Cook Elementary play looks at quest for peace after Hiroshima
Cook Elementary students are getting a taste of Japanese Culture.
‘Our town … where the ‘value above all price’ is in the smallest events of daily life’
Kayla Hairston sits quietly off to herself, doing homework as fellow cast members of the Columbus Community Theatre’s “Our Town” run scenes at the Rosenzweig Arts Center. The 14-year-old uses some of her breaks to get schoolwork done; it’s one way she juggles academics and her thirst for theater.
Euripedes’ ancient play still holds true
With no other lighting than the sun, Shackouls Honors College students will recreate a classic Greek tragedy the way it was originally performed — outside.
Our View: The value of play
The kids are back in school. Summer vacations have been taken. Play time is over, right?
Perish the thought.
Atlanta playwright’s ‘No More Strength’ to play in Columbus
Mina Smith’s five-act play, “No More Strength,” comes to Mississippi University for Women’s Rent Auditorium Saturday, March 15. Show time is 6 p.m.
Jones: Play incident becomes learning opportunity
GREENWOOD — The chancellor of the University of Mississippi says the disruptions at a campus play with gay slurs and inappropriate laughter from the audience
Ole Miss hate speech: Audience called to dialogue
The University of Mississippi says it has not been able to verify reports that athletes led the disruption of a campus play with gay slurs and inappropriate laughter. University officials said earlier that some freshman athletes participated.
Mississippi football players disrupt campus play
A University of Mississippi professor says that a group of Ole Miss students, including football players, disrupted a production of a campus play with “hate speech” on Tuesday night.
Tribute time: The Tennessee Williams Tribute’s ‘Period of Adjustment’ shows another side of the famous playwright
It’s Christmas Eve in Nashville, 1960, but the mood is anything but merry for George Haverstick and Ralph Bates and their wives. George and his brand new bride, Isabel, are fast discovering they have very different expectations of marriage. Ralph and Dorothea, married for several years, are on the verge of divorce. Both squabbling couples are going through a “Period of Adjustment.”
HA’s spring production blends the law, laughter and music
When the film “Legally Blonde” hit theaters around the country in 2001, audiences may not have envisioned it would someday end up on Broadway. But the story of a seemingly ditzy blonde, her sorority sisters, an errant boyfriend and Harvard Law School morphed into a musical that makes its way to the Heritage Academy stage in Columbus April 26-28.
Hilarity marks CCT’s upcoming production of ‘A Casserole Patrol Wedding’
When Columbus Community Theatre audiences last saw the “Casserole Patrol” gang, the once eligible widower in their midst was off to marry his new bride — and single women “of a certain maturity” in fictional “Possum Town” had resorted to duct-taping their rivals to chairs to gain a headstart to the next bachelor.
EMCC to present debut of original play Thursday
East Mississippi Community College will present the debut performance of “Interference,” a play by theater instructor Don Vaughan, Thursday, April 4. Curtain time is 7:30 p.m. at the Lyceum auditorium, Golden Triangle campus in Mayhew.
Tennessee Williams’ ‘Kingdom of Earth,’ to open April 1
Roiling tensions on stage more than equal the churning Mississippi River that threatens to flood a decaying farm house and the three conflicted souls inside in Tennessee Williams’ “Kingdom of Earth.” The two-act play, once titled “The Seven Descents of Myrtle,” will be presented in downtown Columbus April 1-13 by the Tennessee Williams Tribute committee.
Utah school recasts musical with sexy Elvis songs
A parent who was “All Shook Up” about Elvis Presley songs in a high-school drama prompted educators to cancel the musical, deeming it too sexual. But the decision was reversed Thursday by administrators at the high school south of Salt Lake City.