Theatre and Drama
Fresh from the triumphant revival of Stephen Sondheim and James Goldman's "Follies," Broadway's sassy sweetheart Bernadette Peters will perform favorite Broadway classics, accompanied by an orchestra composed of Indiana University students, on the IU Auditorium stage at 8 p.m. Feb. 25.
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The "dangerous liaisons" in Christopher Hampton's play have more deceit and intrigue than a Hollywood marriage. The award-winning drama "Les Liaisons Dangereuses" continues IU Theatre's 2011-12 season, opening Friday, Feb. 3, and continuing through Feb. 11 in the Wells-Metz Theatre. Ticket holders should be aware the play features mature content, including nudity.
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Indiana University Bloomington faculty members Selene Carter, George Pinney and Elizabeth Shea have been selected to receive funding in 2012 from the Fran Snygg Grant for Artistic Collaboration and the Fran Snygg Endowment Fund.
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Indiana University Theatre's 2011-12 season continues with Lysistrata, adapted by playwright Ellen McLaughlin. Lysistrata opens Friday, Dec. 2, in the Wells-Metz Theatre. Several other events will be held around the production as part of Themester 2011, "Making War, Making Peace," including a screening of a documentary at IU Cinema and a graduate symposium on theater and performance studies.
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Athos, Porthos and Aramis ride again in a new staged translation of The Three Musketeers by emerging Chicago playwright-actor Robert Kauzlaric, opening tonight (Friday, Nov. 11) in the Ruth N. Halls Theatre at Indiana University Bloomington. Presented by IU Theatre, the plot revolves around a Gascon youth who teams up the musketeers, only to become entangled in a plot surrounding an evil cardinal, a sly lady and a romance between a duke and a queen. "Everybody knows of The Three Musketeers, but people rarely know the story behind it. Alexandre Dumas' novel is quite complex," director Murray McGibbon said.
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Indiana University Theatre's 2011-2012 season continues with a production of a new, staged translation of The Three Musketeers by emerging Chicago playwright/actor Robert Kauzlaric. Opening night is Friday, Nov. 11, at 7:30 p.m. in the Ruth N. Halls Theatre.
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