Showing posts with label Theatre. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Theatre. Show all posts
Thursday, April 15, 2021

UIS’ Twelfth Night Goes Live This Friday

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A production originally slated for last year will premiere in just a few days. Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night has a plot so familiar, you proba...
Thursday, November 5, 2020

UIS Studio Theatre to present ‘Rogues’ Gallery’ via livestream

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As the days settle into more darkness, a little dark humor might be enlightening. “Rogues’ Gallery,” livestreamed beginning this weekend fro...
Friday, April 17, 2020

The show will not go on

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Friday would have marked the debut of the production of “Twelfth Night” at the University of Illinois Springfield . Instead, there will be ...
Monday, January 28, 2019

Renovations set to begin at University of Illinois Springfield

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University of Illinois Springfield will be making major structural improvements to its studio theater. The theater received a $150,000 gr...
Thursday, October 26, 2017

UIS Theatre Department launches degree program with production of ‘Machinal’

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When she chose the 1920s drama “Machinal” as the University of Illinois Springfield ’s fall theater production, director Missy Thibodeaux-Th...
Thursday, November 3, 2016

UIS takes on ‘Macbeth'

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The University of Illinois Springfield ’s theater department is taking on one of Shakespeare’s most famous plays in its production of “Macbe...
Thursday, October 27, 2016

UIS Theatre celebrates Shakespeare with production of 'Macbeth'

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For some married couples, acting side by side in one of William Shakespeare's iconic tragedies might spell "double, double toil and...
Thursday, October 29, 2015

UIS opens theater season with 'Importance of Being Earnest'

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The University of Illinois Springfield is experimenting with time travel in its first of two theater productions of the 2015-16 season. Its...
Thursday, August 20, 2015

'Earnest' and 'Distracted' headline new season at UIS Theatre

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University of Illinois Springfield Theatre has announced its 2015-16 theater lineup. This fall will see a production of Oscar Wilde’s “Th...
Thursday, April 9, 2015

Thibodeaux-Thompsons throw focus into UIS production of 'Streetcar'

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Instead of teaching theater classes this semester, University of Illinois Springfield associate professor Missy Thibodeaux-Thompson focuse...
Thursday, November 6, 2014

UIS students performing Neil Simon's 'Brighton Beach Memoirs'

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The first of Neil Simon’s semi-autobiographical plays, “ Brighton Beach Memoirs ,” opens the University of Illinois Springfield theater sea...
Friday, November 8, 2013

'Clybourne Park' offers new twist on matters of race

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UIS Theater’s fall production, “Clybourne Park”, explores how racial and social attitudes have changed — and not changed — over the course ...
Monday, October 14, 2013

Susan Koch: Theatre, an important university experience at UIS

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The following is a portion of a guest column written by UIS Chancellor Susan J. Koch . It was published in the October 13, 2013 edition of T...
Thursday, April 4, 2013

'Awake and Sing' paved way for modern theater

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“Awake and Sing,” the spring production by University of Illinois Springfield Theatre, could be thought of as the granddaddy of ensemble ca...
Thursday, December 20, 2012

The arts scene in Springfield finds vitality in niche markets

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With the addition of new assistant professor Dathan Powell , the Theatre Department at University of Illinois Springfield is prepared to t...
Thursday, October 25, 2012

'Tartuffe' opens UIS theatre season

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A comedy by “France’s Shakespeare” this weekend kicks off the 2012-13 season of plays presented by the University of Illinois Springfield t...
Friday, February 24, 2012

UIS stages a classic, "True West"

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Eric Thibodeaux-Thompson , the head of the UIS theatre department these last 10 years, is taking a sabbatical this semester, but he is stay...
Thursday, February 23, 2012

Sibling rivalry: Brothers battle in "True West"

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There’s little truth in “True West.” With a desert-dwelling drifter who can’t stand the sound of chirping crickets, and his studious screenw...
Tuesday, December 6, 2011

UIS Theatre to present evening of short scenes

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UIS Theatre will present an evening of student-directed scenes at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday and Wednesday in the Studio Theatre, on the campus of t...
Monday, October 31, 2011

Review: 'I Hate Hamlet' gives humorous glimpse into acting profession

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The notion that playing the Melancholy Dane is to acting what rocket science and brain surgery are to other professions -- or as the main ch...