theater
The Bacchae of Euripides
Ecstatic dance and music fuel political uprising in Soyinka’s adaptation of Euripides’ classic play about a god and the despot who attempts to control him.
2019-2020 season announced for UMass Theater
Ecstatic celebrants in Ancient Greece. Fleeting moments of community at a Japanese water station. A racist incident on a college campus a lot like UMass Amherst. A future society careening towards a new kind of operatic form based on The Simpsons.
The plays selected for the 2019-2020 UMass Theater season span the globe but hit close to home as they each illuminate some facet of how we connect, conflict, and celebrate with the people around us.
Baltimore
When a racist incident divides her first-year students, reluctant resident advisor Shelby finds herself in the middle of a conversation she does not want to have. As pressure to address the controversy mounts from residents, the new dean, and even her best friend, Shelby must decide if she will enter the fray or watch her community come apart at the seams.
Dr. Priscilla María Page ‘00G uses the Feinberg Innovation Space to close a gap in theater scholarship
Dr. Priscilla María Page ‘00G made creative use of technology to help her students gain access to artists through a Feinberg Innovation Grant that allowed her class to use teleconferencing facilities.
Plot twist: Alissa Mesibov ‘13 finds her way from theater to fundraising
Sometimes UMass Theater students drift away from their roots once they’ve graduated. Take Alissa Mesibov, for example: “You look at where I started, studying dramaturgy, being a Shakespeare nerd, and here I am now fundraising for civil rights. It’s a bit of a left turn.” But the transition from Shakespeare to social justice did not come out of nowhere — in fact, there's more of a connection than it might seem at first.
AUDITIONS for BALTIMORE
Auditions for Baltimore by Kirsten Greenidge
Directed by Josh Glenn-Kayden
UMass Amherst undergraduates can now complete a Minor in Theater
Starting this fall, for the first time ever, undergraduates at the University of Massachusetts Amherst will have the option of minoring in theater.
We have heard from many UMass students who love theater and want to be involved but who, for various reasons, cannot commit to the full major. In response to this demand, the Department of Theater has created a 16-credit Minor in Theater that will be available to all undergraduates come fall 2018.
The Lily's Revenge, a thesis in four parts: Meet director Jen Onopa
The final production of the UMass Department of Theater’s Mainstage 2017-2018 season represents not one, but four graduate student theses! Meet third year graduate students Jen Onopa who is directing The Lily's Revenge.
How Did We Get Here?: Using Verbatim Documentary Theatre to Make Sense of Our Contemporary Political Landscape
In the January 2017, playwright and director Joe Salvatore '97G collaborated with economist Maria Guadalupe (INSEAD-France) to create Her Opponent, a re-staging of excerpts of the 2016 U. S. Presidential debates with gender-reversed casting.
