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Our Season

Upcoming Events


24-Hour Theatre Festival

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Date: Saturday, August 30, 2025 7:00 pm
Location: Magnuson Theatre, College Hall
Cost: Free-no ticket required
Tickets: bit.ly/TicketCenterTheatre
Seating Type: General Admission

Presented by Gonzaga Theatre Council

Gonzaga Theatre Council hosts the 24 Hour Theatre Festival, welcoming new and returning theatre students to the 2025-2026 Gonzaga Theatre season. An initial meeting on Friday night kicks off 24 hours to write, cast, stage, and perform a show!

Age Recommendation: 12+
Performance Length: 60 minutes with no intermission


Gonzaga Dance Presents Sea Change Within Us with Karin Stevens Dance

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Date: Friday, September 19, 2025 7:30 pm
Location: Myrtle Woldson Performing Arts Center
Cost: Adult- $10, GU Student/Student/Youth- $8
Tickets: bit.ly/TicketCenterTheatre

Gonzaga University Dance and the Gonzaga University Institute for Climate, Water, and the Environment Present: Sea Change Within Us, by Karin Stevens Dance

Sea Change Within Us, by Karin Stevens Dance, is a multi-media dance performance in collaboration with Gonzaga Dance students. This work addresses local Washington state water concerns and climate change consequences through the voices of real people combined with moving rigid structures of water images by dancing human bodies.

KSD - Karin Steven Dance (KSD) is a Seattle-based dance company founded by Karin Stevens that investigates the complex layers of our cultural time and relationship to Earth and celebrates the power of movement as a connection to ourselves, each other, and the environment.

KSD will be in residence the week of Sept 15th to set choreography on Gonzaga Dance students, who will get to perform alongside the company in our Season Opener performance for the 2025-2026 school year.


60 x 60

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Date: Friday, October 3, 2025 6:00 pm
Location: Myrtle Woldson Performing Arts Center
Cost: $15 Adult, $10 GU Student/Student/Youth
Tickets: bit.ly/TicketCenterDance
Seating Type: Reserved non-tier Seating

Our annual 60x60 concert features 60 dance works, each running 60 seconds long. The evening’s music and choreography is created entirely by Gonzaga students, faculty, and alumni. The creativity and energy of the dancers and the quick pace of the concert is always a delight to audiences.


Gonzaga Theatre Presents: Climate Change Theatre Action

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Dates:
Friday, October 3, 2025 8:30 pm
Saturday, October 4, 2025 6:00 pm
Sunday, October 5, 2025 2:00 pm
Location: Magnuson Theatre, College Hall
Cost: $12 Student, $14 Senior/Military, $16 Adult - Reserved
Tickets: bit.ly/TicketCenterTheatre

Seating Type: Reserved Seating

Gonzaga Theatre Presents: Climate Change Theatre Action
Directed by Prof. Lydia Borowicz

Launched in 2015, Climate Change Theatre Action is a worldwide festival of short plays about the climate crisis presented biennially to coincide with the United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties meetings. Featuring 50 international professional playwrights who represent every inhabited continent as well as several cultures and Indigenous nations, CCTA is a collection of five-minute plays about climate and environmental issues. Gonzaga Theatre is proud to partner with Gonzaga’s Institute for Climate, Water, and the Environment to present this unique theatrical event.

Recommended for ages 8 and up
Performance Length: 60 Minutes with no intermission


Boone Street Hooligans 25

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Dates:
Friday, October 24, 2025 7:30 pm
Saturday, October 25, 2025 7:30 pm
Location: Magnuson Theatre, College Hall
Cost: $5
Tickets: bit.ly/TicketCenterTheatre
Seating Type: General Admission

Boone Street Hooligans 25
Directed by Gonzaga Theatre students Lauren Haiduc & Riley O’Connell

Sketch comedy Boone Street Hooligans returns for its 25th edition, featuring student writers, designers, actors, crew, and directors!

Recommended for ages 12 and up
Performance Length: 60-90 minutes with no intermission


Urinetown: The Musical

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Dates:
Thursday, November 6, 2025 7:30 pm
Friday, November 7, 2025 7:30 pm
Saturday, November 8, 2025 7:30 pm
Sunday, November 9, 2025 2:00 pm
Location: Myrtle Woldson Performing Arts Center, Coughlin Theater
Cost: $16 Student, $18 Senior/Military, $20 Adult - Reserved
Tickets: bit.ly/TicketCenterTheatre
Seating Type: Reserved Seating

A special collaboration of Gonzaga Theatre, Gonzaga Dance, and Gonzaga Music

Music and Lyrics by Mark Hollman
Book and Lyrics by Greg Kotis
Directed by Prof. Brian Tyrrell
Music Direction by Dr. Jadrian Tarver
Choreography by Prof. Sarah Glesk

In a city not so far from here, a severe water shortage creates a need to control access to toilet facilities. But an unregulated private sector breeds a greedy CEO who provides the wrong answer to the right question: how do we ensure every citizen has the right to pee? Join Gonzaga Theatre, Gonzaga Dance, and Gonzaga Music in our semi-annual collaborative event, showcasing our performing arts students and engaging with socially relevant questions in the three-time Tony Award-winning musical.

