40 years of great performances

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Theatre Program established: 1978
Theatre Department created: 1983
Dance Major established: 1993

# = student-directed or student-choreographed production
+ = World Premiere
(1993 through present)

2023-2024

Theatre Productions

The Labyrinth of Desire

...And Jesus Moonwalks the Mississippi

Sing Happy! A Kander and Ebb Project

'Berg New Works: Student Written Plays

Head Over Heels

Dance Productions

Reset: New Dances #
Fall Studio Sessions #

In Motion

Spring Studio Sessions #

 

2022-2023

Theatre Productions

We Are Proud to Present A Presentation About the Herero of Namibia, Formerly Known as South West Africa, From the German Südwestafrika, Between the Years 1884-1915

The Threepenny Opera

Oedipus: A Staged Reading

(& Medea): A Staged Reading +

Love + Information

Freedom to Fly: The Story of Harriet Quimby

Local Girls

Dance Productions

Reset: New Dances  #
In Motion

Dance Emerge

 

2021-2022

Theatre Productions

En El Tiempo de Las Mariposas
Call Me by Any Other Name... Just as Sweet  +
The Saint Plays  #

Assembly Festival:
      You Are Cordially Invited  #+
      A Feeling Of, Feeling For  #+
      Rosy-Crimson
      Firebringer: The Musical. #

Miss You Like Hell

Dance Productions

Reset: New Dances  #
In Motion

 

2020-2021

Theatre Productions

MAGIC*  +
Far Away*  #
Run Glue Tree Pour Drive*  +
Unstable Connections*  +

A List *

10x10, or The Decameron*  +
Memento: Mori: Triptych  +

Dance Productions

Ephemerality: Dances in Time  #
En Route  #

Senior Dance Photoshoot

 

*Many of the theatre and dance productions were virtual due to the covid-19 health crisis.

2019-2020

Theatre Productions

The Importance of Being Earnest
Into the Woods
New Voices / New Visions — Directors' Festival & World Premiere Plays
      Beauty Runs on Light Feet  #
      Family Values  #+
      Holy Sh*t  #+
      Lessons for an Unaccustomed Bride #
     
Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind  #

A Raisin in the Sun
The Bacchae

Dance Productions

Moving Stories 2019 
Master Choreographers 2020

       Performance Photos
       Studio Photos

2020's Berg Fringe and Dance Emerge started production but were canceled prior to their performances due to the covid-19 health crisis.

2018-2019

Theatre Productions

Machinal
Brigadoon
New Voices / New Visions — Directors' Festival & World Premiere Plays
      The Repair Man  #+
      Still Growing Up  #+

      Am I Blue #
Mr. Burns, a Post-Electric Play
O War #
Love & The Law: An Evening of Opera & Musical Theatre

      21 Chump Street #
      Trial By Jury #
      The Telephone #  

Dance Productions

Moving Stories 2018 #
Master Choreographers 2019
       Performance Photos
       Studio Photos
Dance Emerge 2019 #

2017-2018

Theatre Productions

New Voices / New Visions, Part 1
      How I Wonder  #+
      In Finite Potential  #+
      Shadow Day  #
      187  #
Sunday in the Park with George
New Voices / New Visions, Part 2
      Conform  #+
      The Bald Soprano  #
Ubu Roi
Glory
for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf
  

Dance Productions

Moving Stories 2017 #
Master Choreographers 2018
Dance Emerge 2018 #

2016-2017

Theatre Productions

Attention: New Visions Directors' Festival
      The Imaginary Audience  #+
      Oh, The Humanity, and Other Good Intentions  #
The Pirates of Penzance
Falling: New Visions Directors' Festival
      Salome #
      Icarus's Mother #
Listen To Me
Wig Out! 
The Cherry Orchard

Dance Productions

Moving Stories 2016   #
Master Choreographers 2017
Dance Emerge 2017   #

Circus Workshop: Welkin #+

2015-2016

Theatre Productions

New Voices - World Premiere Plays
      Three Bedroom  #+
      My Short Shitty Life  #+
      Death of a Sun  #+
Chicago
Servant of Two Masters
New Visions - Directors' Festival    #
      Terrible Beautiful Bodies  #+
      Hello Out There  #
      The Exception and the Rule  #
Passion Play
Ulysses in Nighttown

Dance Productions

Moving Stories 2015   #
Master Choreographers 2016
Dance Emerge 2016   #

Circus Workshop: VOD   #+

2014-2015

Theatre Productions

New Visions - Director's Festival 
      The Love of Don Perlimplín for Belisa in the Garden  #
      Hrosvitha  #
      Out Loud (Three Short Plays)  #
      This Is a Chair  #
Anyone Can Whistle
Agamemnon
The Miss Firecracker Contest
Street Scene
Romeo and Juliet

