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2016-17 Season

Race

  • September 23 – October 2, 2016
  • WVU Canady Creative Arts Center Gladys G. Davis Theatre
  • By David Mamet
  • Directed by jerry mcgonigle

Three lawyers are forced to confront their own feelings about race when they’re offered the chance to defend a white man charged with a crime against a black woman. David Mamet’s customarily crackling dialogue and startling plot twists are the building blocks of a probing and intelligent look at some of the most controversial and important issues of our time.

Noises Off

  • October 13 – 16, 2016
  • Metropolitan Theatre
  • by michael frayn
  • Directed by lee Blair

Things go from bad to worse to beyond chaotic as a rag-tag theatre troupe prepares for the opening night of a new comedy, “Nothing On.” Onstage mishaps and backstage backstabbing reach laugh-out-loud heights in this classic comedic farce.

The Trojan Women

  • November 17 – 18, and November 29 – December 4, 2016
  • WVU Canady Creative Arts Center Gladys G. Davis Theatre
  • by euripides, translated and adapted by Gwendolyn mcewen
  • directed by jay malarcher

A meditation on the true cost of war, “The Trojan Women” raises up the voices of the survivors of Troy’s fall to the Greeks as they learn their fates. Separation, despair, and death -- along with sharp and painful lessons -- await the women of Troy in this magnificent and timeless tragedy.

Dance Now!

  • February 2 – 4, 2017
  • WVU Canady Creative Arts Center Lyell B. Clay Concert Theatre
  • Directed by General Hambrick

WVU’s annual dance concert gives audiences the opportunity to experience a wide variety of styles in an eclectic and electric evening of choreography. A mix of student, faculty and guest choreographers join forces with visiting troupes to bring the best of dance to the Canady Creative Arts Center.

Pericles

  • March 2 – 3, 14 – 19, 2017 
  • WVU Canady Creative Arts Center Gladys G. Davis Theatre
  • by william Shakespeare
  • Directed by Cornel Gabara

The titular prince is in love with a princess, but dark secrets put Pericles in danger and left him on the run! Terror and tragedy dog his steps in the years that follow in this mysterious entry into the Bard’s canon. Follow Pericles as he deals with lascivious royals, treacherous seas, and a lifetime of surprises.

The Pirates of Penzance

  • April 6 – 9, 2017
  • WVU Canady Creative Arts Center Lyell B. Clay Concert Theatre
  • by arthur sullivan and W.S. Gilbert
  • Directed by Lee Blair

Long before Disney pirates started to yuk it up in the Caribbean, Gilbert and Sullivan’s seafaring brigands were blending romantic comedy with glorious song in this beloved operetta. Join the School of Music and School of Theatre & Dance as they tell a tale of reluctant pirates, fair maidens, and questionable naval intelligence. 

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