About Us

UA Theatre and Dance has been producing performances at The University of Alabama since 1907, and it became the unified Theatre and Dance Department in 1979. For the past 42 years, UA Theatre and Dance has produced student and faculty-directed, -performed and -designed work.

2020-2021 Season

• The Merchant of Venice
• Shooting Star
• Antigone
• Spring Awakening
• ARDT Fall Concert
• Dance Alabama! Fall Concert
• MFA Dance Concert
• ARDT Spring Concert
• Dance Alabama Film Festival
• Dance Collection

Due to the COVID-19 Pandemic, all productions were streamed virtually during the 2020-2021 season.

2019-2020 Season

• The River
• Intimate Apparel
• ARDT Fall Concert
• The Pirates of Penzance
• Dance Alabama! Fall Concert
• The Importance of Being Earnest
• Mr. Universe
• The Servant of Two Masters
• ARDT Spring Concert

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the following shows in the Spring of 2020 had to be cancelled:

• Hand to God
• Dance Alabama! Spring Concert
• Legally Blonde
• The Dance Collection Spring Concert

2018-2019 Season

• Forever Plaid (SummerTide Theatre)
• Separate and Equal (World Premiere)
• The Christians
• Suddenly Last Summer
• ARDT Fall Concert
• Little Women
• Dance Alabama! Fall Concert
• The Merry Wives of Windsor
• Bakkhai
• The Drowsy Chaperone
• ARDT Spring Concert
• Dance Alabama! Spring Concert
• Gnit
• Sense and Sensibility
• The Dance Collection Spring Concert

2017-2018 Season

• Pumpboys and Dinettes (SummerTide Theatre)
• 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
• Dance Alabama! Spring Concert
• ARDT Spring Concert
• We are Proud to Present…
• Sweeney Todd
• The Caucasian Chalk Circle
• Vinegar Tom
• ARDT Fall Concert
• I Gelosi
• August Osage County
• Dance Alabama! Fall Concert
• A Bright Room Called Day

2016-2017 Season

• Smoke on the Mountain (SummerTide Theatre)
• A Chorus Line
• Dance Alabama! Spring Concert
• ARDT Spring Concert
• La Ronde
• The Philadelphia Story
• The Dance Collection Spring Concert
• The Eccentricities of a Nightingale
• ARDT Fall Concert
• Appropriate
• Falsettos
• Dance Alabama! Fall Concert
• Hamlet
• Doubt

2015-2016 Season

• The Marvelous Wonderettes (SummerTide Theatre)
• Arcadia
• Boeing Boeing
• Dance Alabama! Spring Concert
• ARDT Spring Concert
• Ghosts
• The Countess of Storyville (World Premiere)
• The Dance Collection Spring Concert
• Equivocation
• ARDT Fall Concert
•  Young Frankenstein
• Seduced
• Dance Alabama! Fall Concert
• Tartuffe

2014-2015 Season

• Ring of Fire (SummerTide Theatre)
• Lend Me a Tenor
• The Dining Room
• Dance Alabama! Fall Concert
• ARDT Fall Concert
• Twelfth Night
• Merrily We Roll Along
• The Dance Collection Winter Concert
• Eurydice
• ARDT Spring Concert
• UA Writes: Student-Written One Acts
• 42nd Street
• Dance Alabama! Spring Concert
• The Dance Collection Spring Concert
• Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike

2013-2014 Season

• All Shook Up (SummerTide Theatre)
• The Birthday Party
• Blood Wedding
• Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson
• Picnic
• Seven Guitars
• ARDT Fall Concert
• Dance Alabama! Fall Concert
• School For Lies
• ARDT Spring Concert
• Urinetown
• Dance Alabama! Spring Concert
• Dance Collection Winter Concert
• Dance Collection Spring Concert

2012-2013 Season

• Jubilee (SummerTide Theatre)
• Show Boat
• The Clearing
• Dance Alabama! Spring Concert
• ARDT Spring Concert
• Othello
• Design for Living
• The Dance Collection Winter Concert
• Misalliance
• ARDT Fall Concert
• A New Brain
• Side Man
• Dance Alabama! Fall Concert
• Fools

