• 6-30, FOVA Gallery To Impel: The Annual Faculty Exhibition. (No admission charge) • 14, SAT, 8:00 pm, Hemmle Recital Hall Gene Hemmle Memorial Concert Series: Faculty/Student! Alumni Chamber Orchestra-Featuring the works of Mendelssohn, Schubert and Gershwin. (Tickets- 742-2270)
lclaller • 4-21, FOVA Gallery As the Twig is Bent: New Installations by Kate Budd. (No admission charge) • 7·13, Lab Theatre Red Nose.r-The dark Peter Barnes comedy, set in 1348 France. (All weekday performances at 8:00 p.m., Sunday matinees at 2:00. Tickets-742-3601) • 17·20, 24-27, MalnstageTheatre Cabaret-A musical favorite! (All weekday performances at 8:00p.m., Sunday matinees at 2:00. Tickets-742- 3601) • 18, FRI, 8:00 pm, Allen Theatre Gene Hemmle Memorial Concert Series: 21st Annual Scholarship Concert-Featuring the University choirs and orchestra along with the Lubbock Chorale. (Repeats Sunday, October 20, tickets-742-2270) • 20, SUN, 4:00 pm, Allen Theatre 21st Annual Scholarship Concert. (Tickets-742-2270)
llvem~er • 1, FOVA Gallery Discerning Passions II: An Exclusive Look at a Pre­ eminent Private Collectiof}-Both functional and decora­ tive. (No admission charge) • 11·17, Lab Theatre True West-Contemporary theatre by Sam Shepard. (All weekday performances at 8:00p.m., Sunday matinees at 2:00. Tickets-7 42-3601)
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University Theatre Season Announcements There is something for everyone in the
upcoming 1996/97 season at the University The­ atre at Texas Tech. The Department of Theatre and Dance is pleased to announce its selection of productions:
+ ·· Cabaret, music by John Kander; lyrics by Fred Ebb. October 17- 20 and 24- 27. Directed by Richard Weaver. "What good is sitting alone in your room? Come to the Cabaret!" We jump-start the ·season with this energy-charged musical favorite!
+ ·· A Christmas Carol based on the classic Charles Dickens tale. No­ vember 29.and 30; December 1-3 and 5-8. Di­ rector to be announced. This charming holiday treat is guaranteed to delight your family and friends.
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2 and 6-9. Directed by Norman E$ert. A grip­ ping·new drama about three Mexican-American brothers in El Paso. This story is told by our o\vn about our own; as much a part of West Texas as Bar-B-Que and rodeo.
+ ·· The Imaginary Invalid by Moliere. April 17-20 and 24-27. Directed by Jonathan Marks. This classic comic romp is be­ ing translated by our own Dr. Jonathan Matks and includes the "missing" ballet which features everything from clowns to dancing monkeys.
+ ·· A Laboratory "Grab-Bag"- This added feature allows you to select one of four incredible productions featured in our Labo­ ratory season. Included this year are Red Noses, True ll~t. H'aitingfor Godot and Division Street.
lfyou need additional infonnation or would like to inquire about purchasing tickets, call 742- 3601.
Texas Tech University Mainstage:· 1996-97 Season
Cabaret Oct 17-20 & 24-27 music by John Kander, lyrics by Fred Ebb
"Wha~ good is sitting alone in your room? Come to the Cabaret!" We jump-start the season with this energy-charged musical favorite! A Christmas Carol
Nov 29 & 30; Dec 1-3 & 5-8 based on the tale by Charles Dickens
This charming holiday treat is guaran­ teed to delight your family and friends. Santos & Santos
Feb 27, 28; March l-2 & 6-9 by Octavio Solis
A gripping new drama about three Mexican-American brothers in El Paso. This story is told by our own about our own; as much a part of West Texas as Bar-B-Que and rodeo. · The Imaginary Invalid
April17-iO & 24-27 by Moliere
This classic comic romp is being trans­ lated by our own Dr. Jonathan Marks and includes the ''missing" ballet which fea­ tures everything from clowns to dancing monkeys.
Laboratory Season includes Red Noses, True West, Waiting for Godot and Division Street.
For further information call 742-3601.
