NOTE: Impact of Corona Virus on Production EventsAt this time, and given the broader guidelines provided by Texas Lutheran University and the federal, state, and local agencies, we have postponed or cancelled all remaining productions in the 2019-2020 Season. Please see the show listings below for specific details. We also encourage you to follow us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/tludramaticmedia for regular updates.
COME BE CAPTIVE AND CAPTIVATED!The 2019-2020 Season features a wide range of content, from comedy to drama, theatre to film, historical fact to embellished fiction—all unified by the theme “hostage situations.” With plots that highlight a literal interpretation of this phrase, to those that are more figurative, the season will explore those forces and events that constrain and bind us as humans. Come be a part of our captive and captivated audiences. We hope that you will join us (willingly)!
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THE MOVING PICTURES PROJECT
Featuring Ruth, a new film by Shannon Ivey
September 20 @ 7:30 PM
The Studio Theatre, Weston Center for the Performing Arts
After the railroad forces her alcoholic husband to move north, Ruth DeLay¬—a pregnant, destitute mother of four–desperately seeks to end her pregnancy, in order for her family to survive the Great Depression.
Ruth is based on a true story.
In partnership with Alamo City Studios, Theatre For Change, the Brown Endowment, and TLU Dramatic Media--Ruth (PG-13) will have a one-night only preview, before entering the film-festival circuit. Ruth was developed and produced as part of the annual Moving Pictures Project initiative to create a film/media project. It continues our commitment to film production and collaboration between students, faculty members, and regional professional artists.
Viewer discretion advised: contains mature subject matter.
Ruth is based on a true story.
In partnership with Alamo City Studios, Theatre For Change, the Brown Endowment, and TLU Dramatic Media--Ruth (PG-13) will have a one-night only preview, before entering the film-festival circuit. Ruth was developed and produced as part of the annual Moving Pictures Project initiative to create a film/media project. It continues our commitment to film production and collaboration between students, faculty members, and regional professional artists.
Viewer discretion advised: contains mature subject matter.
CAPTIVE AUDIENCE & Other Short Plays
by David Ives and Others
A TheatreXpress Student Production
October 4 & 5 @ 7:30 PM
The CAST (Court Annex Studio Theatre)
Join the students of TheatreXpress as they produce a series of short plays, with something for everyone! In the featured title (Captive Audience) David Ives creates a cautionary fable about the menace that Rob and Laura face in their living room: a television that talks back to them and threatens to swallow them whole. One of the lessons to learn… you’re much safer attending these short plays than you are at home watching a screen!
Viewer discretion advised: contains mature subject matter.
Viewer discretion advised: contains mature subject matter.
A FREE MAN OF COLOR
by John Guare
November 1, 2, 8, & 9 @ 7:30 PM
November 3 & 8 @ 2:30 PM
The Studio Theatre, Weston Center for the Performing Arts
Before law and order took hold, New Orleans was boisterous; before class, racial and political lines were drawn, it was a parade of beautiful women and good-looking men, flowing wine, and pleasure for the taking. At the center of this Dionysian world is Jacques Cornet, who commands the men, seduces the women, preens like a peacock, and cuts a wide swath through the city and the province. But, it is 1801 and the map of New Orleans is about to be redrawn. The Louisiana Purchase will bring American rule, challenging the chaotic, colorful world of Jacques Cornet and all that he represents.
"A 10-door farce salted with so many laughs that you won't have time to catch your breath…[until] a terrible denouement described by Mr. Guare in language that approaches the condition of poetry…[A FREE MAN OF COLOR] just might be a masterpiece." —Wall Street Journal. "Wildly ambitious…like all great, mad manifestos, there are sweet rewards for those willing to take the plunge." —New York Magazine.
Viewer discretion advised: contains mature subject matter and language.
"A 10-door farce salted with so many laughs that you won't have time to catch your breath…[until] a terrible denouement described by Mr. Guare in language that approaches the condition of poetry…[A FREE MAN OF COLOR] just might be a masterpiece." —Wall Street Journal. "Wildly ambitious…like all great, mad manifestos, there are sweet rewards for those willing to take the plunge." —New York Magazine.
Viewer discretion advised: contains mature subject matter and language.
THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK
by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett • Newly Adapted by Wendy Kesselman
February 28 & 29, March 6 & 7 @ 7:30 PM
March 1 & 6 @ 2:30 PM
The Studio Theatre, Weston Center for the Performing Arts
In this transcendently powerful new adaptation by Wendy Kesselman, Anne Frank emerges from history a living, lyrical, intensely gifted young girl, who confronts her rapidly changing life and the increasing horror of her time with astonishing honesty, wit, and determination. An impassioned drama about the lives of eight people hiding from the Nazis in a concealed storage attic, THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK captures the claustrophobic realities of their daily existence—their fear, their hope, their laughter, their grief. Each day of these two dark years, Anne's voice shines through: "When I write I shake off all my cares. But I want to achieve more than that. I want to be useful and bring enjoyment to all people, even those I've never met. I want to go on living even after my death!" This is a new adaptation for a new generation.
"Undeniably moving. It shatters the heart. The evening never lets us forget the inhuman darkness waiting to claim its incandescently human heroine." —The New York Times. "An extraordinary theatrical adventure! Go and remember." —The New York Post. "…new DIARY is chillingly honest about the Holocaust. Wendy Kesselman's work has restored the terror." —The New York Daily News. "Wendy Kesselman's finely textured new DIARY tells a deeper story. A sensitive, stirring and thoroughly engaging new adaptation." —New York Newsday. "A powerful new version that moves the audience to gasp, then tears." —Associated Press. "One of the year's ten best." —Time Magazine.
Viewer discretion advised: contains mature subject matter.
"Undeniably moving. It shatters the heart. The evening never lets us forget the inhuman darkness waiting to claim its incandescently human heroine." —The New York Times. "An extraordinary theatrical adventure! Go and remember." —The New York Post. "…new DIARY is chillingly honest about the Holocaust. Wendy Kesselman's work has restored the terror." —The New York Daily News. "Wendy Kesselman's finely textured new DIARY tells a deeper story. A sensitive, stirring and thoroughly engaging new adaptation." —New York Newsday. "A powerful new version that moves the audience to gasp, then tears." —Associated Press. "One of the year's ten best." —Time Magazine.
Viewer discretion advised: contains mature subject matter.
KEELY AND DU
by Jane Martin
A TheatreXpress Student Production
CANCELLED
The CAST (Court Annex Studio Theatre)
Due to the impact of the Corona Virus pandemic, we regret the cancellation of this powerful and timely drama. We wish to extend our disappointment to all students involved, including those seniors who were preparing to showcase work as part of their Senior Capstone Projects.
ENDGAME
by Samuel Beckett
A TheatreXpress Student Production
POSTPONED: FALL of 2020. DETAILS TBA
The Studio Theatre, Weston Center for the Performing Arts
In a bleak, post-apocalyptic setting, four characters struggle to find meaning in the tedium of their daily existence. Bound by blood, dependency, or servitude to the others, each character clings to life (such as it is), while craving escape to a better time or place. A pinnacle of Beckett’s characteristic raw minimalism, Endgame is a pure and devastating distillation of the human essence in the face of approaching death. Written shortly after his other famous piece (Waiting for Godot), Endgame is considered by many critics to be his greatest single work. Samuel Beckett was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1969; his literary output of plays, novels, stories and poetry has earned him an uncontested place as one of the greatest writers of our time.
“Nothing is funnier than unhappiness,” … and the truth of this sentiment is confirmed in all its risible melancholy…”. – Los Angeles Times. "Endgame has outraged the Philistines, earned the contempt of the half wits and filled those who are capable of telling the difference between a theatre and a bawdy house with a profound and somber and paradoxical joy... A magnificent theatrical experience." - London Times.
Viewer discretion advised: contains mature subject matter and language.
“Nothing is funnier than unhappiness,” … and the truth of this sentiment is confirmed in all its risible melancholy…”. – Los Angeles Times. "Endgame has outraged the Philistines, earned the contempt of the half wits and filled those who are capable of telling the difference between a theatre and a bawdy house with a profound and somber and paradoxical joy... A magnificent theatrical experience." - London Times.
Viewer discretion advised: contains mature subject matter and language.
XPRESSFEST.20
A TheatreXpress Student Production
SHORT PLAYS POSTPONED UNTIL THE FALL OF 2020
DIGITAL CONTENT TO BE SHOWCASED ONLINE IN EARLY MAY OF 2020
The 20th annual XpressFest showcases original student plays, movies, and class projects. Join the student artists of TheatreXpress for this culmination of their annual work, including senior capstone projects. Admission is free. Limited seating.
Viewer discretion advised: contains mature subject matter and language.
Viewer discretion advised: contains mature subject matter and language.
All dates, times, and content are subject to change.
