Theatre Season
Season tickets available starting September 3. Prices are $60 for adults, $40 for senior citizens or WFU faculty/staff, and $30 for students. Subscribers can all the box office to reserve their seat per production on or after the dates indicated below for each show.
Ticket prices for individual productions are $20 for adults, $15 for senior citizens, and $10 for students. Tickets are available 2 weeks before each production opens as noted below.
If you have specific concerns about stage effects (such as strobe lights or fog/haze) that might have a bearing on comfort or well-being or would like to know more about the age appropriateness of the performance, please contact the box office at 336-758-5295.
Recording and photography are not allowed at any performance.
2024-2025
The Musical Comedy Murders of 1940 is presented by special arrangement with Broadway Licensing, LLC, servicing the Dramatists Play Service collection. www.dramatists.com
The Musical Comedy Murders of 1940
by John Bishop
directed by Cindy Gendrich
September 20-21 & 26-28 at 7:30 pm
September 22 & 29 at 2:00 pm
Tedford Stage, Scales Fine Arts Center
“The intelligent person’s kind of nonsense.”
New York Magazine
John Bishop’s campy, intricately plotted murder mystery is filled with larger-than-life characters, the twists and turns you’d expect from a good Agatha Christie story, and a healthy serving of silliness. It’s winter, 1940, and a blizzard can’t keep a group of ambitious theatre folk from assembling at an upstate New York mansion to audition their new musical for a wealthy patron. Bodies begin to drop immediately. Love, ambition, espionage, dad jokes, recipe tips: The Musical Comedy Murders of 1940 has it all. The New York Post heralded the show’s “diamond wit,” and The Village Voice called it “hugely enjoyable.” A smart, fun choice for Family Weekend at Wake Forest.
Love and Information
by Caryl Churchill
directed by Stephen Wrentmore
November 1-2 & 7-9 at 7:30 pm
November 3 & 10 at 2:00 pm
Tedford Stage, Scales Fine Arts Center
Love and Information invites us to consider how we ‘know’ and how that knowledge informs the ways we navigate our human experience.
Through a montage of vignettes and a collage of over 100 characters, Caryl Churchill creates an ingenious and inventive commentary on the information age. Where the soundbite erodes complexity and algorithms flood us with the trivial — sex and celebrity, conflict, and cats — Churchill prompts us to wonder how we will have the wisdom to discern what is essential from all this noise.
There will be a pre-performance symposium on themes related to the production on Thursday, November 7 at 6:00 pm on the Tedford Stage. Event panelists are Dr. Anthony Sali, Assistant Professor of Psychology; Dr. Stavroula N. Glezakos, Associate Professor and Chair of Philosophy; Dr. Kevin Jung, Professor of Theological Ethics and Moral Philosophy; and Dr. Fan Wang, Assistant Professor of Computer Science. The event is free and open to the public.
Love and Information is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals on behalf of Samuel French, Inc. www.concordtheatricals.com
Dead Man’s Cell Phone is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals on behalf of Samuel French, Inc. www.concordtheatricals.com
Dead Man’s Cell Phone
by Sarah Ruhl
directed by Brook Davis
February 7-8 & 13-15 at 7:30 pm
February 9 & 16 at 2:00 pm
Ring Theatre, Scales Fine Arts Center
When Sarah Ruhl’s Dead Man’s Cell Phone premiered in 2007, the play questioned our connections, our disconnections, and how our lives have changed as we navigate a piece of technology that follows us everywhere, all the time. In 2025, that examination is even more profound.
After Jean answers and keeps answering a dead man’s cell phone, she stumbles into a complicated world of grand discoveries and adventure. Join us for a whimsical look at humanity, technology, and the life-altering importance of a good bowl of lobster bisque.
Audience Notice: No late admission for these performances.
The Tempest
by William Shakespeare
directed by Michael Kamtman
April 4-5 & 10-12 at 7:30 pm
April 6 & 13 at 2:00 pm
Tedford Stage, Scales Fine Arts Center
Long ago and somewhere far away: A mighty storm. A shipwreck. An island. Fantastical creatures. A sorcerer and the sorcerer’s daughter. Magic. Love. Treachery and deception. Temptation. Disorientation. Hilarity. Power. Humanity. This is the trail of breadcrumbs that will lead us into the world of William Shakespeare’s last play.