Category: Theatre Arts
‘Phantom’ Star Brings Broadway to the Blue Ridge
Sweet Briar College’s resident Endstation Theatre Company is bringing a sampling of big-time musical theater to Central Virginia with a fundraising event featuring Broadway performer Sean MacLaughlin. MacLaughlin, who is Raoul in the Broadway production of “Phantom of the Opera,” will perform in a benefit concert to raise money in support of Endstation’s fourth-annual Blue [...]
College’s Cultural Arts Day Marks 25 Years
Sweet Briar College will host its 25th Cultural Arts Day for Amherst County Public School fifth-graders on Friday, April 8. This year 333 kids are expected on campus, where Sweet Briar staff, faculty and students have volunteered to lead programs in the performing and visual arts, science and history. In recent years, the first stop [...]
Sweet Briar presents ‘Crimes of the Heart’
The Sweet Briar Theatre production of Beth Henley’s Pulitzer Prize-winning tragic comedy “Crimes of the Heart” is scaled down a bit from the department’s most recent shows, says play and program director Bill Kershner. “This one is more tightly done, with a smaller cast,” he said. “We’re all having a good time with this show. [...]
Students Nominated for Theater Festival
Three students have received recognition for their work in the Sweet Briar Theatre’s fall musical, “The Secret Garden.”
Senior Directs ‘The Glass Menagerie’
Theater major Catherine Tooke presented her senior directorial project, Tennessee Williams’ memory play “The Glass Menagerie,” on Dec. 4 and 5 in the black box theater at Babcock Fine Arts Center. The play tells the story of the Wingfield family — the mother Amanda, son Tom and daughter Laura, who is crippled and withdrawn into [...]
‘Doctor Faustus’ on Stage at Sweet Briar April 17 and 18
This month, Sweet Briar College senior Liz Zuckerman will direct “Doctor Faustus,” a play in which title character loses his soul after making an ill-fated pact with the devil.
Elegba Brings African Culture to Sweet Briar
The Elegba Folklore Society will perform “African Dance, Music and the Oral Tradition” at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, April 2 in Murchison Lane Auditorium at Sweet Briar College’s Babcock Fine Arts Center.
Light Touch Lifts ‘Melancholy’ in SBC Theatre’s Spring Production
It won’t do to judge Sweet Briar Theatre’s spring production, “Melancholy Play,” by its name – unless you take into account its subtitle, “A Contemporary Farce.”
Stage is Set for Inaugural Blue Ridge Summer Theatre Festival
Something new is afoot at Sweet Briar College this summer. On stage in the normally darkened Murchison Lane Auditorium a play is taking shape. It’s an original work that follows fictional characters from the terrible early hours of Aug. 20, 1969 to the present. “The Bluest Water: A Hurricane Camille Story” explores how people move on from truly devastating life events.
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