UAlbany Theatre Program Presents The Rocky Horror Musical March 5-9

ALBANY — The University at Albany’s Theatre Program presents five performances of a musical production of Richard O’Brien’s Rocky Horror Show, in the Main Theatre of the Performing Arts Center for Wednesday, March 5 – Sunday, March 9. 

The cult-classic, with Book, Music, and Lyrics by Richard O’Brien, will be performed by UAlbany students and directed by Shaun Patrick Tubbs, Theatre’s Visiting Assistant Professor of Direction, with the Music Program’s Lecturer Michael Lister as Music Director. 

The show will feature a live band and original choreography by Leah Tubbs, Founding Artistic Director of the Harlem-based MODArts Dance Collective, in her inaugural collaboration at UAlbany. The design team includes Theatre Program faculty Nora Marlow Smith, designing sets; and Anne Croteau, designing costumes with an haute couture influence; as well as visiting lighting designer Evan Anderson.

 With this production The Rocky Horror Show—made legendary by its 1975 movie version—returns to its origin as a live rock ‘n’ roll musical, in which sweethearts Brad and Janet get a flat tire during a storm, only to discover themselves in Dr. Frank-N-Furter’s mansion, where all innocence is lost. 

Since the production first premiered in London, Rocky Horror as been performed in 20 different languages and seen by over 30 million people globally, according to the BBC. 

The Rocky Horror Show picks up the sci-fi theme of the Theatre Program’s previous offering of Mary Shelley Meets Frankenstein, and continues its tradition for offering full-scale productions of hit musicals, following recent presentations of RENT and Hair, all on the Main Stage of UAlbany’s PAC.

 Tickets are only available online at: https://www.albany.edu/pac/news/2024-richard-obriens-rocky-horror-show-mar-5-9-2025

Note: at this production audience members are required by the Performing Arts Center to check coats and bags. Food and objects will not be allowed inside the theatre, to maintain the theater space and for the safety of the performers.