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The creative thoughts of Eastern Michigan University students formed in the Theatre Department’s student-written and student-directed One-Act Festival in the Frank Ross Laboratory Theatre this week.
Bombs explode and sirens blare as a young girl runs into an abandoned house to take shelter away from the war-torn world around her. Alone and scared, the girl named Young Girl, finds a doll amongst the objects left behind. With the appearance of the doll, the magical story of Lily Plants a Garden comes to life.
One-person plays are rare and not many have received wide circulation or much acclaim. This may be due to one thing: no matter how good a play is, it will succeed or fail depending on the actors in it, and obviously, with a one-person show, all the responsibility falls on a single actor.
Stephen Sondheim is widely regarded as the grandfather of musical theatre. His career as a composer and lyricist has spanned nearly seven decades and his shows are some of the most beloved in the musical theatre repertoire: Sweeney Todd, Into the Woods, A Little Night Music, Follies, Sunday in the Park with Georgeand many more.
'The Piano Lesson' will be featuring EMU students Mishana Green as Berniece and Jeffrey DeVault as Boy Willie.
Eastern Michigan University’s Theatre Department will continue its 2015-2016 main stage season with a one-week only performance of August Wilson’s Pulitzer Prize- winning play, “The Piano Lesson” opening this Wednesday in the Sponberg Theatre.
They say that comedy is harder to do than tragedy. Before last Friday night, I didn’t fully believe that, because when I’ve acted, I’ve found tragic or dramatic scenes to be more demanding. But, watching the Purple Rose Theatre’s production of Neil Simon’s “The Odd Couple,” on opening night, I understood; comedy is harder to do because it’s harder to make it look easy.
Told through reading and performance, audio and visual components, the two-act play “Women’s SafeHouse” opened for the first time in America at Eastern Michigan University’s Frank Ross Laboratory Theatre in Quirk Hall on Monday night.
Hailing from New Jersey and casted as the well-known sweet girl of Kansas was newcomer, Shanice Williams, who performed Thursday night in NBC’s “The Wiz Live.”
In my three years at EMU, I’ve seen some wonderful theatre. But, the current main stage production, “Little Shop of Horrors,” is the best show I’ve seen here, hands down.
Eastern Michigan University’s English professor, Emeritus Jeff Duncan, wrote the play, We Can Do It!: A Rosie the Riveter Revue. It is to be performed at 4-6 p.m. on Sunday November 1, at Cobblestone Farm, 2781 Packard Rd. in Ann Arbor.
Kasey Donnelly as Audrey and Nick Whittaker as Seymour.
The leaves are turning bright colors, a chill is in the air and creepy decorations of ghosts and goblins are showing up on many neighborhood lawns. To help get us into the Halloween spirit, Eastern Michigan University Theatre will produce “Little Shop of Horrors,” opening Thursday.
Eric Hohnke and Marissa Kurtzhals will be starring in the show.
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