Past Productions
University Productions
Each academic year the U-M School of Music, Theatre & Dance – through the auspices of University Productions – presents works featuring students from the Departments of Dance, Musical Theatre, Theatre & Drama, and Voice & Opera. These performances perennially delight our audiences and provide invaluable experience for student-artists.
Current Season (2024-2025)
- Julius Caesar | Theatre & Drama
- Twelfth Night | Musical Theatre
- Hänsel und Gretel | Voice & Opera
- John Proctor Is the Villain | Theatre & Drama
- U-M Dance Company 2025 | Dept. of Dance
- A Few Good Men | Theatre & Drama
- The Government Inspector | Musical Theatre (Studio)
- The Turn of the Screw | Voice & Opera
- Our Oz | Theatre & Drama
- Titanic: The Musical | Musical Theatre
2023-2024 Season
- Intimate Apparel | Theatre & Drama
- Guys and Dolls | Musical Theatre
- Orpheus in the Underworld | Voice
- Imogen Says Nothing | Theatre & Drama
- Dancing in Memory Burning | Dept. of Dance
- Arbor Falls | Theatre & Drama
- Elizabeth Cree | Voice & Opera
- The Cherry Orchard | Theatre & Drama
- A Little Night Music | Musical Theatre
2022-2023 Season
- Moscow Moscow Moscow Moscow Moscow Moscow | Theatre & Drama
- Sophisticated Ladies | Musical Theatre
- The Cunning Little Vixen | Voice
- Bernarda Alba | Musical Theatre
- The Heart of Robin Hood | Theatre & Drama
- Sleek Disturbances | Dept. of Dance
- Bonnets: How Ladies of Good Breeding are Induced to Murder | Theatre & Drama
- Don Giovanni | Voice
- Everybody | Theatre & Drama
- Rent | Musical Theatre
2021-2022 Season
- Nora: A Doll’s House | Theatre & Drama
- The Wild Party | Musical Theatre
- Cendrillon | University Opera Theatre
- Men On Boats | Theatre & Drama
- Junk: The Golden Age of Debt | Theatre & Drama
- A Midsummer Night’s Dream | Musical Theatre (Studio)
- Forward Facing | Dept. of Dance
- Antigone | Theatre & Drama
- The Ties That Bind | University Opera Theatre
- somebody’s children | Theatre & Drama
- Hair | Musical Theatre
2020-2021 Season (Virtual)
- A Beautiful Country | Theatre & Drama
- MT Ghostlight Episode 1, Episode 2, Episode 3 | Musical Theatre
- Opera One-Acts | University Opera Theatre
- Proving Up | University Opera Theatre
- Dance Despite COVID | Dept. of Dance
- Romeo & Juliet | Theatre & Drama
- As You Like It | Musical Theatre (Studio)
- Don Pasquale | University Opera Theatre
- Playfest | Theatre & Drama
- Godspell | Musical Theatre
2019-2020 Season
- Sense and Sensibility | Theatre & Drama
- Pirates of Penzance | Musical Theatre
- La Bohème | University Opera Theatre
- Water by the Spoonful | Theatre & Drama
- The Grapes of Wrath | Theatre & Drama
- A New Brain | Musical Theatre (Studio)
- Latin Xpressions | Dept. of Dance
- Yerma | Theatre & Drama
- Sonnets, Soliloquies, & Soul (Studio) | Musical Theatre
- A Beautiful Country (cancelled) | Theatre & Drama
- Die Fledermaus (cancelled) | University Opera Theatre
- My One and Only (cancelled) | Musical Theatre
2018-2019 Season
- Night and Day | Theatre & Drama
- Sweet Charity | Musical Theatre
- Candide | University Opera Theatre
- Passing Strange | Musical Theatre
- Twelfth Night | Theatre & Drama
- Complex Rhythms | Dept. of Dance
- The Exonerated | Musical Theatre (Studio)
- Love and Information | Theatre & Drama
- Alcina | University Opera Theatre
- Flint | Theatre & Drama
- Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street | Musical Theatre
- 2019 Musical Theatre Senior Showcase | Musical Theatre
2017-2018 Season
- The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui | Theatre & Drama
- One Hit Wonder | Musical Theatre
- Dinner at Eight | University Opera Theatre
- Blood at the Root | Theatre & Drama
- Violet | Musical Theatre (Studio)
- The Merry Wives of Windsor | Theatre & Drama
- Dancing Globally | Dept. of Dance
- You For Me For You | Theatre & Drama
- The Last Days of Judas Iscariot | Musical Theatre (Studio)
