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
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.
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," 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.
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.”
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.
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.
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.
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.”
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.
Silas Green and Courtney Martin play the roles of Charlie Weston and Leanne King in the student written and directed play, "West End Blues." Weston and King struggle with difficult pasts during the play. DN PHOTO KATHRYN HAMPSHIRE
