Theatre and Drama Department

Indiana University's Department of Theatre and Drama continues its 2009-2010 theater season with a fresh take on William Shakespeare's As You Like It under the direction of Fontaine Syer, associate professor of acting and directing. This production focuses solely on the exploration of "the human organism in love." The power structure has been altered, shifting the focus to a play about mothers and sisters (instead of fathers and daughters).
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As part of an Indiana University conference on black experiences in rock music, the producer of the Tony Award-winning musical Passing Strange will speak after a screening of a filmed version of the production.
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Indiana University's Department of Theatre and Drama continues its 2009/2010 theater season with a fresh take on William Shakespeare's As You Like It under the direction of Fontaine Syer, associate professor of acting and directing. This production focuses solely on the exploration of "the human organism in love." The power structure has been altered, shifting the focus to a play about mothers and sisters (instead of fathers and daughters).
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Indiana University's Department of Theatre and Drama will present a public talk by Harriet Newman Leve, a Tony Award-winning Broadway producer and an alumna of IU's School of Education, this Thursday (Oct. 22) at 5 p.m. in the Ruth N. Halls Theatre.
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Indiana University officials will conduct a groundbreaking ceremony Saturday, Oct. 17, for a project that will renovate the University Theater and convert it to a state-of-the-art cinema facility. The improvements also include added classroom, rehearsal and performance space for the Department of Theatre and Drama.
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Indiana University's Department of Theatre and Drama kicks off its 2009-2010 theater season with Willy Russell's cult musical Blood Brothers, the powerful story of an unlikely friendship beset by the struggles of adolescence, the inevitable rift of the class divide in 1960's England and the cruelty of fate. The play will be presented in the Ruth N. Halls Theatre under the direction of Murray McGibbon.
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