Mainstage Theatre
CABARET Book by Joe Masteroff
Based on ~e play by JQhn Van Druten and stories by Christopher Isherwood ' Music by John Kander
Lyrics by Fred Ebb Broadway ·production by Harold Prince
October 17th-20th & 24th-27th Directed by Richard Weaver
A CHRISTMAS CAROL November 29th & 30th
December lst-3rd &5th-8th Director to be announced
IJ"ilfersity 16 199 eatre
October 7th-1 3th Directed by Paula Rodriguez
TRUE WEST SANTOS & SANTOS
March 1st-2nd & 6th-9th Directed by Norman Bert
by Sam Shepard november 11th-17th
D~rected by Usa Lawrence Holland
WAITING FOR GODOT
THE IMAGINARY INVALID by Samuel Beckett
February 1 7th-23rd Directed by Rod Vann by Mo l ie r e
Apri l 17th -20th & 2 4th-27 t h Di rected by Jona tha n Marks
742-3601
Directed by Norman Gruenich
A Newsleiler cJ the
Spri-o'Sllllmer 1997
Mr. Rick Tuman, Business Manager
Ms. Mary Cervantes, Secretary
Jason Lee Publications Director
TIU Opens Ex-/New Student Regional Centers
On page five of the current Texas Techsan Magazine for May/June 1997, are listed the addresses and phone numbers of three new regional TTU offices. Each ofthese spaces is shared by the Ex-Students Association, the Office ofDevelopment, New Student Relations, and the Red Raider Club.
While the full details can be found in the Techsan, the addresses and phones are included here for your convenience.
AUSTIN - 7745 Chevy Chase Drive, Bldg. V, Rm 5.200, Austin, TX 78752 Phone: (512) 420-9401; fax 420-9316
HOUSTON - 8588 Katy Freeway, Suite 348, Houston, TX 77024 Phone: (713) 467-5100; fax 467-2597
DALLAS/FORT WORTH- 1420 W. Mockingbird Lane, Suite 765, Dallas, TX 75247 Phone:(214) 630-8324; fax 630-5413
IN THE SPOTLIGHT is published two times a year by the Texas Tech University Department ofTheatre and Dance for the purpose of informing graduates of developments in fuculty, courses of study, and activities of current students within the department.
Comments and suggestions should be addressed to: Jason Lee, Editor, In the Spotlight, Department of Theatre and Dance, Texas Tech University, P.O. Box 42061 , Lubbock, Texas 79409-2061 , or call806-742-3601.
EndoWm.ents for Ashby, Sorensen fully funded
Since the last publication of In The Spotlight, the Ashby and Sorensen Endowments have become funded.
The Ashby Endowment is currently building principle in advance of designating scholarship recipients.
The high level of funding achieved through the October 1996 retirement benefit for Dr. Sorensen permits scholarship distribution starting in the fall of 1997.
Additional contributions to any ofthe endowments are always welcome, since the larger the principle, the greater its earning power for scholarships.
Alumni News and Notes:
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Two students in the interdisciplinary PhD Fine Arts program have secured positions for the fall: Kerry Graves will teach at Eastern Michigan University in Ypsilanti; Allen Partridge will be teaching at Graceland College in Lamoni, Iowa.
Congratulations to these students who continue the frequent department tradition of Doctoral student job placement prior to completion of studies.
National search complete for new faculty members Department of Theatre and Dance Chair
Dr. Norman A. Bert, and the faculty are pleased to announce the results of national searches for professors of theatre management and acting.
Directing the theatre management program will be TTU Fine Arts PhD, Dr. Linda Donahue, currently Director of Theatre at the University of Texas, Pan­ American, Edinburg.
Coming to head the acting program is Professor Seth Baumrin, now completing his doctorate with the City University of New York.
Since the winter publication of In the Spotlight, the Department of Theatre and Dance was granted an additional faculty line. This position has been accepted by Christopher Markle, MFA, Yale, formerly Visiting Assistant Professor of Acting.
Biographies of our newest faculty additions will be published in the Fall ' 97 issue of In the Spotlight.
Contribute to the Dr. Richard A. Weaver Scholarship Campaign
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DT &D ALUMNI NOTES Texas Tech University Department of Theatre and Dance
Ed. Note: [Peter Harris has compiled a list ofT exas Tech's theatre productions from 1928 to the present, and has graciously supplied the information to us to distribute to interested alumni. If you wish to receive a copy of this listing, request it at the department address, p.J.]
