Theater students at EMU are getting a chance to develop their Shakespeare skills, thanks to a partnership between theater faculty and a graduate student and professional director working and studying at the American Shakespeare Center (Blackfriar’s Playhouse) and Mary Baldwin College. ...More
Theater at EMU is presenting a student-directed play, “ANON(ymous),” by Naomi Iizuka, 7:30 p.m. Dec. 4, 5 and 11 and 7:30 p.m. and 10 p.m. Dec. 12 in the Studio Theater of the University Commons. In the play, a contemporary take on the adventures of Odysseus from Homer’s epic tale, a young refugee called Anon enters the U.S. by being swept ash ...More
EMU celebrates the life and work of Lee E. Eshleman, 1963-2007, by naming the University Commons studio theater in his honor. A small gallery at the theater entrance will showcase some of Lee’s art work and photos of him on stage. Read more… ...More
Steve Kniss, Weather Vane student newspaper Directing. To me, it is fun. I have had such a great time through only a week and a half of rehearsal. Each night raises its unique challenges, but every it is also an adventure, and that is what I love about directing. ...More
Emily Hertzler, Weather Vane student newspaper No one wanted to see it. The memories were too painful. The script was rejected. The show opened to rough reviews. The playwright was fired because it appeared she really screwed this one up. Even that did not stop Deborah Brevoort, who paid EMU a visit to watch her show and talk to students this past Saturday. ...More
By Emily Hertzler, Weathervane student newspaper Phil Grayson, adjunct faculty member and resident designer for EMU’s theater department Being at “the right place at the right time” takes patience, luck, and an i ...More
Theater at EMU will give seven performances of its fall mainstage production, ‘Women of Lockerbie’ by Deborah Brevoort, throughout Homecoming and Family Weekend Oct. 8-17. Read more… ...More
By Pam Perez, WeatherVane student newspaper EMU’s new drama professor Tom Joyner His office may still be piled with boxes waiting to be unpacked, and his desk might be cluttered with papers waiting to ...More
How far is it from Hollywood to County Kerry? Brent Anders and Kelsey Landes, playing 15 characters between them, find out. Photo by Jon Styer No sooner are fall semester classes under way than Theater at EMU will give three performances of “Stones In His ...More
On Mar. 16, 2003, Rachel Corrie, a 23-year-old woman from Washington State, was crushed to death in Gaza under a bulldozer operated by the Israeli army. Wearing the blaze orange vest of a human shield, she planted herself in the path of the bulldozer as it headed toward the home of a Palestinian pharmacist. It ran over her, twice. No one was held accountable. When Alan Rickman and Kath ...More
