choreographers Concert - Shifting Dimensions
Artistic Director Amiti Perry
November 22, & 23, 2019 at 8:00 pm
November 24, 2019 at 2:00 pm
$12.50 Students, UNT Faculty/Staff, UNT Alumni, Seniors
$15.00 General Public
RTFP Building - University Theater
A showcase of original dance works created by advanced choreography students.
Faculty Dance Concert
Artistic Director Robin Lakes
February 6, 7, & 8, 2020 @ 8:00 pm
February 9, 2020 at 2:00 pm
$12.50 Students, UNT Faculty/Staff, UNT Alumni, Seniors
$15.00 General Public
RTFP Building - University Theater
A UNT faculty members and guest choreographers present an exciting night of original choreography.
Faith, Hope and Charity
by Odon von Horvath
Translation by Christopher Hampton
Directed by UNT Theatre Alum Brian Bell
February 27, 28, & 29, 2020 at 7:30 pm
February 29, 2020 at 2:00 pm
March 1, 2020 at 2:00 pm
$12.50 Students, UNT Faculty/Staff, UNT Alumni, Seniors
$15.00 General Public
RTFP Building - Studio Theater
Set in the socially and economically oppressed Vienna of the early thirties, this play is the story of a young girl's struggle to survive in the city, a victim of forces she does not comprehend. As the play opens, she is trying to sell her body to an anatomical institute. FAITH, HOPE AND CHARITY was first produced on 27 October 1989 at the Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith.
Once on This Island
Book and Lyrics by Lynn Ahrens
Music by Stephen Flaherty
Based on My Love, My Love by Rosa Guy
Directed by Joel Ferrell
April 23, 24, & 25, 2020 at 7:30 pm
April 25, & 26, 2020 at 2:00 pm
$12.50 Students, UNT Faculty/Staff, UNT Alumni, Seniors
$15.00 General Public
RTFP Building - University Theater
In the Oliver Award-winning musical, Ti Moune, a peasant girl, rescues a wealthy boy from the other side of the island, Daniel, with whom she falls in love. Unbeknownst to Ti Moune, the pompous gods who preside over the island make a bet with one another over which is stronger, love or death, the stakes being Ti Moune's life. When she pursues Daniel, who has returned to his people, Ti Moune is shunned because of her lowly status. Her determination and capacity to love, though, is not enough to win Daniel's heart, and Ti Moune pays the ultimate price; but the gods turn Ti Moune into a tree that grows so strong and so tall, it breaks the wall that separates the societies and ultimately unites them.
