The Nevada Conservatory Theatre (NCT) at UNLV announces its 2007-2008 season. The NCT is the professional theatre-training program of UNLV and is committed to bringing to Las Vegas the highest quality theatre by featuring professional artists and advanced students recruited from around the country. Their mission is to entertain, provoke and inspire. For ticket information on any performance, or for season ticket information, please call 895-ARTS (2787).
2007-2008 Main Season
Amadeus
By Peter Shaffer
- Dates: Sept. 21-30, 2007
- Location: Judy Bayley Theatre
- Synopsis: Shaffer's new version of his epic play! This provocative work weaves a confrontation between mediocrity and genius into a tale of breathtaking dramatic power.
Fiddler on the Roof
Music by Jerry Bock, Lyrics by Sheldon Harnick, and Book by Joseph Stein
- Dates: Nov. 23-Dec. 9, 2007
- Location: Judy Bayley Theatre
- Synopsis: Fiddler On The Roof has touched audiences around the world with its humor, warmth and honesty... "One of the unforgettable stage musical creations of modern Broadway history."
– Variety
Come Back, Little Sheba
By William Inge
- Dates: February 8-17, 2008
- Location: Judy Bayley Theatre
- Synopsis: Loss plays a larger role than love in the marriage of the Delaneys. But when a spirited college student, Marie, moves in with them, their world is shaken in a dazzling and heart-wrenching display of conflict and compromise.
Lysistrata
By Aristophanes, Translated by Douglas Parker
- Dates: Apr. 4-20, 2008 (in the Black Box Theatre)
- Location: Judy Bayley Theatre
- Synopsis: Sexual politics, war and peace combine to create a bold, bawdy and funny play in which the women decide to put an end to war by refusing to sleep with any man until the fighting has stopped.
Doubt
By John Patrick Shanley
- Dates: May 2-11, 2008
- Location: Judy Bayley Theatre
- Synopsis: Set in a Bronx parochial school in 1964, John Patrick Shanley's Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winning play is a riveting exploration of paranoia and suspicion in the Catholic Church.
2007-2008 Second Season
Suggested for mature audiences
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
By Muriel Spark, Adaptation by Jay Presson Allen
- Dates: Oct. 5-14, 2007
- Location: Black Box Theatre
- Synopsis: Miss Brodie is an outspoken teacher who is so intensely interesting that the girls admire her above all-else; but when rumors fly regarding affairs with male teachers, one of her pupils no longer feels that Miss Brodie is in her prime.
The Heiress
By Ruth and Augustus Goetz
- Dates: Nov. 9-18, 2007
- Location: Black Box Theatre
- Synopsis: Catherine stands to inherit a handsome fortune. As the story opens, she has attracted her first suitor, Morris Townsend, but her controlling father quickly concludes that the young man is nothing more than a fortune hunter.
Playwrights' Rep The Australia Project
- Dates: Feb. 21-24, 2008
- Location: Black Box Theatre
- Synopsis: A joint project between the Dance and Theatre Departments. See it here at UNLV before it travels to the Adelaide Fringe Festival in Australia.
Freedom Deck (formerly titled The Ghost of You and I)
By Oscar F. Limón
- Dates: Feb. 28-Mar. 2, 2008
- Location: Black Box Theatre
- Synopsis: Nathan and Anna are columnists for "Freedom", a prestigious gay and lesbian magazine. Their assignment: find someone to fall in love with while on a gay cruise! With promotion on the line and time running out, hilarity ensues as each try to "one-up" the other.
*This play is for mature audiences only*
Take Me to Monaco
By Laura V. Turner
- Dates: Mar. 6-9, 2008
- Location: Black Box Theatre
- Synopsis: Candace's dissatisfaction with her comfortable, suburban American life drives her to sabotage her daughter's wedding, as she takes hostages and demands a trip to the fabled city of Monaco.
