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University Theatre

We're excited about the 2023-24 season and can't wait to share it with you.

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Engaging and Connecting Students in a Safe and Meaningful Way

QuickSCRIPTS

An evening of 10-minute plays written, cast, and produced in 72 hours.

Saturday, Sept. 23 | 8pm

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2023-24 season sales now available online!

Single tickets for the 2023-24 season are NOW ON SALE!

For a limited time, when you bundle our Producing Series shows – Peter and the Starcatcher, Jekyll & Hyde, and Ada and the Engine – you’ll save up to 25% off the regular price of the three individual shows.

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Centralized Online Ticketing & Registration

Purchase tickets and register for University Theatre Producing and Studio Series, and TheatreFEST events all in one convenient location. Online sales and registration links go live one month in advance of each offering at 10:00am (unless otherwise noted).

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Get Involved

If you have lot’s of theatre experience or none; lots of spare time to limited availability; there’s a place for you here, at University Theatre!

Onstage, backstage, workshops, classes, scene shop, costume shop, lighting and sound shop, and more. Here you will find a creative, supportive and thriving community where you are free to direct your own life-changing experience!

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Student Employment

Need to work while at State? University Theatre has tech and front-of-house positions available on our Event Operations team. Check out the student employment page for details and to apply.

Employment opportunities at UT 

programs in The studio series

About the Studio Series

The WRIGHT Way –
Script Development Series

A series of readings, workshops, and masterclasses whose primary focus is supporting winners of the Creative Artist Award through the development of their award-winning plays — the right way….

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Quickscript actors rehearse

QuickSCRIPTS

Four playwrights with a prompt. Four directors. Four casts. 72-hours to put four 10-minute plays on stage before a live audience.

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Banned Books

Banned Books Live Reading

University Libraries and University Theatre present an evening of staged-readings of banned books. The Banned Books Coalition is an international alliance of diverse organizations joined by a commitment to increase awareness of the annual celebration of the freedom to read.

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Sips & Scripts

A service platform that supports, promotes, and produces original works, written by North Carolina playwrights through public and private readings and through additional nurturing. Meets in Frank Thompson Hall the first Monday of each month.

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Comedic Improvisational Alliance (CIA)

NC State’s oldest and only improv troupe presents a night of improv comedy where every scene and joke is without a script.

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OUT LOUD –
Script Reading Series

Get together to read new works by new playwrights for a new experience. Participants choose to read or sit in on the reading. Stay tuned as the new works are announced and for how you can get involved — out loud!

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All Events
Sep 23

Saturday8:00 PM

University Theatre Presents QuickSCRIPTS
Oct 03

Tuesday7:00 PM

Banned Books Live Reading
Oct 19

Thursday7:30 PM

Opening Night of University Theatre’s Peter and the Starcatcher

Need a space for your next event?

University Theatre’s Event Operations team manages and operates spaces in Frank Thompson Hall, and Stewart Theatre located in Talley Student Union.

Thompson Hall is home to the 192-seat Titmus Theatre, and 103-seat Kennedy-McIlwee Studio Theatre — production shops, a rehearsal hall, and classrooms.

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Video Archive

Strictly Speaking Series
Conversations with professional theatre makers who speak about their work, their industry and their journey in the arts.

How-to-Theatre Series
Video lessons in various production techniques that work beyond the walls of the theatre. Lessons span general items such as woodworking, sewing, makeup, welding, audio, scenic painting, embroidery, audio recording, and CNC router use.

QuickSCRIPTS
The final 10-minute play presentations. See works written by Satya Paramita, Emily Chiola, Christian O’Neal, Allison Fradkin, Gus Allen, George Jack, Kaitlan C. Farrior, Ter Chavez, and Brody McCurdy.

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