'70's PATRICK CATES- (BA, Theatre/75, BSEd, Secondary Education/76, MEd, Secondary Ed/84) has been teaching Theatre and English in the Lubbock I.S.D. since 1976. Patrick was named 1st runner-up for Texas Teacher of the Year by the Texas Education Agency in 1991, and was cited as Assistant Principal of the Year ofRegion XVIT in 1995. He has been the Principal of Lubbock High School since July, 1996, and is currently working on the EdD at Tech. His wife, Deb Robinson Cates (BSEd, TTIJ/76) , teaches English in the LISD. Their son Christopher is sixteen years old and is a 1Oth grader at Lubbock High.
'80's ESTHER SUNDELL LICHTI - (PhD/86) is Assistant Coordinator of Women's Studies at Texas Tech, and enjoys the interaction with faculty and students from every part of campus. She is married to Roger and has two children, Nathanael, 23, and Steven, 20.
DEEANN DUKE WARD- (BS, PE­ Dance/81) has her MAin English from Tarleton State University, and is an Instructor in English at Texas Wesleyan University. DeeAnn is married to C. Rafe Ward, and has a daughter, Daphne Miranda Ward, age 3.
'90's ROBERT APREA- (MFA/93) is the Technical Director at Texas A&M University. He has been TO/Production Manager at NewStage Theatre, Jackson, Mississippi, and TD at the Barter Theatre, Abington, Virginia. Robert and Jennifer Draper married in June of 1993.
JENNIFER (DRAPER) APREA- (BFA /93) is currently completing an MFA in Arts Administration from Virginia Tech University, expecting to graduate in December. She has worked variously in stage management and administration with NewStage Theatre, Blowing Rock Stage Company, and the William King Regional Arts Center, Abington, Va. In February, Jennifer began an internship with the Bush Presidential Museum and Library in College Station, Texas.
JAMES CUNNINGHAM- (MA, PhD /91) has completed his first year as Designer and Assistant Professor at Arkansas Tech University, Russellville. Previously, he was Asst. Prof./Designer at Florida Southern College for six and one­ half years. James and his wife Tonya have a son, Stephen Hunter Cunningham, born in June of 1996. James is glad to be back in the region with so many Texas Tech friends.
PETER HARRIS - (BA, MA/97) has been working "off and on" at HealthNet, a telecommunications division of the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, since November, 1990. He hopes to develop a writing career drawing on his experiences at TTUHSC. Peter has worked with many theatrical groups in the Lubbock area, and, in 1990, directed Dracula for Renegade Theatre. Last October, Peter appeared in George!, the retirement tribute to Dr. Sorensen, and was seen in April as Mr. Sniffeur in Dr. Jonathan Marks's translation and production of Moliere's The Imaginary Invalid.
ANA HARRISON- (BA/95) has worked on two movies of the week for television, The Face in the Mi"or and Love's Deadly Triangle: The Texas Cadet Murder. Ana misses home, but North Carolina has provided some "great opportunities." One ofher films was even partly set in Lubbock, "if Lubbock had lots of trees, and rained a lot."
LEIGHANN McNIEL- (MA/94) is Director of Student Entertainment at
Abilene Christian University. She directs, designs, and produces two variety shows a year in venues of 11,000 and 3,900, while managing the box office and marketing. LeighAnn is also the musical director and sound engineer for two a cappella touring groups, and produced and mixed a professional recording in June of 1996. In addition, she continues to sing and perform professionally with the group "Siren's Song", and also serves as their business manager.
RICHARD D. STAFFORD­ (PhD/91) is Associate Professor of Theatre at Piedmont College, Demorest, Ga. Their ACTF production of The Last Meeting of the Knights of the White Magnolia was "highly recommended" to advance to the ACTF regionals in Tennessee. Richard's new novel, The Funeral Club, was reviewed
- in the Atlanta Constitution, is in its third printing since April of '96, and is available through major bookstore chains. He is married to Kristal Wooten Stafford and they have two sons, Kirk, 10, and Daniel, 15.
TExAs TECH Ex-SruoENTS AssociATION
For help in finding your local branch, or for information on
other Ex 's who live in your area, contact:
Texas Tech University Ex-Students Association,
P.O. Box 45001, Lubbock, Texas 79409-5001
or call (806)742-3641, or fax (806)742-3604,
or E-mail at 76702,2216@CompuServe.Com
Weaver Endowment Seeks Funding
Dr. Richard A. Weaver retired in January, and a fund to establish an endowed scholarship in his name has been set up to benefit students of the Department ofTheatre and Dance.
