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  • News From Cabe!

    • Check out this video for The Country Club!
    • Now taking reservations for The Country Club! The Country Club will be a ticketed show, but there will not be asigned seating. Tickets are free and open to the public. You may make your reservations using the Box Office online form or by calling 501-450-1343. Performances will be Wednesday, April 18 through Friday, April 20 at 7:30p.m. with an additional performance on Saturday, April 21 at 2:00p.m. in Cabe Theatre.
    •   Watch for behind the scenes photos of our productions!

    Sneak Peak! 

    Ben Brantley of the New York Times reported, "Set in Wyomissing, Pa., in the womblike "cub room" of the club of the title, the comedy follows a year in the lives of six insular friends (and one outsider) through a series of holiday-themed parties where drinks are bolted and truths are spewed...Mr. Beane has the ear of both the natural dramatist and the inspired satirist, often bringing a transforming poetic sparkle to the conventions of WASP speak." Performances will be Wednesday, April 18 through Friday, April 20 at 7:30p.m. at Cabe Theatre with an additional performance on Saturday, April 21 at 2:00p.m. You may make your reservations by using the Box Office Online form, or by calling (501) 450-1343. Tickets are free and there will not be assigned seating.

     

    Upcoming Productions for the 2011-2012 Season!

    Fall Productions

    Playwright’s Theatre:
    Customary Monsters
    Written by Kyle T. Wilson
    Friday, September 9, 2011
    7:30 pm
    Cabe Theatre
    co-sponsored by Hendrix-Murphy Foundation for Literature and Language

    Hope for the Honeybee Hives (working title)
    Written and directed by April Gentry-Sutterfield
    Friday and Saturday 23 and 24, 2011
    6:00 pm with an additional matinee on Saturday at 2:00 pm
    Cabe Theatre
    co-sponsored by Hendrix-Murphy Foundation for Literature and Language

    Nature’s Fight
    Choreographed by Brigitte Rogers
    Friday and Saturday, October 7th and 8th, 2011
    Reeves Recital Hall
    7:30 pm with an additional matinee on Saturday at 2:00 pm

    Mid-Summer Night’s Dream
    Written by William Shakespeare
    directed by Ann Muse
    Wednesday- Saturday, November 9-12, 2011
    7:30 pm with an additional matinee on Saturday at 2:00 pm
    Cabe Theatre

    Spring Productions

    The Typists
    Directed by Ann Muse
    Friday-Saturday, January 27-28, 2012
    7:30 pm with an additional matinee on Saturday 2:00 pm
    Staples Auditorium
    Limited seating

    The Trial
    Written by Franz Kafka
    Adapted and directed by Ken Albers
    Wednesday-Saturday, February 29-March 3, 2012
    7:30 pm with an additional matinee on Saturday 2:00 pm
    Cabe Theatre
    co-sponsored by Hendrix-Murphy Foundation

    Hendrix Dance Concert
    Directed by Brigitte Rogers
    Friday and Saturday, March 30 and 31, 2012
    7:30 pm
    Staples Auditorium

    Senior Seminar: The Country Club
    Wednesday-Saturday, April 18-21, 2012
    7:30 pm with an additional matinee on Saturday 2:00 pm
    Cabe Theatre


    Also, take a look at several playwriting opportunities from the Murphy Foundation.

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    Hendrix PLayers Small"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.