The John and Joan Mullen Center for the

Performing Arts

Villanova’s new Center for the Performing Arts is a hub for performances, creativity, engagement, and exploration for the University’s performing arts community - enriching Villanova’s campus and enhancing educational opportunities across the University.

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Arcadia

Written by Tom Stoppard
Directed by Valerie Joyce

FEBRUARY 12 - 22, 2026

Run time: 3 hours, one intermission
All performances at 8 pm except Sunday at 2 pm
Court Theatre

In Tom Stoppard's masterpiece, time dances between 1809 and the present at the elegant Coverly estate. In one era, precocious thirteen-year-old Lady Thomasina and her tutor explore revolutionary ideas in mathematics, physics, and romance while the gardens transform from classical to Gothic. Two centuries later, competing scholars piece together a mysterious scandal involving Lord Byron from fragments of the past, unwittingly mirroring the intellectual and romantic pursuits of their predecessors.

"Pure entertainment for the heart, mind, soul... a work shot through with fun, passion, and, yes, genius" (The New York Post), this brilliant theatrical puzzle examines the nature of truth and time, the collision between classical and romantic temperaments, and the disruptive influence of desire on our life orbits—the attraction Newton left out. Stoppard's "richest, most ravishing comedy" (The New York Times) proves that in both science and love, the unpredictable heat of human passion can alter everything.

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13 the Musical

By Villanova Student Musical Theater

FEBRUARY 11 - 22, 2026
Evenings 7:30 pm, Sunday Matinee 1 pm
Smith Performance Lab

13 is a musical with music and lyrics by Jason Robert Brown and book by Dan Elish and Robert Horn. Following a move from New York City to small-town Indiana, young Evan Goldman grapples with his parents' divorce, prepares for his impending Bar Mitzvah, and navigates the complicated social circles of a new school.

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COMING SOON

Villanova Chorale

SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2026

6 PM | Topper Theater

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Bellow
Brokentalkers Theater Company

Presented by: the Villanova Center for Irish Studies

MARCH 11-13, 2026
7pm | Topper Theater

Bellow explores the weight of tradition, the capriciousness of memory and the artist's need to express their true self. Ireland's leading experimental theatre company, Brokentalkers, join forces with master accordionist Danny O’Mahony, a man who had dedicated his life to the preservation of traditional Irish music.

After 40 years of breathing life into centuries-old tunes to honor the memory of those who have come before him, Danny is taking a moment to consider what this lifelong dedication has cost him. He revisits pivotal moments in his life: his first taste of music as a child, the mentors who shaped him, and the unrelenting pursuit of mastery that left little room for little else.

The performance fuses traditional music, an original electronic composition by Iceland's Valgeir Sigurosson and contemporary dance, heightening the tension between past and present, contemporary and traditional, preservation and progress.

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Little Women (non-musical version)

By Villanova Student Musical Theater

MARCH 18-22, 2026
Court Theater

Little Women is a 19th-century novel by Louisa May Alcott about the four March sisters—Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy—as they grow from childhood to womanhood during the Civil War while their father is away. The story follows their individual journeys of love, loss, and ambition, exploring themes of domesticity, morality, and sisterhood.

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