2011-2012 Season

• Smokey Joe’s Cafe (SummerTide Theatre)
• Chicago
• Fefu and Her Friends
• ARDT Spring Concert
• An Italian Straw Hat
• Wonder of the World
• Dance Alabama! Spring Concert
• ARDT II Winter Showcase
• The Seagull
• City of Angels
• ARDT Fall Concert
• Animal Crackers
• Dance Alabama! Fall Concert
• Purgatorio

2010-2011 Season

• Dames at Sea (SummerTide Theatre)
• Big River
• The Baby Dance
• ARDT Spring Concert
• Moby-Dick
• Dance Alabama! Spring Concert
• Flora, The Red Menace
• The Rose Tattoo
• ARDT Fall Concert
• The Bourgeois Gentleman
• An Enemy of the People
• Dance Alabama! Fall Concert
• Screwtape

2009-2010 Season

• The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (SummerTide Theatre)
• Candide
• The Violet Hour
• ARDT: Cinderella
• Saint Joan
• Dance Alabama! Spring Concert
• The Winter’s Tale
• ARDT Fall Concert
• Picasso at the Lapin Agile
• Hair
• Dance Alabama! Fall Concert
• The Time of Your Life
• Tales of the Lost Formicans

2008-2009 Season

• Godspell (SummerTide Theatre)
• Thoroughly Modern Millie
• Transit of Venus
• Dance Alabama! Spring Concert
• Henry V
• ARDT Spring Concert
• Medea
• Reckless
• ARDT Fall Concert
• The Heiress
• The Wild Party
• Dance Alabama! Fall Concert
• Moon Over Buffalo

2007-2008 Season

• You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown (SummerTide Theatre)
• Into the Woods
• The Odd Couple (female version)
• ARDT Spring Concert
• The Playboy of the Western World
• Dance Alabama! Spring Concert
• The Mystery of Irma Vep
• Bouncers
• ARDT Fall Concert
• The Government Inspector
• Amen Corner
• Dance Alabama! Fall Concert
• The Miss Firecracker Contest

2006-2007 Season

• Little Shop of Horrors (SummerTide Theatre)
• Blithe Spirit
• Side Show
• Dance Alabama! Spring Concert
• Romeo and Juliet
• ARDT Spring Concert
• Angel Street
• Luv
• The Threepenny Opera
• ARDT Fall Concert
• The Pillowman
• Our Town
• Dance Alabama! Fall Concert

2005-2006 Season

• Grease (SummerTide Theatre)
• Two Gentlemen of Verona
• Death and the Maiden
• Dance Alabama! Spring Concert
• ARDT Spring Concert
• Fifth of July
• Major Barbara
• Something Cloudy, Something Clear
• A Flea in Her Ear
• ARDT Fall Concert
• Dance Alabama! Fall Concert
• Assassins
• Holy Ghosts

2004-2005 Season

• Anything Goes (SummerTide Theatre)
• Dance Alabama! Spring Concert
• All’s Well That Ends Well
• The Trestle at Pope Lick Creek
• ARDT Spring Concert
• The Hypochondriac
• True West
• Machina!
• Dance Alabama! Fall Concert
• You Can’t It With You
• Shadow of a Gunman
• ARDT Fall Concert
• A Chorus Line

2003-2004 Season

• Pumpboys and Dinettes (SummerTide Theatre)
• The Rivals
• Dance Alabama! Kids
• Dance Alabama! Spring Concert
• ARDT Spring Concert
• Three Days of Rain
• Ragtime
• The Glass Menagerie
• Dance Alabama! Kids
• Dance Alabama! Fall Concert
• Pippin
• Country Life
• The Liar
• ARDT Fall Concert
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

2002-2003 Season

• West Side Story
• Dance Alabama! Spring Concert
• Breaking Legs
• Cat On a Hot Tin Roof
• ARDT Spring Concert
• Antigone
• Tamer of Horses
• Dance Alabama! Fall Concert
• The Grapes of Wrath
• ARDT Fall Concert
• Hayfever
• Hamlet

