For many years, the Wabash Theater Department has brought innovative, creative, and daring scripts to life. Three mainstage productions are produced each season in the months of October, February, and April, with student-directed Studio One-Acts produced in November. Whether you’re a first-time performer or are already on your way to an EGOT, the Wabash Theater invites everyone to participate in its upcoming productions. These public performances are not for Theater majors only; auditions are open to all students and members of the Wabash community, including faculty, staff, spouses, and partners. No experience required! Visit the Box Office page for free tickets to these and other events.
Wabash Theater Season: 2023-2024
FALL 2023
Something Rotten!
Book by Karey Kirkpatrick and John O’Farrell
Music and Lyrics by Wayne Kirkpatrick and Karey Kirkpatrick
Directed by Michael Abbott
Wednesday-Saturday, Nov 1-4, 2023
Ball Theater, 8:00 p.m.
Welcome to the Renaissance and the outrageous, crowd-pleasing musical farce, Something Rotten! Created by Grammy Award-winning songwriter Wayne Kirkpatrick, and successful screenwriters Karey Kirkpatrick and John O’Farrell, Something Rotten was lauded by audience members and critics alike, receiving several Best Musical nominations and hailed by Time Out New York as "the funniest musical comedy in at least 400 years".
SPRING 2024
Death and the Maiden by Ariel Dorfman
Directed by Heidi Winters Vogel
Wednesday-Saturday, Feb. 21-24, 2024
Ball Theater, 8:00 p.m.
Relentlessly paced and filled with lethal surprises, the explosively provocative, award-winning drama Death and the Maiden is set in a country that has just emerged from a totalitarian dictatorship. An inquest into the darker side of humanity—one in which everyone is implicated and justice itself comes to seem like a fragile, perhaps ambiguous invention.
Airness by Chelsea Marcantel
Directed by James Cherry
Wednesday-Saturday, Apr. 17-20, 2024
Ball Theater, 8:00 p.m.
When Nina enters her first air guitar competition, she thinks winning will be easy. But as she befriends a group of charismatic nerds all committed to becoming the next champion, she discovers that there's more to this art form than playing pretend; it's about finding yourself in your favorite songs, and performing with raw joy. Following her mission to shred or be shredded, Airness is an exuberant reminder that everything we need to rock is already inside us.