This biannual festival features ten-minute plays written in 48 hours based on a prompt devised by Playwright-in-Residence Charlotte Meehan. The festival is a collaboration between the Creative Writing Program and the Department of Theatre and Dance Studies.
Come out and meet the faculty and staff of the Department of Theatre and Dance Studies and hear what's planned for the coming year. Information about auditions for both theatre and dance will be provided as well as information about classes and the major.
“Plays as funny and moving, as wonderful and weird as The Realistic Joneses do not appear often on Broadway. Or ever, really ... Mr. Eno’s voice may be the most singular of his generation,” wrote Charles Isherwood in his 2014 New York Times review of Eno’s opening at the Lyceum Theatre. Please join us as we celebrate the talents of our department’s graduating actors in this challenging and innovative piece of theatre. Free tickets can be reserved through the Watson Box Office. Kresge Experimental Theatre, Watson Fine Arts, 7:30 p.m.
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Box Office
Questions? Contact the Watson Box Office at 508-286-3575 or by email at [email protected].
“Plays as funny and moving, as wonderful and weird as The Realistic Joneses do not appear often on Broadway. Or ever, really ... Mr. Eno’s voice may be the most singular of his generation,” wrote Charles Isherwood in his 2014 New York Times review of Eno’s opening at the Lyceum Theatre. Please join us as we celebrate the talents of our department’s graduating actors in this challenging and innovative piece of theatre. Free tickets can be reserved through the Watson Box Office. Kresge Experimental Theatre, Watson Fine Arts, 7:30 p.m.
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Box Office
Questions? Contact the Watson Box Office at 508-286-3575 or by email at [email protected].
The band, under the direction of Assistant Professor of Music Jeff Cashen, perform jazz compositions ranging from blues based to modern funk and fusion inspired songs. Compositions by Pat Metheny, Jeff Cashen, Cedar Walton, Duke Ellington and others. Kresge Experimental Theatre, Watson Fine Arts, 8:00 p.m.
Instructor of Music and Director of World Dance, Julie Searles performs with friends in celebration of 60 years on the planet, exploring songs for and by women, the synergy of music and movement, and stories from the field (of life).
Brasilian drummer and composer Fernando Saci presents an exciting evening of percussion, including original compositions.
This biannual festival features ten-minute plays written in 48 hours based on a prompt devised by Playwright-in-Residence Charlotte Meehan. The festival is a collaboration between the Creative Writing Program and the Department of Theatre and Dance Studies.
In his latest solo work, ‘El borner brujo’ internationally acclaimed MacArthur fellow Guillermo Gómez-Peña draws from his 30-year-old living archive and combines new and classic performance material to present a unique perspective on the immediate future of the Americas. His self-styled “imaginary activism” invokes performance art as a form of radical democracy and citizenship. This spoken word performance includes multiple cameos by collaborator, Balitronica Gomez. Free tickets can be reserved through the Watson Box Office.
Missy Hairston, who at different points in her life, could be described as a woman of majestic proportions, plays 30 characters in this solo comedy in which we follow her progress as she grows up in the South, migrates to New York where she finds remarkable success on the comedy club circuit, then pursues a career in Hollywood. Awkwardly Fabulous will resonate especially with women who have had to confront body issues and issues of esteem regarding their love and work lives (which is to say, lots of women). Plenty of men will identify with it too. Free tickets can be reserved through the Watson Box Office (508-286-3575 or [email protected]).
