Theatre Department
The University of Wisconsin- Oshkosh Theatre Department offers students a program combining personalized attention with a full range of classroom and production opportunities. The theatre major exposes students to all aspects of the theatrical arts, and allows students to focus their training in acting, directing, design, technology, and play writing.
Phone Numbers
Area code: (920)
Box Office: 424-4417
Theatre Office: 424-7042
Chair (Merlaine Angwall): 424-7050
Costume Shop: 424-0286
Scene Shop: 424-7051
Tickets
Tickets may be purchased at the Box Office or online using the button below. Ticket prices are $13 for general, $10 for Senior Citizen or Alumni and $4 for UWO Students with ID.
The Box office will be open the week of the productions Monday-Friday, Noon-4 pm and evenings of performance 6pm - 7:30 pm. Performance Sundays the box office will open one hour before show time.
All promotions and discounts are valid only at the Box Office and are not available for on-line ticket sales.
The Zoo Story/ The American Dream
By Edward Albee
Directed by Richard Kalinoski
Feb. 13–16, 2013, 7:30 p.m.
Feb. 17, 2013, 2 p.m.
The American Dream: A ferocious, hilarious attack on the substitution of artificial values for real ones, this story of one of America's most dysfunctional families relays a startling tale of murder and morality that rocks middle-class ethics to its foundations. The Zoo Story: A searing story of loneliness and the desperate need for recognition that builds to a violent, shattering climax.
Student One-Acts
March 7-9, 2012
Experimental Theatre
Student One-Act Plays offer an opportunity for students to experiment and practice the skills they have learned in the theatre program. Each season, students select, direct, design, build and perform exciting and unusual plays in the Experimental Theatre.
The Madwoman of Chaillot
By Jean Giraudoux
Directed by Merlaine Angwall
April 24–27, 2013, 7:30 p.m.
April 28, 2013, 2 p.m.
Corporate executives are planning to dig up Paris to reap the benefits of the city’s oil. When Countess Aurelia finds out, she devises a plan with her fellow outcasts to stop them. This comic fable teaches and warns of the destructive forces of greed and disregard for humanity while exploring the idea of “mad” as crazy, as angry and as the ultimate sanity.
