Howard Payne University students will perform Poor Clare by Chiara Atik this Friday through Monday, March 1-4. This play will be their entrance in the Christian University Theatre Festival (CUTF), hosted by HPU’s Department of Theatre. The festival will be held March 4-5. All performances will take place at the HPU Theatre. Showtimes for Poor Clare are Friday and Saturday, March 1-2 (7:30 p.m.), Sunday, March 3 (2:30 p.m.), and Monday, March 4 (1 p.m.). Tickets will be available at the theatre for all HPU and CUTF performances. Regular ticket price is $10. Tickets are $5 for students, HPU personnel and all U.S. military service members and first responders. On Monday, March 4, Hardin-Simmons University will perform The Ballad of Maria Marten by Beth Flintoff (7 p.m.) and Woyzeck by Georg Büchner (10 p.m.). On Tuesday, March 5, Lubbock Christian University will perform Crimes of the Heart by Beth Henley (1 p.m.).