Calendar
Spring 2012: UPCOMING:
February 14, 2012
Peformance workshop with Karen Finley
Stay tuned for news about a special performance workshop with Karen Finley to be held at 3:00 p.m. on Tuesday, February 14 (details t.b.a.). Visit this page for update information as it becomes available.
February 23, 2012
Plat House Theatre Fellows presents:
The Impossible Game of Theatre
A Moderated Q&A with Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Paula Vogel
Moderated by Theatre Arts Program Director Dr. Rose Malague
Thursday, February 23 at 6 pm
Harold Prince Theatre of the Annenberg Center – 3680 Walnut St.
Tickets are $5, free for students with ID and can be purchased or picked up (you must have a ticket) at the Annenberg Center box office - 3680 Walnut St. 215.898.3900.
Paula Vogel’s How I Learned to Drive won the 1998 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, the Lortel, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle and New York Drama Critics Awards for Best Play, and an Obie Award. Her screenplay adaptation has been in development for HBO. Paula Vogel’s other plays include The Long Christmas Ride Home, The Mineola Twins, The Baltimore Waltz, Hot N Throbbing, Desdemona, And Baby Makes Seven and The Oldest Profession.
Co-Sponsored by: The Lesbian, Gay, Bi-sexual, Transgender Center; the Penn Women’s Center; Kelly Writers House; The Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts; The Penn Theatre Initiative
March 30, 2012
STAB (Student Theatre Arts Board) sponsors a trip the the Arden Theatre production of CYRANO
Join STAB (The Student Theatre Arts Board) on Friday, March 30th for the Arden Theatre Company's production of Cyrano! There is a limited quantity of tickets, and they will be sold on a first-come, first-serve basis for only $5 each! You can purchase your ticket between 10 AM and 4 PM Monday-Friday in the Theatre Arts Suite (Upper Mezzanine of the Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts).
The show starts at 8:00 PM, but we will likely meet up on campus beforehand and head down to Old City together. Please join the facebook event (link below) if you plan on attending in order to receive updates on any STAB pre-show activities.
http://www.facebook.com/events/220727081353296/
Theatre Arts Program Spring Picnic
Join the students, staff and faculty of the program at our annual spring picnic. The picnic will be held in the Annenberg Center plaza or the Theatre Arts office suite lobby, weather permitting. All university community members are invited!
May
Theatre Arts Program Spring Picnic
Join the students, staff and faculty of the program at our annual spring picnic. The picnic will be held in the Annenberg Center plaza or the Theatre Arts office suite lobby, weather permitting. All university community members are invited!
May Time: FOLLOWING COMMENCEMENT CEREMONY
Theatre Arts Program Graduation Reception
Join the students, staff and faculty of the program at our annual graduation party to celebrate the achievements of the 2011 graduating class of Theatre Arts seniors. All friends, family and university community members are invited!
Past events:
February 3, 2012
Visting Performance Artist Ashley Ferro-Murray: Artist talk and workshop
4pm Bruce Montgomery Theatre Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts
Free
Co-Sponsored with the History of Art Program
Ashley Ferro-Murray is a choreographer and Ph.D. candidate in Performance Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. Ferro-Murray’s choreography explores how movement is central to subjectivity in the digital age. Her practice is a performative engagement of kinesthetic and somatic experiences with technological devices. Ferro-Murray incorporates everyday technology such as the iPhone into her work only to disrupt the ordinary use value of the device. Instead of talking on a cell phone, the choreographer programs the phone’s movement sensors to illustrate the ways in which the device affects movement patterns and somatic attention. Ferro-Murray will give an artist talk about her past choreography, upcoming projects, and her process-based art practice. She will contextualize this artwork in terms of the theory-praxis relationship that has led her to pursue a Ph.D in Performance Studies. Finally, Ferro-Murray will demonstrate some of her ideas in an interactive movement workshop. **No dance, movement, or performance experience is required.
Stage Combat Workshop - Rapier
Co-sponsored with Platt House
Friday, April 1 · 2:00pm - 5:00pm
Location
Platt House Room 179
More Info
RSVP to Platthouse@pobox.upenn.edu. Participation is limited to 12. Cost $10 (in advance). You must have taken the Spring or Fall 2010 Stage Combat Workshop or completed another stage combat basics/safety workshop elsewhere (please note that in your RSVP). The $10 fee helps to cover the cost of rapier rentals. Penn students only.
Darla Max is an equity actor, teacher and fight director. Darla was first certified as an actor combatant in 1988. She was awarded best female combatant at the Society of American Fight Directors national workshop in 1992. Darla has choreographed fights for Villanova, People's Light, Arden Theatre, Philadelphia Theatre Company, Philadelphia Shakespeare Festival, and InterAct Theatre. She is currently teaching at Tower Hill School in Wilmington Delaware and is happy to share her skills with the students at Penn.