Kitty Nodsle, Chair of the Dr. Richard A. Weaver Endowment Committee, sent us an E-mail describing the fund-raiser intended to vest the Weaver Fund.
From: Nodsle, Kitty Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 1997 Subject: Weaver Endowment
Thanks for giving me the opportunity to put something in the newsletter regarding the Weaver Endowment.
The Dr. Richard A. Weaver Endowment campaign was kicked off at a retirement reception honoring Dr. Weaver at the SW/'A Convention in November.
Donors to this endowment can purchase an engraved plaque with a personal inscription which will be permanently affvced to a seat in Tech's Lab Theatre, for a 100% t{D( deductible donation of$250.
After an initial fund of $5000 has been created, a scholarship will be presented each year to a theatre department student.
For more information or for donation opportunities, contact Rick Tuman, Business Manager, TTU Department of Theatre and Dance (806) 742-3601, or Dr. Kitty Nodsle (409) 935-8680.
Thanks so much for giving the Weaver Committee such a wonderful opportunity to reach the alums!
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Reprints available of Dramaturgical and
Director's notes
Beginning in the fall semester of 1996, the present faculty of the Department of Theatre and Dance, with editorial super­ vision by the Director of Publications, initiated inclusion of dramaturgical and director notes in audience programs.
All Mainstage productions, and several of the Lab productions have included these materials in their playbills.
Usually the dramaturgical material is produced by graduate students who are also serving as assistant directors for the productions.
Additionally, interviews of directors (and occasionally authors) are conducted by members of the Promotion Team as feature material to be submitted to local publications. Even when the articles do not provoke audience attendance, they amplify the reading public's appreciation of theatre arts and the written drama.
Reprints of these notes and interviews can be provided to interested alumni upon request.
Cabaret A Christmas Carol Santos & Santos The Imaginary Invalid Red Noses Waiting for Godot Division Street
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OM-dramaturgical material; ON-director notes;
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In The Spotlight, Alumni News, Department ofTheatre and Dance, Box 42061, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX 79409, or Fax to (806) 742-1338.
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1997 -1998 PRODUCTION CALENDAR 1EXAS 1ECHUNIVERSITY
DEPAR1MENT of TI:IEA1RE and DANCE
UNWERSITY THEATRE TICKET OFFICE (806) 742-3603
MAINSTAGE SEASON
OCTOBER 16-26
Based on a Story and Characters of Damon Runyon
Music & Lyrics by: Book by: FRANK LOESSER Jo SWERLJNG AND ABE BURRows
NOVEMBER28-DECEMBER7
A CHRISTMAS CAROL Based on the Novella by Charles Dickens
FEBRUARY 26- MARCH 8
APRIL 16-26
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SEPTEMBER 29 - OCTOBER 5
-, AGNES OF GOD by John Pielmeier Directed by C. Patrick Gendusa
NO~MBER3 -9
MARCH .30 - APRIL 5
APRIL 27- MAY 3
A Newsletter of the Texas Tech University
Department of
Mr. Rick Tuman, Business Manager
Ms. Mary Cervantes, Secretary
Edited by Jason Lee
"Exciting things continue to happen here in your department."
This fall we return to ACTF competition with our Lab Theatre production of Red Noses under the direction= of MFA student Paula Rodriguez ... For Spring Semester, 1997, Professor Peggy Willis-Aarnio has been awarded a sabbatical leave to do
· research for a book on the life and work of Russian ballet pioneer Agrippina Vaganova . . . In February, the Omaha:Magic Theatre will hold a week-long residency and present four TTU performances of Megan Terry's new play, Star Path Moon Stop . . . Our facilities are being enhanced with a new roof, new carpet, and a new lighting system . . . and we are pursuing two national searches for professors of acting and management.
We have four new faces on the faculty and staff: Two new positions have been filled by Assistant Professor of theatre history Dr. Dean Wilcox, and Costume Shop Supervisor Sherry Lyon, MFA, while Visiting Assistant Professor of acting Christopher Markle, MFA, and Business Manager Rick Tuman, MFA, are filling previously existing positions. It is my pleasure to introduce these new colleagues.