- The Marriage of Figaro | University Opera Theatre
- Angels in America: Millennium Approaches | Theatre & Drama
- Me and My Girl | Musical Theatre
- 2018 Musical Theatre Senior Showcase | Musical Theatre
2016-2017 Season
- Ah, Wilderness! | Theatre & Drama
- The Drowsy Chaperone | Musical Theatre
- Roméo et Juliette | University Opera Theatre
- A Man of No Importance | Musical Theatre
- Peter and the Starcatcher | Theatre & Drama
- Glancing Back, Dancing Forward | Dept. of Dance
- Mr. Burns: A Post-Electric Play | Theatre & Drama
- A Midsummer Night’s Dream | University Opera Theatre
- Insurrection: Holding History | Theatre & Drama
- Disney’s The Little Mermaid | Musical Theatre
- 2017 Musical Theatre Senior Showcase | Musical Theatre
2015-2016 Season
- All My Sons | Theatre & Drama
- Green Day’s American Idiot | Musical Theatre
- How to Deceive Your Family: A Ravel/Puccini Double Bill | University Opera Theatre
- The Arabian Nights | Theatre & Drama
- Henry IV, Part I | Theatre & Drama
- The Light in the Piazza | Musical Theatre (Studio)
- Momentum | Dept. of Dance
- Clybourne Park | Theatre & Drama
- Fortinbras | Musical Theatre (Studio)
- Così fan tutte | University Opera Theatre
- The Imaginary Invalid | Theatre & Drama
- Guys & Dolls | Musical Theatre
- 2016 Musical Theatre Senior Showcase | Musical Theatre
2014-2015 Season
- Good Kids | Theatre & Drama
- Cabaret | Musical Theatre
- Dead Man Walking | University Opera Theatre
- Caroline, or Change | Musical Theatre
- Fuente Ovejuna | Theatre & Drama
- Currents & Crossings | Dept. of Dance
- Stupid F###ing Bird | Theatre & Drama
- The Tempest | Musical Theatre (Studio)
- Julius Caesar | University Opera Theatre
- Iphigenia at Aulis | Theatre & Drama
- The Music Man | Musical Theatre
- 2015 Musical Theatre Senior Showcase | Musical Theatre
2013-2014 Season
- Red Noses | Theatre & Drama
- A Little Night Music | Musical Theatre
- The Barber of Seville | University Opera Theatre
- Three Sisters | Theatre & Drama
- The Comedy of Errors | Theatre & Drama
- Moving Pictures | Dept. of Dance
- Hay Fever | Theatre & Drama
- Romeo & Juliet | Musical Theatre (Studio)
- The Magic Flute | University Opera Theatre
- Marisol | Theatre & Drama
- Les Misérables | Musical Theatre
2012-2013 Season
- Almost, Maine | Theatre & Drama
- Sunday in the Park with George | Musical Theatre
- Don Giovanni | University Opera Theatre
- Bat Boy, The Musical | Musical Theatre
- A Midsummer Night’s Dream | Theatre & Drama
- Translation | Dept. of Dance
- The Skin of our Teeth | Theatre & Drama
- The Laramie Project | Musical Theatre (Studio)
- Ariadne auf Naxos | University Opera Theatre
- August: Osage County | Theatre & Drama
- Crazy for You | Musical Theatre
2011-2012 Season
- Suddenly Last Summer | Theatre & Drama
- The Full Monty | Musical Theatre
- Falstaff | University Opera Theatre
- Trumpets & Raspberries | Theatre & Drama
- The Beaux’ Stratagem | Theatre & Drama
- Little Women: the Musical | Musical Theatre (Studio)
- Dancelucent 2012 | Dept. of Dance
- Spring Awakening | Musical Theatre (Studio)
- Noises Off | Theatre & Drama
- The Rake’s Progress | University Opera Theatre
- Cloud 9 | Theatre & Drama
- Chicago | Musical Theatre
2010-2011 Season
- Pentecost | Theatre & Drama
- Into the Woods | Musical Theatre
- The Elixir of Love | University Opera Theatre
- Gibson Fleck | Musical Theatre
- Much Ado About Nothing | Theatre & Drama
- Dancing Americas | Dept. of Dance
- Arms and the Man | Theatre & Drama
- Little Women | University Opera Theatre
- The Crucible | Theatre & Drama
- Brigadoon | Musical Theatre
2009-2010 Season
- Tartuffe | Theatre & Drama
- Evita | Musical Theatre
- The Marriage of Figaro | University Opera Theatre
- Uncommon Women and Others | Theatre & Drama
- Macbeth | Theatre & Drama
- (Re)Visionary Dances | Dept. of Dance
- Our Town | Theatre & Drama
- Armide | University Opera Theatre
