The cast from DePauw's production of the Tony Award-winning musical "Urinetown" was invited to perform a scene at the 2012 Kennedy Center American College Theatre Region III Festival.
The Living Theatre Workshop Co-Founders Jerry Goralnick and Lois Kagan Mingus assist Professor Tim Good's Winter Term Class in preparation for Mysteries ... and Smaller Pieces
The 2011-2012 season included a production of Ibsen's "Hedda Gabler".
The DePauw Theatre production of "Lady Windermere's Fan – A Play about a Good Woman" by Oscar Wilde.
AUDITION INFORMATION:
Auditions for The Heidi Chronicles are Wednesday, February 8 from 7-9:30 p.m. and Thursday, February 9 from 6-8:30 p.m. with call backs on Friday, February 10 in the afternoon. Monologues are welcome, but cold readings will be provided. A sign up sheet will be on the theatre call board in the hall outside Kerr Theatre - 5 minute slots on Wednesday and Thursday.
Additional Production information (Tentative Rehearsal schedule, Character Descriptions, etc) will be on the call board by noon on Monday, February 13.
THE HEIDI CHRONICLES
Written by Wendy Wasserstein, Directed by Andrew Hayes April 12-14, 2012 - 7:30 PM - Moore Theatre April 15, 2012 - 3:00 PM - Moore Theatre
How have women benefitted from the Women’s Movement? The Heidi Chronicles, the 1989 Pulitzer Prize winning play by Wendy Wasserstein asks this and other questions by tracing the life of a female art historian. Wasserstein’s main character, Heidi Holland, comes of age during the pivotal years of the Women’s Movement. Through her relationships with both men and women, we watch her struggle to determine what women have really gained and at what cost. The play has a wonderful mixture of probing intellectual questions and old fashion theatrical humor. Come see what the New York Daily News called, “not just a funny play, but a wise one.”
SPRING FESTIVAL OF SHAKESPEARE
Directed by Amy Gaither-Hayes Saturday, May 12, 2012 - 2 p.m., 4 p.m., 7 p.m. - Moore Theatre 8:30 p.m. Reception in the Great Hall
Tickets will be available at the Green Center Box Office. Ticket prices are $3 for students and $6 for adults. Festival passes are $6 for students and $12 for adults.
The Spring Festival is a twelve-week collaboration between Shakespeare & Company, DePauw University, and local participating high schools in Putnam and neighboring counties. The Festival features students from Greencastle Middle School, Greencastle High School (Macbeth), Cloverdale High School (Comedy of Errors), North Putnam Middle School, and North Putnam High School (A Midsummer Night's Dream).
MYSTERIES ... AND SMALLER PIECES
Collectively Created by The Living Theatre, Directed by Tim Good February 2-4, 2012 - 7:30 PM - Moore Theatre February 5, 2012 - 3:00 PM - Moore Theatre
Mysteries...and Smaller Pieces is a collective creation by The Living Theatre that changed theatrical history. Mysteries was the first play to be presented on the world’s major stages without fictional characters, plot, scenery or costumes. The virtually wordless composition redefines the nature of theater as pure communication between performers and audience.
Relying on nonverbal sounds and improvised actions, Mysteries invokes the Dionysian sources of drama, offering the audience the opportunity of assisting in a series of rituals meant to liberate the actor’s deepest resources.
About DePauw Theatre
DePauw Theatre students use the unique advantages of the liberal arts environment to craft individualized paths to a professional life in the arts. Faculty are active playwrights, actors, directors, designers and scholars, and the foundational training in the classroom and on our stages gets fleshed out with internships, study abroad opportunities and summer work.All DePauw Theatre students are encouraged to pursue their calling and are guided in that effort. We offer unique experiences for students to be able to work their way up to design, produce, and direct on our main stage seasons, in addition to performance opportunities that have no graduate students competing for roles. DePauw Theatre produces four mainstage productions each year, including musicals. There are 2-3 student productions each year, a festival of original plays each semester, an improv/sketch comedy troupe, and insomniac theatre. Cooperative arrangements with the School of Music, the Art Department, and Creative Writing program offer additional creative training for the growing artist.