Dr. Dean Wilcox received his MFA in lighting design from the University of South Carolina, and his PhD in Theatre History, Theory, and Criticism from the University of Washington.
Dr. Wilcox is teaching both graduate and undergraduate theatre history and criticism,
and also will direct and design. He is currently "obsessed" in liis'research
with the ideological convergence 'of · medievalism and postmodernism.· He has articles appearing this fall in Theatre~·;- · · ·- · Research International, and Theatre Survey.
Dr. Wilcox has taught at Corneti; as.· · · Mellon Post-doctoral Fellow, arid atthe .
. University of California, San Diego.
Professor Christopher Markle was educated at Indiana University, and at the Yale School of Drama. He has worked in professional and academic theatres as a writer, director, actor, acting teacher, and producer.
Mr. Markle was Resident Director at The Guthrie Theatre from 1981-1985, and has long been associated with Tile Acting Company and with director Livui Ciulei.
He has directed and taught at a variety of institutions including the British­ American Drama Academy, Princeton, NYU, SMU, and the Studio School of the Moscow Art Theatre.
Recently, he collaborated in the founding ofthe Sage Repertory Company in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
This past summer he staged Othello for the Los Angeles Shakespeare Festival.
Ms. Sherry L. Lyon received her MFA in Costume Design from the University of South Carolina. Her resume includes an internship at the Folger Shakespeare
Theatre, and management of costume shops for the Empty Space Theatre, and Mount Holyoke College.
She worked extensively as a designer in Seattle at the Empty Space Theatre, the Seattle Shakespeare Festival, the Annex Theatre, and Renton Civic Theatre. As
- resident designer for the Bathhouse Theatre she designed Love 's Labours Lost, which was recognized by the Seattle Times as one of Seattle's best designs.
Most recently, Sherry taught patterning and construction, and rendering techniques at Dartmouth, was a cutter/draper at Cornell, and gave birth to daughter, Emma Christine!
Mr. Rick Tuman received his MFA in Drama at Syracuse University in 1996.
Rick studied and participated in acting, directing, and arts administration. Therefore, Rick now asserts equal commitments to the directing of plays and the monitoring of their budgets.
A native "New Yawka" from the borough of Brooklyn, Rick also admits to a problem adapting to the paucity of seltzer, New York delis, crunchy bagels, and mountains. He finds "the pleasantness of the climate and the people of Lubbock," however, has eased his "dietary and visual cravings for things eastern."
Alumni News and Notes:
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DT &D ALUMNI NOTES Texas Tech University Department of Theatre and Dance
JUANICE (NEWBILL) MYERS ­ (BA/65) is the Admissions Secretary of Central Community College. She is the recent recipient of a $2000 Individual Artist's Fellowship in Playwriting from the Nebraska Arts Council. She has had plays produced in Texas, Virginia, Oklahoma and Nebraska. Her full-length play Carrion, had a successful run earlier this year at Hastings College
ROLAND W. MYERS - (BA/65, MA/67, PhD/85) is Chair of the Department of Theatre Arts, Hastings College, Hastings, Nebraska. He and his wife Juanice have two grown children. He plans to take a production of Story Theatre to Ozu, Japan, in January 1997.
D. PATRICK CATES- (BA/75, BS Ed/76, MEd/84) is Principal of Lubbock High School, and is pursuing a Doctorate in Education at TTU. He was named Assistant Principal of the Year of Region XVII in 199~. He is married to Deb, and has one child, Christopher Michael.
LEESA(LOHOEFER)CATTLEY­ (BA/76- Dance) earned her MFA in Dance from SMU in 1978, and taught dance part-time at Richland College and Northlake College and then taught full­ time at the Dallas Metropolitan Ballet. She is married to Robert Cattley, and after raising two children, returned to teaching with Carrollton lSD in Theatre Arts and Language Arts. She sent special greetings to Professors Moore and Willis-Aamio.
BILL DURHAM- (BA/80) has an MA in creative writing from NYU, and teaches English at Austin Community College. Bill was Duncan in Macbeth, and Sir Andrew in Twelfth Night ,both for the Austin Shakespeare Festival, and Capulet in Romeo and Juliet for the Vortex Theatre. Bill judges UIL One-Act Play contests and is currently writing a novel. He is married to Sandy Stone.
