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Three Readings Of Reading, Pennsylvania: Approaching Lynn Nottage’S Sweat And Douglas Carter Beane’S Shows For Days, Courtney Mohler, Christina Mcmahon, David Román

Scholarship and Professional Work – Arts

No abstract provided.

Reefer Madness: The Musical Poster [2016], University Of Southern Maine Department Of Theatre

Posters 2015-2016 Season

Book by Kevin Murphy & Dan Studney

Music by Dan Studney

Lyrics by Kevin Murphy

Directed by Cary Libkin

Musical Direction by Edward Reichert

Choreography by Vanessa Beyland

Dimensions: 8" x 13"

Postcard included, dimensions 4" x 6"

Othello In Shakespeare 400 Chicago, Verna Foster

English: Faculty Publications and Other Works

Verna Foster, City Desk 400 staff member, reviews a performance of Othello at the Chicago Shakespeare Theater.

My Newfound Respect For The Hard Work Performers Do Before Stepping On Stage, Heather Gibson

UCF Forum

When I gave the Theatre UCF students 30 days to teach me how to perform a karaoke song, I didn’t realize I was also handing over my dignity.

Violet: The Musical (February 19-20, 25-27, 2016), Doris Bettis

Student Theatre Programs

Program for Violet: The Musical (February 19-20, 25-27, 2016).

To view the photos from this production of Violet: The Musical, please click here.

Gardner-Webb University To Hold Casting Call For Upcoming Play Production, Office Of University Communications

Gardner-Webb NewsCenter Archive

The Gardner-Webb University Department of Theatre Arts will hold auditions Feb. 16 for roles in the upcoming comedy production of “The Servant of Two Masters.” Members of the Gardner-Webb and greater community are invited to contact the play’s director, Dr. Chris Nelson, at [email protected] to schedule a 10-minute audition time from 6:30-9 p.m. Parts are available for a variety of roles.

Autobiographical Poetry To Plays: Taking Memoir To A Theatrical Level, Ryan P. Tofil

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

Pulitzer prize winning playwright John Patrick Shanley wrote, “Theatre is a safe place to do the unsafe things that need to be done.” For my Capstone Project, I have compiled my autobiographical poetry, prose, and performance monologues into a theatrical manuscript to be used as the basis for a play. The final Capstone Project is a manuscript of an anticipated theatrical production based on the grieving process surrounding my brother's suicide, as well as an exploration of my sexuality and the relationships I developed during the years surrounding his death.

The Capstone Project’s theatrical manuscript is also accompanied by a …

Gwu To Present Modern Version Of Mozart Opera, Office Of University Communications, Brooke Kelly

Gardner-Webb NewsCenter Archive

The Gardner-Webb University School of Performing and Visual Arts is proud to present Cosi Fan Tutte, an opera by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, on Feb. 11-13 at 7:30 p.m. and Feb. 14at 3 p.m., in the Dover Theatre on campus. “Among his final operas, Mozart’s Cosi Fan Tutte has become a favorite for both audiences and performers,” shared Dr. Stafford Turner, GWU Associate Professor of Music. “Its lessons of love and commitment are as relevant today as they were in Mozart’s 18th century.”

Communication A Collaboration Between Theatre And Visual Artists, Kristin Perkins, Lindsay Livinston

Journal of Undergraduate Research

With my collaborators, Pearl Corry and Aloe Corry, I constructed installation, video, and visual art pieces and presented this art as part of an exhibit entitled Striking the Set. Our initial objective was to use collaboration between theatre and visual artists in order to encourage healthy communication within our community. As our project evolved we encountered many problems. While our final product was something we could all be proud of, the setbacks in our process proved to be the greatest learning experience. The final exhibit was attended by more than sixty people and explored the theatrical elements present in visual …

Eurydice (January 21-23, 2016), Sarah Ruhl

Student Theatre Programs

Program for Eurydice (January 21-23, 2016).

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

Theatre And Tv Actor To Perform Free Show At Gardner-Webb, Office Of University Communications

Gardner-Webb NewsCenter Archive

Experienced stage performer and budding screen actor Jose Antonio Garcia will take the stage at Gardner-Webb University on Jan. 15. His free show is set to begin at 7:30 p.m. in the Millennium Playhouse behind GWU’s Communication Studies Hall. Based in Chicago, Garcia has built a successful career on the stage, working with groups including The Goodman Theatre, Chicago Shakespeare Theatre, Chicago Children’s Theatre and the Illinois Shakespeare Festival.

2016 Ruby Yearbook, Briana Keane, Rebecca L. Brown, Phoebe French, Romina Kalmeijer, Faraha Rathod, Taylor Manferdini, Ursinus College Senior Class

The Ruby Yearbooks, 1897-2020

A digitized copy of the 2016 Ruby, the Ursinus College yearbook.

