The Department of Theatre and Dance is holding auditions on
Monday, Oct. 6 and Tuesday, Oct. 7 for the Tony Award-winning
musical comedy The Drowsy Chaperone. Auditions
will be held in the Arena Theatre, Wright Hall and are open to
all UC Davis students.
The Department of Theatre and Dance will open its 2025-2026
season with Written and Directed by, a performance of
four new one-act plays authored by undergraduate students.
The production runs Oct. 30, 31 and Nov. 1 at 7 p.m. and
Nov. 1 and 2 at 2 p.m. in the Wyatt Pavilion Theatre on Old
Davis Road.
The Department of Theatre and Dance will present
Control/Shift, the fall dance concert, Nov. 19, 20
and 21 at 7 p.m. and Nov. 22 at 2 p.m. in the intimate
Vanderhoef Studio, Robert and Margrit Mondavi Center for the
Performing Arts at UC Davis.
The Department of Theatre and Dance will present The Drowsy
Chaperone, the delightful award-winning musical comedy, in
winter 2026.
The production runs Feb. 26, 27, 28 and March 5 and 6 at 7
p.m. and Feb. 18 and March 7 at 2 p.m. in the Main Theatre,
Wright Hall.
Winner of five Tony Awards, including Best Book and Best Original
Score, The Drowsy Chaperone is a loving
send-up of the Golden Age of the Broadway musical.
The Department of Theatre and Dance will present The
Odyssey in Shadow, a large-scale cinematic shadow
theater experience inspired by the ancient epic The
Odyssey. The production will perform at the end of spring
quarter 2026 in the Arena Theatre, Wright Hall.
A festival of original student work, directed, designed, and
performed by students will take place in Wyatt Pavilion Theatre
October 31-November 2, 2025. Each production will be offered at
least twice during the run, depending upon the total number and
run time of successful proposals. Attention to staging and
design, level of investment and production resources will be
decided after the initial programming; many design elements will
be shared across the works.
