Fourteen students from the Lycoming College Theatre program participated in this year’s Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival (KCACTF), Region II at Montclair State University. The theatre department takes a group of students to the festival each year to provide them with the opportunity to showcase their talents, present their work, compete with students from over 50 other universities and colleges in the nine-state region, and attend workshops led by theatre professionals.
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Lycoming College theatre department will kick-off the spring semester with “The Drowning Girls,” by Beth Graham, Charlie Tomlinson, and Daniela Vlaskalic. The play, directed by C. Austin Hill, visiting assistant professor of theatre at Lycoming College, will be presented in room D001 of Wendle Hall (Academic Center), adjacent to the lobby of the Mary L Welch Theatre, 8 p.m., Feb. 20-23.
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Lycoming College theatre department faculty and students attended a jam-packed professional trip to the Shaw Festival in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Oct. 11-14, for one of Canada's premiere professional theatre companies.
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Lycoming College theatre department continues its 50th season with Christina Anderson’s 2013 play, “Blacktop Sky.” The production, directed by Lycoming College theatre major Jennifer Spencer ’20 (Philadelphia), will be presented in room D001 of Wendle Hall, adjacent to the lobby of the Mary L. Welch Theatre, at 8 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 28, 2018, through Saturday, Dec. 1.
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Lycoming College’s theatre department kicks off its 50th season with a mainstage production of “Songs for a New World,” a contemporary abstract musical about decisions and self-discovery. Performances will be held Thursday, Oct. 18 through Saturday, Oct. 20 at 8:00 p.m. in the Mary Lindsay Welch Honors Hall.
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Nine students from the Lycoming College Theatre program participated in this year’s Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival (KCACTF) at the Indiana University of Pennsylvania (IUP). The College sends a group of students to the festival each year to provide them with the opportunity to showcase their talents, compete with students from over 50 other universities and colleges, and attend workshops led by theatre professionals.
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Although the lead actors of any show are usually given the credit for a spectacular performance, the show’s success is just as dependent on the back stage hands who make it all possible.
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Victoria Ashmore, a junior theater major from Havertown, Pa., enjoyed the many benefits of participating in a conference sponsored by the U.S. Institute for Theatre Technology from March 16 to 19 in Salt Lake City. In January, Ashmore was selected from more than a dozen technical theater students at the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival to represent Region Two at the national conference.
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Costumes, sound, set design — none of these backstage efforts by Lycoming College theater majors took the backstage at the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival Jan. 12-16. Thirteen students took home more than a dozen individual and group awards.
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Lycoming College welcomed fifteen new full-time faculty members at the beginning of the 2015-16 academic year.
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The Lycoming College Theatre Department presents “For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf” April 8-11 at 8 p.m. in the Mary L. Welch Theatre, on Mulberry Street in Williamsport. This event is for mature audiences only, due to adult situations in the production.
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The Lycoming College Theater Department will host the premier of “A Saucy Sausage Sandwich” Feb. 26-28 in the Mary L. Welch Theatre, on Mulberry Street in Williamsport, before taking the show on the road to local high schools, middle schools and performing arts centers.
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The Lycoming College theatre and music departments will present “The Cradle Will Rock,” a musical written by Marc Blitzstein. The production, directed by N. J. Stanley, chair and associate professor of theatre, will run April 9-12 at 8 p.m. in Mary L. Welch Theatre. The musical director is Gary Boerckel, who recently retired as professor of music at Lycoming. Due to adult situations, the musical is recommended for mature audiences.
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Lycoming College students and faculty recently collaborated with Williamsport’s City Alliance Church to volunteer at the city’s Sojourner Truth Ministries (SJT). Participants served lunch to approximately 70 homeless and underprivileged members of the community.
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