What's In The Pipeline?!
The 2023-2024 Season will take you on a journey through the subterranean and the subconscious-- featuring landscapes both dreamy and dreary and stories that explore characters often hidden beneath the surface of life. Join us!
CINEMA 7x7
The 4th Annual 49 Hour Film Festival
A TheatreXpress Student Production
September 15-17 Production Weekend • Showcase September 29th
Modeled after the international 48 Hour Film Project, which hosts events all around the globe, the students of TheatreXpress are proud to produce their own version—complete with one extra hour for good measure. Participation is open to all TLU community members and their network of family and friends. Beginning on a Friday evening, entrants will receive the basic parameters of the competition. You draw a genre from a hat. You’re assigned a required character, line of dialogue, and prop. The rest is up to you, as you make a movie in one intense weekend. Completed films are due just 49 hours later and will be featured on October 8th.
Viewer discretion advised: may contain mature subject matter.
Viewer discretion advised: may contain mature subject matter.
EURYDICE
by Sarah Ruhl
Oct. 27, 28, Nov. 3 & 4 @ 7:30 PM
Oct. 29 & Nov. 3 @ 2:30 PM
The Studio Theatre
In EURYDICE, Sarah Ruhl reimagines the classic myth of Orpheus and Eurydice through the eyes of the heroine. Dying too young on her wedding day, Eurydice must journey to the underworld, where she reunites with her father and struggles to remember her lost love. With contemporary characters, ingenious plot twists, and breathtaking visual effects, the play is a fresh look at a timeless love story. “...Watching it, we enter a singular, surreal world, as lush and limpid as a dream—an anxiety dream of love and loss—where both author and audience swim in the magical, sometimes menacing, and always thrilling flow of the unconscious... Ruhl’s theatrical voice is reticent and daring, accurate and outlandish.” —The New Yorker
Viewer discretion advised: contains mature subject matter.
Viewer discretion advised: contains mature subject matter.
A PHOENIX TOO FREQUENT
by Christopher Fry
A TheatreXpress Student Production
Nov. 17 & 18 @ 7:30 PM
Nov. 19 @ 2:30 PM
The Studio Theatre
This one-act comedy is a charming update of the classic Roman tale, “The Widow of Ephesus” by one of England’s best playwrights of the 20th Century. Fry refreshes the story of a pious widow—accompanied by her maid—who mourns for the death of her recently deceased husband and plans to join him in the underworld. The maid is not quite so pious (and the voice of comic relief), yet both women begin to suffer the pangs of self-imposed hunger as they mourn in the tomb where the husband’s body lies. Not until a handsome guard appears does the widow begin to question her plans to withdraw from the world. What follows is at turns comic, sentimental, and romantic—complete with an unexpected ending that is sure to surprise! Join the students of TheatreXpress as they continue our exploration of subjects found in our production of EURYDICE.
W;t
by Margaret Edson
A TheatreXpress Student production
Feb. 2 & 3 @ 7:00 PM
Feb. 3 & 4 @ 2:30 PM
The Texas Theatre • Seguin, TX
Vivian Bearing, Ph.D., a renowned professor of English who has spent years studying and teaching the brilliant and difficult metaphysical sonnets of John Donne, has been diagnosed with terminal ovarian cancer. Her approach to the study of Donne: aggressively probing, intensely rational. But during her illness—and her stint as a prize patient in an experimental chemotherapy program at a major teaching hospital—Vivian comes to reassess her life and her work with a profundity and humor that are transformative both for her and the audience. Winner of the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. “[A] brutally human and beautifully layered new play...you feel both enlightened and, in a strange way, enormously comforted.” —The New York Times. “A dazzling and humane new play that you will remember till your dying day.” —New York Magazine.
W;t is produced in a collaborative community partnership with The Stephen and Mary Birch Texas Theatre, with performances at the historic venue located at 425 N. Austin Street in Seguin. The Show will feature TLU students as well as actors familiar to the Texas Theatre stage including Mary Jane Windel, Pat Hoppe and Greg Dew. The cast also includes Caitlyn Nordeen, Steven Cruser and Ty Edwards. It is being directed by William Hicks, Student Director.
A portion of ticket sales will go to the Guadalupe County Chapter of The American Cancer Society.
