NEWS & EVENTS
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Science on Stage: Atlanta Playwrights explore the human microbiome in Emory’s ‘4:48’
Four Atlanta playwrights + 48 hours = four new plays at the forefront of art and science. That’s the premise of Theater Emory’s “ 4:48,” a frenetic yet focused showcase of new works inspired by the human microbiome that will be performed July 14 at the Schwartz Center for Performing Arts. Read the full article on…
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Theater Emory Connecting with Community through Creative Landfill Diversion Efforts
As a resident professional company and laboratory for faculty artistic research and Theater Studies courses, Theater Emory usually features four productions per year. With each production change, old scenery materials are replaced by new pieces for current productions. Instead of dumping previous set pieces into a landfill, Theater Emory has found innovative and creative ways…
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NY Times: Featuring TE Guest Artist Danielle Deadwyler
A Boom in Filming Gives Atlanta Stage Actors Room to Maneuver Danielle Deadwyler, a Theatre Emory guest artist, speaks in this NY Times about the film and television boom in Atlanta. Read the article here.
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Spotlight: Previous 4:48 Play Receives Full Production
Playwright Daryl Lisa Fazio participated in the inaugural 4:48, writing from the source material “Sex at Dawn: How We Mate, Why We Stray, and What It Means for Modern Relationships,” by Christopher Ryan and Cacilda Jetha. The play will now be fully mounted at Actor’s Express from April 21 – May 13, 2018. Fazio says, “Almost…
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Emory Report: Film ‘Fran K.’ gives Emory students experience from page to stage to screen
Emory’s Briarcliff property is one of Atlanta’s most sought-after locations for film and television production in the city’s newest booming industry, so the hustle and bustle of yet another film shoot in late March was not unusual. But this was not your typical Hollywood production. During the university’s spring break, a crew of Emory students,…
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NPR: Frankenstein Of The Future
At Emory University, three Atlanta playwrights took a new look at Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein with modern scientific research. They each contributed to a single show that’s being performed at the Atlanta Science Festival. Listen to the interview with playwrights Neely Gossett and Edith Freni here.
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Emory Report: Student research brings microtheatre to Emory
Emory College senior Cameron Frostbaum is using his honors thesis research to introduce local audiences to microtheatre, which began in Spain and features short plays performed for small groups in flexible spaces. Read the article here.
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Emory Magazine: Artist Chris Salter 89C Talks About How Theater at Emory Changed His Life Plan
Theater Emory alum, Chris Salter, talked with Emory Magazine about his new instillation In Search of Expo 67 and how Theater at Emory changed his life plan as an undergraduate. Read the article here.
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Theater Emory opens 2017-2018 season with “Midnight Pillow”
August 31, 2017 Atlanta—In describing her creative process writing “Frankenstein,” Mary Shelley referred to the story as the “spectre which had haunted my midnight pillow.” Theater Emory’s “Midnight Pillow,” running September 21 through October 1, brings thirteen women and transgender writers together to explore Shelley’s enigmatic depiction of the artistic method in a collaborative work…
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Theater Emory Opens Season with Rodgers & Hart’s Musical Comedy “The Boys from Syracuse”
In 1938, Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart premiered a musical adaptation of William Shakespeare’s “The Comedy of Errors,” the first American musical comedy based on a Shakespeare play. This raucous farce,Rodgers and Hart’s “The Boys from Syracuse,” kicks of Theater Emory’s season-long celebration of the Bard September 22 – October 2 in the Theater Lab of the Schwartz Center for…