2001-2002 Season

• Jesus Christ Superstar
• And People All Around
• Noises Off
• Zastrozzi
• Dance Alabama! Spring Concert
• Coyote Ugly
• Dance Alabama! Fall Concert
• Lady Windermere’s Fan
• A View From the Bridge
• ARDT Fall Concert
• The Piano Lesson

2000-2001 Season

• The Rocky Horror Picture Show
• Sloppy Sean
• As You Like It
• The Good Person of Setzuan
• Flyin’ West
• Dance Alabama! Fall Concert
• Hallowed Ground
• ARDT Fall Concert
• Ah Wilderness!
• Reverse Psychology

1999-2000 Season

• Alice In Wonderland
• The Cherry Orchard
• Dance Alabama! Fall and Spring Concerts
• The Last Night of Ballyhoo
• ARDT Fall and Spring Concerts
• With Malice Towards All
• Picasso at the Lapin Agile
• Private Eyes
• Orpheus Descending
• The Hostage
• The Disposal
• The Tempest

1998-1999 Season

• What the Butler Saw
• For Whom the Southern Belle Tolls
• Servant of Two Masters
• Equus
• Waiting for Godot
• How I Learned to Drive
• Psycho Beach Party
• Macbeth

1997-1998 Season

• Angels in America, Part I: Millennium Approaches
• Tempest Tossed
• Private Lives
• Angels In America, Part II: Perestroika
• When the Lord Came to Sand Mountain
• Sweeney Todd
• King Lear

1996-1997 Season

• Crimes of the Heart
• Arcadia
• Godspell
• The Merchant of Venice

1995-1996 Season

• Dark of the Moon
• Dancing at Lughnasa
• Blithe Spirit
• Romeo & Juliet

1994-1995 Season

• The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas
• Six Degrees of Separation
• Smoke on the Mountain
• A Midsummer Night’s Dream

1993-1994 Season

• Taming of the Shrew
• The Trip to Bountiful
• The Infernal Machine
• The Boys Next Door

1992-1993 Season

• Night of the Iguana
• Killing Mother
• Twelfth Night
• Hair

1991-1992 Season

• The Two Gentlemen of Verona
• Southern Girls
• Old Times
• The Importance of Being Earnest

1990-1991 Season

• As You Like It
• Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
• Tintypes
• Summer & Smoke

1989-1990 Season

• Quilters
• Of Mice & Men
• On the Verge
• Comedy of Errors

1988-1989 Season

• Gospel
• Macbeth
• The Nerd
• Three Sisters

1987-1988 Season

• Our Town
• Black Warrior
• Every Good Boy Deserves Favour
• The 1940′s Radio Hour

1986-1987 Season

• Greater Tuna
• All’s Well That Ends Well
• Lucienne & the Butcher
• Sergeant Musgrave’s Dance

1985-1986 Season

• The Diviners
• Major Barbara
• An Eve of Dance
• God’s Attic
• The Tempest
• Amorphous George

1984-1985 Season

• A Coupla’ White Chicks Sittin’ Around Talkin’
• Hamlet
• A Day in the Death of Joe Egg
• Huckleberry Finn

1983-1984 Season

• Man of La Mancha
• Bully
• Dylan
• Much Ado About Nothing

1982-1983 Season

• Who’s Happy Now?
• The Seagull
• Merrily We Roll Along
• Richard II

1981-1982 Season

• The Elephant Man
• Peach Blossom Fan
• Purlie Victorious
• School for Scandal

1980-1981 Season

• Travesties
• Sad Song for the Whippoorwill
• Pippin
• Galileo

1979-1980 Season

• Tobacco Road
• A Month in the Country
• Country Life
• Cabaret
• Equus

1978-1979 Season

• The Petrified Forest
• Dames at Sea

1977-1978 Season

• Love’s Labours Lost
• Camelot
• Bacchae
• Ring Round the Moon

1976-1977 Season

• A Doll’s House
• Lear
• Godspell
• Hay Fever
• The Glass Menagerie

1975-1976 Season

• Pericles
• A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
• The Cherry Orchard
• Loot

