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When The Rain Stops Falling

Taylor Theatre Playbills

The playbill for Taylor University’s performance of When the Rain Stops Falling by Thornton Andrew Bovell.

Performed February 24-26, March 3-5, 2017.

It’s 2039. A fish falls from the sky and lands at Gabriel’s feet. Where did it come from? Gabriel’s estranged son decides to visit for dinner. What does he want? To know about his past? Gabriel barely knows his own past. From 1959 to 2039, from London to Australia, When the Rain Stops Falling follows the fragmented history and mystery of Gabriel’s family and the falling fish.

The Who's Tommy

Theatre Programs

The Who's Tommy
Book by Des McAnuff and Pete Townshend
Music and Lyrics by Pete Townshend
Additional Music and Lyrics by John Entwistle and Keith Moon
Directed by Oanh Nguyen

Rock musical; adult language and content as well as strobe lighting effects will be utilized

Based on the iconic 1969 rock concept album, The Who’s Tommy is an exhilarating story of hope, healing, and the human spirit. The story of the pinball-playing, deaf, dumb and blind boy who triumphs over his adversities has inspired, amazed, and puzzled audiences for more than 40 years. This five-time Tony Award-winning musical was translated …

Heathers: The Musical (February 23-25, 2017), Kevin Murphy, Laurence O'Keefe

Student Theatre Programs

Program for Heathers: The Musical (February 23-25, 2017).

To view the photos from this production of Heathers, please click here.

The Crucible, School Of Theatre Arts

All Production Programs

Winner of the 1953 Tony Award for Best Play, Arthur Miller wrote The Crucible as an allegory in response to McCarthyism and the US government’s blacklisting of its citizens accused of being communists. Using the Salem witch trials which occurred in the Massachusetts Bay Colony during 1692 and 1693, the play is a partially fictionalized and dramatized account of some of those events. The piece has become an American classic and a central work in the canon of American drama.

Haunted Houses: A Directorial Exploration Of Expressionism, Jose Martinez-Chavarria

Honors Theses

The purpose of “Haunted Houses: A Directorial Exploration of Expressions” is to demonstrate the effectiveness of my directorial skills in staging a drama on stage with both an objective and subjective reality. The play Haunted Houses by Kathryn Schultz-Miller served as the chosen work whose staging would implement the common expressionist staging strategies of abstraction, simple and flexible blocking, nonrealistic lighting and a strong emphasis on visuals and stage images. The following thesis provides a detail directorial book containing the blocking, scenery, props and creative concepts used in this original production that allows it to be recreated if desired. A …

Into The Woods - Cinderella At Ball Illustration, David Cabral

Playbill and Promotion

Providence College Department of Theatre, Dance & Film

Into the Woods - Cinderella at Ball illustration by David Cabral

February 27, 2017

A Love Untaught By Law, Emma Oliver

VA Engage Journal

A self-proclaimed “live and let live” society, Laramie, Wyoming quickly became everything but when studied by the Tectonic Theater Company following the murder of Matthew Shepard. By drawing attention to disturbingly inherent elements of Laramie’s culture including verbal distancing, an elitist sentiment, and the belief that apathy is acceptable, the theater company exposes the hostile climate that has made this Wyoming city nearly unlivable for the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Questioning community. In analyzing the language and attitudes of the residents of Wyoming as brought to light in the play The Laramie Project, this paper confirms the danger in …

Winter Dance Concert (February 9-11, 2017), Lindenwood University

Student Dance Programs & Brochures

Program for the Winter Dance Concert (February 9-11, 2017), Lindenwood University.

Top Girls, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department

2016-2017 Season

Top Girls is a 1982 play by Caryl Churchill. It is about a woman named Marlene, a career-driven woman who is only interested in women's success in business. In the famous opening scene, she hosts a dinner party for a group of famous women from history. As the play unfolds we find Marlene has left her 'poor' life, and illegitimate child with her sister Joyce, in order to tread the path to 'success'. The play is contemporary and examines the role of women in society and what being a successful woman means.

