The University of Arizona School of Theatre, Film & Television (TFTV) proudly announces its 2025/26 Performance Season, featuring a range of musicals and plays focusing on modern life, friendship, romance and show tunes. The season showcases the school’s rising stars in acting, design and technical production.
TFTV Associate Director Christie Kerr serves as artistic director for the 2025/26 Performance Season, guiding the artistic vision and programming for the season.
“We kick off our season with an exploration of a friendship between a trio of very different women in ‘Vanities, the Musical,'” said Kerr. “We continue with an astute observation of contemporary society in Caryl Churchill’s play “Love and Information.” Next, we follow love and loss in a remote, mythical almost-town called “Almost, Maine” and finish our season with “Jerry’s Girls,” a celebration of thrilling material written by the Broadway composer and lyricist Jerry Herman for female performers. Additionally, our BA Theatre students will present their original works in the popular New Directions Festival as well as a movement-driven, thought-provoking piece, ‘The Climate Project.’”
TFTV’s Performance Season serves as the public laboratory and showcase for the School’s professional training programs. The performers are students from the Bachelor of Fine Arts program in Acting and Musical Theatre, the Bachelor of Arts in Theatre Studies and Bachelor of Arts in the School’s newest program, Live and Screened Performance.
The New Directions Festival and The Climate Project are ensemble-driven ‘Workshop Productions’ showcasing the BA students as original content creators, storytellers, and performance makers. Both productions are free to attend.
Subscription packages for TFTV’s 2025/26 theatre season and individual tickets are now on sale. More information is available at theatre.arizona.edu.
TFTV 2025/26 Performance Season
Vanities: The Musical
Book By Jack Heifner (based on his play)
Lyrics & Music by David Kirshenbaum
Sept. 28 — Oct. 12, 2025
Marroney Theatre
“Vanities: The Musical” chronicles the life-affirming journey of three vivacious Texas teens from cheerleaders to sorority sisters to housewives to liberated women and beyond. The show is a funny and poignant look at three best friends who discover that, through thirty years of rapidly changing times, the one thing they can rely on is each other.
Vanities: The Musical is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals. www.concordtheatricals.com
Love and Information
By Caryl Churchill
Nov 16 – Dec. 7, 2025
Tornabene Theatre
“Love and Information” is an astute observation of contemporary society. Across a super-charged series of vignettes, the play depicts the difficulty of forming connections in a society overloaded with information.
Love and Information is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals on behalf of Samuel French, Inc. www.concordtheatricals.com through special arrangement with TRW PLAYS 1180 Avenue of the Americas, Suite 640, New York, NY 10036. www.trwplays.com
Almost, Maine
By John Cariani
Feb. 22 – March 8, 2026
Tornabene Theatre
Welcome to “Almost, Maine,” a place that’s so far north, it’s almost not in the United States. And it’s not quite a town, because its residents never got around to getting organized, so it almost doesn’t exist. One cold, clear, winter night, the residents of Almost, Maine, find themselves falling in and out of love in unexpected and hilarious ways. Knees are bruised. Hearts are broken. But the bruises heal, and the hearts mend—almost—in this delightful midwinter night’s dream.
Jerry’s Girls
Music and Lyrics by Jerry Herman. Concepts by Larry Alford, Wayne Cilento and Jerry Herman.
April 19 – May 3, 2026
Marroney Theatre
This dynamic revue celebrates the music of Jerry Herman, a broad spectrum of thrilling material written specifically for female performers. This fast-paced revue features all the best songs and crowd favorites from such immortal musicals. Mame, Hello Dolly!, Milk and Honey, Mack and Mabel, A Day in Hollywood/A Night in the Ukraine and La Cage Aux Folles.
Jerry’s Girls is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals. www.concordtheatricals.com
The Climate Project
Sept. 25 – 28, 2025
Tornabene Theatre
Note: “The Climate Project” is offered separately from the subscription season package. This workshop production is free to attend.
Inspired by “Requiem for a Reef” (2024), this collaborative physical theatre piece utilizes the “theatre of metamorphosis” approach to examine the critical issue of climate change in the Sonoran Desert. The production explores the changing metabolic footprint of life, from microbes to humans, in the face of environmental shifts.
New Directions Festival
March 26 – 29, 2026
Tornabene Theatre
Note: The New Directions Festival is offered separately from the subscription season package. This workshop is free to attend.
The fifth annual festival showcases 100% student-created, student-designed, and student-performed content. TFTV students tell their stories through voices that are uniquely their own.
This press release was originally published on the TFTV website and is republished with permission.