Welcome to Vanguard Theatre, the resident production company of the 
Department of Art, Dance, and Theatre.  Open auditions are held 
for each production, and participation is open to all students and 
area residents regardless of academic interest.
 
Two or three major mainstage productions are performed each year as well as a number of lab theatre plays.  A wide variety of theatre is performed:
from Shakespeare to Shepard, Modernist to Musical. 
These provide the opportunity for students to participate in
acting, stage-managing, and technical aspects of theatre production
as well as design and construction of sets and costumes.
A series of original plays written by students in the playwriting classes are presented in the spring. These performances are directed by students from the directing classes.
A sample list of past productions of Vanguard Theatre includes:

Click to see Twelth Night site

Click to see House of Blue Leaves site
The Robber Bridegroom
The Fantasticks
The Bald Soprano
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
You're a Good Man Charlie Brown
Working
The Musical Comedy of Murders of 1940
Laundry and Bourbon
Monday after the Miracle
A Doll's House
When You Comin' Back, Red Ryder ?
Tartuffe
The Elephant Man
Bus Stop
Antigone
The Miss Fireracker Contest
Bell, Book, and Candle
Mother Hicks
Agnes of God
Marvin's Room
The Boys Next Store
Children of a Lesser God
Oleanna
Reckless
'Night Mother
and many, many others...

 
For further information contact:
                              Vanguard Theatre
                              102 Fine Arts Building
                              The University of Tennessee at Martin
                              Martin, TN  38238
Go to Department of Art, Dance, and Theatre
Go to University of Tennessee at Martin Homepage