Steve Martin and Edie Brickell’s award-winning musical comes to the Marroney Theatre
TUCSON, Ariz. – The University of Arizona School of Theatre, Film & Television (TFTV) is excited to announce its 2024/25 theatre season, featuring a selection of award-winning musicals and plays and musicals spanning the late 19th century through to the modern day. The season showcases the school’s rising stars in acting, design and technical production.
Associate Professor Christie Kerr, new Artistic Director of the Arizona Repertory Theatre (ART), presides over the 2024/25 season. Kerr has worked as director, choreographer and intimacy coordinator on numerous ART productions including Sweeney Todd, Jesus Christ Superstar, Head Over Heels, Spring Awakening, and TFTV’s Broadway Regional Award-winning production of Legally Blonde.
“We look forward to welcoming audiences to the beautifully renovated Marroney Theatre to experience the master works Uncle Vanya and Little Women, the thrilling new play John Proctor is the Villain, and a sweeping tale of love and redemption in Bright Star, the musical written and composed by Steve Martin and Edie Brickell,” said Kerr.
ART is the public laboratory and showcase for TFTV’s professional actor training program.
“I’m thrilled to be at the helm of an incredibly exciting lineup of shows in 2024/25 as we showcase the final two years of our BFA Acting/Musical Theatre majors with our tradition of two plays and two fully produced musicals,” says Kerr, who is also the school’s new Head of Acting/Music Theatre.
In the Tornabene Theatre, the Next Performance Collective, an initiative of the school’s new degree in Live and Screened Performance, will present a selection of scenes in the BA Theatre Showcase, and create and perform original work for the New Directions Festival, now in its fourth year.
All mainstage productions will be supported by students in the BFA Design and Technical Production program.
Subscription packages for TFTV’s new theatre season are now on sale. Individual tickets will be available from Sept. 3. More information is available at theatre.arizona.edu.
TFTV 2024/25 Theatre Season
Bright Star
OCTOBER 13 — 27, 2024 in the Marroney Theatre
Inspired by a true story and featuring a Tony-nominated score of bluegrass and gospel tunes by Steve Martin and Edie Brickell, Bright Star tells the sweeping tale of love and redemption set against the rich backdrop of the American South in the 1920s and ’40s.
Music, Book & Story by Steve Martin. Music, Lyrics & Story by Edie Brickell.
Produced by Joey Parnes, Sue Wagner, John Johnson, Zebulon LLC, Jay Alix & Una Jackman, Len Blavatnik, James L. Nederlander, Carson & Joseph Gleberman, Balboa Park Productions, The Shubert Organization, Jamie deRoy/Catherine Adler/Cricket Jiranek. In Association With Rodger Hess, A.C. Orange International, Broadway Across America, Sally Jacobs & Warren Baker, Diana DiMenna, Exeter Capital, Agnes Gund, True Love Productions And The Old Globe.
BRIGHT STAR is presented through special arrangement with and all authorized performance materials are supplied by Theatrical Rights Worldwide 1180 Avenue of the Americas, Suite 640, New York, NY 10036. www.theatricalrights.com
Uncle Vanya
NOVEMBER 17 – DECEMBER 8, 2024 in the Marroney Theatre
Uncle Vanya is Anton Chekhov’s brilliant yet tragic play examining the troubles of country life in Russia during the late 19th century. Richly complex, this prescient drama is not to be missed.
By Anton Chekhov
Translation by Paul Schmidt
UNCLE VANYA is presented through special arrangement with TRW PLAYS 1180 Avenue of the Americas, Suite 640, New York, NY 10036. www.trwplays.com
John Proctor is the Villain
FEBRUARY 23 – MARCH 9, 2025 in the Marroney Theatre
A new play from a major new voice, playwright Kimberly Bellflower, John Proctor is the Villain captures a group of Georgia high schoolers as they explore the classic play, The Crucible. Along the way, issues of love, sex, and scandal rock their everyday worlds.
By Kimberly Belflower
Little Women
The Broadway Musical
APRIL 20 – MAY 4, 2025 in the Marroney Theatre
Set during the Civil War, Louisa May Alcott’s timeless American novel is vibrantly musicalized to stunning effect. We follow Jo, Beth, Meg, and Amy as they navigate life in all its adventures and trials. Six generations have read this story. This one will sing it.
Book by Allan Knee. Music by Jason Howlan. Lyrics by Mindi Dickstein.
Based on the novel by Louisa May Alcott.
LITTLE WOMEN is presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI). All authorized performance materials are also supplied by MTI. www.mtishows.com
BA Theatre Showcase
DATE TBD in the Tornabene Theatre
Note: The BA Theatre Showcase is offered separately from the subscription season package.
New Directions Festival
APRIL 3 – 13, 2025 in the Tornabene Theatre
Note: The New Directions Festival is offered separately from the subscription season package.
Join us in the Spring for the fourth annual New Directions Festival. The Festival showcases 100% student-created, student-designed, and student-performed content, allowing BA students to tell their stories through voices that are uniquely their own.
Contact
Kerryn Negus
Director, Advancement and External Relations
School of Theatre, Film & Television
knegus@arizona.edu