The Theatre Arts Program is comprised of innovative and multi-talented students dedicated to creating high-quality theatrical productions at Sacred Heart University.

Improv

October 4, 2011 | 10:10pm
February 29, 2012 | 10:10pm

The Sacred Heart Improv Troupe proudly presents the Awkward Handshakes. The Awkward Handshakes are the varsity team consisting of eight members from the Improv Troupe. The show will consist of various Improv games seen on TV Shows such as Whose Line is it Anyway?

Admission $5 | University Commons
All proceeds from this event go to the Theatre Arts Program.

Theatre Fest

November 11 & 12, 2011 | 8pm
February 24 & 25, 2012 | 8pm

Theatre Fest is a black box-style performance of one-act plays that are written, directed and acted by students. Black box-style theatre is a chance to show student-written one-act plays with very basic technical arrangements, such as limited sets, simple lighting and no props. This allows for an intimate focus on the story, writing, and performances.

Free Admission

Spring Awakening

April 19-21, 2012 | 8pm
April 22, 2012 | 3pm

Book and Lyrics by Steven Sater Music by Duncan Sheik
Based on the play by Frank Wedekind (Rated R)

Winner of 8 TONY Awards, including BEST MUSICAL, SPRING AWAKENING celebrates the unforgettable journey from youth to adulthood with a power, poignancy and passion that you will never forget. SPRING AWAKENING takes its inspiration from one of literature’s most controversial masterpieces — a work so daring in its depiction of teenage selfdiscovery, it was banned from the stage and was not performed in its complete form in English for nearly 100 years. It’s Germany, 1891. A world where the grownups hold all the cards. The beautiful young Wendla explores the mysteries of her body and wonders aloud where babies come from, till Mama tells her to shut it, and put on a proper dress. Elsewhere, the brilliant and fearless young Melchior interrupts a mind-numbing Latin drill to defend his buddy Moritz — a boy so traumatized by puberty he can’t concentrate on anything. Not that the Headmaster cares. He strikes them both and tells them to turn in their lesson. One afternoon — in a private place in the woods — Melchior and Wendla meet by accident, and soon find within themselves a desire unlike anything they’ve ever felt.

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