Ms 11. England, Theora (1905-2002). Scrapbooks, 1943-1973. 13.5 Linear Ft., Archives

Manuscripts & Personal Papers

Theora England served as professor at Northwestern College, Orange City, Iowa, for 35 years, where she taught drama, directed plays, and founded the Northwestern College Choral Readers. A binder includes pageant drafts, notes, and the final copy for “Northwestern, A Silver Lantern,” which was written for an Independent Play-Writing Course at the University of Minnesota. The pageant commemorated the twenty-fifth anniversary of Northwestern College and was performed at Northwestern College homecoming weekend, September 24 and 26, 1953. Sixteen scrapbooks cover dramas performed at the college and in Orange City; the Delta Psi Omega Cub; Choral Readers; annual reports; speech festivals, …

Uno Website Cfam Uno Theatre Productions, Uno College Of Communication, Fine Arts And Media

Student Support

UNO Theatre productions are presented by our talented students and faculty from the UNO Department of Theatre. Each season typically features one musical or Shakespeare production .

Freedomland, Lindsey Mantoan

Faculty Publications

Lindsey Mantoan reviews a performance of Freedomland (by Michael Gene Sullivan) for Theatre Journal.

Postcard, Goodbye To All That! At Studio@620 In St. Petersburg, Florida, Studio At 620

Postcard Collection

A promotional postcard for Goodbye to All That!, an educational play by Charles Vanover. The play follows Addison Ashland, a teacher who shares her narratives about the challenges of teaching in the Chicago Public Schools system. Directed by Bob Devin Jones, this staged reading is part of a series of educational plays and includes dessert and a panel discussion. The evening will also feature student presentations.

Postcard, Tru At Studio@620 In St. Petersburg, Florida, Studio At 620

Postcard Collection

A promotional postcard for Tru, a one-man play by Jay Presson Allen, directed by Lisa Tricomi, featuring Mark Chambers as Truman Capote. The play takes place in Capote's New York City apartment during the week before Christmas 1975. Mark Chambers delivers a mesmerizing performance as Capote, exploring the author's loneliness, heartbreak, and the fallout from his controversial publication of Answered Prayers.

Postcard, Life Is Mostly Straws At Studio@620 In St. Petersburg, Florida, Studio At 620

Postcard Collection

A promotional postcard for Life is Mostly Straws, a play by Richard Manley, featuring an all-star cast including Kylin Brady, Georgia Mallory Guy, Chris Jackson, and Christopher Rutherford. Directed by Bob Devin Jones, this play explores the relationship between two brothers, David and Noah, who, despite achieving success, still struggle with the trauma of their troubled childhood. The characters wield language as a weapon, with one using it like a scalpel, the other like a bludgeon.

Ponts Théâtraux Et Transferts Temporels: Théâtre Du Xixe Siècle Pour Le Xxie Siècle (Catalogne), Sharon G. Feldman

Latin American, Latino and Iberian Studies Faculty Publications

En 1992, Richard Schechner, metteur en scène et théoricien nord-américain, faisait dans les pages de la revue TDR (The Drama Review) une observation qui fut jugée scandaleuse, en déclarant : « [T]heater as we have known and practiced it —the staging of written dramas— will be the string quartet of the 21^st century: a beloved but extremely limited genre, a subdivision of performance » (Schechner 1992, 8). Six ans plus tard, en 1998, encore étourdi par la fameuse affirmation (la condamnation plutôt) de Schechner, le théoricien et critique nord-américain W. B. Worthen attirait l’attention sur ce qu’il considérait un …

Maria Rosa, Adaptada Al Cinema Per Cecil B. Demille, Sharon G. Feldman

Latin American, Latino and Iberian Studies Faculty Publications

En l'época actual, en la qual l'éxit teatral s'acostuma a mesurar en funció del reconeixement internacional, molts dramaturgs contemporanis han somniat un muntatge a Nova York o, fins i tot, un triomf a Hollywood. Potser els sorprendria saber que fa aproximadament cent anys, Ángel Guimerá, sens dubte el dramaturg catalá més prominent del seu temps, ja havia complert aquest somni gairebé impossible quan dues de les seves obres teatrals més famoses, Maria Rosa (1894) i Terra baixa (1896), es van estrenar en versió anglesa sota els focus de Broadway. De fet, entre els anys 1903 i 1914, les obres de …

In Pursuit Of Women Scientists: Using Science Plays To Promote Women Entering Stem Disciplines, Danielle Hartman

Theses and Dissertations

Higher education currently seeks to increase female enrollment in STEM. Women face many challenges attempting to breach this male dominated arena with misconceptions, gender stereotypes, and few female role models. With the recent trend in higher education to encourage more women to enter the STEM disciplines and K-12 schools cutting funding for arts programs, theatre may be losing its value in the education system. The value of interdisciplinary studies is beginning to be forgotten during the grade school years as school boards battle budget cuts, but we can remind society of it through science plays. Theatre artists use other disciplines …

