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SIU School of Theater and Dance 2024-2025 Season Information

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Box Office Services

Tickets can be purchased online, by phone at 618-453-5741, or in person at the night of the performance.  The McLeod Theater Box Office will be open ten days before the show opens from 12:30-4:30PM, and an hour before each performance. 

Ticket Prices

4 show season ticket (Adults $90) (Seniors $70) (Students $35)

Individual (Adult $25) (Seniors $20) (Student $10)

Tickets are available only through the School of Theater and Dance, NOT the SIU Ticket Office.  You can order tickets by phone, online, and in person.

Shows

  • Phoenix-Spring 2025 Dance Concert

    February 14-16, 2025; Fri and Sat at 7:30 pm; Sun at 2:00 pm

    McLeod Theater

    A program of diverse dance works performed by SIU students and guests artists.
    • Directed by Darryl Clark
      Choreographed by Darryl Clark, Winifred Haun, and Laurie Goux.
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  • Big Muddy Play Festival

    March 20-23; Thurs-Sat at 7:30 pm; Sun at 2:00 pm

    Christian A Moe Laboratory Theater

    A celebration of new works by SIU student playwrights, including a featured performance of an MFA Thesis play, as well as full-length readings of plays by our playwriting student.



    The Mind's Mirage by Aleksei Ellis.  Christian Moe Laboratory Theater.--"Stuck insider her head, poster of Mirage PlayPenelope searches for insights and is guided by a friend's advice to take candy, which leads her spiraling into a haunting maze of dreams."

     

    Big Muddy Play Festival

  • Urinetown the Musical

    April 24-27, 2025; Thus-Sat at 7:30 pm; Sun at 2:00 pm

    McLeod Theater

    In a Gotham-like city, a terrible water shortage, caused by a 20-year drought, has led to a government-enforced ban on private toilets. The citizens must use public amenities, regulated by a single malevolent company that profits by charging for one of humanity's most basic needs. Amid the people, a hero decides that he's had enough and plans a revolution to lead them all to freedom!   Winner of three Tony Awards, Urinetown is a side-splitting musical satire of the legal system, capitalism, populism, environmental collapse, privatization of resources, bureaucracy, and musical theatre itself!
    • Music and Lyrics by Mark Hollman
      Book and Lyrics by Greg Kotis
      Directed and Choreographed by Matthew Williams
      Lighting designed by Jaemin Park
      Scenic Designed by MK Hughes
      Costumes Designed by Wendi Zea
      Technical Direction by Matthew Logan
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  • The Lightning Thief-The Percy Jackson Musical

    October 10-13, 2024; Thu-Sat: 7:30 pm, Sun: 2 pm

    McLeod Theater

    As the half-blood son of a Greek god, Percy Jackson has newly-discovered powers he can't control, a destiny he doesn't want, and a mythology textbook's worth of monsters on his trail. When Zeus's master lightning bolt is stolen and Percy becomes the prime suspect, he has to find and return the bolt to prove his innocence and prevent a war between the gods. But to succeed on his quest, Percy will have to do more than catch the thief. He must travel to the Underworld and back; solve the riddle of the Oracle, which warns him of betrayal by a friend; and come to terms with the father who abandoned him. Adapted from the best-selling book The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan and featuring a thrilling original rock score, it is an action-packed mythical adventure "worthy of the gods" (Time Out New York).

    • Book by Joe Tracz
      Music and Lyrics by Rob Rokicki
      Adapted form the book The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan
      Directed by Angela Shultz
      Fight Choreography by Matthew Williams
      Scenic Design by Ron Naversen
      Projection Design by Brad Carlson
      Costume Design by Wendi Zea
      Lighting Design by Mitchell Brandon
      Technical Direction by Matthew Logan
      Choreography by Darryl Clark
      Sound Design by Alex Jokusch
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  • A Christmas Carol

    December 5-8, 2024; Thur-Sat: 7:30 pm, Sun: 2 pm

    McLeod Theater

    Dickens’ often-told tale of a miser who learns the true meaning of Christmas when three ghostly visitors review his life and forecast his future takes on new meaning in this production as it is set in Cairo, Illinois in 1920 . . .

    • Dramatized by Darwin Reid Payne
      From the Short Story by Charles Dickens
      Directed by Kesiena Obue
      Costumes Design by Aleka Fisher
      Lighting Design by Jaemin Park
      Scenic Design by MK Hughes
      Sound Design by Gary Griffith
      Technical Direction by Matthew Logan
    A Christmas Carol