The Department of Theater and Dance will be staging their production of “Distracted,” by Lisa Loomer this week from February 20th through 24th. The fast paced and offbeat play follows a family’s struggle to treat their child’s potential attention deficit disorder. Dealing with difficult subject manner in a somewhat comical way the play defies clear […]
For the last two weeks SIUE’s Department of Theater and Dance has been host to The Big Muddy Dance Company. As part of their visit the group has been working with students at all dance levels and trying to help them set practical goal for turning the skills they learn in college into a life […]
On Tuesday January eighth SIUE Theater and Dance graduate Tracy Ashton made a guest appearance on the Fox series, “Raising Hope.”
Born and raised in southern Illinois, Ashton graduated SIUE in 1981 as a theater and dance major. She looks back on the experience with fond memories,
“College is a womb like experience, everything is just right […]
Theater Education major Alex Moore’s production of Tennessee Williams’ “Summer By the Lake,” was chosen to kick off this year’s Missouri State Thespians Conference.
Moore originally graduated SIUE in 2007 after which he worked professionally on various production in Chicago before making the decision to return to SIUE to obtain his teaching certification. Moore has been […]
From November seventh through eleventh SIUE’s Department of Theater and Dance will be presenting Joe Orton’s, “What the Butler Saw.”
Originally premiering in 1969, “What the Butler Saw,” was Orton’s final play, and the second to be performed after this death. The play is an outrageous comedy revolving around Dr. Prentice, a psychiatrist, who attempts to […]
October 9th through 14th the Department of Theater and Dance will be teaming up with the Department of Music to put on a production of Fame. This 1980’s musical by David De Silva is a stage show recreation of the popular movie by the same name. The show follows a group of performing arts high […]
Last May Lana Hagan from the SIUE department of theater and dance took a group of current students along with Friends of Theater and Dance Members (FOTAD) to visit New York City.
This trip was the continuation of a fourteen year tradition started by Hagan during her early years at SIUE. Hagan would frequently ask students […]
Tuesday, SIUE theater alum Deborah Barylski returned to her alma matter to pass on some of the wisdom from her twenty five plus years as an LA casting director.
Graduating from SIUE in 1971, Barylski went on to get her masters at Illinois state. After spending several years teaching, she moved to Alaska to work in […]
Over the last semester, a group of SIUE students have had the opportunity to learn more about Maroon culture theater under the guidance of of visiting professor Jose Tojo. Last week they were given the chance to show off the fruits of their labor in “A Mato Mosaic.”
The work is a combination of American theater […]
Last Wednesday at noon two hundred plus students broke out in synchronized dance in SIUE’s Goshen lounge. The group was a flash mob organized by dance professor Kristen Best-Kinscherff and students from SIUE’s theater and dance program.
The initial decision to create an on campus flash mob for SIUE’s students to strut their stuff was made […]
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