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The WKU Student Chapter of Alpha Psi Omega Presents

Plays in a Day (Fall 2026)

A festival that celebrates and initiates ultimate creativity. Plays in a Day produces several 10-minute plays that are written, directed, and performed by students, all within a 24-hour time span.

Admission is free, but donations are appreciated! No advance reservations, tickets at the door, general admission seating.

Creation process begins Friday, September 4th, at 6 PM in GWH.

Recommended for mature audiences.

Shaina Taub is a two-time Tony Award-winning and Grammy-nominated songwriter and performer. She starred as Alice Paul in the Broadway production of Suffs, for which she won Tony Awards for both Best Book and Best Score; Outer Critics Circle Awards for Best Book, Best Score, and Best Musical; and a Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Music. She received a Grammy nomination for Best Musical Theater Album for the cast album of Suffs. She's an artist-in-residence at The Public Theater, where Suffs first premiered.

She created and starred in acclaimed musical adaptations of Twelfth Night (Drama Desk and Drama League nominations) and As You Like It (Obie Award) at Free Shakespeare in the Park as part of the Public Works community that have since been produced by London’s National Theatre, the Young Vic, and hundreds more theaters and schools worldwide. She wrote the lyrics for The Devil Wears Prada, with Sir Elton John, which opened in the West End in 2024. Her musical theater writing has earned her the ASCAP Richard Rodgers New Horizons Award, Johnathan Larson Grant, Kleban Prize, Fred Ebb Award, and the Billie Burke Ziegfeld Award. She performed in the original Off-Broadway productions of Hadestown and Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812 (Lortel nomination), and played Emma Goldman in Ragtime at New York City Centre Encores. She co-starred in Bill Irwin and David Shiner's Old Hats at the Signature Theatre, featuring her original songs.

Her three solo albums include Visitors, Die Happy, and Songs of the Great Hill on Atlantic Records, as well as original cast albums for Twelfth Night, As You Like It, and Suffs. Her songwriting for television includes Sesame Street, Central Park, Julie's Greenroom starring Julie Andrews, and the Emmy-nominated opening number for the 2018 Tony Awards, co-written with Sara Bareilles and Josh Groban.

Shaina has a longstanding concert residency at Joe’s Pub, made a solo debut in Lincoln Center’s Great American Songbook series, and has performed her music with the New York Pops at Carnegie Hall. She was included on the 2024 Time100 Next list of rising leaders and has been recognized for her activism with the Workers Circle Activism Award; the League of Women Voters’ Tribute Award; Project Kesher’s Kol Isha, Women’s Voice Award; Monumental Women’s Moving History Forward Award; NYU Trailblazer Award; and the Michael Friedman Freedom Award for activism from the NYCLU Artist Ambassadors program which she co-chairs.

This is a free event. Please contact sarah.berry@wku.edu for more information

This is a free event.

More info to come for repertoire and tickets.

WKU Next Stage Series Presents: Two Short Plays

big blue by: Marissa Alaniz

Two women-- Alicia, a naval officer and Viv, an oceanographer-- are on a mission from the US military to find the source of a mysterious deep sea humming. But when their tiny submersible gets knocked loose, they must contend with their respective land-bound griefs, tension with each other, and the fear of the inevitable bottom of the ocean.

The Thomas Paine Panther by: T.J. Walsh

Every year, The Thomas Paine Panther publishes its infamous "Best of/Worst of" issue, but this year, it's been banned. Determined to publish it anyway, the rebellious student staff uncover a shocking secret about their paper's sponsor that forces them to confront their values, their ethics, and the true responsibility that comes with journalism.

Adults $8 / All Students $5

Purchase tickets at wku.showare.com or by contacting the WKU Fine Arts Box Office at 270-745-3121 or boxoffice@wku.edu.

Recommended for mature audiences.

In The Big Bad Bullysaurus, a palentologist digs deep into their imagination to tell a dino-tastic fable about a not-so-terrifying T-Rex. Using lessons about empathy and a little Jurassic-sized humor, a story is crafted about how we all need to find ways to get along and how there's more than what meets the eye to both dinosaurs and humans! The Big Bad Bullysaurus by Tommy Jamerson is a prehistoric comedy appropriate and meaningful for all ages of warm-blooded and cold-blooded creatures!

Tickets: Ages 12 & under just $3, everyone else $5

Purchase tickets at wku.showare.com or by contacting the WKU Fine Arts Box Office at 270-745-3121 or boxoffice@wku.edu.

WKU Next Stage Series Presents: Two Short Plays

big blue by: Marissa Alaniz

Two women-- Alicia, a naval officer and Viv, an oceanographer-- are on a mission from the US military to find the source of a mysterious deep sea humming. But when their tiny submersible gets knocked loose, they must contend with their respective land-bound griefs, tension with each other, and the fear of the inevitable bottom of the ocean.

The Thomas Paine Panther by: T.J. Walsh

Every year, The Thomas Paine Panther publishes its infamous "Best of/Worst of" issue, but this year, it's been banned. Determined to publish it anyway, the rebellious student staff uncover a shocking secret about their paper's sponsor that forces them to confront their values, their ethics, and the true responsibility that comes with journalism.

Adults $8 / All Students $5

Purchase tickets at wku.showare.com or by contacting the WKU Fine Arts Box Office at 270-745-3121 or boxoffice@wku.edu.

Recommended for mature audiences.

In The Big Bad Bullysaurus, a palentologist digs deep into their imagination to tell a dino-tastic fable about a not-so-terrifying T-Rex. Using lessons about empathy and a little Jurassic-sized humor, a story is crafted about how we all need to find ways to get along and how there's more than what meets the eye to both dinosaurs and humans! The Big Bad Bullysaurus by Tommy Jamerson is a prehistoric comedy appropriate and meaningful for all ages of warm-blooded and cold-blooded creatures!

Tickets: Ages 12 & under just $3, everyone else $5

Purchase tickets at wku.showare.com or by contacting the WKU Fine Arts Box Office at 270-745-3121 or boxoffice@wku.edu.

This is a free event.

This is a free event.