The Theatre and Dance Department opened the first show in its 2018-19 season this past Friday with Tennessee William’s classic play “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.” The show received glowing praise from audience members, not only at the sold out opening night performance, but at the other two sold out showings on Saturday and Sunday last weekend. The play, ... Read More »
On September 29 in the Noel Fine Arts Center, the cozy room of NFAC 290 hosted a staged reading of a student playwright’s work. “Halifax” is a one-act play written by Sophie McIntosh, a junior BA Drama major at UWSP. The event was held in collaboration with the Players Student Artistic Alliance. The staged reading was organized for McIntosh to ... Read More »
University of Stevens-Point theatre students delivered a captivating experience in their first weekend of performances for Mary Zimmerman’s “Metamorphoses.” The play, directed by Alan Patrick Kenny, assistant professor of musical theatre at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, focuses on myths written by the Roman poet Ovid. A series of vignettes center around a shallow pool of water that lives center ... Read More »
Audience members were treated to fresh retellings of classical stories at the opening of Mary Zimmerman’s “Metamorphases” at the Noel Fine Arts Center on Friday. The play showcases classic myths from the Roman poet Ovid, but like the characters in the stories themselves, all is not as it seems. Though the tales may be thousands of years old, they are ... Read More »
Theatre and dance students at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point showcased their talents on Friday, Feb. 16 and Saturday, Feb. 17 at the annual Fringe Festival. The two-hour performance, which included six student written, directed and performed plays and two student choreographed and performed dances was put on by the UWSP Players Student Artistic Alliance. Every year, the festival has a ... Read More »
Every semester, the Department of Theatre and Dance brings lively performances to the stages of the Noel Fine Arts Center. These productions strive to entertain and delight audiences. The first play of this semester brings a different goal. “Student Body” was written by Frank Winters and is a new play, published in 2016, that tackles some serious issues students encounter ... Read More »
The time: the 1880s. The place: Tuscumbia, Alabama. Some stories have the miraculous ability to transcend time and space. Helen Keller’s is one of them. The University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point is currently showing their production of The Miracle Worker. The play follows the interaction between Annie Sullivan and the child Helen Keller who would grow up to be the first ... Read More »
Over the weekend, the UWSP Student Players Alliance put on their annual Fringe Festival. The show is a collection of eight ten-minute plays and is entirely student-run. Ryan McDowell, senior Bachelor of Fine Arts musical theatre major is the president of UWSP Student Players Alliance, a student organization on the campus. McDowell has been involved with Fringe Festival since his ... Read More »
Justin Spanbauer, senior drama major at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, is producing an original play, Mars Lost. Mars Lost tells the story of a woman who was elected to participate in a mission to colonize the planet Mars, leaving Earth behind forever. “It’s the story of her as a person, a character study of someone who would make the ... Read More »
The Department of Theatre and Dance at the University of Wisconsin- Stevens Point will kick off its spring performance season with the play “Be Aggressive.” “This has been the shortest rehearsal process I’ve ever been a part of,” said Courtney Milkent, the stage manager. “We came back a few days before classes started and rehearsed for two weeks.” Play staging ... Read More »
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