Theatre UCF News

UCF Celebrates the Arts 2023 welcomed audiences of all ages, abilities and interests with more events than ever before.

This modern adaptation of the 1977 musical explores the lives of everyday laborers with heart, compassion and gratitude. Working will also be the 30th and last UCF production directed by Associate Professor Earl Weaver.

A Celebration of Life event will be held for UCF’s longtime costume shop manager on Oct. 17. Reservations are required.

Tickets go on sale Jan. 19 for three outdoor performances scheduled this semester for audiences to enjoy on campus and downtown.

UCF’s resident costume designer and her family are making masks for officers stationed at the COVID-19 testing site on campus.

Ronald DeMara, Joseph Harrington, Julia Listengarten and Gregory Welch have been selected for the highest academic award a professor can receive at UCF.

Ayelet Golan with the Israel Institute’s Visiting Artists Program also instructs how to create using found objects.

Their programs and initiatives benefit the community beyond the UCF campus.

Jerusha Cavazos ’14 made her Broadway debut in the new musical comedy about acceptance and love in October. Now, The Prom is nominated for 7 Tony Awards.