1974-1975 Season

• Fiddler on the Roof
• Misalliance
• Dancing Donkey
• The Maids
• The Time of Your Life
• The Good Doctor

1973-1974 Season

• Half A Sixpence
• Little Foxes
• She Stoops to Conquer
• Aesop’s Fables
• Waiting For Godot
• Exit The King
• Is She Izzy

1972-1973 Season

• Eagles, Walking
• Twelfth Night
• Man of La Mancha
• Caesar and Cleopatra
• Slapstick Tragedy
• The Poet Speaks
• A Man’s A Man
• Suddenly Last Summer
• Not Enough Rope

1971-1972 Season

• Under Milkwood
• Let Us Entertain You
• Don’t Drink The Water
• Antigone

1970-1971 Season

• The Balcony
• Taming of the Shrew
• Where’s Charley
• Our Town
• Idiot’s Delight
• The Threepenny Opera
• Magic Flower Garden

1969-1970 Season

• Lysistrata
• Sweet Bird of Youth
• Once Upon a Mattress
• Andronocles and the Lion
• All Is Bright

1968-1969 Season

• Slow Dance on the Killing Ground
• The Imaginary Invalid
• A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum

1967-1968 Season

• The Subject Was Roses
• House Within the House Within
• The Glass Menagerie
• A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
• The Country Wife
• The Anointed

1966-1967 Season

• Camino Real
• Playboy of the Western World
• The Emperor Jones

1965-1966 Season

• The Visit
• Rape of the Belt
• The Hollow Crown
• The Merchant of Venice
• The Caretaker
• Barefoot in the Park
• Firebugs

1964-1965 Season

• The Private Ear and the Public Eye
• Look Homeward, Angel
• The Coop
• The Fantastiks
• Captain Jinks and the Horse Marines

1963-1964 Season

• O Dad, Poor Dad, Mama’s Hung You in the Closet and I’m Feeling So Sad
• Knock
• Loosebough the First
• Waltz of the Toreadors
• Man Who Killed Time

1962-1963 Season

• The Italian Straw Hat
• The Busy Martyr
• The Winter’s Tale
• Waiting for Godot
• The Importance of Being Earnest

1961-1962 Season

• The Red Eye
• Julius Caesar
• The Good Woman of Setzuan
• Tower Beyond Tragedy

1960-1961 Season

• The Limbo Kid
• The Tidings Brought to Mary
• Oedipus at Colonus
• Blithe Spirit

1959-1960 Season

• Regions of Noon
• A Touch of the Poet
• The Tempest
• George Washington Slept Here
• The Gazebo

1958-1959 Season

• An Enemy of the People
• The Desperate Hours
• Juan
• Under Milkwood

1957-1958 Season

• Ring Round the Moon
• Green Grow the Lilacs
• The Guilty
• Visit to a Small Planet
• The Desk Set

1956-1957 Season

• Death of a Salesman
• Bus Stop
• The Comedy of Errors
• The Far Off Hills

1955-1956 Season

• Romeo and Juliet
• Winterset
• Anastasia Mister Roberts

1954-1955 Season

• Grand Tour
• Radio Rescue (Summer)
• Rowand-Johnson Hall and the Gallaway Theatre are Built

1953-1954 Season

• Bernardine
• The Crucible
• She Stoops to Conquer
• Carousel
• The Fatal Weakness
• My Three Angels
• Thompson
• Alcestis
• King of Hearts

1952-1953 Season

• Remains to Be Seen
• The Medium
• Noah
• Macbeth
• Aside from Women
• Bell Book and Candle
• The Moon is Blue
• Roadside
• The Importance of Being Earnest
• Affairs of State
• Love from a Stranger
• The Drunkard
• The Enchanted
• Brigadoon
• The Giaconda Smile
• Jane