JACK P. HAGLER - (BA/82) is a Senior Theatre Consultant with Pelton Marsh Kinsella, a Dallas firm which
consults in Acoustics, Theatre, Television, and AudioNisual Design. Jack is married to Carole and ·has two children, Megan and Molly.
DONNA (WEINER) HOROWITZ­ (MF A/85) owns a Beverly Hills, CA personal management firm - The Seymour Company. Her clients have appeared on such primetime series as "Picket Fences," "Ellen," and "Charlie Grace." She is . married, and at last word was expecting a child in October. According to Donna, she has helped several TTU alumni (including Stephanie Geyer and Roxanna Augesen Manuel) with their careers.
BETHANY A. LARSON- (BFA/86) has the MA from the University of Arkansas, and is currently pursuing a PhD from the University of Kansas. At the Playwrights Theatre ofNew Jersey, Bethany performed the role of Lindsey in Sister Calling My Name - a role she originated at the Mi: Sequoyah New Play Retreat. A free-lance performer/teacher, she is married to David Grant Walker.
DONALD W. SEAY- (PhD/1987) is Chair and Artistic Director of the Department of Theatre of the University of Central Florida in Orlando. Don and Ingrid now have two grandchildren: Tyler and Bryce. According to Don, "Life's a wonderful thing and grandchildren are the most wonderful of all!"
JAMES IVEY- (PhD/91) is an Assistant Professor of Theatre at Hardin-Simmons University in Abilene. He directed J.B. and Guys and Dolls in 1995-96, co­ ordinated the first-ever Baptist Theatre University Festival in March, and was selected to attend Saratoga International Theatre Institute at Skidmore College in June.
ALISON MURPHY - (BA/92) graduated in May from KD Studio in Dallas. She performed last summer as Fibula in Atomic Cavegirls of Island Zero. She is represented in Dallas by Double Take Talent.
LISA PETERSON- (BFA/93) is acting in Dallas, and had a lead role in Late Bloomers, one of 18 dramatic films competing at the 1996 Sundance Film Festival. The film also showed at the Los Angeles, San Francisco, Sydney, Seattle, New York and Austin film festivals. Negotiations are underway for national theatrical distribution.
CHRISTY C. BALDOZA - (BA/95) who now lives in Austin, played Hippolyta in A Midsummer Night 's Dream, and performed in a rock video by the Austin-based band "Nobody."
NOE MENDIOLA - (BA/95 - Dance) is Dance and Cheerleader Coach for the El Paso Public Schools, has begun Masters studies at UT, El Paso, appeared in the musical Viva El Paso, and is part of the UTEP Cheer Squad.
TASHAWNA THOMAS- (BFA/96) went to Seattle in June, moving into a house within sight of the Olympic Mountains, the Cascade Range, and Mt. Rainier. At last word, she was preparing auditions for the 1996-97 Seattle theatre season.
Please join the Texas Tech Ex-Students Association
For help in .finding your local branch, or for information on other Ex's who live in your area, contact:
Texas Tech University Ex-Students Association,
P.O. Box 45001, Lubbock, Texas 79409-5001, or call (806) 742-3641, or fax (806)742-3604, or E-mail at 76702,2216@CompuServe.Com
Congratulations! To two current graduate students in our department for taking the top two places in the competition for The
Debut Panel in Theatre History of the Southwest Theatre Association. MiChael Hannah, a second-year PhD student was awarded First Place and the Oscar Brockett Award for his
paper: "Playwrights in Petticoats: The Case of Female Authors in the Restoration," and second-year PhD student, Darise Error, was awarded second place in the competition for her paper: "Minnie Maddern Fiske: A Modern Actress." Both Michael and Darise presented their papers at this year's SWTA conference held November 8- 12, in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Also, Junior Rachel Greene presented her paper "The Rational Ecstasy of Brecht and Euripides" (an analysis of the conceptual, stylistic, and textual similarities of The Trojan Women and Mother Courage) at the National Collegiate Honors Conference in San Francisco, California, on November 1st. This conference is intended to give Honors undergraduates the opportunity to share their research.
The Department of Theatre and Dance is in the process of establishing three scholarship endowments in honor of three long-time members of the Department faculty: Dr. Clifford Ashby, Dr. George Sorensen, and Dr. Richard Weaver. DoQations to these endowments will establish the principal for three separate scholarship funds. The earnings from these funds will be used for student scholarships.
