Introducing the production season for the UVM School of the Arts Program in Theatre and Dance during the 2025/2026 academic year.
Auditions for theatre productions are open to all UVM students. In some cases, professional actors serve as guest artists on productions, or community members are cast in order to fulfill the needs of a particular show.
Tickets for any of the productions listed below can now be purchased online. In addition to purchasing tickets for individual shows, this year we are offering the option of purchasing a 3-show Membership Package for our line-up of theatrical productions presented in the Royall Tyler Theatre. More information about the 3-show membership package can be found by scrolling down to the membership package tab.
Thank you for supporting the UVM Program in Theatre and Dance and we look forward to seeing a performance during the 2025/2026 academic year.
Orange Julius
By Basil Kreimendahl
Directed by Zeina Salame
Performances will be October 1 - 4 at 7:30 PM and October 5at 2:00 PM
Royall Tyler Theatre
Nut grew up the youngest child of Julius, a Vietnam vet, in 1980s and ’90s working-class America. As Julius suffers the toxic effects of Agent Orange, Nut worries their time together may run out before they can embrace something essential about their relationship. Paging through forgotten photo albums and acting out old war movies about brothers-in-arms, Nut leaps through time and memory, tracing the complex intimacy between a father and an adult child when the child is transgender, fighting for a mutual recognition before it’s too late.
Purchase Tickets for Orange Julius (External)
Unbodied Lineage: Unveiling the Forgotten Through Dance
Directed & Choreographed by Julie Peoples-Clark
Performances will be October 24 & 25 at 6:30 PM
Royall Tyler Theatre Courtyard
A multidisciplinary dance exploration that delves into the ancestral roots of the performers, using movement as a medium to reveal hidden narratives and marginalized historical figures. Through contemporary and traditional dance forms, performers will physically interpret their lineage, embodying stories that have been silenced or overlooked.
Purchase Tickets for Unbodied Lineage: Unveiling the Forgotten Through Dance (External)
Fefu and Her Friends
By Marie Irene Fornés
Directed by Leila Teitelman
Performances will be November 12 - 15 at 7:30 PM & November 16 at 2:00 PM
Royall Tyler Theatre
Eight women gather at Fefu’s New England home for a weekend of camaraderie as the friends rehearse for a charity event. But unresolved tensions fracture the gathering, and the women find themselves reckoning with threatened friendships, lurking violence, and the secrets that bind them together. Widely lauded as a modern feminist classic, Fefu and Her Friends is the legendary Maria Irene Fornés's fearless exploration on how communities support—and injure—each other.
Purchase Tickets for Fefu and Her Friends (External)
Dancing Uphill 2026
Performances February 4 - 7, 2026, at 7:30 PM & February 7 at 2:00 PM
Cohen Hall Performance Studio - Room 110
14 South Williams Street, Burlington, VT
Dancing Uphill is an annual presentation that highlights UVM dance student performers and features choreography by UVM dance faculty Julian Barnett, Paul Besaw, and Avi Waring, and guest artists Jenna Riegel and Miguel Alejandro Castillo. Dancing Uphill explores the play, rigor, and collaboration that go into the dancing, dance-making, and creative research in the UVM School of the Arts Dance Program.
Seating is general admission - no reserved seating. Seating is limited.
Purchase Ticket for Dancing Uphill 2026 (External)
Bernhardt/Hamlet
By Theres Rebeck
Directed by Rob Shimko
Performances March 25 - 28 thru at 7:30 PM & March 29 at 2:00 PM
Royall Tyler Theatre
Mark Twain wrote: “There are five kinds of actresses: bad actresses, fair actresses, good actresses, great actresses – and then there is Sarah Bernhardt.” In 1899, the international stage celebrity set out to tackle her most ambitious role yet: Hamlet. Theresa Rebeck’s recent Broadway hit rollicks with high comedy and human drama, set against the lavish Shakespearean production that could make or break Bernhardt’s career.
Purchase Ticket for Bernhardt/Hamlet (External)
The Senior Theatre Majors Capstone Showcase
Performances April 17 and 18 at 7:30 PM
Royall Tyler Theatre
Join us for the theatre capstone Showcase as the graduating seniors in the theatre program present projects that represent a culmination of their undergraduate studies.
The Senior Dance Majors Capstone Projects
Performances April 24 and 25 at 7:30 PM
Cohen Hall
Presentation of capstone projects choreographed and performed by members of the graduating class of seniors in the Dance program.
Single Ticket Prices
If you wish to be added to the UVM School of the Arts theatre program email list, email RTTTickets@uvm.edu.
Total cost for all tickets will include additional Processing and Transaction Fees. Fee information will be seen prior to making your purchase.
Single Ticket Prices - Fall 2025
UVM Students: All performances - $10.00 (Purchased at the Box Office with UVM ID)
Orange Julius - General admission seating
Adults = $22
Seniors [55+], UVM Faculty and Staff and Non-UVM students = $19
Fefu and Her Friends - General admission seating
Adults = $22
Seniors [55+], UVM Faculty and Staff and Non-UVM students = $19
Single Ticket Prices - Spring 2026
Dancing Uphill 2026 - General admission Seating
UVM Students - $10.00
All others - $15
Bernhardt/Hamlet - General admission seating
Adults = $22
Seniors [55+], UVM Faculty and Staff & Non-UVM students = $19
Royall Tyler Theatre Main Stage Performance Times
Evening Performances Wednesday - Saturday at 7:30pm
Matinee Performances Saturday and Sunday at 2:00pm
Please check the production web pages for performance schedules and times.
Arrive at least 15 minutes before curtain time. We want to start on time as much as you do.
Theatre Productions - Three Show Membership Package
Save 20% off the full ticket price (processing and transaction fees are not included in this discount) when you purchase a Three Show Membership package to the theatre productions presented in the Royall Tyler Theatre.
Note: Membership packages are only available for purchase until Wednesday, Oct 2, 2024.
Directions
From I-89: Take exit 14W, Route 2 (Williston Road) west toward Lake Champlain. Go to the fourth traffic light (University Place) and turn right. The UVM Theatre is on the right just behind the Campus Transit turnaround.
From Route 7 South: Take Route 7 (Shelburne Road) to Pearl Street in Burlington and turn right. Follow Pearl Street east away from Lake Champlain. At the Ira Allen Chapel (University Place), turn right. The UVM Theatre is at the end of the street on your left just behind the Campus Transit turnaround.
From Route 15: Continue through Winooski over the Winooski Bridge. From traffic light at the Fletcher Allen Hospital, continue to next traffic light (University Place) and turn left. The UVM Theatre is at the end of the street on your left just behind the Campus Transit turnaround.
Parking
The best place to park during evening and weekend performances is in the Allen House Lot on the corner of Main and Prospect Street. Turn in as if going to Admissions and take a quick left into the lot. We do not recommend parking directly in front of the theatre where it says "No parking anytime" as the City of Burlington will ticket and tow. Handicap Parking is still available next to Morrill.