Experience Live Performance with UCM Theatre & Dance
Each year, we produce a variety of exciting and compelling work on our stages, ranging from full musicals to original plays, dance concerts to classic plays. Come join us!
- Studio One-Act Series : Each Fall and Spring semester kicks off with a series of short plays that are selected, produced, directed, designed and performed by students.
- Fall and Spring Plays: Explore your humanity: join us for a full length play each fall and spring from the Classic, Shakespearean, or Contemporary repertoire.
- Fall and Spring Musicals: Do you like musicals? Come experience a large musical each fall and a smaller musical or opera in the spring.
- Black Box Series: Student-driven projects such as Improv, Musical Revues, One-Acts and Original Pieces complete the rest of the season in the Nickerson Black Box Theater
- Central Missouri Repertory Theatre: Join us again each summer for our annual tour featuring children's theatre, visiting multiple communities in central Missouri as well as on UCM's main campus
Theatre and Dance Box Office (Tickets)
For 2024-2025 tickets or reservations, please call our Box Office at 660-543-8811 or visit our online ticket system
Coming up soon on the Mainstage
Nickerson Black Box:
New Play Festival - (October 31 - November 3)
artistic direction by Dr. Aaron Scully
Highlander Theatre:
Amahl and the Night Visitors - (November 20-23)
by Gian Carlo Menotti
directed by Jenise Cook
Undergraduate Majors and Minors
The University of Central Missouri has a history of excellence training future actors, dancers, designers and educators. As a Theatre and Dance student at UCM, you will focus on your individual discipline, but receive training in related areas to make your education well rounded and to prepare you for your future as a theatre artist. Our degree options are listed below. For more information on each option, please click the link to visit the main UCM website.
- BA Theatre
- BFA Theatre Design & Technology
- BFA Theatre Performance
- BFA Musical Theatre
- BSE Speech Communication and Theatre
- Dance: Minor
- Theatre: Minor
- Speech Communication and Theatre: Minor
OPPORTUNITIES FOR High School Students AND TEACHERS
High School Workshop Day
Thursday October 3rd 8am-5pm. In conjunction with the production "She Kills Monsters"
Workshops include a variety of theatre performance and design:
Scenic Painting / Stage Makeup / Improv / Movement / Auditions / Lighting / Dance / Combat
Admission for the entire day for Theatre & Dance is $10/student - faculty/bus drivers are free!
We would ask for RSVPs from each school by Sept 6th. Registration closes Sept 23rd!
Here is a tentative schedule for the day:
8:30-9:15 - Arrive to UCM Highlander Theatre
9:15 - Brief presentation by UCM Admissions
9:30 - Introductions and break out to the 1st workshop
10:00 1st Workshop
11:00 2nd Workshop
12:00 Lunch will be provided in our dining halls
1:00 Campus tour
2:00 She Kills Monsters Last Dress Matinee
4:15 Talkback with the cast and crew
4:45 Head home!
If this date or show selection doesn't work out for your school, we will gladly welcome you and your students to campus to attend another production in our 2024-25 Season!
For questions and or to register,
contact Chair of Theatre & Dance - Ashley Miller-Scully almiller@ucmo.edu; 660-54-8798
Contact
Office of Theatre and Dance Martin 113 Warrensburg, MO
Tel: 660-543-8798
theatreanddance@ucmo.edu