Dance Productions

Moving Stories 2014   #
Master Choreographers 2015
Dance Emerge 2015   #

Circus Workshop: Atlas   #+

2013-2014

Theatre Productions

New Voices 2013    #+
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
The Winter's Tale
The Learned Ladies
New Visions - Director's Festival
      Every Good Boy Deserves Favour   #
      butyou'reaman   #+
      Still Life with Iris   #
Mad Forest

Dance Productions

Moving Stories 2013   #
Master Choreographers 2014
Dance Emerge 2014   #

2012-2013

Theatre Productions

44 Plays for 44 Presidents
On the Town
The Bourgeois Pig: A New Play   +
Bartholomew Fair
New Visions - Director's Festival
      Iphigenia and Other Daughters
   #
      Mental Landscapes
   #
The Marriage of Figaro

Dance Productions

Moving Stories 2012   #
Master Choreographers 2013
Dance Emerge 2013   #

2011-2012

Theatre Productions

New Voices 2011— New Plays by Muhlenberg Playwrights   #+
New Myths— Original Works by Emerging Alumni  #
Merrily We Roll Along
Curse of the Starving Class
Stop Kiss   #
A Midsummer Night's Dream
The Three Sisters

Dance Productions

Moving Stories 2011   #
Master Choreographers 2012
Dance Emerge 2012   #

2010-2011

Theatre Productions

Polaroid Stories   #
The Pajama Game
The Last Days of Judas Iscariot
La Dispute
The Tempest   +
Orlando

Dance Productions

Moving Stories 2010  #
Master Choreographers 2011
The Tempest   +

Dance Emerge 2011   #

2009-2010

Theatre Productions

New Voices 2009 — New Plays by Muhlenberg Playwrights   #+
Bat Boy: The Musical
New Visions - Director's Festival
      The Increased Difficulty of Concentration   #

      Uncommon Women and Others   #

The Other Shore
An American Tragedy   +
Blood Wedding

Dance Productions

Moving Stories 2009   #
Master Choreographers 2010
The Other Shore
Dance Emerge 2010   #

2008-2009

Theatre Productions

Miss Julie  #
Oklahoma!

Twelfth Night
The Possibilities
Caw
  +

A Flea in Her Ear

Dance Productions

Moving Stories 2008  #
Master Choreographers 2009
Dance Emerge 2009   #

2007-2008

Theatre Productions

Three More Sleepless Nights   #
Al Takes a Bride   #
Ruddigore   #
New Voices 2007   #
Venus
Zanna, Don't!
  #
Love's Labour's Lost

Dance Productions

Moving Stories 2007   #+
Master Choreographers 2008
Dance Emerge 2008   #

2006-2007

Theatre Productions

Weldon Rising   #
Urinetown the Musical
Life's a Dream
Orpheus Descending
Corps
  #+

Monkey in the Middle

Dance Productions

Moving Stories 2006   #
Master Choreographers 2007
Corps   #+
Dance Emerge 2007   #

2005-2006

Theatre Productions

Lebensraum   #
Cabaret
New Voices 2005   #+

A Bird of Prey   #
Big Love
The Pillow of Kantan   #

Figurentheater: Emigré and Exit: A Hamlet Fantasy   +

Dance Productions

Dance On   #
Master Choreographers 2006
Dance Emerge 2006   #

2004-2005

Theatre Productions

Tartuffe
Pippin
Christmas on Mars   #

How I Learned to Drive   #
Catholic School Girls   #
Pirates of Penzance
Lures and Snares
  +

Summerfolk

Dance Productions

Student Choreographer Showcase — Fall 2004   #
The Muhlenberg Dancers in Concert 2005
Student Choreographer Showcase — Spring 2005   #

2003-2004

Theatre Productions

Dancing at Lughnasa   #
On the Town
Scenes from an Execution
Measure for Measure
New Voices 2004
— New Plays by Muhlenberg Playwrights   #+

The Seagull

Dance Productions

Student-Choreographed Dance Concert — Fall 2003   #
Alumni Dance Concert — a celebration of 10 years of the Dance Major
The Muhlenberg Dancers in Concert 2004

Student-Choreographed Dance Concert — Spring 2004   #

2002-2003

Theatre Productions

Picasso at the Lapin Agile   #
Into the Woods   #
Anything's Dream   +
Electra
Private Eyes
  #

The Beggar's Opera

Dance Productions

Student-Choreographed Dance Concert — Fall 2002   #
The Muhlenberg Dancers in Concert 2003
Student-Choreographed Dance Concert — Spring 2003   #

2001-2002

Theatre Productions

New Voices 2001 — New Plays by Muhlenberg Playwrights   #+
Wonderful Town
The Game of Love and Chance
Juliet and Her Romeo: The Sixth Quarto
  +

The Vagina Monologues
Pentecost

Dance Productions

Student-Choreographed Dance Concert — Fall 2001   #
The Muhlenberg Dancers Concert 2002
Student-Choreographed Dance Concert — Spring 2002   #

