Lights, camera and action!
The University of Idaho’s Theatre Arts Department has their lineup of plays and musicals for the 2025-26 academic year all planned out, with dates and locations already scheduled.
There will be four total productions showing from October 2025 to May 2026.
Running from Oct. 30 to Nov. 9, “Pippin,” a musical performance, will debut in the Hartung Theater. With music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz — the creator of “Wicked” — “Pippin” will include some glowing musical performances as the storyline follows a young prince’s quest through war, power and pleasure. Tickets for “Pippin” are on sale now.
“No Exit” is a play by Jean-Paul Sarte that will play in the Pocket Playhouse of Shoup Hall from Dec. 4-14. Two women and one man are locked up for eternity together in a room in hell. As time goes on and escape feels impossible, each person has their deepest secrets and darkest deeds exposed to one another.
The second and final musical of the 2025-26 season, “Ride the Cyclone,” will run in the Forge Theater from Feb. 27 to March 8. “Ride the Cyclone” is a hilarious and heartfelt musical that follows six Canadian teens from the Saint Cassian Chamber Choir as they wake up in limbo, greeted by a fortune teller named The Amazing Karnak. These teens are given the chance to return to life by telling their story, but a tough decision remains among the group: Who deserves the second chance?
“A Comedy of Errors” is a theatrical production that will close out the season on May 1-10, 2026. Showing in the Hartung Theater, this play is a classic Shakespearean tale. After a shipwreck separated them from their twins, Antipholus of Syracuse and his servant, Dromio, arrive in Ephesus. Confusingly, all the locals seem to know and recognize these two. Antipholus and Dromio unintentionally wreak havoc in the city through a series of mistaken identities with their twins, whose presence in the city is unknown to them.
Tickets for all productions are free to UI students and will range from $6 to $26 for the public.
Brooklynn Jolley can be reached at [email protected].