Department of Theatre & Drama

Upcoming Events

November 23 | 2:00 pm

Your Name Is a Song

Newman Studio
Walgreen Drama Center

Free - no tickets required

Department of Theatre & Drama students present assistant professor Shavonne Coleman’s adaptation of the children’s book Your Name Is a Song, originally written by Jamilah Thompkins-Bigelow for a single public performance on North Campus.

Free Diversity Equity and Inclusion North Campus
November 23 | 8:00 pm

John Proctor Is the Villain


Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre

Reserved Seating $35 / $29 | Students $16 (fees included)

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As a group of high schoolers in a small Georgia town analyze Arthur Miller’s The Crucible in their literature class, they find echoes of the play in their own lives and – with laughter, fury, and heartbreak – grapple with complicated questions of trust, betrayal, and the abuse of power.

Content Advisory Tickets Required Central Campus
November 24 | 2:00 pm

John Proctor Is the Villain


Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre

Reserved Seating $35 / $29 | Students $16 (fees included)

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As a group of high schoolers in a small Georgia town analyze Arthur Miller’s The Crucible in their literature class, they find echoes of the play in their own lives and – with laughter, fury, and heartbreak – grapple with complicated questions of trust, betrayal, and the abuse of power.

Content Advisory Tickets Required Central Campus
February 20 | 7:30 pm

A Few Good Men


Power Center for the Performing Arts

Reserved Seating $35 / $29 | Students $16 (fees included)

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This compelling courtroom drama explores complicated ideas of honor, duty, and truth in a case about a Marine Corps hazing incident that went horribly wrong – and who should pay the price. This play launched Aaron Sorkin’s career and later became a blockbuster film.

Content Advisory Tickets Required Central Campus
A Few Good Men - title logo with stars and stripes in painted textures
February 21 | 8:00 pm

A Few Good Men


Power Center for the Performing Arts

Reserved Seating $35 / $29 | Students $16 (fees included)

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This compelling courtroom drama explores complicated ideas of honor, duty, and truth in a case about a Marine Corps hazing incident that went horribly wrong – and who should pay the price. This play launched Aaron Sorkin’s career and later became a blockbuster film.

Content Advisory Tickets Required Central Campus
A Few Good Men - title logo with stars and stripes in painted textures
February 22 | 8:00 pm

A Few Good Men


Power Center for the Performing Arts

Reserved Seating $35 / $29 | Students $16 (fees included)

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This compelling courtroom drama explores complicated ideas of honor, duty, and truth in a case about a Marine Corps hazing incident that went horribly wrong – and who should pay the price. This play launched Aaron Sorkin’s career and later became a blockbuster film.

Content Advisory Central Campus
A Few Good Men - title logo with stars and stripes in painted textures
February 23 | 2:00 pm

A Few Good Men


Power Center for the Performing Arts

Reserved Seating $35 / $29 | Students $16 (fees included)

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This compelling courtroom drama explores complicated ideas of honor, duty, and truth in a case about a Marine Corps hazing incident that went horribly wrong – and who should pay the price. This play launched Aaron Sorkin’s career and later became a blockbuster film.

Content Advisory Tickets Required Central Campus
A Few Good Men - title logo with stars and stripes in painted textures
April 3 | 7:30 pm

Our Oz

Arthur Miller Theatre
Walgreen Drama Center

General Admission by Floor $35 | Students $16 (fees included)

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A reimagination of The Wizard of Oz through a BIPOC and queer lens, as devised by professors José Casas (head of playwriting minor, Theatre & Drama) and Jake Hooker (head of drama at the Residential College) and U-M students. Intersectional and interdisciplinary, this project explores and experiments with the tropes and images of multiple renditions from the Land of Oz as originally conceived by L. Frank Baum.

Devised Tickets Required North Campus
OUR OZ - title graphic with a single "O" shaped as ouroboros, colorfully toned lettering and black background
April 4 | 8:00 pm

Our Oz

Arthur Miller Theatre
Walgreen Drama Center

General Admission by Floor $35 | Students $16 (fees included)

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A reimagination of The Wizard of Oz through a BIPOC and queer lens, as devised by professors José Casas (head of playwriting minor, Theatre & Drama) and Jake Hooker (head of drama at the Residential College) and U-M students. Intersectional and interdisciplinary, this project explores and experiments with the tropes and images of multiple renditions from the Land of Oz as originally conceived by L. Frank Baum.

Devised Tickets Required North Campus
OUR OZ - title graphic with a single "O" shaped as ouroboros, colorfully toned lettering and black background
April 5 | 8:00 pm

Our Oz

Arthur Miller Theatre
Walgreen Drama Center

General Admission by Floor $35 | Students $16 (fees included)

Get Tickets

A reimagination of The Wizard of Oz through a BIPOC and queer lens, as devised by professors José Casas (head of playwriting minor, Theatre & Drama) and Jake Hooker (head of drama at the Residential College) and U-M students. Intersectional and interdisciplinary, this project explores and experiments with the tropes and images of multiple renditions from the Land of Oz as originally conceived by L. Frank Baum.

Devised Tickets Required North Campus
OUR OZ - title graphic with a single "O" shaped as ouroboros, colorfully toned lettering and black background