2000-2001

Theatre Productions

A Midsummer Night's Dream
Mother Hicks
Little Shop of Horrors
The Crucible
Hot Ice
  #

Dido and Aeneas

Dance Productions

Student-Choreographed Dance Concert — Fall 2000   #
The Muhlenberg Dancers Concert 2001
Student-Choreographed Dance Concert — Spring 2001   #

1999-2000

Theatre Productions

Aunt Dan and Lemon
Our Town
The Country Wife
Cave Theory
  +

West Side Story
The World of Anton Chekhov: Four One-Act Vaudevilles   #

Dance Productions

Muhlenberg Dancers in Concert

Student-Choreographed Concert I   #
Student-Choreographed Concert II   #

1998-1999

Theatre Productions

Getting Out   #
The Mikado — * Please see note below.
The Winter's Tale
Blood Brothers
  #

Ophelia's Tattoo   +

Dance Productions

Junior/Senior Choreography Showcase   #
Muhlenberg Dancers in Concert
Student Choreographed Concert   #

1997-1998

Theatre Productions

Food and Shelter   #
Brigadoon
Top Girls
Galileo

Dance Productions

Student Choreographed Concert   #
The Muhlenberg Dancers in Concert

1996-1997

Theatre Productions

Fefu and Her Friends
Cabaret
Peer Gynt
The Kafka Project   +

Dance Productions

Student Choreographed Concert   #
The Muhlenberg Dancers in Concert

1995-1996

Theatre Productions

Medea
Oklahoma!
Oleanna

SubUrbia   #
Cloud Nine

Dance Productions

Student Choreographed Concert  #
The Muhlenberg Dancers in Concert

1994-1995

Theatre Productions

Crimes of the Heart
Hamlet
Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet)
A Chorus Line

Dance Productions

The Muhlenberg Dancers in Concert

1993-1994

Theatre Productions

Lydie Breeze
Carnival
The Three Sisters
Allen Tales
  +

Dance Productions

The Muhlenberg Dancers in Concert

1992-1993

Theatre Productions

Bed Time Story
The Apple Tree
Preggin and Liss
The Good Woman of Setzuan
Prelude to a Kiss
The Pajama Game

1991-1992

Theatre Productions

Voice of the Turtle
Ruddigore
The Miracle Worker
Phaedra

1990-1991

Theatre Productions

Man of La Mancha
Vinegar Tom
A Midsummer Night's Dream

1989-1990

Theatre Productions

Life Under Water
The Author's Voice
The Skin of Our Teeth
Asian Shade
Street Scene

1988-1989

Theatre Productions

The Lesson
The Bald Soprano
The School for Scandal
The Baby with the Bathwater
Candide

1987-1988

Theatre Productions

The Dining Room
The Vengeance
Anything Goes
South Pacific Snow

1986-1987

Theatre Productions

Ernest in Love
Twelfth Night
Slow Dance on the Killing Ground
Oklahoma!

1985-1986

Theatre Productions

Androscoggin Fugue
Bye Bye Birdie
Amahl and the Night Visitors
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
The Suicide

1984-1985

Theatre Productions

What I Did Last Summer
Good News
The Play of Daniel
'Tis Pity She's a Whore

1983-1984

Theatre Productions

The Doctor in Spite of Himself
Mother Courage and Her Children
Miss Julie
Of Thee I Sing

1982-1983

Theatre Productions

Album
Measure for Measure
Once Upon a Mattress

1981-1982

Theatre Productions

The Water Engine
Tartuffe
Antigone
Last Gasps
Oh What a Lovely War…
Riders to the Sea
Trial by Jury

1980-1981

Theatre Productions

Spring Awakening
You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown
The Woods
Guys and Dolls

1979-1980

Theatre Productions

The Pirates of Penzance
Before Christmas
Much Ado About Nothing

1978-1979

Theatre Productions

Our Town
Anything Goes

* A Note About Racial Stereotypes and Deleted Photos

Some past theatre performances at Muhlenberg contained insensitive racial stereotypes, among them The Mikado and Annie Get Your Gun. We apologize for the harm that the stereotypes depicted in these performances and associated photos have caused our community. These productions do not reflect our current philosophy of theatre production, casting or production design, and we have removed any related image galleries.

Practices within Summer Music Theatre and the Department of Theatre & Dance concerning casting and the canon of shows and plays considered for production have evolved significantly and purposefully in recent years to more thoughtfully consider the experience of communities of color, both as performers and audience.

We appreciate the work that students and alumni have done to hold our College community accountable for past and present harms. Each of us plays an important role in ensuring our College community is welcoming and inclusive.

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DANCE: Prof. Heidi Cruz-Austin | THEATRE: Prof. Troy Dwyer
Address Muhlenberg College Theatre & Dance The Baker Center for the Arts 2400 Chew Street Allentown, PA 18104