Please note: The Theatre is open to off-campus patrons this season, with proof of vaccination checked at the door and facemasks during the performance. We do not accomodate exceptions to this policy.
by Jordan Harrison
September 29 – October 14, 2021
Directed by Jonathan Cole
When crisis comes to call, it’s time to improvise! An intrepid troupe of pageant players races across medieval Europe, struggling to outrun the Black Death. The arrival of a mysterious outsider sends Hollis, the leading lady, in search of answers that can only be found off-script – somewhere much closer to our own time!
Performances
September 29 – October 14, 2021
Wed – Sat, 7:30 pm. Sunday matinees at 2 pm.
The Amateurs is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals on behalf of Samuel French, Inc.
Faculty Jazz Sextet
October 19, 2021
This is no ordinary classroom! Join us for a premiere jazz jam, featuring Willamette's award-winning faculty members: Tyler Abbott (bass), Ryan Biesack (percussion), Sean Nobel Flannery (saxophone), Mike Gamble (guitar), James Miley (piano/electronics) and Mike Nord (guitar/electronics).
Performance
Tuesday, October 19, 2021
7:30 pm, Hudson Hall, Mary Stuart Rogers Music Center
November 10 – 19, 2021
“Everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances.” – Maya Angelou.
Explorations in time and in space! Willamette University faculty join with student choreographers as they continue to seek out the boundaries of movement and dance.
Performances
November 10 – 19, 2021
Wed – Sat, 7:30 pm. Sunday matinee at 2 pm.
by Whitney Rowland
February 9 – 20, 2022
Directed by Lava Alapai
A fantastical, poignant comedy about Jane, an emotionally-numbed new widow, and Harrison, an inattentive, self-sabotaging fiancé. In seeking escape, these two strangers collide – both literally and figuratively – tangling their life lines and setting them on a time-bending journey involving an intercontinental plane crash, a magical forest, and a choice that leads them both to an unexpected destination.
Performances
February 9 – 20, 2022
Wed – Sat, 7:30 pm. Sunday matinees at 2 pm
Willamette's Dramatic Vocal Arts
March 12 and 13, 2022
Katherine Skovira, Music Director
A celebratory vocal and ensemble bash! Featuring world, regional and local premieres of works by female composers and performers. A part of their “Artist as Advocate” series, Dramatic Vocal Arts and the Voice Area share the musical treasures of artist-advocate, BIPOC, and other female voices from the 21st and 20th centuries.
Performance
Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 7: 30 pm
Sunday, March 13 at 2:00 pm
Performed at Hudson Hall, Mary Stuart Rogers Music Center
by William Shakespeare
April 6 – 23, 2022
Directed by Susan Coromel
This enduring comedy about masquerade and identity finds twins Viola and Sebastian shipwrecked and separated. Their journeys home leads them through the land of Illyria, where romance springs at many angles – even impossible triangles. “If music be the food of love, play on!”
Performances
April 6 – 23, 2022
Wed – Sat, 7:30 pm.
Matinees: Sunday, April 10 and Saturday, April 23, 2:00 pm
Igor Stravinsky...and more!
April 24, 2022
Christopher Engbretson, Conductor
The Willamette University Music Department combines its largest choral and instrumental ensembles in this presentation of the iconic 20th-century psalm settings for orchestra and chorus. Igor Stravinsky’s Symphony of Psalms is by far the composer’s best known religious work — a powerful, moving, and transcendent piece that moves from lonely isolation and wandering, to rebirth, to joyful exultation.
Performance
Sunday, April 24, 2022
3:00 pm, Hudson Hall, Mary Stuart Rogers Music Center