LAST CALL!
Friday, February 4, 2011
Audition Workshop for Musical Theatre
Co-sponsored with University Life Arts Initiative
Space is limited!
Location:
Platt House - Class of 1969 Music Room
Details:
Taught by Eduardo Placer '99, MFA, AEA
All participants will be required to bring a headshot, resume and prepare a 16 bar cut of their up tempo and ballad Musical Theatre audition song. All students will take part in a mock audition.
We will explore the following topics:
- Before the audition: Preparation, Warm-up, Musical Theater Audition Book, Material Selection Strategy, Holding Room etiquette.
- During the audition: Introduction, Accompanist, Focus, Pre Beat, Post Beat.
- After the audition: What to expect, Call Backs, Emotional attachment to audition, Thank you notes.
FALL 2010 Events
Fall 2010 Welcome Picnic
Wednesday, September 15, 6pm. Annenberg Center Plaza (rain moves us to the Theatre Arts suite, Upper Mezzanine level of the Annenberg Center.)
Its time for our Theatre Arts welcome picnic! Semi-fancy sandwiches (including vegan options), drinks and sweets await you while you join members of the Theatre Arts faculty, staff, majors, minors and friends for useful information and good conversation. Catch up with your old buddies after a long summer or meet new friends. All members of the Penn community are welcome. Join us after the picnic for the opening night of TRANSFIXED, which will be followed by an opening night reception.
Friday, September 10: Sponsored trip to the Philadelphia Fringe/Live Arts Festival. El CONQUISTADOR.
Cost: $10, includes ticket to the play and a Septa token to travel to Broad Street, Center City, Philadelphia. Limited tickets available--first come, first-served. Sign up and pay in the Theatre Arts Administrative Assistant's office in the Theatre Arts Suite.
¡EL CONQUISTADOR! performed by Thaddeus Phillips via Lucidity Suitcase Intercontinental
Check out some details of this show at:
http://www.livearts-fringe.org/details.cfm?id=12723
7:00 PM performed at Suzanne Roberts Theatre, 480 South Broad Street, Center City Philadelphia
“Thaddeus Phillips would have made a great silent-film comedian. He is currently proving that in ¡El Conquistador!, an ingenious one-act, one-man show about a hapless Colombian doorman.”
New York Times
Friday, October 1: Sponsored trip to THREEPENNY OPERA at the Arden Theatre, Old City Philadelphia with preshow Art Gallery tour led by Jim Schlatter
Cost: $10, includes ticket to the play and a Septa token to travel to Old City. Limited tickets available--first come, first served. Sign up and pay in the Theatre Arts Administrative Assistant's office in the Theatre Arts Suite.
This is a great two-for-one event--hobnob in Old City galleries with Theatre Arts faculty member Jim Schlatter before the show, then enjoy Weill and Brecht's classic play with music at the Arden for a great discount.
For more information on this Arden production visit: http://www.ardentheatre.org/2011/threepenny.html
Saturday, October 2: Stage Management Workshop. Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts. Time/Location TBA.
Co-sponsored with Platt House Student Performing Arts. This will be a day long nuts & bolts workshop introducing participants to the role of stage manager, given by Margie Price, an Equity stage management professional. Participation is free, but registration is required. Register at the Theatre Arts Program Administrative Assistant's (Kevin Chun) office in the Theatre Arts Suite, Upper Mezzanine Level, Annenberg Center.
Spring Semester, 2011. Date TBA.
Stage Combat workshop, co-sponsored with Platt House Student Performing Arts. Stay tuned for more information about the upcoming workshop in stage combat. Last year's combat workshop proved so popular, we are considering making this a two-part event, with the addition of weaponry. Additional information will be announced in later fall newsletter, stay tuned! Registration will be required and space limited. Free and open to all students who preregister.
Past Spring 2010 Events
March 27 , 2010: Panel discussion on MUSEUM with a panel to include playwright Tina Howe.
This panel will follow the 7:30pm performance of MUSEUM. All attending this production are invited to stay for this event.
Museum, a comic play by Tina Howe, is set in the contemporary gallery of an art museum on the final day of a group show. The real “show,” however, is the parade of nearly forty visitors, as they interact with one another and react wildly to all they see. Museum looks at people looking at art—to hilarious and moving effect.
The cast of twenty-seven actors features students, faculty, staff, and other members of the Penn community.
Post-Performance Special Events for Saturday, March 27
2:00 p.m. – “Talk to the Artists”
After the matinee, stay, walk through the gallery, and talk with the artists who created the exhibits on display.