A Patriot For Men: The Politics Of Masculinity In John Osborne's "A Patriot For Me", Joshua Kelly

All Master's Theses

By applying David Savran’s scholarship on the politics of masculinity to John Osborne’s play A Patriot for Me (1965), I demonstrate that Osborne exemplified contradictory sexual politics in the play, and was criticized as homophobic and praised as revolutionary in similarly contradictory original reviews. I argue that play very much typifies the heteronormative politics of masculinity by placing a dominant homosexual (Redl) as protagonist, and inverts the positions of the period woman and the staged effeminate man. Redl is historically represented as a heroic homosexual, but is actually a heteronormative object. I provide evidence for this interpretation by employing Savran …

The Visual Staging Of Audio Plays, Alex P. Burkart

Theses and Dissertations

The Visual Staging of Audio Plays explores the directing practice of radio dramas that are staged for viewing purposes rather than their typical solo-auditory purposes. The thesis is comprised of three separate parts: a brief history of theatrical sound, an introduction to radio drama theory and practice, and application. The application portion is a detailed first-person account of my personal experience staging It’s a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play by Joe Landry for TheatreVCU’s Mainstage winter special event in 2015. It is also in this section where I integrate history, theory, and practice to formulate technique for directing the …

Professional Wrestling: Local Performance History, Global Performance Praxis, Neal Anderson Hebert

LSU Doctoral Dissertations

Professional Wrestling: Local Performance History, Global Performance Praxis, is a work of interdisciplinary scholarship (combining elements of theatre history, performance studies, and philosophy) that addresses an area of performance currently under-researched within the liberal arts and humanities: professional wrestling. My dissertation directs much-needed attention to the fact that professional wrestling is the only kind of live drama many Americans ever see (or even want to see). Although it is no doubt easy for theatre historians and performance theorists to dismiss this performance practice because of its location somewhere between “illegitimate sport” and “lowbrow popular entertainment,” I contend that United States …

Cuban Routes Of Avant-Garde Theatre: Havana, New York, Miami, 1965-1991., Eric Mayer-Garcia

LSU Doctoral Dissertations

My dissertation interrogates how the movement of artists between Havana, New York, and Miami shaped experimental theatre aesthetics, formed a shared discourse of theatrical thought, and introduced a particular vein of experimental practices into U.S. American avant-garde theatre, especially as it intersects with U.S. Latina/o theatre and LGBTQ theatre. I interrogate the theatre history of these three cities as horizontal and contiguous, challenging historical narratives of U.S. American neocolonial dominance and superiority, as well as narratives of diaspora that position Havana as an authentic origin. The central contribution of my dissertation is to synthesize the archival evidence that documents connections …

The Actor Behind The Camera, Zechariah H. Pierce

Theses and Dissertations

Through an accidental discovery of an interest in the film making process, I decided to explore the opportunities that would come through self-education in the field. Along the way, I found that the process of working behind the camera can, in fact, help the actor’s career in front of the camera and provide a chance to train in a nontraditional way. After directing two projects (one simple and one more complicated), I decided to propose a class in which students would be required to self- produce their own video projects online. The class was vastly popular, and the students’ responses …

What You Will: An Endeavor In Adapting Shakespeare To New Media, Terese C. Briggs

Scripps Senior Theses

These scripts are the attempt to take three of Shakespeare's plays, Coriolanus, All's Well that Ends Well, and Much Ado About Nothing, and adapt them to create a type of video game called a visual novel.

The Naïve Ingénue, The Plucky Everyman's Hero, And The Ingénue Gone Awry: The Satirical Deconstruction Of Theatrical Character Tropes In Urinetown: The Musical, Victoria Montecillo

Scripps Senior Theses

This thesis looks to explore Urinetown: The Musical through a critical and theoretical framework, analyzing the show's presentation and deconstruction of theatrical character tropes through musical satire. Using the theories of theatre theorists such as Bertolt Brecht, Peter Brook, and Augusto Boal, this thesis discusses the use of theatre as a device for political and social commentary. Additionally, this thesis focuses more specifically on the show's character of Penelope Pennywise as a new kind of character in the theatre: an "ingénue gone awry," within the context of approaching a performance of the character in a performance of the musical.

Nightmares Are Dreams, Too, Camilla Meg Morrison

LSU Master's Theses

This work explores themes of womanhood through the creation of an installation that is a blend of visual art and costume design. Often the initial creative impulse of a costume design can be compromised by the needs or necessity of a production. Using this instinct as a guide to the exploration of themes of womanhood, this journey will yield the design and production of highly theatrical and emotional pieces of art. The purpose of this work is to tell stories and share experiences of being a woman. The pieces will be displayed as an environmental installation that will invite the …

Staging (Within) Violence: A Conversation With Frank Wilderson And Jaye Austin Williams, Jaye Austin Williams

Faculty Journal Articles

No abstract provided.