Department of Theatre and Dance announces 2023-24 season

By URSULA SAADEH Staff Writer

The BW Department of Theatre and Dance announced its upcoming season on March 2 in Kleist’s Mainstage Theatre with a twist of creative flair.

Students embarked on a scavenger hunt in the theater’s last five rows to find envelopes containing the names of all the upcoming season’s shows. Once found, the students revealed each of the seasons’ plays and dance concerts.

The 2023-24 theater season comprises eight projects: two Spotlight Series plays, two Sketchbook Series plays, two

Lab Series productions and two staged readings to be performed in the Kleist lobby.

These projects include the plays “The Dining Room,” “Sweat,” “The Secret in the Wings,” “Measure for Measure,” “Lobby Hero” and “In the Next Room or The Vibrator Play.” The student directed lab series productions will be “The Laramie Project” and “Bagel High.”

The upcoming dance season includes the fall edition of testing grounds, “Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions,” and two spring testing ground programs.

The first is the annual “Danceworks-in-Progress,” in which students, faculty and guests present work; the second is “Propulsion,” which is about Gino Severini’s paintings and their connection to genres in street dance.

2024 marks the tenth-year anniversary of “fyoo zh en,” and next year’s concert is entitled “Spatial Proximity.” This production will be in collaboration with assistant professor of zoology Andrew Merwin.

René Copeland, professor of directing and coordinator of the directing program, said that all the plays were decided on by a committee who took a long list of suggestions and cut it down to six shows.