Recommended for ages 12 and up
Performance Length: 2 hours with a 15-minute intermission


Student Choreography Showcase

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Dates:
Thursday, November 20, 2025 7:00 pm
Friday, November 21, 2025 7:00 pm
Location: Magnuson Theatre, College Hall
Cost: Adult- Tier A $15, Tier B $10, GU Student/Student/Youth- Tier A/B $8
Tickets: bit.ly/TicketCenterDance
Seating Type: Reserved Seating

Enjoy the variety of work presented by the Student Choreography Class of Fall 2025. This concert is sure to impress as students showcase creativity, vision, and leadership through completed dance works performed by students.


Directing II Showcase

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Date: Friday, December 5, 2025 7:00 pm
Location: Magnuson Theatre, College Hall
Cost: Free
Tickets: bit.ly/TicketCenterTheatre
Seating Type: General Admission

Join us for a showcase of the semester-long efforts of our student directors enrolled in THEA 354 Directing II.


Thumbelina

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Dates: 
Friday, January 23, 2026 10:00 am
Friday, January 23, 2026 7:00 pm
Saturday, January 24, 2026 2:00 pm
Saturday, January 24, 2026 7:00 pm
Sunday, January 25, 2026 2:00 pm
Location: Magnuson Theatre, College Hall
Cost: Adult- Tier A $15, Tier B $10, GU Student/Student/Youth- Tier A/B $8
Tickets: bit.ly/TicketCenterDance
Seating Type: Reserved Seating

Come see the debut of Gonzaga Dance’s new story ballet created and choreographed by Founding Chair Suzanne Ostersmith! With roles being filled by our college dance students and supported by local youth dancers, this retelling of Thumbelina is a fun and inspiring performance for all.


The Vagina Monologues

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Dates:
Thursday, February 12, 2026 7:30 pm
Friday, February 13, 2026 7:30 pm
Saturday, February 14, 2026 7:30 pm
Location: Magnuson Theatre, College Hall
Cost: $12 - Reserved
Tickets: bit.ly/TicketCenterTheatre
Seating Type: Reserved

By Eve Ensler
Directed by Prof. Leslie Stamoolis

Hailed by The New York Times as “the most important piece of political theatre of the last decade” upon its premiere in 1996, The Vagina Monologues emerged from playwright Eve Ensler’s interviews with more than 200 women. First performed as a solo piece, the work has now grown to a global phenomenon and is performed all over the world to call for an end to violence against women and girls, and to celebrate and unpack the female experience. Proceeds from the production benefit Spokane YWCA in its work to end violence and racism.

Recommended for ages 12 and up
Performance Length: 90 Minutes with no intermission


The Tempest

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Dates:
Friday, March 20, 2026 7:30 pm
Saturday, March 21, 2026 7:30 pm
Sunday, March 22, 2026 2:00 pm
Friday, March 27, 2026 7:30 pm
Saturday, March 28, 2026 7:30 pm
Sunday, March 29, 2026 2:00 pm
Location: Magnuson Theatre, College Hall
Cost: $12 Student, $14 Senior/Military, $16 Adult - Reserved
Tickets: bit.ly/TicketCenterTheatre
Seating Type: Reserved

By William Shakespeare
Directed by Prof. Blake Edwards

The Tempest – often regarded as William Shakespeare’s final play – is a culmination of everything that makes him remarkable. An enchanted island somewhere in the Mediterranean Sea plays host to a slew of memorable characters – humans, monsters, and spirits. Inspired by the director’s work with the Hunter Heartbeat Method, eleven actors create and inhabit this island setting, utilizing body and voice to explore themes of love, betrayal, forgiveness, and what it means to be alive.

Recommended for ages 8 and up
Performance Length: 2 hours with a 15-minute intermission


Student Choreography Showcase

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Dates:
Friday, April 10, 2026 7:00 pm
Saturday, April 11, 2026 7:00 pm
Location: Myrtle Woldson Performing Arts Center
Cost: Adult- Tier A $15, Tier B $10, GU Student/Student/Youth- Tier A/B $8
Tickets: bit.ly/TicketCenterDance
Seating Type: Reserved

Enjoy the variety of work presented by the Student Choreography Class of Spring 2026. This concert is sure to impress as students showcase creativity, vision, and leadership through completed dance works performed by students.


Boone Street Hooligans 26

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Dates:
Friday, April 17, 2026 7:30 pm
Saturday, April 18, 2026 7:30 pm
Location: Magnuson Theatre, College Hall
Cost: $5
Tickets: bit.ly/TicketCenterTheatre
Seating Type: General Admission

Boone Street Hooligans 26
Directed by Gonzaga Theatre students Lauren Haiduc & Riley O’Connell

Sketch comedy Boone Street Hooligans returns for its 25th edition, featuring student writers, designers, actors, crew, and directors!

Age Recommendation: 12+
Performance Length: 60-90 minutes with no intermission


Spring Dance Concert

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Dates:
Friday, April 24, 2026 7:30 pm
Saturday, April 25, 2026 7:30 pm
Location: Myrtle Woldson Performing Arts Center
Cost: Adult- $15, GU Student/Student/Youth- $10
Tickets: bit.ly/TicketCenterDance
Seating Type: Reserved non-tier Seating

The Spring Dance Concert will feature works choreographed by Gonzaga Dance faculty and set on current students in the program. Works will cross multiple genres including ballet, modern, musical theatre and jazz.


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