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The WVU School of Theatre and Dance’s 2026-27 season includes musicals, comedic plays and dance performances featuring current students as actors, dancers, scene and costume designers, sound and lighting technicians, choreographers and stage managers.

Radhica Ganapathy is the new director of the West Virginia University School of Theatre and Dance, and Michael Vercelli, who has served as the interim director for the past year, is the director of the School of Music effective July 2026.

Limited spots remain in the WVU Summer Acting and Dance Academies for youth and teens interested in immersive weeklong courses to further their performance skills.

WVU Theatre Design and Technology major Daney Brookover ended her final year at West Virginia University on a high note. The Ripley, West Virginia, native received multiple awards from the College of Creative Arts and Media in her final semester. Even more impressive, Brookover won the U.S. Institute for Theatre Technology (USITT) Bernhard R. Works Master Crafts Award.

Fun-loving. Passionate. Adventurous.

The WVU School of Theatre and Dance presents the uproariously funny musical “Something Rotten!” from April 23-26 at the WVU Canady Creative Arts Center Lyell B. Clay Concert Theatre. Set in the 1590s, brothers Nick and Nigel Bottom are desperate to write a hit play but are stuck in the shadow of that Renaissance rock star known as “The Bard.”

In March, 19 WVU Dance majors and several faculty members traveled to Athens, Ohio, for the American College Dance Association East-Central Conference, hosted this year by Ohio University. During the conference, students and faculty have opportunities to present their own creative work for adjudication and feedback; attend workshops, classes and panel discussions with dance professionals; network with artists in the field and build connections and friendships with dancers from other higher ed institutions.

The WVU School of Theatre and Dance presents the uproariously funny musical “Something Rotten!” from April 23-26 at the WVU Canady Creative Arts Center Lyell B. Clay Concert Theatre.

The WVU School of Theatre and Dance will perform “Sueño,” a tale of fate and free will, March 5-7 and March 10-13 at 7:30 p.m. in the Gladys G. Davis Theatre at the Canady Creative Arts Center. “Sueño” is Jose Rivera’s adaptation of Pedro Calderon de la Barca’s 1630s play “La vida es sueño” (“Life is a dream”), blending romance and tragedy, drama and comedy, introspection and action.

The West Virginia Symphony Orchestra (WVSO) will make a stop at the WVU Canady Creative Arts Center to present “Shakespeare on Stage” with Music Director Maurice Cohn and onstage performances by WVU Theatre students Sunday, Feb. 22, at 2 p.m.