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Our 2024-2025 Season: Change
"If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living."
— Gail Sheehy


A Fundraiser Supporting The Golden Circle Scholarship & Support Fund:

A Christmas Carol

Adapted by Ian Andersen
Based on Charles Dickens' tale

Wednesday, December 4, 2024 @ 6:00 PM (Preview Performance/Final Dress Rehearsal*)
Thursday, December 5, 2024 @ 6:00 PM
Friday, December 6, 2024 @ 7:30 PM
Saturday, December 7, 2024 at 1:30 PM and 6:00 PM
Sunday, December 8, 2024 at 1:30 PM and 6:00 PM
Sawyer Theatre

The novella with the complete title of A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas., and its many iterations is a holiday classic.  You and your family will be transported to London and the timeless redemption story of Ebenezer Scrooge.

This production will include performances by VSU Theatre & Dance faculty, students, and local children.

As this production is a fundraiser, all seats are $20 for all performances scheduled for Thursday through Sunday.
* The Wednesday Preview Performance/Final Dress Rehearsal will available to audiences.  For this performance only, VSU Students may purchase tickets for $5 with presentation of valid VSU ID and all other seats are $10.

Dates and times of the performances have been changed since originally posted. Season members and patrons MAY use their admissions for this production.  These changes are due to the impacts of Hurricane Helene and the cancellation of our November production.

 

Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus

Based on the book Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! by Mo Willems
Published by Hyperion Books for Children
Script by Mo Willems and Mr. Warburton
Lyrics by Mo Willems
Music by Deborah Wicks La Puma
Dramaturgy by Megan Alrutz

Friday, February 7, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Saturday, February 8, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Sawyer Theatre 

It's not easy being the pigeon - you never get to do anything!  But when the bus driver has a crisis that threatens to make her passengers (gasp!) late maybe that wily bird can do something.

Our annual theatre-for-young-audiences  production will tour the region in February and March 2025.  Inquiries regarding booking tour dates should be directed to Duke Guthrie, dguthrie@valdosta.edu.

 

Spring Dances: EVOLVE

February 27 - March 1, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Sunday, March 2, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Sawyer Theatre

Spring Dances: EVOLVE is a collection of concert dance works and dance films created by VSU Dance Faculty and guest artists.  Dances will provoke, inspire, liberate, and leave audiences in awe as dances intertwine storytelling, abstract thought and superb artistry.

The concert will include the Georgia premiere of Evolution of Gaia, a collaboration between Ali Duffy (Texas Tech University and Flatlands Dance Theatre, composer Peter Fischer (Texas Tech University), and faculty choreographer/filmmaker Melissa Pihos.  This work will feature a large scale performance fusing original dance, live and recorded music, film and media.  The production tells the tale of Gaia, the personification of Earth.  Through a compelling story centered on human relationships and cultures, the production interweaves topics such as the destruction and regenerative capacity of Earth's natural landscapes and resources, environmental awareness and justice, cycles of birth and rebirth, and of conflict and resolution.

This production may contain mature themes and language.

 

Iphigenia 2.5

By Charles Mee
Based on Euripides' tragedy Iphigenia at Aulis.
Adapted by VSU Theatre & Dance's Fall 2024 Devised Theatre Class. 

April 17-19, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 3:00 PM

A modern adaptation of Iphigenia at Aulis by Euripides, Charles Mee’s Iphigenia 2.0 largely follows the plot of the original Greek text but removes the interference of the gods. Instead, Agamemnon’s own disillusioned troops are the ones to call for him to make the same sacrifice he has asked of their own mothers – namely the life of his child – to prove that the war with Troy that he has called for is a worthy one. So, when Agamemnon’s daughter arrives at the battle encampment, will it be for her wedding or her sacrifice?

Taking our cue from Mee’s own collage-like style of playwriting, our adaptation of Mee’s text will be revised by the students in our Devised Theatre class before it makes its way to Sawyer stage to close out our season.

 

A Fundraiser Supporting The Golden Circle Scholarship & Support Fund:

The Spotlight Series

May 2, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Saturday, May 3, 2025 at 2:00 PM

Sawyer Theatre, VSU Fine Arts Building

Join us for the annual Spotlight Series as we shine a spotlight on our students and celebrate the work of our graduating seniors. Entertainment will include a wide variety of popular musical theatre numbers, original dance works by students in the choreography class, and captivating scene work from contemporary plays all featuring performances from our graduating seniors. This performance is not a ticketed event, but we encourage you to make a donation on line or at the door to help fund our Golden Circle Scholarship Fund which supports our Theatre & Dance students during their time here at Valdosta State University. Please consider giving any amount that you are able to help us continue to bring you the work of our very talented young artists in the years to come.

Tickets for this event are not included in season membership packages.

 

Production presented earlier this season.

Tiny Beautiful Things

Based on the Book by Cheryl Strayed
Adapted for the Stage by Nia Vardalos

Co-conceived by Marshall Heyman, Thomas Kail, and Nia Vardalos

Lab Theatre

New performance dates and times of TINY BEAUTIFUL THINGS:

Thursday, October 24, 2024 at 6:00 PM
Friday, October 25, 2024 at 6:00 PM
Saturday, October 26, 2024 at 6:00 PM
Sunday, October 27, 2025 at 3:00 PM

Current ticket holders: your seats will be transfered to the corresponding performance next week.  If you need further assistance, we are hoping the box office will be back in operation early next week.

A few years ago, author Cheryl Strayed took over an anonymous advice column, Dear Sugar, for the literary website, The Rumpus.  As Sugar, she combined genuine transparency and empathy by inserting personal stories within her responses.  Her advice was illuminating rather than instruction.

Later, Strayed collected the stories into the book Tiny Beautiful Things which was published after her novel Wild appeared on bookshelves.  Both became bestsellers.

In the play, Sugar and the writers of the letters reveal themselves and we find ourselves in their conundrums and sorrows, in their lives lived and roads traveled.  Tiny Beautiful Things is a play about reaching when you are stuck, healing when you are broken, and finding the courage to take on the questions with no answers.

This production contains adult themes and language.

Virtual Playbill

CANCELED: A Musical That We Can't Announce Here

The College of the Arts is deeply saddened to inform you that we must cancel our performances of Chicago, originally scheduled for October 31, - November 6, 2024.

As you know, Hurricane Helene caused our normal operations to halt for three weeks, which included the delay of set & costume construction and rehearsals. With the end of fall semester closing quickly, we are now in a place where we cannot reschedule the performance this academic year.

Our production that was the story of two 'killer-dillers' in the Windy City as they sing and dance from crime to courtroom to vaudeville.

Ticket holders, please contact Duke Guthrie at dguthrie@valdosta.edu to learn about your options.