Tag: International Theatre Program
‘Working on small things’
Nigel Maister has a foothold in music, theater, writing, and visual arts. In the first of a series of interviews with performing arts leaders, the theater program director describes how curiosity keeps his work fresh.
Conversation with visiting director Christina Roussos
Christina Roussos, visiting Rochester from the School of Visual Arts in New York City, talks about directing students from diverse backgrounds in the play “Revolt. She Said. Revolt Again,” which opens November 29 for a two-weekend run.
Gone Missing a ‘quirky, documentary musical’
Keys, phone, pets,… your mind?—when’s the last time you lost something? It’s the theme of the new theatrical production Gone Missing, produced by the International Theatre Program and set to open during Meliora Weekend.
Theatre Program presents works by Harold Pinter
The International Theatre Program will close its season with “The Pinter Plays,” a double-bill of two of the most shocking one-act plays from the Nobel Prize-winning British playwright Harold Pinter.
International Theatre Program presents its first ‘devised’ work
The spring production We Don’t Live on Mars Yet never started out as your typical theater production. It’s what’s called a devised work — where actors, production artists, and even the director don’t know what the final play will be.
Four questions for director Ken Rus Schmoll
The two-time Obie Award-winner is in Rochester to direct Octavia, a play ripped from the headlines in the year AD 62.
Octavia opens at Todd Theater
The International Theatre Program closes its fall semester with the production of the rarely staged play Octavia, directed by Obie Award-winning guest director Ken Rus Schmoll.
Timely political drama plays out on stage
The play, created directly from transcripts, chronicles the 1954 Atomic Energy Commission hearing in which the physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer is called before the commission.
From Homer in the classroom to Meat Loaf on stage
The former Midnight Rambler is finding success on the London stage. Bat Out of Hell: The Musical makes its North American premiere in Toronto in October.
Meet the director: 5 questions for Aishwarya Krishnamoorthy ’17
This spring’s production of Sam Shepard’s Buried Child marks the first time that a student has directed a play for the International Theatre Program.