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02/28/2025

Brady and Sergio talk about working with Meisner technique and playing characters that are different from themselves.
Make sure to get your tickets for "Nora: A Doll's House" at https://www.tix.com/ticket-sales/wou-arts/6790

02/21/2025

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Nora: A Doll's house opens next week in Rice Auditorium at WOU! We hope to see you there! Tickets are on sale now at https://www.tix.com/ticket-sales/wou-arts/6790

02/20/2025

Savannah and Brianna are here to tell you about the twists of Nora: A Doll's House, the rehearsal process, and their characters.

Tickets are on sale now for "Nora: A Doll's House" at https://www.tix.com/ticket-sales/wou-arts/6790

Meet the cast! next up are our three gentlemen. Stef Smith's adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's classic shows us Nora's story ...
02/11/2025

Meet the cast! next up are our three gentlemen. Stef Smith's adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's classic shows us Nora's story across three different time periods, the 2020, 1970, and 1920. What has changed? What has stayed the same? Tickets are on sale now for "Nora: A Doll's House" at https://www.tix.com/ticket-sales/wou-arts/6790

Catch the Director and our Nora's on KMUZ Theatre Talk!
02/11/2025

Catch the Director and our Nora's on KMUZ Theatre Talk!

Catch this week’s KMUZ Theatre Talk episode, wherever you listen to podcasts.,

Episode 25-0207: WOU Theatre Department stages NORA: A DOLL’S HOUSE, a reframing of Ibsen’s classic to modern times. Albany Civic Theater offers a strange/zany/funny musical, RIDE THE CYCLONE.

— NORA: A DOLL’S HOUSE, a modern reframing of the classic drama, “A Doll’s House,” by Henrik Ibsen, is set in three different time periods — the fight for women’s suffrage, the swinging 60s and modern day. Director Kindra Steenerson and the actors playing all three “Noras” talk with Ed about this update of Ibsen’s classic, opening Feb. 26 at WOU Theatre Department’s Rice Auditorium.

— Director Lorianne Schmidt and actor Frank Kern talk with Ed about RIDE THE CYCLONE, the strange and hilarious musical about six members of a Canadian chamber choir stuck in limbo after dying in a freak rollercoaster accident. But a mechanical fortune teller offers them a chance to return to life. Opening Feb. 21 at Albany Civic Theater.

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Meet the cast part two! Our 3 Christines. Stef Smith's adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's classic shows us Nora's story across...
02/10/2025

Meet the cast part two! Our 3 Christines. Stef Smith's adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's classic shows us Nora's story across 3 different time periods, the 2020, 1970, and 1920. What has changed? What has stayed the same? Tickets are on sale now for "Nora: A Doll's House" at https://www.tix.com/ticket-sales/wou-arts/6790

Meet the cast! First up our 3 Nora's. Stef Smith's adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's classic shows us Nora's story across 3 d...
02/07/2025

Meet the cast! First up our 3 Nora's. Stef Smith's adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's classic shows us Nora's story across 3 different time periods, the 2020, 1970, and 1920. What has changed? What has stayed the same? Tickets are on sale now for "Nora: A Doll's House" at https://www.tix.com/ticket-sales/wou-arts/6790

Nora is the perfect wife and mother. She is dutiful, beautiful and everything is always in its right place. But when a s...
01/22/2025

Nora is the perfect wife and mother. She is dutiful, beautiful and everything is always in its right place. But when a secret from her past comes back to haunt her, her life rapidly unravels. Over the course of three days, Nora must fight to protect herself and her family or risk losing everything.

Ibsen’s brutal portrayal of womanhood caused outrage when it was first performed in 1879. This bold new adaptation reframes the drama in three different time periods. The fight for women’s suffrage, the swinging sixties and modern day intertwine in this urgent, poetic play that asks how far have we really come in the past 100 years?

