Longwood University Theatre is thrilled to announce our 2024-2025 Theatre Season!

We open our season with 12 Angry Jurors by Reginald Rose, adapted by Sherman L. Sergel, Directed by Jeffrey Todd Parrott, October 2-5 at 7pm and October 6 at 2pm in the CSTAC Main Stage Theatre

Perry Mason. Law and Order. A Few Good Men. We have been storytelling legal dramas since the first performance of The Eumenides by Aeschylus back in 458 BCE, in which the character Athena summoned twelve citizens to sit as a jury for the defendant Orestes in the murder of his mother. From then on, juries were solidified as a foundational aspect of both politics and theatre. Fast forward hundreds of years, when the story of “Twelve Angry Men” was first performed as a television play in 1954. It was such a big hit, it was adapted for the stage and the big screen within a matter of a few years. And although originally set in the 1950s, it is a timeless piece of American theatre, worthy of being told over and over again, and through modern contexts. Determining truth can be difficult, especially with the caveat of reasonable doubt. Concepts of nuance, complexity, and contradiction are sometimes lost in our modern world of quick fixes and fast answers. That is why this story and others like it get told so often. We must weigh the paradoxes of our world. The charge of “A jury of one’s peers”. What does that phrase really mean? And what responsibilities come with it? What will your verdict be?

Our second show, Directed by Joyce Sweet is Neil Simon's hysterical comedy, Last of the Red Hot Lovers, November 20-23 at 7pm and November 21 at 2pm in the CSTAC Main Stage Theatre

Our third show, in collaboration with Longwood Music, Directed by Jeffrey Todd Parrott and Music Directed by Chris Swanson is Little Women The Broadway Musical, Based on the novel by Louisa May Alcott, Book by Allan Knee, Music by Jason Howland, Lyrics by Mindi Dickstein, February 20-22 at 7pm and February 23 at 2pm in Jarman Auditorium.