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

The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee

already performed

Music and Lyrics by William Finn
Book by Rachel Sheinkin
Conceived by Rebecca Feldman
Additional Material by Jay Reiss

Six young people in the throes of puberty, overseen by grown-ups who barely managed to escape childhood themselves, learn that winning isn't everything and that losing doesn't necessarily make you a loser.

The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee is a hilarious tale of overachievers' angst chronicling the experience of six adolescent outsiders vying for the spelling championship of a lifetime. The show's Tony Award winning creative team has created the unlikeliest of hit musicals about the unlikeliest of heroes: a quirky yet charming cast of outsiders for whom a spelling bee is the one place where they can stand out and fit in at the same time.

Theatre Fest

Spring

already performed

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

IMPROV

already performed

The Sacred Heart Impr ov Troupe proudly presents The Awkward Handshakes. The Awkward Handshakes is the premiere SHU improv team consisting of competitively trained improv artists. The show will consist of various improv games, as seen on TV shows such as Whose Line Is It Anyway?

Nunsense

already performed

By Dan Goggin

Winner of four Outer Critics Circle Awards including Best Off-Broadway Musical in its original New York production, this hilarious international hit was revived in New York with a male cast Nunsense A-Men! The show is a fundraiser put on by the Little Sisters of Hoboken to raise money to bury sisters accidently poisoned by the convent cook, Sister Julia (Child of God). Updated with new jokes, additional lyrics, two new arrangements and a brand new song, this zany musical has been videotaped for television starring Rue McClanahan as the Mother Superior. "A hail of fun and frolic! Wacky and outrageous with a hysterical anything goes sense of fun!" N.Y. Times. "You don't have to be Catholic to love Nunsense!" Entertainment Tonight. "Inspired madness! Go see it!" Jewish Post and Opinion. "Guaranteed to lift your spirits... Very, very funny." National Catholic News.