This fall, we’re doing a spotlight series featuring some of our favorite Kalamazoo College Theatre Arts Department alumni! This week, we talked to Quincy Isaiah ’17. While at K, he appeared as Benny in In the Heights and received an Irene Ryan Award for Performance for his role in A Raisin in the Sun. Read […]
Dear Festival Playhouse Afficionado, Welcome to Week Two!! As crazy as it might seem to reflect upon this, our term is already 20% completed. Wow. I am going to share some reflections on the importance of doing art, and why it is so important especially now to be doing art, in the Week 3 newsletter. […]
Dear Most Wonderful, Intrepid, and Creative Explorer, Welcome to Week One Festival Playhouse newsletter!! We PROMISE they are not all this long, and, we “share the wealth” amongst our theatre colleagues during the term so that you have an opportunity to hear each of our “voices” during the term. First things first: WELCOME BACK and […]
KTAN Newsletter from June 2020. Read about all of the amazing and impressive things our Alumni have been doing!
The horrific events of the past week reflect hundreds of years of thinking and behavior, and there is no denying that we are all part of the problem if we do nothing, and, we can be part of the solution if we do something. The Green Dot slogan, “Nobody has to do everything, but everyone […]
Are you in need of new playwrights to obsess over? Forget Shakespeare and Beckett! Here are some new, “underrated” playwrights that our Theatre Arts students love, and you will too!
We at Festival Playhouse believe there is no better time than now to express the ideas, challenges, and celebrations of our community. Our productions this year focus upon the stories and ideas that celebrate our uniqueness and reflect upon that which brings us together.
Greeting to all struggling students and staff! Our Week Three Newsletter will be short! We would like to say thank you and welcome to Sophie Hill, who has accepted to be our departmental DSA to finish up the academic year. And, a big thank you to Mars Wilson for being our DSA in fall and […]
Dear Festival Playhouse Friends, Just a few thoughts for this newsletter….. It is with great joy that I am finally able to announce that visiting professor “C” Heaps will be with us through the next academic year continuing to do everything that they do so well. This is particularly great as it will be so nice to […]
Dear Friends of Festival Playhouse, First, read the LAST part of this email (at the bottom) as it has a great introductory email from Emilio Rodriguez about our Devised Theatre Project for Spring. Then promise me you will come back to at least read points 1, 2, and 3 below. WE ARE making theatre this spring! First: We […]
