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CINEMA 7x7
The 7th Annual 49-Hour Film Festival
A TheatreXpress Student Production
Sep. 11-13 Production Weekend
Dec. 9 Public Showcase @ 7:30 PM
The Studio Theatre
Free General Admission: No tickets required
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 screened for the public at the XpressFest Fall Film Festival.
Viewer discretion advised: may contain mature subject matter.
Viewer discretion advised: may contain mature subject matter.
DRACULA: A COMEDY OF TERRORS
by Gordon Greenberg & Steve Rosen
Oct. 30 & 31, Nov. 6 & 7 @ 7:30 PM
Nov. 1 & 6 @ 2:30 PM
The Studio Theatre
You’ve never seen a DRACULA this funny! It’s as if the legendary vampire feasted on the blood of Mel Brooks, the team from Monty Python, and your favorite glam rocker. The result is a lightning-fast, laugh-out-loud, 90-minute, gender-bending romp!
When her sister Mina falls ill with a mysterious disease of the blood, Lucy Westfeldt and her fiancé, Jonathan Harker, enlist the help of famed vampire hunter Doctor Jean Van Helsing. Their hunt for the dangerous and sexy Count Dracula abounds with madcap antics, clever wordplay, and gags galore. Perfect for the Halloween season, join us for this brilliantly comic take on the classic tale that is guaranteed to induce blood-curdling screams— of laughter!
When her sister Mina falls ill with a mysterious disease of the blood, Lucy Westfeldt and her fiancé, Jonathan Harker, enlist the help of famed vampire hunter Doctor Jean Van Helsing. Their hunt for the dangerous and sexy Count Dracula abounds with madcap antics, clever wordplay, and gags galore. Perfect for the Halloween season, join us for this brilliantly comic take on the classic tale that is guaranteed to induce blood-curdling screams— of laughter!
XPRESSFEST FALL FILM SHOWCASE
A TheatreXpress Student Production
Dec. 9 @ 7:30 PM
The Studio Theatre
This new extension of our popular annual XpressFest features films made during the fall semester, as well as those made during Cinema 7x7, our 49-hour Film Festival. Showing one night only, so don't miss it!
THEATRE 5x5
The 3rd Annual 25-Hour Play Festival
A TheatreXpress Student Production
Launch: Jan. 22 @ 6:30 PM
Public Showing: Jan. 23 @ 7:30 PM
The Studio Theatre
Inspired by our popular Cinema 7x7 Film Festival, and modeled after similar 24-hour play festivals, the students of TheatreXpress will produce a whirlwind event we call THEATRE 5x5! Beginning on a Friday evening at 6:30 PM, participants will convene and begin creating original short plays. The results will be showcased to the public a mere 25 hours later! Participation is open to all TLU community members and their network of family and friends.
THE BEST OF THE CAROL BURNETT SHOW
A joint production between TheatreXpress Student and The Texas Theater
Feb. 19, 20, 26 & 27 @ 7:30 PM
Feb. 21 & 28 @ 2:30 PM
The Steven & Mary Birch Texas Theater
Following the tremendous success of this event in the spring of 2026, we’re bringing it back— with new sketches and a new location at the historic Texas Theater! Carol Burnett is known as one of the most brilliant comedians of all time, and her CAROL BURNETT SHOW ran for 11 years, garnering 25 prime-time Emmy awards and inclusion on Time magazine’s list of “100 Best TV Shows of All Times.” This event features the actual scripts to some of her best comedy sketches, as they were performed by the unsurpassed comedy team of Burnett, Harvey Korman, Tim Conway, and Vickie Lawrence. Not a word in these scripts has been changed, bringing the brilliance of the sketches to a new generation of performers and audience members. Featuring a blend of community members and the students of TheatreXpress, this showcase promises to be a blend of nostalgia and laugh-out-loud fun for all!
BLOOD WEDDING
by Federico García Lorca • Translated by Lillian Groag
Apr. 2 & 3, 9 & 10 @ 7:30 PM
Apr. 4 & 9 @ 2:30 PM
The Studio Theatre
In a semi-mythical region of rural Spain, the fortunes of multiple families are intricately bound in an unbreakable cycle of murder and revenge. An arranged country marriage and simmering love triangle provides the catalyst to renew a history of violence, dormant but not forgotten. Passions rise to a fever pitch, disrupting the ceremonial and relational bonds of matrimony, and threatening to destroy all involved. Under the light of a watchful and poetic moon, the story gallops towards an unstoppable and tragic conclusion.
BLOOD WEDDING is a staple of the Spanish theatre, filled with Lorca’s image-laden poetry and compelling themes—which many associate as an exploration of forbidden desires, reflecting the personal repression and marginalization he experienced as a homosexual. It also explores forces of social conformity and revenge which can create conditions ripe for violence, perhaps anticipating the rise of fascism in both Spain and elsewhere. Though some mystery surrounds his death, Lorca was perceived as a threat. He was arrested and assassinated in 1936 at the age of 38. This accessible translation by Lillian Groag, originally commissioned by the Guthrie Theatre, breathes fire and power into Lorca’s work while revealing the timeless nature and modern relevance of his themes.
BLOOD WEDDING is a staple of the Spanish theatre, filled with Lorca’s image-laden poetry and compelling themes—which many associate as an exploration of forbidden desires, reflecting the personal repression and marginalization he experienced as a homosexual. It also explores forces of social conformity and revenge which can create conditions ripe for violence, perhaps anticipating the rise of fascism in both Spain and elsewhere. Though some mystery surrounds his death, Lorca was perceived as a threat. He was arrested and assassinated in 1936 at the age of 38. This accessible translation by Lillian Groag, originally commissioned by the Guthrie Theatre, breathes fire and power into Lorca’s work while revealing the timeless nature and modern relevance of his themes.
XPRESSFEST.27
A TheatreXpress Student Production
Admission is free to all events
Apr. 23-25, Times TBA
The Studio Theatre & The CAST Theatre
The 27th annual XpressFest showcases original 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.