For tickets, visit www.thetexas.org.
Viewer discretion advised: contains mature subject matter.
W;t is produced in a collaborative community partnership with The Stephen and Mary Birch Texas Theatre, with performances at the historic venue located at 425 N. Austin Street in Seguin. The Show will feature TLU students as well as actors familiar to the Texas Theatre stage including Mary Jane Windel, Pat Hoppe and Greg Dew. The cast also includes Caitlyn Nordeen, Steven Cruser and Ty Edwards. It is being directed by William Hicks, Student Director.
A portion of ticket sales will go to the Guadalupe County Chapter of The American Cancer Society.
For tickets, visit www.thetexas.org.
Viewer discretion advised: contains mature subject matter.
AMERICAN DREAMS
by Studs Terkel • Adapted for the stage by Peter Frisch
Feb. 23, 24, Mar. 1 & 2 @ 7:30 PM
Feb. 25 & Mar. 1 @ 2:30 PM
The Studio Theatre
Drawn from Mr. Terkel’s bestselling book AMERICAN DREAMS: LOST AND FOUND, this absorbing and genuinely affecting theatre piece (as adapted by Peter Frisch) creates an overview of the American experience through the voices of real Americans. Though grounded in narratives from the 1970s, this mosaic of monologues gives voice to timeless themes about the American experience that continue to resonate today. The subjects range from the rich and famous to the obscure and lowly, from hard-bitten cynics to hopeful optimists, weaving an evocative tapestry out of the simple truths and cogent observations that emerge when people speak their minds with honesty and candor. Taken together, the various segments blend into a moving theatrical experience that is revealing, often funny, frequently moving, and sometimes disturbing—but that always speak from and to the heart of this great and singular nation in all its richness and diversity.
Viewer discretion advised: may contain mature subject matter and language.
NOTE: AMERICAN DREAMS replaces the event FOOD FOR THOUGHT, which has been postponed indefinitely.
Viewer discretion advised: may contain mature subject matter and language.
NOTE: AMERICAN DREAMS replaces the event FOOD FOR THOUGHT, which has been postponed indefinitely.
THIS PROPERTY IS CONDEMNED & Other Short Plays
by Tennessee Williams
Part of XpressFest.24, a TheatreXpress Student Production
Admission is free to all events. No tickets required.
Apr. 19 & 20 @ 7:30 PM
Apr. 21 @ 2:30 PM
The Studio Theatre
Written by Tennessee Williams, one of America’s best dramatists, this collection of short plays includes some of his finest work. Though famous for standards like THE GLASS MENAGERIE, CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF, and A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE, Williams is a brilliant writer of shorter stories, revealing pathos and insight into human nature in a way that few other writers have achieved. The event will feature three of his one-act plays*, all set in the American south of the mid 20th century. Each includes compelling and memorable characters who represent life as it is—often despairing and derelict— while desperately fighting for life as it ought to be.
*This Property is Condemned, Portrait of a Madonna, and Lord Byron's Love Letter
Viewer discretion advised: contains mature subject matter.
*This Property is Condemned, Portrait of a Madonna, and Lord Byron's Love Letter
Viewer discretion advised: contains mature subject matter.
XPRESSFEST.24
A TheatreXpress Student Production
Admission is free to all events. No tickets required.
Apr. 19-21 & Apr. 26-27
APRIL 19
2:30 PM Senior Capstone Presentations
4:00 PM Ring Leaders: Student Projects and Reception
7:30 PM This Property is Condemned and Other Short Plays
All events above at The Studio Theatre
APRIL 20
7:30 PM This Property is Condemned and Other Short Plays
The Studio Theatre
APRIL 21
2:30 PM This Property is Condemned and Other Short Plays
The Studio Theatre
APRIL 26
2:30 PM Short Plays
The CAST Theatre • 1005 W. Court St.
7:30 PM Film Showcase
The Studio Theatre
APRIL 27
7:30 PM Short Plays
The CAST Theatre • 1005 W. Court St.
The 24th annual XpressFest showcases student plays, movies, and class projects. Join the student artists of TheatreXpress for this culmination of their annual work, including senior capstone projects.
Viewer discretion advised: may contain mature subject matter and language.
Viewer discretion advised: may contain mature subject matter and language.
All dates, times, and content are subject to change.