Theatre Siena

Siena Heights Theatre

Experience the joy of live theater at Siena Heights University. All productions take place in Francoeur Theatre in the Performing Arts Center. Productions take place through most of the school year and feature a renowned and dedicated staff.

One of the programs unique to Siena Heights University is the Child Drama/Children’s Theatre program. It is designed to provide children 4-16 years old with an opportunity to create and take part in improvised creative drama experiences and theatrical productions.

As students explore and play stretching their imaginations, minds and bodies, they also gain increased confidence and self-esteem as well as useful skills in articulation, creative problem solving, group interaction skills and public speaking.

Curtain time for all shows is 8 p.m. (except the Sunday performance of the Youth Theatre Production.)

Originally started in 1963, the program employs students and faculty of Siena Heights University to work with the children to create improvised plays in workshops held on campus during the fall and winter semesters, and in a summer camp.

Ticket Pricing


  Show Type General Admission Students & Staff
  Non-Musical
Youth Theater
Musical
$8
$8
$12 

$6
$6
$8
Season Passes (good for two) are available for $75.

2011-2012 Theater Schedule

  Date Production
 

October 6-7-8

As You Like It
by William Shakespeare 
Director: Kerry Graves

One of Shakespeare’s most popular comedies, As You Like It is a romantic romp filled with gender-bending entanglements, witty discussions on the meaning of life and love, governmental power struggles, and wonderful characters doing strange and marvelous things. There is something for everyone in the charming and thought-provoking play.

 

November 3-4-5

Songs for a New World
Music and Lyrics by Jason Robert Brown
Director: Doug Miller

This exciting off-broadway hit musical gives us the stories and the characters of today….taken to that single moment, having to make a choice, take a stand, or turn around and go back. With a small powerhouse cast and a driving, exquisitely crafted score running the gamut of today’s popular music, Jason Robert Brown’s NEW WORLD is a great way to bring everyone back to the theater.

 

November 16-17-18-19

 

Student Directed One Acts

 

 

 

February 3-4-5

The Lazy Lovitts and the Curiosity Thief
* WORLD PREMIERE!

Written and Directed by Kerry Graves

This family-friendly comedy explores Curiosity and its crucial connection to all of our lives. Are today’s children losing their Curiosity …their desire to explore and discover? What will happen to us if the Love of Learning disappears? If Curiosity is lost, what might happen to its best friends,
Imagination and Creativity? The situation is looking very serious! Join us for this wacky and challenging adventure as the five Lovitt children deal with the dreaded Curiosity
Thief.

Note: Curtain time is at 7 p.m. Feb. 3 and Feb. 4. Curtain time is at 2 p.m. Feb. 5.

 

February 23-24-25

 

August: Osage County 
by Tracy Letts
Director: Doug Miller

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the Tony Award, Tracy Letts’ Broadway debut creates a hugely ambitious, highly combustible saga that will leave you reeling. A story of a struggling Midwestern American family surrounded by repressed truths and
unsettling secrets. This remarkable drama is laced with corrosive humor so darkly delicious and ghastly that you’ll squirm even as you double-over laughing.

 

 

March 29-30-31

Sweeney Todd The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Music and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim
Director: Mark DiPietro
Book by Hugh Wheeler

Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler’s chilling, suspenseful, heart-pounding masterpiece of murderous barber-ism and culinary crime tells the infamous tale of the unjustly exiled barber who returns to 19th century London seeking revenge against the lecherous judge who framed him and ravaged his young wife. His thirst for blood soon expands to include his unfortunate customers, and the resourceful proprietress of the pie shop downstairs soon has the people of London lining up in droves with her mysterious new meat pie recipe! 

Additional Information

Francoeur Theater and Stubnitz Theater are handicap accessible.  During productions, please turn off all cell phones and pagers.  Photography of any sort is prohibited. 

Box office/Questions: (517) 264-7890

Contact

Questions about an upcoming show? Give us a call.

Box office: (517) 264-7890

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