Current Voices, a night where students can gather to for a night of reading new works by students, is happening Wednesday, April 24 at 7:30 p.m. in the Noel Fine Arts Center. A new initiative from Players, Current Voices is an event of reading selected student pieces for an audience to hear new work from their fellow artistic students. The ... Read More »
With a performance run from April 5-13, The University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point Department of Theatre and Dance presented their own whimsical and romantic portrait of Paris in the musical “Amour.” This charismatic production was directed by Assistant Musical Theatre Professor and BFA Musical Theatre Program Coordinator Mark Hanson. The musical also featured work from Guest Choreographer Sarah Hinrichsen, a New ... Read More »
Superpowers, romance, helping others, and a little magic is what the UWSP Theatre and Dance Department next production, “Amour” has in store. The musical runs April 5-7 and April 10-13 in the Studio Theatre of the Noel Fine Arts Center. In “Amour,” a timid, shy, office clerk named Marcel Dusoleil, living in Paris in the 1950s, develops this superhuman ability ... Read More »
A special, one of a kind, never before seen production is being hosted by Players – the annual Fringe Festival premieres on Friday and Saturday, February 22 and 23, at 7:30 p.m., in the Studio Theatre of the Noel Fine Arts Center. The Fringe Festival is written, directed, managed, and performed by students is showcasing student artistic work in this ... Read More »
The UWSP Department of Theatre and Dance’s production of “Heathers: The Musical” opened Nov. 9 in Jenkins Theatre. How very! “Heathers: The Musical” is a black comedy rock musical based on the 1988 cult classic written by Daniel Waters. The book, music, and lyrics are written by Laurence O’Keefe and Kevin Murphy. This production was directed by Assistant Professor and ... Read More »
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 »
“You have to love somebody, not just some body.” This line is emphasized by the character of Amy in Steven Sondheim’s “Company,” which is being presented by The University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point Department of Theatre and Dance. The line is directed at the main character, Bobby, a man who is torn between feeling the pressure to join the ranks of ... Read More »
On Sunday, April 8, the Noel Fine Arts Center was transformed into an art aficionado’s paradise. With dozens of vendors in every nook and cranny of the building, one could quite easily have become lost among the artwork for hours. It seemed as though there was not an inch of space that was not covered in art. Lamps were displayed ... 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 »
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