- Trafford Tanzi | Theatre & Drama
- Ragtime | Musical Theatre
2008-2009 Season
- Madmen and Specialists | Theatre & Drama
- Rent | Musical Theatre
- Eugene Onegin | University Opera Theatre
- Ella Minnow Pea | Musical Theatre
- Pride & Prejudice | Theatre & Drama
- Arcs in Time | Dept. of Dance
- The Show-Off | Theatre & Drama
- Albert Herring | University Opera Theatre
- Department of Musical Theatre 25th Anniversary Concert
- Jonesin’ | Theatre & Drama
- 42nd Street | Musical Theatre
2007-2008 Season
- Our Lady of 121st Street | Theatre & Drama
- Big River | Musical Theatre
- La Bohème | University Opera Theatre
- Two by Fassbinder – Pre-Paradise Sorry Now and Katzelmacher | Theatre & Drama
- J.B. | Theatre & Drama
- Stravinsky Revisited | Dept. of Dance
- As You Like It | Theatre & Drama
- Postcard from Morocco | University Opera Theatre
- You Never Can Tell | Theatre & Drama
- Carousel | Musical Theatre
2006-2007 Season
- The Cradle Will Rock | Theatre & Drama
- The Pajama Game | Musical Theatre
- The Pursuit of Persephone | Musical Theatre
- Così fan tutte | University Opera Theatre
- You Can’t Take it With You | Theatre & Drama
- Rituals & Reveries | Dept. of Dance
- She Stoops to Conquer | Theatre & Drama
- The Bartered Bride | University Opera Theatre
- Playing for Time | Theatre & Drama
- The Who’s Tommy | Musical Theatre
2005-2006 Season
- 1918 | Theatre & Drama
- The Boys from Syracuse | Musical Theatre
- The Coronation of Poppea | University Opera Theatre
- The Laramie Project | Theatre & Drama
- A Flea in Her Ear | Theatre & Drama
- Dance to the Music: A Celebration of UM Composers | Dept. of Dance
- The Gold Diggers | Theatre & Drama
- Jackie O & The Dreamy Kid/De Organizer | University Opera Theatre
- The Burial at Thebes | Theatre & Drama
- Seussical | Musical Theatre
2004-2005 Season
- In Arabia We’d All Be Kings | Theatre & Drama
- A Chorus Line | Musical Theatre
- Hansel and Gretel | University Opera Theatre
- The Water | Musical Theatre
- The Rover | Theatre & Drama
- Jazzin’ | Dept. of Dance
- Romeo and Juliet | Theatre & Drama
- Tartuffe | University Opera Theatre
- The Hot L Baltimore | Theatre & Drama
- City of Angels | Musical Theatre
2003-2004 Season
- Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet) | Theatre & Drama
- Guys and Dolls | Musical Theatre
- Suor Angelica & Gianni Schicchi | University Opera Theatre
- The Diary of a Scoundrel or Too Clever by Half | Theatre & Drama
- The Nutcracker | Theatre & Drama
- Dances for Petersburg | Dept. of Dance
- The Quick-Change Room | Theatre & Drama
- Don Giovanni | University Opera Theatre
- An Arthur Miller Celebration | Theatre & Drama
- Jesus Christ Superstar | Musical Theatre
2002-2003 Season
- The Imaginary Invalid | Theatre & Drama
- Children of Eden | Musical Theatre
- The Cunning Little Vixen | University Opera Theatre
- Don’t Dress for Dinner | Theatre & Drama
- Hamlet | Theatre & Drama
- Resonant Rhythms | Dept. of Dance
- A Streetcar Named Desire | Theatre & Drama
- Xerxes | University Opera Theatre
- After a Fashion | Theatre & Drama
- Oklahoma! | Musical Theatre
2001-2002 Season
- The Good Person of Szechwan | Theatre & Drama
- Good News! | Musical Theatre
- The Consul | University Opera Theatre
- The Secret Rapture | Theatre & Drama
- The Grapes of Wrath | Theatre & Drama
- Ancient Steps, Forward Glances | Dept. of Dance
- The Tavern | Theatre & Drama
- La Cenerentola | University Opera Theatre
- The Balcony | Theatre & Drama
- Parade | Musical Theatre
2000-2001 Season
- A View From the Bridge | Theatre & Drama
- Of Thee I Sing | Musical Theatre
- Lysistrata | Theatre & Drama
- Falstaff | University Opera Theatre
- To Kill a Mockingbird | Theatre & Drama
- The Tempest – Revival | Theatre & Drama
- Dances of Passion | Dept. of Dance
- The Heiress | Theatre & Drama
- La Périchole | University Opera Theatre
- Measure for Measure | Theatre & Drama
- Side Show | Musical Theatre