theatre
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Cornell theatre professor and student featured at Minnesota Fringe Festival
Bloddeuwedd, a one-person show based on a Welsh legend, will receive its world premiere at the Minnesota Fringe. The show tells the story of a young woman who is magically fashioned from flowers, becomes enmeshed in a brutal marriage and a passionate affair, and is punished by being turned into an owl.
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Cornell among 373 Best Colleges, theatre program among best in nation
Cornell College was selected as one of the best undergraduate institutions in the nation in the 2011 edition of The Princeton Review 373 Best Colleges, and its theatre program was ranked 15th in the nation.
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The Owling Project brings non-traditional theatre to Cornell
In the Owling Project, Erin Daly performed three short pieces related literally or figuratively to owls in site-specific, outdoor locations.
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Jeffrey McCune ’99
Jeffrey McCune ’99 credits his Cornell experience for “planting the seed” that led him to become a professional scholar. His research examines closely the interrelatedness and intersections of race, gender, sexuality, and class.
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Theatre department performing "Akarui"
For their final mainstage production of the 2009-2010 academic year Cornell will be mounting Jen Silverman’s new play, Akarui. The show, which runs April 16, 17, 18, 23, and 24 at 7:30 p.m., is directed by Cornell professor Mark Hunter. Tickets are $8 for adults and $5 for non-Cornell students. Faculty, staff, and students of […]
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Cornell College presents ‘Arabian Nights’
MOUNT VERNON — The classic fables of “Arabian Nights” come to life in Cornell College’s Theatre Department production of “Arabian Nights” opening Friday, Feb. 12. Senior Greg Redlawsk of Iowa City directs playwright Mary Zimmerman’s powerful and humorous modern take on the timeless stories at 7:30 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays Feb. 12-13 and 19-20, and […]
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Riverside Theatre provides professional theatre connections
A unique relationship with Iowa City’s Riverside Theatre provides Cornell students with a direct connection to professional theater, both on campus and through Riverside productions just 20 miles away.
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Cornell among Best 371 Colleges; Theatre cited as among best in the nation
MOUNT VERNON – Cornell is one of the country’s best undergraduate institutions, according to The Princeton Review. The education services company features Cornell in the new 2010 edition of its guidebook, The Best 371 Colleges.
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"Baby With the Bathwater" Dec. 5-7, 12-13
MOUNT VERNON – Cornell College presents Baby With the Bathwater, a dark comedy by Christopher Durang, directed by Distinguished Artist-in-Residence Jody Hovland, Artistic Director at Riverside Theatre in Iowa City. The show will run Dec. 5-7 and 12-13 at the Plumb-Fleming Studio Theater on the Cornell Campus.
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The Cornell College Theatre Department Presents Les Liaisons Dangereuses
MOUNT VERNON – Cornell College will present a production of the acclaimed play Les Liaisons Dangereuses, by Christopher Hampton, based on the novel by Choderlos de Laclos. Directed by theatre professor Mark Hunter, Les Liaisons Dangereuses will run from October 17th to October 25th at the Kimmel Theater on the Cornell campus.
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Cornell theatre presents "A Lie of the Mind"
MOUNT VERNON – The Cornell College Department of Theatre presents “A Lie of the Mind,” directed by Jim VanValen, April 24-27 in Kimmel Theatre.
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Kirk and Thurston engage in wide-ranging theatre opportunities
Charlie Thurston and Ellen Kirk, former high school classmates, have made the most of their Cornell theatre opportunities. In addition to numerous Cornell productions, both have spent summers in Colorado with Creede Repertory Theatre, and a semester of study and internships through the Chicago Arts Program.
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Students intern at Shakespeare Festival
During the summer of 2007, both Matt Babbs and Tyler Jacobson took advantage of Cornell’s close relationship with Iowa City’s Riverside Theatre. The two served as interns during the annual Shakespeare Festival, and both say the experience convinced them to become theatre professionals.
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Kris Longley-Postema
Kris Longley-Postema ’06 enrolled in the Yale University School of Drama after Cornell to more deeply study stage management. He has also taken courses in theatre management, and has been very pleased with his Yale experience.
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‘Marat/Sade,’ a work of total theater, opens March 15 at Cornell
MOUNT VERNON — Inmates of an asylum on the outskirts of Paris stage a play about the murder of revolutionary Jean-Paul Marat in the Cornell College production of “Marat/Sade” opening Thursday, March 15, in the Plumb-Fleming Studio Theatre of Armstrong Hall.
The Owling Project brings non-traditional theatre to Cornell