The Department of Theater, Film, and Media Studies is proud to present “Twelfth Night, or What You Will,” by William Shakespeare, directed by Holly A. Blumner View in Events Twins Viola and Sebastian are separated in a shipwreck; Viola, presumed drowned, ends up in Illyria. Countess Olivia, in self-imposed mourning for seven years, has sworn Find out more »
Archives for 2017
“Spring Awakening” opens February 28
The Tony Award-winning musical adaptation of Frank Wedekind’s seminal 1891 play of the same name, Spring Awakening is an electrifying fusion of morality, sexuality, and rock-and-roll that celebrates teenage self-discovery and rebellion against the authoritarian rule of parents and teachers. With poignancy and passion, Duncan Sheik and Steven Sater’s musical navigates the rocky terrain that is Find out more »
Nicole Bindler, “Embodied Palestine Solidarity,” November 2, 4:15 p.m., Library 321
November 2, 4:15 p.m., Library 321 View in Events In her presentation, “Embodied Palestinian Solidarity,” Nicole Bindler will briefly cover the history of the 1948 Nakba, when 750,000 Palestinians were exiled, the current apartheid system and how it affects Palestinians on a bodily level, the conditions under which Palestinian artists live and make work, and Find out more »
Happenstance Theater’s “BrouHaHa,” Sept. 20 & 21, 8PM, Bruce Davis Theater
In this funny and poetic one-hour performance, a troupe of Victorian clowns greets the end of the world with pathos and levity. Their curiosity at the precipice lights up the darkness like a firecracker! What happens in that moment of illumination? Come find out from the multiple Helen Hayes award-winning company hailed by the Washington, Find out more »
Eli Ayres wins Visionary Award for “One Way Town”
TFMS alum Eli Ayres (fall ’16) recently received the Visionary Award for his animated film “One Way Town” at the International Visions Film Festival & Conference, hosted annually by the Film Studies Department at the University of North Carolina, Wilmington. The Visionary Award (or “Best in Show”) is given to the top entry in the festival. Eli Find out more »
Opening in the BDT, “Eurydice,” April 19 @ 8:00 p.m.
Sarah Ruhl’s contemporary poetic retelling of the Orpheus/Eurydice myth imagines it from Eurydice’s perspective. After she arrives in the Underworld, a place Ruhl describes as more Alice in Wonderland than Hades, Eurydice has a choice: to stay there with her father, in the room of string he builds for her, or return to the world Find out more »
Opening in the BDT, “On Contentious Grounds,” March 1 @ 8:00 p.m.
ON CONTENTIOUS GROUNDS is a devised movement theater piece developed from interviews with Palestinian occupants of the West Bank about their experiences of movement in their daily lives and ancestral histories. How do borders shape bodies? Borders – in the form of walls, laws, guns, language, access to information, and rigidified memories – shape our Find out more »
TFMS Statement of Commitment for The Ghostlight Project
On January 19, 2017 at 5:30 p.m. in each time zone across the country, members of the theater community – from Broadway to regional theaters to high schools and colleges and community theaters – came together to launch THE GHOSTLIGHT PROJECT. Gathering outside of theaters on the eve of the Presidential Inauguration, people joined in Find out more »