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Theatre Performance Schedule

About Theatre Performances:

The Theatre Department proudly produces two student performances per year. These performances provide opportunities for student actors and crew. The HCC Theatre Department has produced world premiere plays, while collaborating directly with the playwright. HCC Theatre also explores the rich classical history of theater in production and includes a range to contemporary plays. All casting is nontraditional and diverse, welcoming all students into all roles. HCC Theatre offers exposure to a world class and diverse guest artist series, which provides performances and workshops to the community and students. The HCC Theatre Department welcomes the community to attend all its performances. 

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Fall 2025 Performances

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Theatre/Poetry Workshop with reg e gaines | Sep 8-12

Haiku Hillsborough a Celebration of Education

Workshop: Mon-Wed Sept 8th–10th, 6:00 to 8:00 pm – Studio Theater
Rehearsal: Thur Sept 11th, 6:00 to 8:00 pm – Studio Theater
Performance: Fri Sept 12th, 7:30 to 8:30 pm – Studio Theater 

Visiting Guest Artist
YPAB Studio Theatre 

Haiku Hillsborough is a poetic celebration of education created by students from Hillsborough College. A four-day intensive workshop, culminating in a single performance of original text consisting of a series of Rhyming Couplets and Haiku. Students will serve as ensemble/chorus as well as individual performers.

To Register or for more information 
Workshop Free to HC Students
Performance Free to HC Students, Staff and Faculty

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Enter the Body | Nov 5 - 8

"Enter the Body" by Joy McCullough

November 5th - 8th
Wednesday - Saturday, 7:30p
Saturday, 2p

HC Theatre Department
YPAB, Studio Theater

In the storage space beneath a stage’s trapdoor, Shakespeare’s dead women come to pass the time until they are required upon the stage again. The older women are resigned to their fates. But the younger women have some notes. Led by young, enthusiastic Juliet—who is sick of wrenching that dagger out of her chest night after night—they begin to share their stories with one another. They start with comedic speed-throughs of Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, and King Lear, but then start asking: How might things have been different if they had been given more agency? Both a love letter to and critique of Shakespeare, Enter the Body is a testament to how young women can support each other and reclaim their stories in the aftermath of trauma.

Appropriate for all ages.
Free to HC Students, Staff and Faculty with valid ID

General Admission Tickets $25
Group Discounts Available

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Past Performances

HCC's Theatre departments are proud to have showcased the following plays.

Title Year
Heathers The Musical 2024-2025
A Night of Seuss, The Musical 2024-2025
Hedda, Primitively Speaking 2024-2025
Scenes from the Odyssey 2023-2024
Make 'Em Laugh 2023-2024
Zombie Beach, The Musical 2022-2023
Mr. Yunioshi 2022-2023
 Breakneck Shakespeare 2022-2023
The Further Adventures of Tent Girl and Nazi Barbie in the Land of Whatever, a new play by Judith Leora 2022-2023
The Ukraine Play Reading Project 2022-2023
Everyman 2021-2022
Short plays to celebrate the human spirit 2021-2022
Ain’t I a Woman! 2020-2021
American playwrights with a twist! 2020-2021
Skin_Hunger_Touch_Starved 2019-2020
Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind 2018-2019
What of the Night? 2018-2019
HCC 50 Years in the Making 2017-2018
A Devised Theatrical Experience Honoring Our Veterans 2017-2018
Six Degrees of Separation 2016-2017
Miss Julie 2016-2017
Rosencrantz and Guilderstern Are Dead 2015-2016
Hamlet 2015-2016
I Hate Hamlet 2015-2016
Southern Exposure 2014-2015
The Importance of Being Earnest 2014-2015
Simpatico 2013-2014
Six Character in Search of an Author 2013-2014
The Dining Room 2012-2013
Lysistrata 2012-2013
365 Days/365 Plays 2011-2012
Betty's Summer Vacation 2011-2012