2025 - 2026 Season
University Theatre's newest season!
Fall 2025
The Laramie Project
by Moisés Kaufman
and the Members of Tectonic Theater Project
Directed by Jonathan Strayer
Presented in Rafters Theatre - Dutcher Hall
Oct 30-31st, Nov 1st, & Nov 6-8th at 7pm
Nov 2nd at 2pm
- $15 Adults
- $12 Students & Seniors
- $5 MU Student
THE STORY: In October 1998, a twenty-one-year-old student at the University of Wyoming was kidnapped, severely beaten, and left tied to a fence in the middle of the prairie outside Laramie, Wyoming. His bloody, bruised, and battered body was not discovered until the next day, and he died several days later in an area hospital. His name was Matthew Shepard, and he was the victim of this assault because he was gay. Moisés Kaufman and fellow members of the Tectonic Theater Project made six trips to Laramie over the course of a year and a half, in the aftermath of the beating and during the trial of the two young men accused of killing Shepard. They conducted more than 200 interviews with the people of the town. Some people interviewed were directly connected to the case, while others were citizens of Laramie, and the breadth of the reactions to the crime is fascinating. Kaufman and Tectonic Theater members have constructed a deeply moving theatrical experience from these interviews and their own experiences in Laramie. THE LARAMIE PROJECT is a breathtaking collage that explores the depths to which humanity can sink and the heights of compassion of which we are capable.
Spring 2026
The good doctor
by Neil Simon and Anton Chekov
Directed by Jonathan Strayer
Presented in Rafters Theatre - Dutcher Hall
Feb 26th-28th & March 5th-7th at 7pm
March 1st at 2pm
- $15 Adults
- $12 Students & Seniors
- $5 MU Student
This Broadway hit, a composite of Neil Simon and Anton Chekhov, consists of a series of comic vignettes narrated by “The Writer.” In one sketch, a feisty old woman storms a bank and upbraids the manager for his gout and lack of money. In another, a father takes his son to a house to initiate him into the mysteries of sex, only to relent at the last moment and leave the boy more perplexed than ever. In another sketch, a crafty seducer goes to work on a wedded woman, only to realize that the woman has been in command from the first overture. And let us not forget the classic tale of a man who offers to drown himself for three rubles. The stories are droll, the portraits affectionate, the humor infectious and the fun unending.