UNIVERSITY OF AKRON HAS FIRED ALL OF ITS THEATER FACULTY
According to Cleveland Critics Circle and Akron AKRON [Ohio]BEACON JOURNALEntertainment writer, Kerry Clawson, “At the end of last school year, the University of Akron theater program had two full-time faculty members and three staff members. Now it has none.”
James Slowiak and Robin Prichard, the two professors cut this week by the board of trustees, are now left wondering and worried about the future of those programs.
"My question is, who is taking responsibility for the curriculum and for making sure the classes get taught, and taught in the way they should be taught, and students are receiving what they need in terms of a theater major or minor?" Slowiak asked. "Who's supervising the students?"
Also cut from the program are staff members Irene Mack-Shafer, manager of costume design; Chris Hariasz, technical director; and Danny Durst, master carpenter and technical assistant.
That leaves UA with no theater faculty or staff and no part-time faculty hired yet for the fall, Slowiak said.
Slowiak said he was expecting 25 theater majors this fall, including 10 incoming freshmen. Those numbers come three years after a revamped theater program began that created new degree tracks in applied theater and social entrepreneurship, applied theater and business entrepreneurship, physical theater, and theater and film studies.
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APOLLO’S
FIRE PRESENTS PARKING LOT CONCERTS
What? New
1 hour Outdoor Summer Concerts--TUSCAN SUN--Rustic Music from Baroque
Italy
“DRIVE-IN”
PARKING LOT CONCERTS
Bring a
lawn chair and sit next to your car, if you wish! Please wear a mask.
$20/adult,
$5 for youth under 18.
(Cars will be parked with 1 empty space between each car. If you sit in your
lawn chair, please sit within the parking space next to your car.)
Where? First
Baptist Church, SHAKER HEIGHTS, Saturday, August 22, 3:30pm, 5:30pm,
7:15pm and St. Noel Church, WILLOUGHBY HILLS, Sunday, August 23, 5:30pm
and 7:15pm
Information: https://mail.yahoo.com/d/folders/1/messages/105561?guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly9sb2dpbi55YWhvby5jb20v&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAHhFJ2XZQprnZnAYEsK4QGdIrOHKv3Ol76TAQ404hdD0M0JCXFR-d-Ly42hS9EqSRg1KXTNcKIkzhRFiyVQjgAk0MftaZARs1sbXHNEB2DZDd3VkiZhT7f7nQrpchLyhrzUFTql
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TOUR TIMES
SQUARE AND BEYOND
Take a
virtual tour through the historical theaters of Times Square and beyond! Hosted
by the owner of Broadway Up Close, Tim Dolan. (I have taken Tim’s
tours and they are both educational and fun!)
Cost - $9.99
(which includes the tour and a pre-sent map so you can follow your journey)
https://events.eventzilla.net/e/at-this-theatre--playbill-selects-2138797319
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BROADWAY
BARES: ZOOM IN
At 9:30
pm Eastern on Saturday, August 1, BROADWAY BARES: ZOOM IN will
be screened.
Watch
full numbers never-before shared online, plus you'll see how Broadway's best
make socially distanced dancing sexy.
The
stream is free on TheaterMania, but you can save lives and support people
affected by HIV/AIDS, COVID-19 and other critical illnesses by donating
throughout the evening.
Information
and stream connection: https://mail.yahoo.com/d/folders/1/messages/105586?guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly9tYWlsLnlhaG9vLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAHlm3lUrK5J_Dh-vcJxj-oMRrQBimBWn-aGF_fXnQHVS2uiI0KawobLILD4YFznhSDfrwpTA9a8be9fDLCH-l9p16t5yXmU5t1xBcdy-2HWqpn4KWJBGrtVOn9QwG1054MA-UmJY
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CURRENT AND
UPCOMING FREE LIVE STREAMS OF STAGE PRODUCTIONS
Present
Laughter
July 31 –
August 28
PBS.org
Kevin
Kline, Kate Burton, Cobie Smuthers, and Kristine Nielsen star in the 2017
revival of Noël Coward’s comedy.
Broadbend,
Arkansas
Through
August 16
TransportGroup.org
Justin
Cunningham and Danyel Fulton star in the Transport Group's 2019 Off-Broadway
staging of Ellen Fitzhugh, Harrison David Rivers, and Ted Shen's musical about
a Black family grappling with decades of inequality, violence, and suppression
in the South.
Carousel
Through
September 8
Lincoln Center's YouTube
Channel
Kelli
O’Hara and Nathan Gunn star in the New York Philharmonic’s 2013 production of
the classic Rodgers and Hammerstein musical. The cast also includes Stephanie
Blythe, Shuler Hensley, Jason Danieley, Jessie Mueller, Kate Burton, John
Cullum, Robert Fairchild, and Tiler Peck.
Much Ado
About Nothing
Through
September 12
PBS.org
Danielle
Brooks, Grantham Coleman, Chuck Cooper star in the 2019 Public Theatre
Shakespeare in the Park production.
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RADIO ON
THE LAKE THEATRE
Radio on
the Lake Theatre, the only theater company in Northeast Ohio illuminating the
art of the radio play, has announced a refreshed website, and two exciting
upcoming performances with community partners.
Radio on
the Lake's new website focuses on the company's dedication to the unique radio
play art form, and features numerous audio performances of classic scripts from
the golden age of radio, as well as seldom-heard suspense and science fiction
gems, and new plays written by elementary and middle school students from the
Shaker Heights school system in partnership with Story Forum.
The City
is Our Stage - August 15 - ROTL will perform the "alien
invasion" scene from the infamous Mercury Theatre classic War of
the Worlds (for information and tickets, visit https://www.thecityisourstage.com/
Maltz
Performing Arts Center - September 9 - ROTL will perform Double
Indemnity as part of Live! Streamed @Silver Hall (for information,
visit https://case.edu/maltzcenter/livestreamedatsilverhall
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THINK YOU
ARE A MUSICAL THEATER MAVEN?
Can you
fill in the blanks in these songs from Broadway musicals?
https://www.playbill.com/article/can-you-fill-in-the-blanks-of-these-broadway-lyrics?utm_source=Iterable&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=PlaybillPost
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