Announcing our 2025-26 Season of plays, musicals & concerts!
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In this hilarious and outlandish musical, six teenagers from a Canadian chamber choir find themselves in limbo after a freak rollercoaster accident. A mechanical fortune teller offers them the chance to compete for the ultimate prize: a return to life. Funny, heartfelt, and thought-provoking, Ride the Cyclone explores what it means to truly live.
Book, Music, and Lyrics: Jacob Richmond & Brooke Maxwell
Directed by: Hannah Penn
Musical Direction by: Karina May (‘25)
Preview: Thursday, October 30, 2025
Opening: Friday, October 31, 2025
Performances
- Preview: Thursday, October 30, 7:30 p.m.
- Gala Opening: Friday, October 31, 7:30 p.m.
- Evenings: Wednesday - Saturday, 7:30 p.m.
- Matinees: November 2, 8, 9, 15, and 16
The Glass Door reimagines Henrik Ibsen's Hedda Gabler for a new audience, exploring the ambitions and struggles of a woman trapped in a society that denies her agency. As she seeks control in a world that resists her, she becomes entangled in a web of intrigue, seduction, and destruction.
Adapted by: Stephen Evans
Preview: Thursday, February 12, 2026
Opening: Friday, February 13, 2026
Performances
- Preview: Thursday, February 12, 7:30 p.m.
- Gala Opening: Friday, February 13, 7:30 p.m.
- Evenings: Wednesday – Saturday, 7:30 p.m.
- Matinees: February 15, 21, & 22, 2:00 p.m.
In its fifth annual tribute to International Women’s Day, Willamette brings together an extraordinary array of performances from around the globe and through the decades, all in recognition of countless contributions women have made to the world of music. Join us in celebrating the timeless voices and talents that have paved the way for centuries of female musicians and artists.
Sunday, March 8, 2026
2:00 p.m. Hudson Hall
Mary Stuart Rogers Music Center
Gender norms pop like balloons in The Breasts of Tiresias, Poulenc and Apollinaire’s bawdy surrealist romp. Frustrated with the life of a housewife, Tiresias sheds her breasts and becomes the male General Tirésias. As she leads a new life fighting distant wars on foreign battlefields, her stay-at-home husband discovers a way to make babies on his own — but not just one: 40,049 of them. This delightfully sugar-coated pill coats the sublime in the ridiculous.
Directed By: Hannah Penn
Location: Smith Auditorium
Performances:
- Saturday, March 14, 7:30p.m.
- Sunday March 15, 2:00p.m.
Inspired by the haunting discovery of thousands of unclaimed remains at the Oregon State Hospital, this work explores themes of memory, loss, and recognition. Created by the ensemble, Room of Forgotten Souls investigates society's relationship with mental illness and the hospital's attempts to make uniform the canisters that stored the ashes. Due to water damage, the canisters began to change in unique ways, as if the people were fighting to be recognized as individuals.
Directed by: Jonathan Cole
Preview: Thursday, April 16, 2026
Opening: Friday, April 17, 2026
Performances:
- Preview: Thursday, April 16, 7:30 p.m.
- Gala Opening: Friday, April 17, 7:30 p.m.
- Evenings: Wednesday – Saturday, 7:30 p.m.
- Matinees: April 18 & 25, 2:00 p.m.
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