Kathryn Hampshire
Articles
Dance show explores domestic violence, objectification
What: Dancing Towards Change When: 7:3o p.m. April 27-30 Where: University Theatre Cost: Students, $12 General public, $15 Faculty and staff, $14 Senior citizens, $13
Student play explores teenage friendships, is 'ode to youth'
Students present the work of their peers in “Friends in High Places,” this year’s selected work for the Department of Theatre and Dance’s New Play Initiative, which focuses on the struggle of transitioning from high school to college.
Students team up with faculty to perform 'Hairspray'
In a show whose cast combines freshmen with faculty, “Hairspray” tackles issues from 1962 that promise to resonate with audience members today.
"The Normal Heart" updates story of AIDS struggle in 1980s
“The Normal Heart," a theatre collaboration between Ball State's Department of Theatre and Dance and the Muncie Civic theatre will run March 31 and April 1, 2, 8 and 9 at 8 p.m. at the Muncie Civic theatre.
Sketch show to bring comedy, satire to Cave Studio Theatre
With four individuals portraying over 100 characters, “Nobody Panic (But the Emergency Exit is Locked): A Sketch Show” tackles what the show’s playbill calls “the weird, wonderful hell that is young adulthood.”
'Seascape with Sharks and Dancer' tackles relationships, dysfunction
In a show with only two characters, student actors will explore a “Seascape with Sharks and Dancers” in the Cave Studio Theatre, opening Feb. 23.
University Theatre's 'Jungalbook' puts new twist on Disney tale
While many may be expecting "Jungalbook," part of this year's MainStage Series shows, to be like the Disney movie by the same name, this production is anything but. Apart from having a lot of the same character names, the Ball State theatre and dance department's production has more differences than similarities.
Dance Theatre show combines old, new styles
In this semester’s Dance Theatre show, dancers and choreographers look to the past and the present as they create a work that fuses the two.
Ball State Opera Theatre to present evening of music
In this semester’s Ball State Opera Theatre event, vocal performance students present what director Jon Truitt called “two of opera’s earliest masterpieces”: “Dido and Aeneas” and “Orfei ed Euridice.”
Shakespeare goes '90s in 'As You Like It'
Ball State’s rendition of “As You Like It” takes readers out of the Shakespearean comedy’s original setting and into 1990s Seattle during the height of the grunge period.
