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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Please note: Odin's Horse has been rescheduled for Oct. 19-22.
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Lycoming College is pleased to welcome eleven faculty members to its community this fall, bringing with them extensive knowledge and experience in their fields. With ecocriticism on the theatre stage, operatic styles in the music hall, Anglo-modernism in literature, expertise in stellar evolution, and more, these professors will enrich the classrooms at Lycoming College.
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Lycoming College's Emma Klopp '23 launched her debut children's book on PA LIVE!
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The spring 2022 Lycoming College theatre department’s production of “The Treatment” has been nominated for inclusion in the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival (KCACTF), Region II in January 2023.
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Lycoming College is pleased to recognize the outstanding achievement of Emma (E.P.) Klopp ’23, design and technical theatre major with an entrepreneurship minor, on self-publishing her debut children’s book titled, “An Orange Dog Named Blue.”
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Lycoming College theatre department is excited to present an American Premiere of a new Spanish play “The Treatment,” a dark comedy about the chaotic world of cinema, which follows a script writer in the middle of a personal crisis. Martin’s life becomes intertwined with several characters longing to write the stories of their past, what they are, and what they would have liked to have been. Written by Pablo Remón, the play was translated by Sandra Kingery, Ph.D., professor and department chair of modern language studies at Lycoming College, and directed by Biliana Stoytcheva-Horissian, Ph.D., associate professor and department chair of theatre at Lycoming.
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Lycoming College senior Mitchell Kelly was recently named a KCACTF/LORT ASPIRE Fellow, a prestigious recognition from the respected Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival (KCACTF). Kelly will be the only student from a nine-state region to participate at a national event at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C.
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Lycoming College Theatre Department will kick off the spring semester with “Nunsense,” a musical comedy written by Dan Goggin in 1985. This witty musical will be directed by Biliana Stoytcheva-Horissian, Ph.D., chair of the theatre department and associate professor of acting, directing, and musical theatre at Lycoming College, and will take place at the Mary L. Welch Theatre, Feb. 23-26 at 7:30 p.m. Two alternating casts will bring their own artistic perspectives to the story and characters. Tickets are available to purchase starting Feb. 9 by calling the box office at 570-321-4048 or by going online. Audience members are expected to wear a mask at all times.
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Lycoming College will open the 2021-22 theatre season with “Mr. Burns: A Post Electric Play,” a dark comedy written by Anne Washburn. The post-apocalyptic drama will be directed by C. Austin Hill, Ph.D., visiting assistant professor of theatre, and will take place in the Mary L. Welch Theatre from Nov. 17-20 at 7:30pm. Tickets can be purchased starting Nov. 3 by calling the box office at 570-321-4048, or online.
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On April 27, Lycoming’s Modern Language Studies Department Chair and Logan A. Richmond Endowed Professor Sandra Kingery, Ph.D., presented her translation of “The Treatment,” a play by Spanish writer Pablo Remón. The Lycoming theatre department presented a selection from the first act of the play virtually as a staged reading performed by Lycoming students and directed by C. Austin Hill, Ph.D., visiting assistant professor of theatre.
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