2023-2024 Season
All events are subject to change.
Building Community
This season our productions will follow the theme of "building community". We encourage you to join us as we explore this important topic and what it means.
- Wichita Children's Dance Festival: January 28th
- Student Choreography Showcase: February 8th - 9th
- Peter and the Starcatcher: February 29th - March 2nd
- Smokefall: March 28th - 30th
- The Trail to Oregon!: April 18th - 20th
- Christmas Dish: April 5th
- WSMTC Musical Theatre Showcase: May 1st
- Wichita Contemporary Dance Theatre: April 25th
- Dance Informal Showing: May 2nd
- The Adventures of Sunday Novak 'The Cup of Truth'
Fall 2023
Mama Bushwick is Dead by Elizabeth Shannon
Date: October 5th - 7th @ 7:30 PM
Student Director: Lynnaya McClure
Description: Five estranged siblings, Bard, Joyce, Robin, Scott, and Jo, return to their recently deceased mother’s home. They mst prepare for her funeral, clean her duplex, and decide who will give her eulogy. Filled with grief, trauma, childhood memories, and dolls, “Mama Bushwick is Dead,” explores the complex family dynamics present regardless of place and time.
Rated: PG-13
Notes: Winner of the Bela Kiralyfalvi National Student Playwriting Competition
Tickets: $15; 1 free WSU student ticket with ID
Move on Litwin: Dance Up Close
Date: October 26th - 28th @ 7:30 PM
Director: Mina Estrada
Description: WSU dance faculty present a diverse evening of dance works in an intimate, studio theatre concert.
Rated: TBD
Tickets: $15; 1 free WSU student ticket with ID
A Chorus Line
Date: November 2nd - 4th @ 7:30 PM / November 5th @ 2:00 PM
Director: Amy Baker Schwiethale
Description: A Chorus Line examines one day in the lives of seventeen dancers, all vying for a spot in the “chorus line” of a Broadway musical. After the first round of cuts, Zach, the director and choreographer, asks each dancer to speak about themselves. Discomfort opens into revelation, confession leads to redemption, and within the bright, outwardly homogenous chorus, the audience begins to see each dancer’s individuality.
Rated: TBD
Notes: Winner of the Bela Kiralyfalvi National Student Playwriting Competition
Tickets: $20, $18, $12 - 1 free WSU student ticket with ID
Senior Capstone Celebration
Date: December 2nd @ 6pm & December 3rd @ 2pm
Description: A weekend celebration of senior capstone projects by students in dance, design & technical theatre, musical theatre, and theatre.
Saturday, December 2nd includes presentations by BA Dance, BFA Design & Technical Theatre, & BA Theatre students as well as BFA Musical Theatre students.
Sunday, December 3rd includes performances by BFA Dance and BFA Theatre Performance students.
Rated: TBD
Notes: Winner of the Bela Kiralyfalvi National Student Playwriting Competition
Tickets: $10/day; 1 free WSU student ticket with ID
Dance Informal Showing
Date: December 7th @ 5:00 PM
Directors: Dance Faculty
Description: End of semester celebration of all dance classes
Rated: PG
Tickets: FREE EVENT
Spring 2024
Wichita Children's Dance Festival
Date: January 28th @ 2:00 PM
Directors: Sabrina Vasquez & Denise Celestin
Description: A community celebration of dance works by dance studios and organizations in the Wichita area.
Rated: PG
Tickets: $10
Student Choreography Showcase
Date: February 8th - 9th @ 7:30 PM
Presented by: Mid-America Dance Theatre (Faculty Mentor: Mina Estrada)
Description: An evening of new choreographic works created, produced, and danced by students.
Rated: TBD
Tickets: $10 suggested donation
Peter and the Starcatcher
Date: February 29th - March 2nd @ 7:30 PM / March 3rd @ 2:00 PM
Director: Sheldon Mba
Description: A young orphan and their mates are sent from Victorian England to a distant island ruled by the tyrant King Zarboff. Unbeknownst to them, the captain's cabin holds an enigmatic trunk containing otherworldly and valuable cargo. Along their voyage, they meet the bright and astute Molly, who is training to become a Starcatcher. They quickly discover that the trunk's precious contents are starstuff, a powerful celestial substance that must never fall into the wrong hands. Their adventure takes a dangerous turn when the ship is taken over by pirates, led by the fearsome Black Stache, a villain set on claiming the trunk and its riches for themselves. The group must work together to protect the starstuff from falling into the wrong hands as they navigate through treacherous waters and face perilous obstacles.
Rated: PG
Tickets: $20, $18, $12 - 1 free WSU student ticket with ID
Smokefall
Date: March 28th - 30th
Time: 7:30 P.M.
Director(s): Trevor Andreasen & Jessica Hudson
Presented by: Empty Space Theatre (Faculty Mentor: Ed Baker)
Description: Magical realism collides with manic vaudeville in a family drama unlike any you've ever seen. Fetuses swap philosophy while awaiting their birth, a daughter eats dirt and doesn't speak, a father is about to drive away and never return, and there's an apple tree growing through the wall of the house. Whipping from astonishing tenderness to profound humor and back again, 'SMOKEFALL' explores the lives of a family in a lyrical treatise on the fragility of life and the power of love.
Rated: PG-13: Contains strong language and themes
Tickets: $15
The Trail to Oregon!
Date: April 18th - 20th
Time: 7:30 P.M.
Director: Zoe Phillips
Presented by: Wichita State Musical Theatre Company (Faculty Mentor: Emily Orr)
Description: The Trail to Oregon! is an interactive musical parody of the video game, "The Oregon Trail." Originated
by Team Starkid, the show follows one family's journey to migrate to Oregon after
their farm burns down. Faced with wild animals, The Bandit King, and an overlying
threat of death from "the watchers", will the family make it to Oregon in one piece?
Rated: Mature: Contains adult content and language
Tickets: $15
Christmas Dish
Date: April 5th @ 7:30 P.M. / April 6th @ 2:00 P.M.
Director: Bret Jones
Description: Two people are secretly romantically interested in one another. They agree to share Christmas dinner together, just as friends, because a family holiday isn’t going to happen and all of their other friends are already busy.
Rated: TBD
Tickets: $15; 1 free WSU student ticket with ID
WSMTC Musical Theatre Showcase
Date: May 1st @ 7:30 P.M.
Presented by: Wichita State Musical Theatre Company (Faculty Mentor: Emily Orr)
Description: A musical theatre showcase comprised of Musical Theatre majors & minors.
Rated: TBD
Tickets: $10 suggested donation
Wichita Contemporary Dance Theatre
Date: April 25th - 27th @ 7:30 P.M. / April 28th @ 2:00 P.M.
Director: Mina Estrada
Description: An evening of new dance including works by WSU faculty and guest artist Darrell Grand Moultrie (Conniosseur Series).
Rated: TBD
Tickets: $20, $18, $12 - 1 free WSU student ticket with ID
Dance Informal Showing
Date: May 2nd @ 5:00 P.M.
Director: Mina Estrada
Description: End of semester celebration of all dance classes.
Rated: PG
Tickets: FREE EVENT
The Adventures of Sunday Novak 'The Cup of Truth'
Presented by: Stagestruck Theatre Audio
Description: The Adventures of Sunday Novak 'The Cup of Truth' is about an infamous mercenary takes on an ancient order protecting a powerful artifact...the mysterious Cup of Truth...
Warning: This audio podcast contains the use of loud noises, gunshots, and depicts acts of violence