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Suit My Heart: Staging Foster Youth Narratives That Hit Home, Michelle Hayford

Communication Faculty Publications

While devising Suit My Heart, I relied upon my training in the ‘three A’s’ of performance studies conceived by my late mentor Dwight Conquergood as “artistry, analysis and activism” (2002: 152). With these ‘three A’s’ in mind, I set out to facilitate a devising process and create an artistic product that would positively serve all communities involved. The quality of the project would be determined not only by the efficacy of the play that we produced in the end, but by the personal growth of my students and the empowerment of our community partners throughout the process. Discovering the reach …

Fearless: V Rosenberger And Tori Reynolds, Veronica B. Rosenberger, Victoria J. Reynolds

SURGE

“Getting Out,” the compelling prison drama by Marsha Norman, is opening tonight at 7:30pm on Kline Theater at Gettysburg, and bringing this play to life are two very fearless women. [excerpt]

Performing Que(E)Ries, Charles Busch, James Wilson

Center for LGBTQ Studies (CLAGS)

Charles Busch, renowned New York performer, playwright, director, and drag extraordinaire, participated in the second iteration of this new CLAGS series in the Fall. He discussed his astonishing career in the theatre and on film, as well as the changes he has seen in LGBTQ performance over the last four decades in New York and beyond. The conversation was moderated by CLAGS Executive Director James Wilson.

Fearless: Ratco, Center For Public Service

SURGE

If you haven’t noticed yet, we’ve had some really spectacular visitors from the south with us on Gettysburg’s campus the last few days! The Random Acts of Theater Company (RATCo) is a group that emerged from the Freedom Foundation in Denver, Colorado a few years ago. Their initiative involved using theater as a means for self-expression and communication, but RATCo spread because it was so successful and ultimately reached Selma, Alabama. Selma, although a major site for the Civil Rights movement, and also the site for the last battle of the civil war, has changed very little since the 1960s. …

Sheridan's Promising Tale Is Half Told, Ian Kilroy

Articles

Review of 'Break a Leg', the memoir by Irish theatre artist Peter Sheridan. First published in the Sunday Business Post Magazine.

"Spectacular Opacities": The Hyers Sisters' Performances Of Respectability And Resistance, Jocelyn Buckner

Theatre Faculty Articles and Research

This essay analyzes the Hyers Sisters, a Reconstruction-era African American sister act, and their radical efforts to transcend social limits of gender, class, and race in their early concert careers and three major productions, Out of Bondage and Peculiar Sam, or The Underground Railroad, two slavery-to-freedom epics, and Urlina, the African Princess, the first known African American play set in Africa. At a time when serious, realistic roles and romantic plotlines featuring black actors were nearly nonexistent due to the country’s appetite for stereotypical caricatures, the Hyers Sisters used gender passing to perform opposite one another as heterosexual lovers in …

Ua1b1/1 Rodes-Helm Lecture Series, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

These records were created by and about the Rodes-Helm Lecture Series which invited distinguished, and prominent individuals from the spheres of politics, economics, and the arts, to lecture at the university. The records include programs, and recordings of lectures.

Ua32/4/1 Women & Kids Learning Together Summer Camp, Wku Gender & Women's Studies

WKU Administration Documents

Booklet reviewing events at Women & Kids Learning Together Summer Camp.

Inside Unlv, Diane Russell, Jason Vaughan, Cate Weeks

Inside UNLV

No abstract provided.

Ua1f Wku Archives Vertical File - Dinner Theater, Wku Archives

WKU Administration Documents

Digitized vertical file materials regarding WKU Theatre & Dance dinner theater program.

Ua12/2/2 Talisman: A Season Of Hope Part 1, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

1983 Talisman yearbook pp. 1-193

• A Season of Hope Wright, Sharon. Multi-faceted Beauty
• Sandman, Ellen. Music of the Highlands – Skip Cleavinger, Bagpipes
• Cornett, Susanna. Fashion Forum
• Cornett, Susanna. Tradition & Trends Are Seen in Faculty Dress
• Grace, Lee. An Attitude of Awareness – Alcohol
• Sawyer, Janet. Double Dilemma – Twins
• Sandman, Ellen. Chance to Charm – Miss Western, Miss Black Western
• Thomas, Laura. Aerobicise
• Campbell, Marsha. Topper Trivia (1)
• Burchett, Lorri. Added Dimension – Concerts, Entertainment
• Lyly, Linda. Fine Arts – Entertainment
• Lyly, Linda. Theater
• Lyly, Linda. Childish Direction – Children’s Theatre
• Sandman, Ellen. Classic Reunion – Homecoming
• Cornett, …

