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Northwest Missouri State University

Department of Fine and Performing Arts - Theatre

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Maryville,Missouri 64468
660.562.1279
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Bachelor of Science in Theatre - Performance

Bachelor of Science in Theatre - Technical Design

Bachelor of Arts in Theatre

Bachelor of Science Education in Speech and Theatre Education


The theatre production program at Northwest Missouri State University (Theatre Northwest) typically produces more than a dozen shows each year. These productions include a Freshman mainstage production in the first month of the first trimester, two other mainstage shows, touring shows, and up to eight second stage and studio shows. Students get the opportunity to perform, design, and even direct early and often. Recent productions include The Laramie Project, Great Expectations, the Diviners, Ah, Wilderness!, Twelfth Night, The Seahorse, Same Time Next Year, Women and Wallace, Proof, The Blue Room, The Yellow Boat, and The Glass Menagerie, How I Learned to Drive, Buried Child, Macbeth, Ghosts, The Good Doctor, Dancing at Lughnasa, Medea, Cowboy Mouth, Rumors, Zoo Story, and Hedda Gabler.

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Past Student Productions

SHOW THEATER
Love Letters
(2/14/19 - 2/17/19)
Northwest Missouri State University
No Time
(2/7/19 - 2/9/19)
Northwest Missouri State University

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