The Clifford Ashby Endowment: At this writing, we have accumulated$ 2825.90 toward the Ashby Scholarship Endowment. A total of $5000 is needed to establish the fund permanently. Interested donors should make checks payable to Texas Tech University Foundation, and send them to the Texas Tech Development Office, P.O. Box 41081, Lubbock, Texas 79409-1081. Please be certain to indicate on the check or in a cover letter.thatthe check is intended for the Clifford Ashby Scholarship Endowment Fund.
The Sorensen and Weaver Endowments: Scholarship endowments will soon be established in the names of Dr. George Sorensen, and Dr. Richard Weaver. More information will be forthcoming in the Spring, 1997 issue of In the Spotlight.
Alumni News? Please return· the fonn below to:
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TEXAS 1ECHUNIVERSI1Y DEPAR1MENfof1HEA1REAND DANCE
1996-1~7 PRODUCTION CALENDAR
MAINSTAGE SEASON
Directed by Kerry Graves
A CHRISTMAS CAROL by Charles Dickens NOVEMBER 29-30, DECEMBER 1-3 AND 5-8
Directed by Christopher Markle
SANTOS & SANTOS by Octavio Solis FEBRUARY 27-28, MARCH 1-2 AND 6-9
Directed by Norman A. Bert
THE IMAGINARY INVALID by Moliere APRIL 17-20 AND 24-27
Translated and Directed by Jonathan Marks
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Directed by Paula Rodriguez
Directed by Lisa Lawrence Holland
WAITING FOR GO DOT by Samuel Beckett FEBRUARY 17-23
Directed by Roderick Vann
Directed by Norman Grueneich
It's time to purchase your season tickets for 1996197 and save
up to 50%!
Cabar·et :'\-lusic by John Kander; lyrics by Fred Ebb.
We jump-start the season with this energy-charged musical favorite!
A Christmas Carol based on the classic Charles Dickcm tale.
This charming holiday treat is guaranteed to delight your family and friends.
Santos and Santos. by F. I Paso native Octavio Solis
A gripping new drama about three Mexican-American brothers in El Paso.
The Imaginary Invalid by ;\lolierc; translated by Jonathan Marks.
This classic comic romp includes the "missing" ballet featuring every1 hing from clowns to dancing monkeys.
A Laboratory "Grab-Bag" This added feature allows you to select one of the
four incredible productions from our Laboratory season.
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'l1le 1996/97 season at the University '11leatre will be our best evet'. As a cunent subscriber, you already know the benefits of easy exchange, priority seating and convenient parking. But from now until July 31, you will have an added incentive - savings of up to S096 ovet' the regular ticket pricef
Simply retum the enclosed self-addressed envelope with your order form and you will be among the first to enjoy the magic and thrill of the University '11leatre' s new season featuring:
Cabaret. music by John Kander.lyrics by Fred Ebb. "What good is sitting alone in your MOm? Come to the Cabaretf• We jump-start the season with tbic energy-charged mwrical favorite!
A Christmas Carol based on the classic Charles Dickens tale. nus channing holiday treat ic guaranteed to delight your family and friends.
Santos & Sant:os by El Paso native Octavia Solis - A gripping new drama about three Mexican-American brothers in E1 Paso. nus story ic told by our own about our own; as much a part of West Texas: as Bar-B-Que and rodeo.
The lmaginarg Invalid by Moliet'e - nus classic comic romp is being translated by our own Dr. Jonathan Marks and includes the •missing" ballet which features everything from clowns: to dancing monkeys.
A Laboratol'!l "Grab-Bag" -nus added feature allows you to select one_of the four incredible productions featured in our Laboratory season. Included this season ate Red Noces, Tl'ue West, Waiting for Godot and Divicion Street.
'l1le best theatre m Lubbock is happening at the Univem~ 'l1leatre and you are the first to know! Remember, to take advantage of this great offet', your season tickets must be purchased by July 31. For additional infonnation, please call us at 142-3601.
See you opening nigbtl
Frederick B. Christoffel Director of 'l1leatre
PS What the Butler Saw opens Apri118'. If you have not made yO\U' reservations, call the Box Office at 142-3601 and we will be delighted to help youl
An EEO/Affinnative Action Institution
Department of Theatre and Dance Box 42061 Lubbock, TX 79409-2061
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