Opening night for opera
Art has many forms, and can be expressed in many different ways. On Friday night, in Akin auditorium, the department of music expressed their love of art through a showing of “The marriage of Figaro,”...
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Theater production overlaps spring break
Kiani Stone, senior in theater, and Anthony Garza, freshman in theatre, perform during dress rehersal Tuesday night in the Fine Arts Theater. With the start of spring break next weekend and its...
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Delayed stage construction hinders theater rehearsals
Alex Collins, theater freshman, Leonard Loughner, mass communication sophomore, Maxwell Norris, theater senior, and Crystal Carter, theater junior, place a board on a platform being built on the Fain...
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REVIEW: Play evokes dark memories to increase awareness about violence...
Crystal Carter, theatre senior, rehearses her monologue “I Can’t Wait” as part of the production A Memory, a Monologue, a Rant, and a Prayer produced by Alpha Psi Omega. As part of an effort to...
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50’s beach theme brings lighthearted fun to 2,500-year-old play
Lysistrata convinces the other women of Athens to not give into men and sex until their husbands agree to stay home and stop fighting wars. Lysistrata opens March 3 at 7:30 p.m. and closing night will...
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Cast joins 40 for a meet and greet
Actors and students listen to Todd Giles, head of the Arts and Literature Society, at the beginning of the Lysistrata play meet-and-greet on March 5 in the Fain Fine Arts Center lobby. Photo by Kayla...
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‘Lysistrata’ brings comic relief to audience
Actors and students converse with eachother at the Lysistrata play meet-and-greet on March 5 in the Fain lobby. Photo by Kayla White. The second showing of “Lysistrata” on gave students a story about a...
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For Colored Girls ‘a story rarely told’
Cammie Dean, director of student development and orientation, rehearses her lines and staging for the production, “For Colored Girls,” Feb 7. Photo by Cortney Wood. “For Colored Girls,” a poetic play,...
View ArticleTheater to present play before class starts
Before the endless juggle of classes, work, studying, extracurriculars, social lives and little amounts of sleep begins, take 70 minutes out of the day and check out the theater department’s production...
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‘Luna Gale:’ good source of entertainment
Alex Rios “Luna Gale,” a play written by Rebecca Gilman, transformed the stage this past weekend. Held in the Fain Fine Arts Theatre and open to the public, Christie Maturo directed more than 30...
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Theater department presents ‘The God Of Hell’
A rehearsal of the show The God of Hell on Tuesday Nov. 14, 2017, two nights before the opening night on Thursday Nov. 16, 2017. Photo by Rachel Johnson The theater department will run the production...
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Prospective students join musical cast
The stage smells of fresh sawdust and wet paint. Dust mites are seen in the bright stage lights, masking the audience and turning the rest of the auditorium into an endless expanse of black. The only...
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Four sides to the same Musical: A look into the different roles that make...
Four individuals, four massive pieces to such a large production. A technical hand in charge of construction, a head dresser directed to maintain costumes to preserve them for each production,...
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Wardrobe stitches musical together
Ilka Megee, theater education sophomore, puts her makeup on before going on first run-through. Megee portays “Hope” in the musical as one of her characters in Urinetown. Photo by Leo Gonzalez. An...
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Inclusion Now paint fight splatters Sikes Lake
Laughter, screams and paint splatters from about 20 attendees filled the air surrounding Sikes Lake. The Inclusion Now! Festival came to a close with a paint fight in an “active and fun” way on April 6...
View Article‘Extremities’: an opportunity to discuss mature issues
After the original student director stepped down, Drew Davison, a 2017 Midwestern State graduate, led four student actors through William Mastrosimone’s “Extremities.” Davison said, “Someone else had...
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Play involves students in social discussion
The Defamation Experience, a play by Todd Logan, instigated discussion among the 76 students in attendance at the Akin Auditorium Tuesday, Jan. 28 at 3:30 p.m. The play, presented by the MOSIAC Cross...
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MSU Theater Department Performs “Men on Boats,” a gender-bent take on...
was put on by the MSU Texas theater department Nov. 19 through 21. This was their second main-stage production of the Fall 2021 Semester, and the story follows 10 men charting the Colorado River for...
View ArticleA behind the scenes look at “Peter and the Starcatcher”
The MSU Texas theater program opens a show this weekend to the public with Rick Elice’s “Peter and the Starcatcher,” a family-friendly production that serves as a prequel to Peter Pan. The show...
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“Merry Wives of Windsor”– In Photos
Actors Gabbi Enriquez, Ethan Boone, Luke Craddock, Sunny Scabora and Naenae Hughes perform in Shakespeare’s “Merry Wives of Windsor,” April 27. (Abigail Jones) Husbands and wives cheers their glasses...
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