7:30 p.m. – “Looking at Looking at Art” – Post-Performance Panel Discussion and Reception
Playwright Tina Howe will participate in a panel discussion moderated by Dr. James Schlatter after the evening performance. A Q&A period and reception will follow. Panelists include:
Colette Copeland, Critical Writing Program, Program in Visual Studies
Marcia Ferguson, Theatre Arts Program
Aaron Levy, English, Executive Director and Chief Curator of Slought Foundation
Rose Malague, Director of Theatre Arts Program
Martina Plag, Creative Director of Stadium - Praxis
Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw, Art History, Director of Program in Visual Studies
February 12, 2010: Stage Combat Workshop. Co-sponsored workshop.
NOTE: Space is limited and first come, first served. Be sure to RSVP soon. Info below:
Stage Combat Safety and Choreography Workshop
Friday, February 12
2 to 4 p.m.
179 Platt Student Performing Arts House
RSVP Required to PlattHouse@pobox.upenn.edu
Co-Sponsored by The Theatre Arts Program and University Life Arts Initiatives
Instructor: Darla Max
Darla Max is an equity actor, teacher and fight director. Darla was first certified as an actor combatant in 1988. She was awarded best female combatant at the Society of American Fight Directors national workshop in 1992. Darla has choreographed fights for Villanova University, People's Light and Theatre Company, Arden Theatre, Philadelphia Theatre Company, Philadelphia Shakespeare Festival, and InterAct Theatre. She is currently teaching at Tower Hill School in Wilmington Delaware and is happy to share her skills with the students at Penn.
Fall 2009 Events
December 9: Hal Prince visits his alma mater at the Annenberg Center. More info:
November 15 : Dr. Marcia Ferguson competes in Dancing with the Professors
Dancing with the Professors... where UPenn professors duke it out in a ballroom dancing competition and YOU vote for the winner!***
Penn Latin and Ballroom Dance (PLBD), our resident student ballroom organization, brings to you a night of music, videos, and some very smooth moves. We've paired up PLBD members with professors to learn ballroom dances all through the semester, such as Cha-Cha, Waltz, Swing, and Tango. On Sunday November 15th, they will showcase their talents in hopes of being crowned the Latin or Ballroom Champion -- a choice that is left up to you, the audience! Upon watching the performances and hearing judges' remarks, you will vote for your favorite couples. Cheer on your favorite teachers, or just come to see some spectacular dancing!!
Guest performances from American DanceWheels Foundation (wheelchair dancing) and PLBD dancers.
Watch Dr. Ferguson in this preview:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fLPuhP6zJQ
--------------------------------------
FEATURED PROFESSORS
Tukufu Zuberi, Sociology
Jiajia Wang, East Asian Languages and Civilizations
Marcia Ferguson, Theatre Arts
Nicolaj Siggelkow, Management, Wharton
Terri Lipman, Nursing
Alexander Rakhlin, Statistics
Petra Todd, Economics
--------------------------------------
TICKETS: $5 ON THE WALK NOV 9-13
November 18-21: The Theatre Arts Program presents Our Town
For more information, click here.
November 19 : A session with Broadway producer David Stone
Co-sponsored event with Platt Student Performing Arts House
Time 5pm-6:30pm
David Stone '88
David Stone is currently represented by Wicked and Next to Normal. He has produced The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Three Days of Rain, Man of La Mancha, The Vagina Monologues, Fully Committed, Lifegame, The Diary of Anne Frank, Full Gallop, The Santaland Diaries and Family Secrets. David serves on the boards of The Broadway League and Broadway Cares/Equity Fights Aids. He also serves on the advisory boards of V-Day and Second Stage Theatre. David has lectured on theatre at the Juilliard School, NYU, Yale, Columbia and his alma mater, the University of Pennsylvania.
November 24: Production Post Mortem for Our Town
Following each of our productions, the Theatre Arts community meets in an event we call a "post mortem" to discuss the production process, audience feedback, challenges to performers and designers during the process and other issues that might arise from the staging of a play. We offer free pizza to all who attend and all Penn students who have seen the show are most welcome to join us! This event is usually the Tuesday following the last performance around 6 or 6:30pm. Check back for detailed information.
December 4 : Theatre Arts sponsors a trip to Lantern Theatre Company production of SCAPIN!
Theatre Arts offers deep discount tickets to this acclaimed (and sold out for the night) production adapted by comic genius Bill Irwin of NY stage . Discount tickets $5 ea.(that's a deep discount!) Please note: tickets will be available while supplies last. Please visit Theatre Arts administrative assistant Kevin Chun (chun@sas.upenn.edu) if you would like to purchase discount tickets(limit of 2 per, please). For more info on this production, visit:
http://www.lanterntheater.org/shows/2010_scapin.html
Spring 2010 Events