Production Opportunities in the C. Walsh Theatre

The C. Walsh Theatre is undergoing a significant renovation scheduled to be completed in September.  As well as a beautiful aesthetic upgrade that will increase the intimacy and connection between performers and audience, the theatre will have upgraded HVAC, electrical power, multi-media, sound and lighting.   In addition to being the main place for assembly for the University, The C. Walsh Theatre is a home for larger-scale Theatre Department Productions. Recent productions include:

• You Can’t Take It With You - 2005
• Assassins - 2004
• The Conference of the Birds – 2003
• Gypsy - 2002
• Buried Child - regional Alternate Finalist, Kennedy Center/American College Theatre Festival production competition, 2001
• Reckless - regional Semi-finalist, KC/ACTF, 2001
• Cabaret - regional Finalist, KC/ACTF, 2000
• The Three Sisters - regional Semi-finalist, KC/ACTF, 1999
• The Good Person of Szechuan - 1998

The C. Walsh is also the home for the Boston Music Theatre Project, which presents professional productions of new musicals in development and has featured guest artists such as Tony-award winning composers William Finn (The Falsettos, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee), Jeanine Tesori (Thoroughly Modern Millie) and lyricist-composer Ricky Ian Gordon.

The Theatre Department also presents prestigious visiting professional performing artists and arts organizations from the United States and around the world.

• In 2006-2007, world-class early music ensemble Boston Camerata in collaboration with the Turkish music ensemble Dunya.
• Hagoromo – “The Feather Robe” – presented by the Kanze School of Noh Theatre, Japan
• Me Am I – presented by the Milwaukee Dance Theatre
• Requiem for Srebrenica presented by the Massachusetts International Festival of the Arts
• OPENINGS Theatre Company of Dublin’s Moll
• The United States premiere presentation of the Daita International Nagauta Music Ensemble of Tokyo.