Current Season
ANNOUNCING OUR 2025/2026 SEASON
The University of North Carolina at Charlotte’s Department of Theatre is proud to announce its 2025/2026 theatre production lineup. The 2025/26 theatre season will also feature FREE final dress rehearsal preview performances for high school students and teachers, as well as a free high school matinee performance. If you are a high school teacher or student and interested in attending one or more of these events, please reach out to Chair of Theatre, David Janowiak at djanowi1@charlotte.edu.
We hope to see you at the theatre!
David Janowiak, Chair of Theatre, UNC Charlotte
This season, closed captioning will be available for our performances, powered by CCTheater, from AccessTech, LLC.
gather again
Written, Choreographed, and Directed by UNC Charlotte Students
September 25-28, 2025
Black Box Theater, Robinson Hall
Gather Again is a collection of six original works by UNC Charlotte students: five one-act plays and an original dance piece. Touching on themes of identity, love, family, loyalty, and resilience, this celebration of new works will be directed, designed, managed, and performed by students. The show represents the culmination of nearly a year of writing, workshops, and readings under the guidance of Professor of Theatre Lynne Conner.
Intimate Apparel
By Lynn Nottage
Directed by Sidney Horton
October 23-26, 2025
Anne R. Belk Theater, Robinson Hall
The time is 1905. The place, the Lower East Side. Sewing beautiful lingerie gives Esther Mills, an African American seamstress, an intimate look at the lives of her clientele, but she yearns for a story of her own. Written by Lynn Nottage – two-time Pulitzer Prize winner — this play is a moving portrait of love, privilege, and the rich tapestry of life.
Join us on Wednesday, October 22 at 7:30 p.m. for an invited high school preview of final dress!
The Slumber Party
by E. Claudette Freeman
Directed by Margarette Joyner
February 19-22, 2026
Black Box Theater, Robinson Hall
The Slumber Party is the story of five friends. As children, they experienced first loves, heart breaks, the changes of life together. They endured family struggles, bouts with racism, the joy of one’s pregnancy and then separation. Now, some six years later, they gather again for a slumber party that results in an evening of awakenings and revelations.
Cabaret
Book by Joe Masteroff
Based on the play by John Van Druten and stories by Christopher Isherwood
Music by John Kander
Lyrics by Fred Ebb
Directed and Choreographed by Tod Kubo
March 20-23, 2026
Anne R. Belk Theater, Robinson Hall
In a Berlin nightclub, as the 1920s draw to a close, a garish Master of Ceremonies welcomes the audience and assures them they will forget all their troubles at the Cabaret. With the Emcee’s bawdy songs as wry commentary, Cabaret explores the dark, heady and tumultuous life of Berlin’s natives and expatriates as Germany slowly yields to the emerging Third Reich. Musical numbers include “Willkommen,” “Cabaret,” “Don’t Tell Mama” and “Two Ladies.”
Join us on Wednesday, April 15 at 7:30 p.m. for an invited high school preview of final dress!