1950-1951 Season

• Goodbye, My Fancy
• The Scarecrow
• Hamlet
• Claudia
• Jenny Kissed Me
• Midsummer Night’s Dream
• Madwoman of Chaillot
• The Devil’s Disciple
• Holiday
• The Heiress
• The Curious Savage
• Ring Round the Moon
• Blithe Spirit
• Parlor Story

1948-1949 Season

• Androcles and the Lion
• A Slight Case of Murder
• Night Must Fall
• After the Recital
• The School for Scandal
• Antigone
• The Guardsman
• Comedy of Errors
• Dream Girl
• High Tor
• Amphrtryon 38
• The Glass Menagerie
• Brooks of Sheffield
• The Playboy of the Western World
• Edward My Son
• The Taming of the Shrew

1947-1948 Season

• The Doctor in Spite of Himself
• Morning’s at Seven
• Juno and the Paycock
• Romeo and Juliet

1946-1947 Season

• State of the Union
• The Wild Duck
• The Skin of Our Teeth

1945-1946 Season

• Angel Street
• Blithe Spirit
• Don’t Feed the Animals
• Hello Out There
• The Little Foxes
• Papa is All
• Soldier’s Wife
• Skits’n’ Skirts (a revue)*
• To the Lovely Margaret

1944-1945 Season

• Cradle Song
• The Happy Journey
• Janie
• Kiss and Tell
• Mr. Pim Passes By
• The Silver Cord
• Tooth or Shave
• What a Life

1943-1944 Season

• Arsenic and Old Lace
• The Confessional
• Letters to Lucerne
• Over the Tea Cups
• The Duchess Says Her Prayers
• Friars-a-Fryin’*
• George Washington Slept Here
• Junior Miss
• Ladies in Retirement
• Sister Serafina’s Schiaparelli
• The Torchbearers
• White Iris
• The Women

1942-1943 Season

• Bachelor Born
• The Eve of St. Mark
• For None but the Brave*
• Friars-a-Fryin’*
• Heart of a City
• Here Comes Mr. Jordan
• I Killed the Count
• Ladies in Retirement
• Love from a Stranger
• My Sister Eileen
• Old Lady Fate*
• Time for Romance

1941-1942 Season

• Arsenic and Old Lace
• A Blackout*
• The Body Lies*
• Catch a Falling Star*
• Death Couldn’t Count*
• East of Broadway*
• Friars -a-Fryin’*
• Gal Meets Egg*
• The Girls from Birmingham*
• The Headless Corpse*
• Hollywood Fever*
• Idiot’s Delight
• Incognito
• Insanely Yours*
• It’s All in Fun*
• It’s Fun to be Free (a revue)*
• Just Friends
• Lovely Ladies
• The Male Animal
• The Man Who Came to Dinner
• The Marquise
• The Moon Is Down
• Mr. and Mrs. North
• Night Life of a Teacher*
• Our Town
• Outward Bound
• Plenty of Nothin’*
• Saboteur*
• Shot for Freedom*
• Sincere Hypocrites*
• Stone Wall’ Gator*
• The Taming of the Shrew, abridged
• Tea for Nine*
• A Tennis Bum*
• This too Is Victory*
• Tomorrow the World*
• The Village Green
• Volpone

1940-1941 Season

• And So They Laugh*
• Cigarette*
• Clarence
• The Comedy of Errors (Abridged)
• Dawn at Sunset
• Father Malachy’s Miracle
• The Flowers of Spring*
• Hell Cat Hattie and Kingdom Come*
• I Have Five Daughters
• Lizzie*
• The Man Who Came to Dinner
• A Masque of Night*
• The Skull
• Spaghetti and Sauerkraut*
• This Man’s Army*
• Trunk Crime
• The Honour of the House of Murray*
• Underground – London, 1941*

1939-1940 Season

• Baptism
• Both Your Houses
• Charley’s Aunt
• Cradle Song
• Fixin’s*
• Gift Freely Given*
• Heil!*
• Kiss the Boys Goodbye
• Love from a Stranger
• The Marquise
• Night Life of a Teacher*
• Old Lady Fate*
• A Slight Case of Murder
• An Unpretentious Comedy*
• What a Life
• Wreath Without Laurel*
• The Yellow Shadow

