Performing and Visual Arts

The Farquhar College of Arts and Sciences provides a rich variety of opportunities in theatre. The college’s Division of Humanities offers a bachelor of arts in theatre, as well as a theatre minor, and houses NSU Theatre, the university’s performance company.

The theatre program produces four to five productions a year. The performing arts facilities include: the 499-seat Miniaci Performing Arts Center, 100-seat Black Box Theatre, 130-seat Mailman Auditorium, 300-seat Performance Theatre (opening summer 07), and Scene and Costume Shops. Participation in NSU Theatre is open to all NSU students, faculty, and staff, as well as members of the local community.

The Farquhar College of Arts and Sciences also partners with The Promethean Theatre, Nova Southeastern University’s professional theatre in residence. 

2008-2009 Season

Opening Night: Say It Somehow
Opening Night: Say It Somehow is an evening of music, theatre, and dance from Broadway to Bossa Nova, featuring NSU’s most talented performers.

Performance Theatre,
Performing and Visual Arts Wing of the University Center
October 3, 2008, at 7:30 p.m. (Opening Night Performance)
October 4, 2008, at 6:00 p.m. (VIP Performance only)
  October 4, 2008, at 8:00 p.m.  
October 5, 2008, at 2:00 pm

The Dining Room
B y A.R Gurney
The Dining Room is comprised of a mosaic of interrelated scenes—some funny, some touching, some rueful.  This Pulitzer Prize nominated play examines the decline of the dining room as the center of family interaction.

Black Box Theatre,
Performing and Visual Arts Wing of the University Center
November 14, 2008, at 7:30 p.m.
November 15, 2008, at 7:30 p.m.
November 16, 2008, at 2:00 p.m.
November 20, 2008, at 7:30 p.m.
November 21, 2008, at 7:30 p.m.
November 22, 2008, at 7:30 p.m.
November 23, 2008, at 2:00 p.m.

Baby
Book by Sybille Pearson
Lyrics by Richard Maltby, Jr.
Music by David Shire
Based upon a story developed with Susan Yankowitz
Baby tells the story of three couples on a university campus as they deal with the painful, rewarding, and agonizingly funny consequences of this universal experience. There are the college students, barely at the beginning of their adult lives; the thirty-somethings, having trouble conceiving but determined to try; and the middle aged parents, looking forward to seeing their last child graduate from college when a night of unexpected passion lands them back where they started.

Performance Theatre,
Performing and Visual Arts Wing of the University Center
February 13, 2009, at 7:30 p.m.
February 14, 2009, at 7:30 p.m.
February 15, 2009, at 2:00 p.m.
February 19, 2009, at 7:30 p.m.
February 20, 2009, at 7:30 p.m.
February 21, 2009, at 7:30 p.m.
February 22, 2009, at 2:00 p.m.

Festival of Student Works
The Festival of Student Works will showcase student talents in all areas of the performing and visual arts.

Performance Theatre and Black Box Theatre,
Performing and Visual Arts Wing of the University Center
April 3, 2009, at 7:30 p.m.
April 4, 2009, at 7:30 p.m.
April 5, 2009, at 2:00 p.m.

Dead Man Walking
By Tim Robbins
Based on the book Dead Man Walking by Sister Helen Prejean
Dead Man Walking, adapted for the stage by Tim Robbins, examines the death penalty through the eyes of Sister Helen Prejean. Robbins wrote and directed the 1995 screenplay starting Susan Sarandon and Sean Penn.

Black Box Theatre,
Performing and Visual Arts Wing of the University Center
April 17, 2009, at 7:30 p.m.
April 18, 2009, at 7:30 p.m.
April 19, 2009, at 2:00 p.m.
April 23, 2009, at 7:30 p.m.
April 24, 2009, at 7:30 p.m.
April 25, 2009, at 7:30 p.m.
April 26, 2009, at 2:00 p.m.

Auditions

Check back for information on auditions for upcoming theatre productions

Tickets

Admission to the college's performing arts productions is free, but reservations are required. To reserve seats, email nsutheatre@nova.edu or call (954) 262-8179.

Previous Performances

2007-2008 Season

The Women of Lockerbie by Deborah Brevoort
NSU Theatre opened its third season with this drama, inspired by true events. The play followed a mother from New Jersey as she roamed the hills of Lockerbie, Scotland, looking for her son’s remains that were lost in the crash of Pan Am 103. She met the women of Lockerbie, who were determined to convert an act of hatred into an act of love by washing the clothes of the dead and returning them to the victim’s families. 
The Women of Lockerbie Playbill

Cinderella by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein III
The timeless enchantment of a magical fairy tale is reborn as a musical with Rodgers and Hammerstein hallmarks of originality, charm, and elegance.

Directors' Festival of One-Acts
The final offering of the year featured a festival of student-directed works. 

2006-2007 Season

A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare
NSU Theatre opened its second season with Shakespeare’s classic comedy. This timeless tale includes mistaken identity, scorned lovers, rebellion, fairies, magic, and rustic characters. 

The Laramie Project by Moisés Kaufman and the Members of the Tectonic Theater Project
A docudrama based on testimony compiled in Laramie, Wyoming by members of the Tectonic Theater Project after the beating death of college student Matthew Shepard. The play examines the identities of the town and America by creating a collage of material taken from Tectonic’s year-and-a-half investigation.

Directors' Festival of One-Acts
The final offering of the year featured the first annual festival of student-directed works. 

2005-2006 Season

The Night of the Assassins by José Triana
In this controversial and complex study of a revolutionary family, three siblings perform a ritualistic murder of their parents. The play was originally written in Cuba in 1964, and was subsequently banned there for 30 years.

The Burial at Thebes by Seamus Heaney
Nobel Laureate poet Seamus Heaney's translation of Antigone by Sophocles was originally commissioned to mark the 100th anniversary of Dublin’s Abbey Theatre in 2004. Partly inspired by the war in Iraq, Heaney’s retelling of Sophocles’ tragedy gives Antigone a contemporary voice and parallels the world in which we live.

Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America by Barbara Ehrenreich (stage adaptation by Joan Holden)
Barbara is conducting a covert experiment to work minimum wage jobs—waiting tables, cleaning hotels and houses, and working at Walmart. Through her actions and narrration, the play demonstrates the stark lives and times experienced by many working Americans today, raising important questions about social and economic disparity in the United States.