The John and Joan Mullen Center for the Performing Arts

The John and Joan Mullen Center for the

Performing Arts

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

TICKETS

NOW ON STAGE

Arcadia
Written by Tom Stoppard
Directed by Valerie Joyce

February 12-22, 2026
Run time: 3 hours, one intermission
All performances at 8pm except Sunday at 2pm
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鈥攖he 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.

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.

Villanova Chorale

SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2026
6 PM | Topper Theater

COMING SOON

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鈥擬eg, Jo, Beth, and Amy鈥攁s 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.