Playbill: Up Next at UT
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Oct. 19-29, 2023
Titmus Theatre
Play by Rick Elice
Music by Wayne Barker
Based on the novel by Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson
Peter and the Starcatcher follows a young orphan, his mates, and a Starcatcher-in-training from Victorian England to a distant island where together, they must protect a celestial substance so powerful that it must never fall into the wrong hands. When their ship is taken over by pirates determined to claim the treasure for their own, the journey becomes a thrilling adventure that playfully explores the depths of greed and despair…and the bonds of friendship, duty, and love. Directed by Mia Self.
Feb. 15-18, 2024
Stewart Theatre
Book by Leslie Bricusse, Music by Frank Wildhorn
Lyrics by Wildhorn, Bricusse and Steve Cudden
Based on the 1886 novel by Robert Louis Stevenson. “Jekyll and Hyde,” the musical, follows the journey of Dr. Henry Jekyll as he attempts to find a scientific solution to separate the good from the evil inside humans by experimenting on himself. In doing so, Jekyll unwittingly releases his alter ego, Edward Hyde, on Victorian London. Directed by Danica Jackson.
Apr. 4-14, 2024
Titmus Theatre
By Lauren Gunderson
Mathematician Ada Byron Lovelace, daughter of the infamous Lord Byron, believes in the boundless potential of the “analytical engines” invented by her friend Charles Babbage. Constrained by the social rules of her day, Ada is determined to make her mark. Through love, friendship, and poetic dreams of the future, Ada creates a vision of the world where art and information converge to transform everything at the beginning of the British Industrial Revolution. Directed by Mia Self.
