2018-2019 SEASON
My Children! My Africa!
by althol fugard
directed by janet haley
January 25-27, & February 1-3, 2019 Audition information available on Facebook, or the bulletin board outside the UM Flint Theatre office. Friday, 1/25/19 @ 7:30pmSaturday, 1/26/19 @ 7:30pm
Sunday, 1/27/19 @ 2:00pm* *This performance will have an ASL Interpreter.
Friday, 2/1/19 @ 7:30pm
Saturday, 2/2/19 @ 7:30pm
Sunday, 2/3/19 @ 2:00pm
The search for a means to an end to apartheid inspires Mr "M", a black South African school teacher, to invite a white South African student named Isabel to join his student Thami in an inter-school debate competition. He hopes this will demonstrate that even in Apartheid-era South Africa, people of different races can work together toward a common goal. Pressure on Thami erupts into a tumultuous conflict between the black township students and the “old-fashioned” black teacher. This astonishingly provocative drama explores the struggle between choosing actions of constructive dialogue or destructive violence in order to accomplish immediate justice and social change.
UMFlint Cabaret at the Capitol
DIRECTED BY STEPHANIE DEAN
February 22 & February 23, 2019 Audition information available on Facebook, or the bulletin board outside the UM Flint Theatre office.
UM-Flint Students sing a wide range of Broadway hits in an intimate evening of song and performance. Come enjoy a cabaret atmosphere with a variety of pieces and performers!
Pipeline by Dominique Morisseau
COORDINATED AND DIRECTED BY ANDREW MORTON
March 14, 2019 Audition information available on Facebook, or the bulletin board outside the UM Flint Theatre office.
Nya, an inner-city public high school teacher, is committed to her students but desperate to give her only son Omari opportunities they’ll never have. When a controversial incident at his upstate private school threatens to get him expelled, Nya must confront his rage and her own choices as a parent. But will she be able to reach him before a world beyond her control pulls him away?
With profound compassion and lyricism, Pipeline brings an urgent conversation powerfully to the fore. Morisseau pens a deeply moving story of a mother’s fight to give her son a future — without turning her back on the community that made him who he is.
Significant Other
by joshua harmon
directed by william irwin
March 29-31, & April 5-7, 2019 Audition information available on Facebook, or the bulletin board outside the UM Flint Theatre office. Tickets Friday, 3/29/19 @ 7:30pmSaturday, 3/30/19 @ 7:30pm
Sunday, 3/31/19 @ 2:00pm* *This performance will have an ASL Interpreter. Friday, 4/5/19 @ 7:30pm
Saturday, 4/6/19 @ 7:30pm
Sunday, 4/7/19 @ 2:00pm
All of Jordan Berman’s best friends are setting a date… and he can’t even get one! A cutting romantic comedy about sustaining friendships, falling in love, finding your soulmate, and discovering yourself in an increasingly disparate and alienating world.
Spring Dance Concert
CHOREOGRAPHED BY BETH FREIMAN AND EMMA DAVIS
April 19-20, 2019 Audition information available on Facebook, or the bulletin board outside the UM Flint Theatre office.Faculty Choreographed yearly dance concert featuring a variety of dance styles and suitable for all ages.
Friday, 4/19/19 @ 7:30pm
Saturday, 4/20/19 @ 2:00pm
Saturday, 4/20/19 @ 7:30pm
Peter and the Starcatcher
Conceived by roberT rees & alex timbers
written by rick elice, music by wayne baker, directed by janet haley
October 26-28, & November 2-4, 2018 Audition information available on Facebook, or the bulletin board outside the UM Flint Theater office. Friday, 10/26/18 @ 7:30pmSaturday, 10/27/18 @ 7:30pm
Sunday, 10/28/18 @ 2:00pm* *This performance will have an ASL Interpreter.
Friday, 11/2/18 @ 7:30pm
Saturday, 11/3/18 @ 7:30pm
Sunday, 11/4/18 @ 2:00pm
Using live music, song, and wildly imaginative physical theatre conventions, this Tony-award winning adaptation of Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson’s best-selling novels upends the old story of how a miserable orphan comes to be The Boy Who Would Not Grow Up – aka Peter Pan. Over a dozen actors portray more than 100 unforgettable characters (including marauding pirates, jungle tyrants, unwilling comrades and unlikely heroes), Peter and the Starcatcher playfully explores how the bonds of friendship, duty and love can help us overcome greed and despair. An epically entertaining performance suitable for all ages.