Ua1b1/1 Rodes-Helm Lecture Series Scrapbook, Western Kentucky University

WKU Administration Documents

Scrapbook of programs, photographs and press clippings regarding the following Rodes-Helm Lecture Series speakers:

• Arthur Schlesinger
• Pearl Buck
• Buckminster Fuller
• Chet Huntley
• Art Linkletter
• Nancy Dickerson
• Vincent Price
• William Buckley
• Richard Leakey
• Alvin Toffler
• John Ferguson
• Charles Kuralt

The Theatrical Innovations Of Charles Laughton, Gary Joseph Jones

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

In most journalistic studies the film career of Charles Laughton overshadows his theatrical activities to the extent that the reader is hardly aware of the importance of his theatrical innovations to the theater of our time. The more commercial side of Laughton’s career was publicized while his artistic efforts, as characterized by the innovations, were frequently forgotten. More people remember him as the man who played Captain Bligh in the movies than as the man who worked with Bertolt Brecht, created the First Drama Quartette and developed a new American art form, Readers’ Theatre.

The rationale of this study is …

Ua68/17/2 The Star-Spangled Girl!, Wku Western Players

WKU Administration Documents

Program for WKU Western Players' production of The Star-Spangled Girl!

Ua68/17/2 The Bat's Revenge, Wku Western Players

WKU Administration Documents

Program for WKU Western Players' production of The Bat's Revenge.

Ua68/17/2 The Teahouse Of The August Moon, Wku Western Players

WKU Administration Documents

Program for WKU Western Players' production of The Teahouse of the August Moon.

Ua68/17/2 Don Juan In Hell, Wku Western Players

WKU Administration Documents

Program from WKU Western Players' production of Don Juan in Hell.

Ua68/17/2 A Midsummer Night's Dream, Wku Western Players

WKU Administration Documents

Program for WKU Western Players' production of A Midsummer Night's Dream.

Ua68/17/2 Make Mine Music, Wku Western Players

WKU Administration Documents

Program from WKU Western Players' production of Make Mine Music.

Ua68/17/2 Missouri Legend, Wku Western Players

WKU Administration Documents

Program for WKU Western Players' production of Missouri Legend.

Ua68/17/2 Dark Of The Moon, Wku Western Players

WKU Administration Documents

Program for WKU Western Players' production of Dark of the Moon.

Ua68/17/2 The Male Animal, Wku Western Players

WKU Administration Documents

Program for WKU Western Players' production of The Male Animal.

Ua68/17/2 Winterset, Wku Western Players

WKU Administration Documents

Program from the WKU Western Players' production of Winterset.

Ua68/17/2 Oklahoma!, Wku Western Players

WKU Administration Documents

Program for WKU Western Players' production of Oklahoma!

Ua68/17/2 Our Town, Wku Western Players

WKU Administration Documents

Program for WKU Western Players' production of Our Town.

Ua68/17/2 Much Ado About Nothing, Wku Western Players

WKU Administration Documents

Program for WKU Western Players' production of Much Ado About Nothing.

Ua68/17/2 Macbeth, Wku Western Players

WKU Administration Documents

Program for WKU Western Players' production of Macbeth.

Ua68/17/2 Inherit The Wind, Wku Western Players

WKU Administration Documents

Program for WKU Western Players' production of Inherit the Wind.

Ua94/7/2 Mary Grise Scrapbook, Mary Grise

Student/Alumni Personal Papers

Scrapbook created by Mary Grise regarding her high school activities in 1954-1955. Includes clippings, programs, correspondence and photographs regarding music, debate, singing and acting festivals and competitions. Of interest is a letter to Mary from Cecile B. DeMille requesting her to be in a Broadway play.

Ua68/17/2 Down In The Valley, Wku Western Players, Wku Music

WKU Administration Documents

Program for joint Western Players', WKU Music production of Down in the Valley.