Fall Dance Concert: "Fun and Games"
Nov. 19 - 20, 2009, 7:30 p.m.
University Theatre
The dance concert opens with an eclectic mix of dance styles, including a contemporary jazz ballet piece, a zany modern dance titled
“Radio Active Balls,” a traditional praise dance and a piece choreographed by dance student Angel-Marie Goines, from La Porte.
“Fun & Games” concludes with a restaging of legendary choreographer Donald McKayle’s seminal dance work, “Games.” The production of
“Games” is made possible in part through a Dance: Masterpieces grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.
Dickens on the Strand
Dec. 4 - 6, 2009
Lamar Puppet Theatre Production
Directed by Kelly Draper
Galveston, Texas
An Evening with Horton Foote
Feb. 11 - 16, 2010
Presenting Three One-Act Plays by Horton Foote
Director TBA
Studio Theatre
"The Emperor’s New Clothes"
March 6, 2010
Directed by Rebecca Stone Thornberry
University Theatre
Spring Dance Concert
April 15 - 16, 2010, 7:30 p.m.
University Theatre
"Antigone"
April 22 - 27, 2010
Written by Sophocles
Directed by Joel Grothe
Studio Theatre
Previously this year:
Previously this year:
"The Wicked One"
World premiere of an original play written by a Lamar University student.
Oct. 8-10, 2009, 8 p.m.
Oct. 11, 2009, 2 p.m.
Written by Christopher Murray
Directed by Joel Grothe
University Theatre
Tickets are $10 general admission; $7 for senior citizens, students and LU faculty/staff; and $5 for LU students.
In 1973, Abbigale Archibald returns to her childhood home, a sprawling antebellum plantation in rural Sunshine, Louisiana, to take care of
some family business. When she arrives, the ghosts of her long-departed family slowly start to reappear. As Abbey relives the decades-old
events of December 1941 that led to her family’s demise, she is reminded of the fact that, no matter how terrible your family is, it is
yours, and you only get one. The Wicked One, which is evocative of such American classics as Desire Under the Elms and Buried Child, is a
new play written by senior theatre major Christopher Murray and directed by Joel Grothe.
Donald McKayle Lecture and Demonstration
Thursday, October 15, 2009, 7 p.m.
Lamar University Theatre
Admission is free.
Donald McKayle, one of the few remaining pioneers of African-American presence in modern dance, will be in residence at Lamar University to
coach Lamar dance students in a restaging of his seminal dance work, "Games." As part of the residency, Mr. McKayle will give a free
lecture and demonstration to the public highlighting his influential 60-year career in the dance world. Mr. McKayle has received numerous
prestigious dance honors, including five Tony Award nominations, the NAACP Image Award and an Emmy Award nomination. This talk is made
possible through a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.
"All in the Timing"
Nov. 12-14 & Nov. 16-17, 2009, 8 p.m.
Nov. 15, 2009, 2 p.m.
Written by David Ives
Directed by Rebecca Stone Thornberry
Studio Theatre
"All in the Timing" is a collection of six comedic one-act plays by David Ives that explore themes of language, identity, space and time.
"Sure Thing" is a classic of contemporary comedy: two people meet in a cafe and find their way through a conversational minefield as an
offstage bell interrupts their false starts, gaffes and faux pas on the way to falling in love. "Words, Words, Words," recalls the
philosophical adage that three monkeys typing into infinity will sooner or later produce Hamlet, and asks: What would monkeys talk about
at their typewriters? "The Universal Language" brings together Dawn, a young woman with a stammer, and Don, the creator and teacher of
Unamunda, a wild comic language. Their lesson sends them off into a dazzling display of hysterical verbal pyrotechnics—and, of course,
true love. "Philip Glass Buys a Loaf of Bread" is a parodic musical vignette in trademark Glassian style, with the celebrated composer having
a moment of existential crisis in a bakery. "The Philadelphia" presents a young man in a restaurant who has fallen into "a Philadelphia," a
Twilight Zone-like state in which he cannot get anything he asks for. His only way out of the dilemma? To ask for the opposite of what he
wants. "Variations on the Death of Trotsky"shows us the Russian revolutionary on the day of his demise, desperately trying to cope with the
mountain-climber's axe he's discovered in his head. (Source: Dramatists Play Services)
