Every spring, the Kennedy Center opens its doors to a highly select group of talented theatre students from across the country for the KCACTF National Festival. This spring, Lycoming College’s Alexandra (AJ) Marusko ’25 earned one of those coveted invitations and walked away from the event with a fellowship at the prestigious O’Neill National Theater Institute and connections to last a lifetime.
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The Lycoming College theatre department will end the 2024-2025 season with Neil Simon’s hilarious farce “Rumors”. The show runs April 9-12 in the Mary L. Welch Theatre on the Lycoming College campus, with all shows beginning at 7:30 p.m. Admission is free, but tickets must be reserved ahead of time. Click here to reserve your ticket.
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The Lycoming College theatre department will continue its 2024-2025 season and start the Spring 2025 semester with a production of Stephen Spotswood’s “Girl in the Red Corner.” The show runs Feb. 26 – March 1 in the Mary L. Welch Theatre on the Lycoming College campus, with all shows beginning at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are available to purchase beginning today.
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Ten Lycoming College theatre majors and minors participated in this year’s Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival (KCACTF), Region II, held in Pittsburgh Jan. 14-18. The theatre department takes a group of students to the conference each year to provide them with the opportunity to showcase their talents, present their work, compete with students from more than 50 other universities and colleges in the nine-state region, and attend workshops led by theatre professionals. Lycoming student attendees who presented their work in acting, musical theatre, design, stage management, and playwriting included Olivia DiFraia, Eliza Flanigan, Gabriella Fugon, Gale Hall, Shantel Hill, Alijah Hunter, Julia Martin, Alexandra (AJ) Marusko, Evelyn Stong, and Chayton Wesneski.
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Performance has taken hundreds of forms across hundreds of years, and one of its most interesting forms is wrestling. Is wrestling real or fake? Are professional wrestlers like The Undertaker and Charlotte Flair actors? Why do masked luchadores never reveal their faces? For the 2024 fall semester, incoming first-year students were offered the first-year seminar “Theatre Professional Wrestling.” Led by Matt Ripa, M.F.A., visiting assistant professor of theatre, the class isn’t just answering these questions, but seeing them answered live.
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Lycoming College will open its 2024-25 theatre season with the “E-N-T-E-R-T-A-I-N-I-N-G” and “D-E-L-I-G-H-T-F-U-L” musical, “The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee.” The production will take place at the Mary L. Welch Theatre, Nov. 13-16, with all shows beginning at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are available to purchase beginning Wednesday, Oct. 23, at http://www.bigtickets.com/events/lycoming-college.
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To meet the demands of prospective students looking for their best college fit, Lycoming College has launched a new performing arts management major that carefully balances theatre with foundational business administration courses to equip students with the knowledge and skills needed to excel in a career on the management side of the performing arts.
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The Lycoming College theatre department is kicking off its 2023-24 season with cult favorite “Little Shop of Horrors,” a musical about a flower shop on Skid Row that is taken over by a flesh-eating plant from outer space. The production will take place at the Mary L. Welch Theatre, Nov. 15-18, with all shows beginning at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are available to purchase beginning Oct. 25 at http://www.bigtickets.com/events/lycoming-college.
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Lycoming College’s theatre department is flying high following the successful summer stock production of Roald Dahl’s “Matilda the Musical” that delighted audiences at Williamsport’s historic Community Arts Center. The show provided the community with live family entertainment, and young performers from across the region with the opportunity to exercise their singing and acting chops during the summer months.
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Lycoming College welcomed several new faculty members to campus for the 2023-24 academic year, bringing a breadth of knowledge to classrooms at the nationally-recognized liberal arts and sciences institution.
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The Lycoming College theatre department will wrap up its 2022-23 season with “9 to 5 The Musical,” a musical comedy based on the 1980 hit-movie of the same name, with songs and lyrics by Dolly Parton and book by Patricia Resnick. This production will be directed by Biliana Stoytcheva-Horissian, Ph.D., associate professor of theatre, and will take place at the Mary L. Welch Theatre, March 29-April 1 at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are available to purchase starting March 8, online at http://www.bigtickets.com/events/lycoming-college.
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Fourteen Lycoming College theatre majors and minors participated in this year’s Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival (KCACTF), Region 2 at West Chester University, Jan.17-21. 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. This year’s student attendees included: Christian Becker, Sadie Bossons, McKayla Cobb, Douglas Dixey, Abigayle Greevy, Thatcher Gunnells, Shantel Hill, Kirsten Houseman, Hannah Bailey Martin, Julia Martin, Keigan Mulreaney, Zoe Pew, Laura Ulrich, and Rachel Wright-Miggett.
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The Lycoming College theatre department continues its 2022-23 theatre season with “The Brothers Grimm Spectaculathon,” a fast-paced rendition of the classic and unusual fairy tales. The comedy will be directed by student Kirsten Houseman ’23, psychology and directing double major, and will take place at the Mary L. Welch Theatre, Nov. 16-19 at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are available to purchase by calling the box office at 570-321-4048, or online at http://www.bigtickets.com/events/lycoming-college.
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