Lafayette College Theater Department

Department of Theater invites you to open auditions for THE COUNTRY WIFE by William Wycherley and directed by Professor Michael O’Neill for a LIVE OUTDOOR PRODUCTION in late April. AUDITIONS ARE EXTENDED TO WEDNESDAY 10 MARCH FROM 7-10pm. VIA ZOOM CASTING 7 men and 7 women. Auditions are via Zoom on Monday 8 March from 7-10pm and Tuesday 9 March from 4-7pm. To audition please contact [email protected] For more information about the production, visit www.theater.lafayette/auditions

Tickets for MONKEY! available NOW! https://lafayette.universitytickets.com/w/event.aspx Art by Erin Hopwood and James Kolditz

Monkey is coming....

START THE YEAR OFF RIGHT! Audition for Lafayette College Theater Department ZOOM Production of MONKEY! By Colin Teevan Directed by Suzanne Westfall... Inspired by the writings of 16th Century Chinese author Wu Ch’eng-en (Journey to the West), the play follows the adventures of Sun Wu-k’ung, the Monkey King. As punishment for his mischievous behavior and the chaos he is constantly causing in heaven, Monkey is imprisoned beneath a mountain for 500 years. To be redeemed he must guide the Buddhist monk Tripitaka from China through the Himalayas on a mystical quest in search of sacred scriptures. On their journey the Monkey and the monk encounter demons, spirits and dragons some trying to stop them, kill them, torture them and eat them others who help them, like Pigsy and the river dragon, Sandy. Monkey and his friends break the curses, and fulfill their quest, bringing the sacred Buddhist scrolls back to China. Perhaps. Performance Dates: March 4 & 5 at 7:00, March 6 at 2:00 This is a LIVE Virtual performance, so you MUST be available for tech rehearsals during the first week of March and for the performances (and talkback to follow). Rehearsal and performances Via ZOOM Please use this link to make an appointment: https://docs.google.com//1FAIpQLSeFkXFzFPeGSxRsN/viewform

SHOUT OUT BIGGLY to alum Jay Arnold for winning People's Choice best Comedy and best Comedy actor for his script of KISSING BOOTH. Well done you!! https://www.usmagazine.com//peoples-choice-awards-2020-co/

Join us for the semester finale of the Theater Department's Lunchtime Chats on Friday 13 November at 12:00 p.m. Our alum guest is Brandi Porter '13, who was in the Broadway cast and touring company of A BRONX TALE. Brandi will talk about the triple threat: singer, dancer, actor. Pictured below in A THOUSAND CRANES and NOISES OFF at Lafayette. For the Zoom link, please email [email protected]

Friends - Join us tonight for a reading and talk by distinguished Native American playwright and lawyer Mary Kathryn Nagle at 6:00p.m. https://calendar.lafayette.edu/node/57506

Sneak peak of "Emma! A Pop Musical," featuring Maddy Proulx as Emma and guest Artist Noah Ruebeck as Jeff Knightly. Doodles by Erin Hopwood, Video Design by Chris Kateff. The show takes pop songs and integrates them into an updated version of Jane Austen's "Emma". This is a still from Sara Barielles' song "King of Anything," repurposed in the show as a duet. (Note Kateff's homage to the original music video for the song.) The show starts tonight at 7:30p.m. Tickets are free and available at LafayetteArtsTickets.com.

The Department of Theater continues our virtual Lunchtime Chats with theater alumni on Friday 30 October at 12:00 noon. Two natives of Kansas, Brett Billings '12 and Joseph Rothschild '16, will share a conversation about working in the theater and in jobs where their theater experience helped them out in unexpected ways. Lafayette audiences will recall Billings, now an outdoors experiential educator, in An Enemy of the People [pictured], Inherit the Wind, Rent, and Oleanna; they also will recall Rothschild in Noises Off [pictured], Dancing at Lughnasa, The Merchant of Venice, and Talk Radio. For the zoom link, please contact [email protected] or [email protected]

Watch BEHIND THE MASKS, perspectives old and new on the way we live now. Use this link: https://tinyurl.com/y2vwmnj7 Or access BEHIND THE MASKS through the Theater Department's website: www.theater.lafayette.edu/this-season/

Welcome to the cast and production crew for YOU ARE THERE! THE FIRST THANKSGIVING, our upcoming radio broadcast. Listen in as we debunk Thanksgiving myths in the style of the famous 1940s radio show: November 5 and November 23 at 7:30 p.m. Top [from left] Michael O'Neill [Director], Lizzie Gumula [Stage Manager], Jay Asher [Assistant Stage Manager], Sebs Riverso [Assistant Stage Manager]; CAST: Second from Top [from left] Colman Egan, Benjamin Wrubel, Lisa Green, Danny Hullihan; Third from Top [from left]: Matthew Rodriguez, Jonathan Arrington, Olivia Lattanzi, Kyle Falatko; Bottom row [from left] Ben Putnam, Becca Wilts. NOT PICTURED: Peter Canevari, Gabby Kapanka, Alex Owens [Technical Director], Timothy Frey [Sound Designer]

Introducing the Theater Department’s COVID-19 Season commemorative shirt

Coming soon, to a Zoom screen near you!!

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More free plays! LBTQ+

Free National Theater https://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/nt-at-home

Don't miss this. When to watch: Monday at 10 p.m., on PBS. (Check local listings.) Anna Deavere Smith’s one-woman documentary play Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992 is hewed from hundreds of interviews she conducted after the riots that followed the 1992 acquittal of the police officers who beat Rodney King. Smith plays every role, quoting those interviews verbatim, a technique that can make the truth feel truer. This is the film adaptation of that show, directed by Marc Levin, and it includes additional documentary footage. The film will also be made available to stream at 10 p.m. Monday on the PBS website.

We need Arts education more than ever, to make us human, our culture ethical and humane.

"Art is a weapon in the struggle of ideas, the class struggle." Amiri Baraka Theaters across the country may stand empty and still, but we do not stand silent. The Lafayette College Theater Department one voice with our students, our college, our theater colleagues across the country, and with all people of conscience abhors the systemic racism, the callous injustice, and the state-sanctioned incitement to violence that has led to the senseless deaths of our brothers a...nd sisters, of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Tony McDade and Ahmaud Arbery among hundreds of others. Like those assembled in peaceful protest in our cities, we are outraged and heartbroken. Like artists across the ages and across the world, we consider it our duty to remain committed to social justice, and at this point in time especially to justice and equity for all people of color. BLACK LIVES MATTER. As we speak out for justice, we realize that we need to do a better job. As we stand with our Black friends, colleagues, students, and audiences, we know that we have not told the stories of oppression often enough or loudly enough or well enough. We pledge to do more; we pledge to do better. We might think that overt and invisible acts of racism, oppression, and violence can’t happen here. But it CAN happen here. It HAS happened here. And we as theater artists must create, perform, and support narratives that expose the corruption and promote the healing that theater has always staged. Many of our colleagues in the arts have shared sites that share these values; we thank them and gratefully pass along the information below. Fundraisers for the Families of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, and Tony McDade National Organizations and Efforts for the Advancement of Racial Justice State and Local Organizations and Efforts for the Advancement of Racial Justice Ways to Protest and Support Protestors Bail Out Funds for Protestors Arrested for Demanding Justice Petitions To Sign Quick Actions Additional Resources