theater

Nov. 1: Improv comedy takes on Shakespearean themes at WSU

PULLMAN, Wash. – Starting with just one audience suggestion, a title for a play that has yet to be written, the Improvised Shakespeare Company (http://www.improvisedshakespeare.com/) will create a fully improvised play in Elizabethan style at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 1, in Daggy Hall’s Jones Theatre at Washington State University.

Missoula Children’s Theatre auditions at WSU’s Jones Theatre

  PULLMAN, Wash. – An audition will be held for the Missoula Children’s Theatre production of “Robinson Crusoe” 4-6 p.m. Monday,  Sept. 23. Those auditioning should arrive at the Washington State University Jones Theatre inside Daggy Hall before 4 p.m. and plan to stay for the full two hours. Some of the main cast members will […]

Students’ inspiring ‘Las Memorias’ in fourth season

Photos show performances from 2012 “Las Memorias.”     PULLMAN, Wash. – Twenty high school students will take the stage this month in four Washington communities to share pieces of their life stories.   Students from Warden, Pateros, Mabton and Everett are writing about their life experiences and how those experiences have helped shape them […]

60s music, fashion, freedom in musical ‘Shout!’

  WSU student vocalists  (l-r) Angela Brown, Alyssa Erickson, Kelsey Doyle and Crystal Harris. Amanda Guay was not available for the photo. (Photo by Tim Marsh, WSU Today)   PULLMAN – WSU Opera Workshop will present its summer musical production ‘Shout! The Mod Musical’ at 8 p.m. on July 30-31 in Bryan Hall Theatre.   Under the […]

WSU addresses questions about cuts, tuition

During what he called the most difficult day in his 15 years of serving as a president of universities, WSU President Elson S. Floyd on Friday answered questions with Provost Warwick Bayly in a press conference and a later public session about the preliminary budget-reduction plan announced earlier in the day. Floyd said the plan […]

Sylvia opens in Wadleigh Theatre

PULLMAN – WSU’s Department of Theatre and Dance presents “Sylvia,” A.R. Gurney’s romantic comedy about marriage and a dog, April 9-12 at 8 p.m. and April 12-13 at 2 p.m. in Daggy Hall’s Wadleigh Theatre.  “No bones about it,” said director Stan Brown, “‘Sylvia’ is a ‘doggone’ good time.” Empty-nesters Greg (Alan Peery) and Kate […]

WSU theater announces upcoming productions

WSU’s Theater Arts Program opens its 2006-07 season with the first of four separate presentations on Oct.4. All shows are at 8 p.m., with some performances offering a 2 p.m. matinee.The first production to kick off the season is STAGE One, an annual student written, directed and performed presentation of one-act plays. STAGE One is […]

One-act plays explore mundane to heroic

Conversations in the family, in the mind and among superheroes set the stage for the seventh annual presentation of one-act plays written and performed by students in WSU’s theater program.STAGE One will run at 8 p.m. Wednesday-Saturday, Oct. 5-8, at Wadleigh Theatre in Daggy Hall. Tickets cost $10, WSU students $5, seniors $7.50 and GPSA […]

CATS coming to Pullman

There’s no better way to introduce your family to the wonders of live theater than with the magic, the mystery, the memory of CATS. What began as a musical about cats after Andrew Lloyd Webber picked up a book of poems in an airport bookshop has become the longest running show in Broadway’s history. Winner […]