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December 2008 - Volume Viii, Number 1, Theatre Arts Department

Sides (Newsletter)

SIDES Volume VIII Number 1 includes articles on Mammoth Follies, Second City, and a Makeup Workshop.

The Lab Report, Volume 02, Issue 07, Todd Ristau

Lab Reports

• Resource: WordBRIDGE Playwright's Laboratory
• Guest Profile: Michael Kerry Williams
• Area Highlight: Jefferson Center
• Resource: InSIGHT for Playwrights
• From the Director: Your Application Package

The Lab Report, Volume 02, Issue 06, Todd Ristau

Lab Reports

• Mellon Foundation gives $10 Million to Promote New Plays
• Student Spotlight: Nicole B. Adkins (Nikki)
• Guest Profile: Bonnie Metzgar
• Roanoke and No Shame Get International Press
• Area Highlight: Taubman Museum of Art
• From the Director: Picking the right program for you

The Lab Report, Volume 02, Issue 05, Todd Ristau

Lab Reports

• Call for Actor and Director Headshots/Resumes
• Student Spotlight: Peter Sapienza
• Guest Profile: Celise Kalke
• Deal by Neeley Gossett
• NaPlWriMo
• From the Director: Vote for the Arts in 2008!

Johnson, Erleen (Sc 1771), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1771. Scripts written by Erleen Johnson of programs related to Stephen Collins Foster and the Rowan family presented at Federal Hill, Bardstown, Kentucky. Includes lyrics, to be sung to the tune of "My Old Kentucky Home," which promote the beauties and attractions of the state of Kentucky.

The Lab Report, Volume 02, Issue 04, Todd Ristau

Lab Reports

• Guest Profile: Annaliese Moyer
• Student Spotlight: Jayne Benjulian
• Guest Profile: Lucy Thurber
• Area Highlight: Barter Theatre
• Playwright’s Lab Multi-Media: Online archive of back issues, podcasts, email list
• From the Director: Studio Roanoke Artistic Directorship

The Lab Report, Volume 02, Issue 03, Todd Ristau

Lab Reports

• Rosalee Was Here by Maura Campbell
• Student Spotlight: Andrew McGinn
• Guest Profile: Randy Rollison
• Reading of new Keith Bridges play in Los Angeles
• Devil Sedan and Shade of the Trees by Kenley Smith
• From the Director: If you write plays, go see plays

The Lab Report, Volume 02, Issue 02, Todd Ristau

Lab Reports

• Overnight Sensations
• Guest Profile: Paul Meshejian
• Affiliated Organizations: PlayPenn
• Area Highlight: Blackfriars Theatre, Staunton
• From the Director: Thanking the people and businesses that support the arts

The Lab Report, Volume 02, Issue 01, Todd Ristau

Lab Reports

• Love Loves a Pornographer
• Student Spotlight: Neeley Gossett
• Guest Profile: Jeff Goode
• Toby Thelin directing a reading at Theatre for the New City
• Guest Profile: Toby Huss
• From the Director: Economic Stimulus for the Arts

June 2008 - Volume Vii, Number 2, Theatre Arts Department

Sides (Newsletter)

SIDES Volume VII Number 2 features articles on the closing of the Village Theatre and welcoming new faculty Nicholas Shaw.

The Lab Report, Volume 01, Issue 12, Todd Ristau

Lab Reports

• Guest Artist Confirmations for 2008
• Student Spotlight: Timothy Cochran
• Norfolk Southern Festival of New Works
• New Works Initiative
• Kenley Smith attends Great Plains Theatre Conference
• From the Director: Submission Tips # 10 (multiple submissions)

The Lab Report, Volume 01, Issue 11, Todd Ristau

Lab Reports

• Barhoppers Featured Short Play by Kenley Smith
• Student Spotlight: Samantha Macher
• Courses and Events for Summer 2008
• Guest Profile: Cheryl Snodgrass
• Lab Listed in Theatre Resource Directory
• Area Highlight: Pop's Ice Cream Shop
• From the Director: Submission Tips #9 (SASE)

The Lab Report, Volume 01, Issue 10, Todd Ristau

Lab Reports

• Am I Black Enough Yet? by Clinton Johnston
• Student Spotlight: Clinton Johnston
• Studio Roanoke Announcement
• Dreamtime, by Maura Campbell, to get staged reading
• Faculty Profile: Jonathan Dorf
• Area Highlight: Virginia Festival of the Book
• From the Director: Submission Tips # 8 (tape and what not to send)

The Hobbit

Taylor Theatre Playbills

The playbill for Taylor University’s Spring 2008 performance of The Hobbit based on the book by J. R. R. Tolkien adapted for theater by Patricia Gray.

The Hobbit is the story of hobbit Bilbo Baggins who is enlisted by the wizard Gandalf to aid a band of dwarves reclaim their mountain home from a great dragon.

The Lab Report, Volume 01, Issue 09, Todd Ristau

Lab Reports

• FU (Forgive Us) at Charter Theatre
• Student Spotlight: Erin Allen
• Dumas Arts Festival
• What Do I Know About War?
• Guest Profile: Margo Lee Sherman
• From the Director: Submission Tips #7 (don’t e-submit)

The Lab Report, Volume 01, Issue 08, Todd Ristau

Lab Reports

• Playwriting Luncheon in NYC
• Student Spotlight: Maura Campbell
• Dramaturgy Summit at KCACTF in Pittsburgh
• What Is Dramaturgy?
• Faculty Profile: Lenora Inez Brown
• Roanoke Regional Writer's Conference
• From the Director: Submission Tips #6 (standard format)

Contemporary African American Women Playwrights: A Casebook Edited By Philip C. Kolin (Review), Jocelyn Buckner

Theatre Faculty Articles and Research

Buckner provides a review of Kolin's "Contemporary African American Women Playwrights."

Manuel Molins: Una Altra Ofèlia I Els Fantasmes De Shakespeare, Sharon G. Feldman

Latin American, Latino and Iberian Studies Faculty Publications

L'apropiació i reinscripció que de Hamlet ha fet Manuel Molins, titulada Una altra Ofèlia (2001, estrenada al Teatre Rialto de València el 2004), comença, com a l'obra de Shakespeare, amb l'aparició d'un fantasma. A la primera de les nou escenes, el personatge d'Ofèlia explica a la falstaffiana I pitonissa I herborista Dida (personatge síntesi que és el resum de molts personatges shakespearians) un somni que ha tingut i en el transcurs del qual ha presenciat la manifestació d'un espectre en l'esplanada del castell. D'alguna manera, des del moment que comença l’obra, Ofèlia sembla haver usurpat el paper de Hamlet, ja …