“Nora: A Doll’s House” will run February 27-March 8, 2024 @ 7:30 pm and March 2 @ 2 pm. Sunday, March 2, 2025 at 2:00 pm and Friday, March 7, 2025 at 7:30 pm will be ASL interpreted. Performances will take place in Rice Auditorium, 344 Knox St N, Monmouth, OR 97361. Free parking will be available in lot B on Knox Street.
For ticket information and reservations, visit wou.edu/theatre-dance/events/, call the box office at 503-838-8340, or visit the box office in Rice Auditorium on Thursday or Friday between 12:30 and 4:30.

Ticket Prices: | $14 general | $8 for students | $10 Senior Citizens | $10 WOU Faculty & Staff |WOU Students Free with ID|

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Brady and Sergio talk about working with Meisner technique and playing characters that are different from themselves. Make sure to get your tickets for "Nora: A Doll's House" at https://www.tix.com/ticket-sales/wou-arts/6790

Savannah and Brianna are here to tell you about the twists of Nora: A Doll's House, the rehearsal process, and their characters. Tickets are on sale now for "Nora: A Doll's House" at https://www.tix.com/ticket-sales/wou-arts/6790

Maddux and Sergio Interview
Maddux and Sergio Interview

The second week of The Other Shore performances starts on Wednesday! Tickets: https://www.tix.com/ticket-sales/wou-arts/6790/

Week Two of The Other Shore starts on Wednesday! Get tickets: https://www.tix.com/ticket-sales/wou-arts/6790/

The Other Shore - Jenna and Mary
The Other Shore - Jenna and Mary

The Other Shore Runs 11/14-11/23. Tickets: https://www.tix.com/ticket-sales/wou-arts/6790/

Come with us on a journey to the other shore. Tickets: https://www.tix.com/ticket-sales/wou-arts/6790/

The Other Shore Interview With Savannah and Brady
The Other Shore Interview With Savannah and Brady

The Other Shore Runs 11/14-11/23. Tickets: https://www.tix.com/ticket-sales/wou-arts/6790/

AUDITIONS
AUDITIONS

The audition form is now live for our fall production of Gao Xingjian's "The Other Shore". Auditions will be Monday, September 30th at 6pm. The Other Shore by Gao Xingjian (pronounced gow shing-yan) is an example of “pure drama” written in 1986. What starts as an acting exercise about rope creating relationships between actors leads into a journey of people trying to find their individuality without being rejected by the crowd. Language becomes the rope tying the characters together. The crowd is in need of a leader, but when one appears will the crowd allow itself to be led? SIGN UP TO AUDITION HERE AUDITIONS ARE OPEN TO ALL WOU STUDENTS: https://forms.gle/ihRqAoe96ktqD9pK7 any tech issues? please message us or email [email protected] for assistance. #westernoregonuniversity #gowolves #woutheatre #wouart #woupresident #woucampus #wounews #woudrama #monmouthoregon #studentart

We Open This Week! So excited to share this show with a live audience. This fun play is appropriate for families, with some innuendo and lots of stage combat. To reserve tickets go tohttps://www.tix.com/ticket-sales/wou-arts/6790 or call 503-838-8340.

Brianna and Lucy talk about being in John Proctor is the Villain! JOHN PROCTOR IS THE VILLIAN May 29, 30, 31, and June 1 at 7:30pm and June 1 at 2pm **ASL interpreted performance: May 31 @ 7:30pm and June 1 @ 2pm** Rice Auditorium #howlaboutit #westernoregonuniversity #theatre

Paige and Lexy talk about being in John Proctor is the Villain! JOHN PROCTOR IS THE VILLIAN May 29, 30, 31, and June 1 at 7:30pm and June 1 at 2pm **ASL interpreted performance: May 31 @ 7:30pm and June 1 @ 2pm** Rice Auditorium #howlaboutit #westernoregonuniversity #theatre

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Building a Solid Foundation Through Live Performance.

Building a Solid Foundation Through Live Performance

Theatre at WOU provides students with a solid base in acting, directing, technical theatre and design, performance, history, literature and theory. Each term students participate in professional productions in various styles ranging from contemporary to classical. Students are prepared for post-graduate opportunities including graduate program teacher licencor programs, internships, professional theatre and participation in the arts in their communities.