Events

Feb 1 2024

The Musical Theatre Certificate offers students the opportunity to study this popular art form in a flexible program. As a Theatre, Voice, or Dance Major students may audition for entrance into this highly selective program each spring and can be admitted even as incoming Freshmen.

Students in this interdisciplinary program train with experts in Private Voice Coaching, Musical Theatre Dance and Technique as well as Master Classes…

Audition Registration Required
Feb 2 2024 | 8:30am - 9pm

High school dancers are invited to engage in dance workshops taught by professional dance faculty, Q&As with both faculty and current students, and tours of our facilities on campus. Plus, all participants will be provided lunch at the Gatton Student Center Champions Kitchen and one complimentary ticket to our Dance Performance mainstage production, HOME: Annual Dance Concert at 7:30 pm in the Guignol Theatre.

Fine Arts Building
$10
Feb 2 2024 | 7:30 - 9pm, Feb 3 2024 | 7:30 - 9pm, Feb 4 2024 | 2 - 3:30pm

Feb. 2 - 4, 2024

We’ve returned home. Home to the studio, to the theatre, to creating, sweating, dancing, and witnessing the magic of movement. Home provides a venue for Students to perform faculty, guest artist, and student choreography, which embraces a variety of forms. Through Irish Step Dance, Contemporary Ballet, Hip-Hop, Modern and Dance Theatre, UK Dance celebrates Home as verb, not a concept. 

Guignol Theatre
$20 Adults / $13 Students
Feb 29 2024 | 7:30 - 9pm, Mar 1 2024 | 7:30 - 9pm, Mar 2 2024 | 2 - 3:30pm, Mar 2 2024 | 7:30 - 9pm, Mar 3 2024 | 2 - 3:30pm

Feb. 29 - March 3, 2024

by Jackie Sibblies Drury 

The 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Drama winner FAIRVIEW follows the Fraiser family as they prepare for their grandmother's perfect birthday. But as the perfect party becomes increasingly difficult to pull off, is anything as it seems? This dazzling play, part comedy, part searing satire, is full of surprises. The Pulitzer Committee called FAIRVIEW "a hard-hitting drama that…

Briggs Theatre
$20 Adults / $13 Students
Apr 11 2024 | 7:30 - 9pm, Apr 12 2024 | 7:30 - 9pm, Apr 13 2024 | 2 - 3:30pm, Apr 13 2024 | 7:30 - 9pm, Apr 14 2024 | 2 - 3:30pm

April 11 - 14, 2024

“Everybody cut loose!” Based on the classic 80s movie starring Kevin Bacon, Footloose tells the story of Ren McCormack, a teenager who moves from the big city of Chicago to a small town where rock n' roll music and dancing are....illegal!!! Along with other kids at school, Ren begins to challenge the strict order of the town, all while falling for conservative Rev. Shaw’s…

Guignol Theatre
$25 Adults / $19 Students