The Theatre of Ted 25th Anniversary Celebration will take on Saturday, October 24, during Homecoming Weekend at Illinois State University. Alumni and students reminisce about their days in Theatre of Ted.
Several Illinois State alumni will be featured in films planned for the Your Normal Film Festival, slated October 15 to 18, at The Normal Theatre in Uptown.
The Illinois State University School of Theatre and Dance will present August Wilson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning drama Fences, directed by Assistant Professor Duane Boutté, opening October 2.
The Illinois State University School of Theatre and Dance will present August Wilson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning drama Fences, opening October 2, 2015. Performances will be in Westhoff Theatre through October 10.
The Illinois State University School of Theatre and Dance will present Neil Simon’s comedy Brighton Beach Memoirs, September 23-27, in the University’s Center for the Performing Arts Theatre.
Illinois State had what Daija Nealy was looking for, not only in terms of personal attention and scholarships but because the University offered a double major in theater and fashion merchandising.
Ian Barford certainly picked the right place to fall into acting. Flash-forward 30 years, and now it’s Barford who’s considered one of the School of Theatre and Dance’s most successful graduates.
Cal Pritner (1935-2014) was an educator, writer, administrator, and actor.
The Illinois Shakespeare Festival runs through August 8, 2015, at Ewing Cultural Center in Bloomington and Westhoff Theatre in Normal.
The Q Brothers, two Chicago boys who have taken their hip-hop versions of the Bard’s works across the globe (and to the Globe), will perform their latest work at the Illinois Shakespeare Festival in July with an adaptation of Two Gentlemen of Verona called Q Gents.