1938-1939 Season

• Happiness for Six
• The Imaginary Invalid
• Mr. Pim Passes By
• Mystery at Midnight
• Our Town
• The Petrified Forest
• Pigs
• Psychology Does It
• Pure as the Driven Snow*
• Seven Sisters
• Smilin’ Through
• There’s Always Juliet
• The Washout*
• You Can’t Take It With You

1937-1938 Season

• Barchester Towers
• The Canterville Ghost
• The Cassilis Engagement
• Death Takes a Holiday
• Down With Everything*
• Dracula
• Earth Takes Its Toll*
• In a Little Spanish Town*
• Last Rehearsal
• Let’s Write a Play/So You’re the Detective*
• More Sinned Agin than Usual*
• The Queen’s Husband
• Richelieu
• Tea for Nine*
• The Trial of Mary Dugan

1936-1937 Season

• The Bishop Misbehaves
• East Lynne
• An Engagement Incognito
• The Night of January 16
• Romeo and Juliet
• Squaring the Circle
• The Wind and the Rain
• Yellow Jack

1935-1936 Season

• Behind Double Doors
• The Late Christopher Bean

1934-1935 Season

• The Passing of the Third Floor Back
• Three Cornered Moon

1933-1934 Season

• Let Us Be Gay
• Skidding

1932-1933 Season

• Holiday
• Outward Bound

1931-1932 Season

• Candida
• Hotel Universe
• The Perfect Alibi

1930-1931 Season

• Boubourouche
• Crabbed Youth and Old Age
• Gloria Mundi
• Hay Fever
• The Valiant

1929-1930 Season

• Children of the Moon
• Outward Bound
• Polly with a Past

1928-1929 Season

• The Dover Road
• A Lucky Break

1927-1928 Season

• The Eligible Mr. Bangs
• Ile
• Madretta
• A Night at an Inn
• The Plumber

1926-1927 Season

• Finder’s Keepers
• The Jig*
• The Robbery
• Simoon
• The Trick

1925-1926 Season

• The Dickey-Bird
• The Drums of Oude
• The Minuet
• The Stranger
• The Twelve-Pound Look
• The Tyranny of Tears, or The Wife Who Came Back

1924-1925 Season

• All Gummed Up
• The Artful Creature
• A Dreamy Knight*
• Her Russian Soul
• The Lollard
• The Storm
• The Valiant

1923-1924 Season

• After the Ball
• Modesty
• My Lady’s Dress
• The Pot Boiler
• The Valiant
• The Widow’s Husband

1922-1923 Season

• An Adventure in Literachoor
• Columbine Cries*
• The Patchwork Quilt*
• The Squall of Fate
• The Truth

1921-1922 Season

• The Boor
• The Monkey’s Paw
• Mrs. Bumpstead-Leigh
• My Man (a revue)*
• Rosalie
• Suppressed Desires
• A Whitefriars Lampoon*

1920-1921 Season

• The Constant Lover
• The Lollard
• The Faculty – As They Are Not As They Ain’t*
• Neighbors
• The Rescue
• From Bug Tussie to Birmingham
• Suppressed Desires
• Second Act of Lady Windermere’s Fan
• The Last Man In

1919-1920 Season

• Crooks
• The Cure for Jealousy
• The Florist Shop
• A Woman’s Way

1918-1919 Season

• unknown

1917-1918 Season

• After the Honeymoon
• Her Husband’s Wife
• Op O’My Thumb
• Rosalie

1916-1917 Season

• The Importance of Being Earnest
• The Price of An Egg

1915-1916 Season

• Sweet Lavender

1914-1915 Season

• A Bachelor’s Romance

1913-1914 Season

• She Stoops to Conquer

1912-1913 Season

• You Never Can Tell

1911-1912 Season

• Candida
• The Land of Heart’s Desire

1910-1911 Season

• unknown

1909-1910 Season

• Twelfth Night

1908-1909 Season

• Macbeth

1907-1908 Season

• The Taming of the Shrew