2009-2010 Season
Upcoming Productions
Cymbeline
Wednesday through Saturday, February 24-27, 2010
7:30 p.m. with an additional 2:00 p.m. Saturday matinee
Cabe Theatre
Cymbeline by William Shakespeare
Kirk Boyd, this year’s Murphy Visiting Theatre Director, will direct a student theatrical production of Shakespeare’s Cymbeline. Rich in poetry and imagery, the play deals with such modern day dilemmas as the role of love in a marriage and family fidelity. Boyd has 30 years of theatrical management and artistic experience, including 17 years with the Oregon Shakespeare Festival and nine years as artistic director of the Willamette Repertory Theatre in Eugene, Oregon, which he founded.
Spring Dance Concert
Friday and Saturday, April 2nd & 3rd, 2010
Directed by Brigitte Rogers
Staples Auditorium – 7:30 pm
Senior Seminar
Wednesday-Saturday, April 21st-24th, 2010
The capstone experience for the Senior Theatre Arts and Dance students will cause the students to create a company and produce a play. Past productions have been The Last Days of Judas Iscariot, Big Love, and Boy Gets Girl.
Cabe Theatre
7:30 pm with an additional Saturday matinee at 2:00 pm
Previously in Production
Playwright’s Theatre
Life During
Friday September 11th, 2009
By: Ashlie Atkinson and Lesley Dancer
Directed by Brooks Caruthers
Cabe Theatre – 7:30 pm
What’s That? A Hat!
Friday and Saturday September 25th & 26th, 2009
A Play for Children
Written and directed by Ann Muse
Curtain at 6:00 pm Friday and Saturday with Saturday matinee at 2:00 pm
Fausett Lawn – Hendrix Campus
Fragments from Sappho
Friday and Saturday October 9th & 10th, 2009
Text Arranged and Translated by Rebecca Resinski
Directed and Choreographed by Brigitte Rogers
Music Composed and Conducted by Karen Griebling
Reves Recital Hall
7:30 pm with an additional Saturday matinee at 2:00 pm
The Sisters Rosensweig
Wednesday-Saturday, November 11th-14th, 2009
By Wendy Wasserstein
Directed by Ann Muse
Produced with Special Permission of Dramatists Play Service Inc.
Cabe Theatre
7:30 pm with an additional Saturday matinee at 2:00 pm
Also, take a look at several playwriting opportunities from the Murphy Foundation.
"Theatre is a clear window into the mind, the soul, the heart of humankind--the study of which should be the aim of higher education. Theatre brings life to learning."
Jane Alexander, Actor
Chair, National Endowment for the Arts (1993-1997)
ATHE Conference 1997
Offering students the opportunity to seek answers is the mission of the department. To that end we seek to accomplish these learning goals:
To create an environment that is both rigorous and encouraging,
To provide direct learning experiences in the classroom and
To recognize indirect learning experiences outside of the classroom--intellectual, emotional, and physical,
To understand the need that each culture possesses for self-expression,
To embrace the collaborative nature of the discipline.
Photos by Danny Grace unless otherwise noted.