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Department of Theatre & Dance

2025-2026 Season

A banner that reads, "WAYFINDING: In search of connection along divergent paths"

It is with joy that we welcome you to our 2025-2026 theatrical season. This year, we are combining time-honored Auburn traditions with bold goals for growth. On the back of last season's Resilience, this season's theme, Wayfinding, suits our upcoming journey. 

For years, AU Theatre and Dance has offered an outstanding liberal arts based education to emerging theatre and dance artists. We practice intensive mentorship with our students and work closely with them as they find their way. This season, we want to show our students how much we appreciate their hard work by providing a better educational path for success through an increase in scholarship funding. To make this journey possible, we need your help.

This year, we are excited to debut our Scholarship Benefit Opening Nights. All ticket sales and donations on any opening night will go directly to student scholarships. If you purchase tickets for opening nights, even if you ultimately must reschedule your attendance, your ticket purchase will go to the scholarship fund.

While you can always support AUTD through a direct gift when you order any tickets, we also ask that you consider giving on opening night by buying a ticket and/or including an extra donation if you are able.

− Tessa Carr, PhD, AUTD Chairperson

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As You Like It

A Musical Adaptation of William Shakespeare’s As You Like It
Adapted by Shaina Taub and Laurie Woolery
Music and Lyrics by Shaina Taub
Directed by Abdul-Khaliq Murtadha and Ashley Butler

September 25-October 5, 2025
Telfair B. Peet Mainstage Theatre

Composite image with picture of a banyan tree, a handrawn map of Arden, and a green banner that reads, "SANCTUARY, LOVE, COMMUNITY"

 

 

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Small Mouth Sounds

By Bess Wohl
Directed by Lindsay Rae Taylor

October 23-November 2, 2025
Telfair B. Peet Black Box Theatre

Composite image with picture of a a creek in a forest, a map of a spiritual retreat, and a turquoise banner that reads, "PURPOSE, MEANING, VOICE"

 

 

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Footprints

Created by Adrienne Wilson and Jeri Dickey
Featuring the Auburn University Dance Ensemble

November 18-21, 2025
Telfair B. Peet Mainstage Theatre

Composite image with picture of 1700s choreographic notation, a modern diagram of a dance piece, and a blue banner that reads, "CENTER, BALANCE, SELF"

  

 

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Sweeney Todd

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
A Musical Thriller
Music and Lyrics by STEPHEN SONDHEIM / Book by HUGH WHEELER
From an Adaptation by CHRISTOPHER BOND
Originally directed on Broadway by HAROLD PRINCE
Orchestrations by JONATHAN TUNICK
Directed by Andrew Schwartz
Music Direction by Brian Osborne
Choreography by Jeri Dickey

February 19- 28, 2026
Telfair B. Peet Mainstage Theatre 

Composite image with an 1800s engraving of a Westminster bridge alcove, a vintage map of Fleet Street in London, and a red banner that reads, "JUSTICE, REDEMPTION, FREEDOM"

 

 

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Body Maps

Student-Devised Workshop
Performance with Tim Miller

March 20th, 2026
Telfair B. Peet Mainstage Theatre

Free and open to the public, but with limited seating

Students devising material in the Blackbox theatre
Students devising material in the Blackbox theatre

 

 

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Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike

By Christopher Durang
Directed by Scott Phillips

April 9-18, 2026
Telfair B. Peet Black Box Theatre

Composite image with picture of a cherry tree, a handpainted landscape design of an estate, and a gold banner that reads, "PLACE, IDENTITY, PATH FORWARD"