Kazam!, Parkland College

Parkland Theatre

Written by Kerry Bean

Director: Tyler Cook
Stage Manager: Lauren Sutter+
Scenic Designer: Daniel Howie+
Costume Designer: Amber Sarno*
Sound Designer: Dominick Rosales+
Lighting Designers: Calvin Hastings* & Wyatt Simmons*

Presented in Parkland Theatre's Second Stage
February 9, 10, 11 at 7:30pm
February 12 at 3pm
2017

To view images from this production, visit Kazam! (2017).

Into The Woods Open Auditions Poster, Providence College

Playbill and Promotion

Providence College Department of Theatre, Dance & Film

Smith Center Lobby

Into the Woods open auditions

Tuesday, February 7, 2017, 7pm

Open Auditions! Tuesday 7 February Into The Woods Musical Promotional Email, Department Of Theatre, Dance & Film

Playbill and Promotion

Providence College Department of Theatre, Dance & Film

Open Auditions! Tuesday 7 February Into the Woods musical promotional email.

Sunday, February 5, 2017

Blowing Off Ste(A)M: The Value Of The Creative Arts For Gifted Stem Students (Iagc 2017), Tracy A. Townsend, Michael W. Hancock, Michael P. Dean

Faculty Publications & Research

The following is a collection of teaching documents, including classroom activities and assignment prompts, used in the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy’s Graphic Novels, Creative Writing, and Modern Theater classes. These materials are easily included in courses with broader topical focuses, however, either as single-day activities or units of study. The specific materials included here are especially beneficial as means of encouraging student creativity, building up a variety of communication skills, rewarding experimental work, and providing new outlets for critical thinking and social-emotional development.

Richard Alston Dance Company With Shanghai Quartet & Repast Baroque Ensemble, Office Of Arts + Cultural Programming, Peak Performances At Montclair State University

2016-2017 Break the Mold

Richard Alston Dance Company is celebrating its 22nd anniversary this year. Since its founding in 1994, the Company has become one of the United Kingdom’s most avidly followed contemporary dance companies, performing the work of its artistic director, Richard Alston, and associate choreographer, Martin Lawrance.

A Piece Of My Heart (February 2-4, 2017), Shirley Lauro

Student Theatre Programs

Program for A Piece of My Heart (February 2-4, 2017).

Denial (2017), Peter Sagal

Season 2016-2017

No abstract provided.

Into The Woods Media Release, Susan Werner

Playbill and Promotion

Providence College Department of Theatre, Dance & Film

Into the Woods media release

February 2017

Art Infested Water, February 2017, Nova Southeastern University Department Of Visual And Performing Arts

Department of Performing and Visual Arts Newsletters

No abstract provided.

Ecologies Of The Passions In Early Modern English Tragedies, Roya Biggie

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

Ecologies of the Passions recovers a neglected model for understanding early modern relationality, one that turns the seemingly inward experience of emotion outward toward the environment. Drawing on early modern medical texts, I argue that the period’s dramatists imagine bodies as humorally vulnerable to other bodies, both human and nonhuman, within dynamically affective environments. As such, my project illustrates the intimate configurations of human and nonhuman life in early modern tragedies. Building upon recent work in the emerging fields of ecocriticism and affect theory, I argue that the period’s dramatic literature exposes the porous fluidity of the Galenic body—its embeddedness …

Històries De Broadway, Hollywood I Altres Llocs: El Periple Nord-Americà De Terra Baixa D’Àngel Guimerà, Sharon G. Feldman

Latin American, Latino and Iberian Studies Faculty Publications

This article reviews the American tour of Àngel Guimerà's Terra baixa.

El 1903 es representa de ‘Marta of the Lowlands’ (la versió en llengua anglesa de ‘Terra baixa’) a Broadway, amb Corona Riccardo i, després, amb Fernanda Eliscu. Aquest va ser l’inici del periple del teatre de Guimerà pels escenaris dels Estats Units. De fet, entre 1903 i 1914, dues de les seves obres teatrals més conegudes, ‘Terra baixa’ (1896) i ‘Maria Rosa’ (1894), van gaudir d’una presència força continuada en llengua anglesa als escenaris teatrals d’aquest país i del Canadà, passant per més de 80 teatres diferents (amb més …