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05/09/2019
Visiting Lecturer - Theatre/Applied Theatre The Department of Communication Studies at IUPUI seeks a visiting lecturer in Theatre/Applied Theatre, to begin August 1, 2019. Non-tenure track lecturers at IUPUI are positions focused on teaching. Most lecturers teach four classes per semester and are required to demonstrate excellence in teaching...
Dr. Paul J. Siddens, III has been recognized as a Distinguished Alum by the Department of Communications Studies at IUPUI. He sent this recording to us, as he would not be able to join us this Friday.
02/03/2017
Communication Studies is back this spring with a new student theater production: "The Melville Boys."
Two brothers, living very different lives, arrive at a lakeside cabin for a weekend of fishing, but their plans are thrown out of whack by the arrival of two sisters who become catalysts for a tenderly funny and unsentimental look at all four lives in transition to find common ground.
Reserve your seats now: https://liberalarts.iupui.edu/theatre/
09/07/2016
Hip-Hop worked for Hamilton, but can it work for Shakespeare?
How Hip-Hop Can Bring Shakespeare to Life Performing Shakespeare through the lens of hip hop and youth culture is helping the bard's words and messages find relevance among students.
08/29/2016
In his book "Doing Well and Doing Good by Doing Art," UCLA professor James Catterall details the results of a twelve-year study in which he followed secondary students who participated in music or theater arts in school into their adult lives to see if the arts made a difference, and what kind of difference it made. Catterall found a strong association between high school theater and inner development. “Sustained student involvement in theatre arts (acting in plays and musicals, participating in drama clubs, and taking acting lessons) associates with a variety of developments for youth,” he writes in the first chapter. “Gains in reading proficiency, gains in self-concept and motivation, and higher levels of empathy for others.”
How Performing in Theater Can Help Build Empathy in Students By encouraging students to add more performance back into the text, Shakespeare's works are gaining greater purpose.
08/24/2016
"Voices from Central State" begins Friday night with a one-woman show adapted from a patient's memoir published in 1886 about her seven-year hospitalization in Indiana's flagship psychiatric institution. The performance is directed by English professor Terri Bourus.
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'Voices from Central State' begins with one-woman show adapted from patient's 1886 memoir: Newscenter: Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis INDIANAPOLIS -- "Voices from Central State," based on writings by patients at what was Indiana's flagship psychiatric institution for nearly 150 years, begins with a one-woman show adapted from a patient's memoir published in 1886 about her seven-year hospitalization.
07/26/2016
"At liberal arts colleges and universities across the country, dynamic writers, scientists, scholars and artists have made campuses the catalysts for their creative endeavors. The tension between the traditional and experimental continues to energize students and faculty alike. Sure, people get training in any number of technical skills while they are undergraduates, but they also experience the power of innovation from scientists expanding our understanding of the universe and from artists and scholars deepening our knowledge of who we are, where we come from, and who we might yet become. That’s what Miranda has done with Hamilton."
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05/02/2016
IUPUI’s Spring Play, “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged)” This rib-tickling and fast-paced rendition of Shakespeare's works will provide viewers with slapstick humor, tragicomedies, a Prince reference (R.I.P.), and leave you wondering, “Was Juliet really that manly?”
03/16/2016
Purdue theater majors and engineering students are working together to create a robot capable of moving scenery.
02/04/2016
You are cordially invited to
01/11/2016
Some happy news about the Phoenix Theatre.
Phoenix Theatre moving from longtime home off Mass Ave The purveyor of contemporary plays and musicals plans to leave the popular cultural district, where patrons are struggling to find parking, for three properties it has purchased on North Illinois Street.
12/14/2015
Peter Marbach touring the Cavanaugh Hall theatre classroom with Mike Scott.