NEWS & EVENTS
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Theater Emory’s 2015-2016 Season Opens with Zhu Yi’s “I AM A MOON”
September 10, 2015 With its 2015 – 2016 season, Theater Emory invites audiences to travel: to take a space flight in search of the haunted lady on the moon, to experience a mind-bending ride on radio waves, to explore the iconic forest of Arden where the question must be asked, “Does Shakespeare’s Arden actually exist,…
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Emory Report: Breaking Ground summer theater series focuses on collaboration, creative process
It is the nature of the arts that conversations between the artist, the audience and the work often begin and end with a final product. Patrons rarely get a glimpse behind the veil of creativity; however, many of the most exciting discoveries surface during the creative process. But for three years, Theater Emory’s Breaking Ground…
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Breaking Ground 2015
Breaking Ground, Theater Emory’s annual series of works in development, returns to the Schwartz Theater Lab June 20-July 11, 2015. All events are free and open to the public. Saturday, June 20, 2 p.m. Untitled Clown Piece Caitlin Reeves and Emma Yarbrough Caitlin and Emma will work with Maia Knispel to begin exploring clown alter egos for…
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TCG Circle: Diane Glancy on Global Voices festival
In a recent blog post for Theater Communication Group’s online journal, TCG Circle, playwright Diane Glancy counted her Global Voices experience as one of the most “game-changing productions” she’s seen or created. Glancy states: “Just by neglecting a set and putting emphasis on the words alone, the language stood up as a warrior and said…
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Alumni News: Scott Turner Schofield on ‘The Bold and the Beautiful’
Theater at Emory alum and “renowned diversity speaker, author and performer” Scott Turner Schofield will make his TV acting debut on the Emmy Award-winning daytime series “The Bold and the Beautiful,” the New York Daily News has just announced. Schofield, a transgender actor, will first appear May 8 as Nick, a mentor to fashion model Maya Avant, who’s “in…
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Letters from LAMDA
January 4, 2015I flew into London early yesterday morning. LAMDA will be starting tomorrow for which I’m equal parts excited and nervous. The weather is as promised: cold and gray. January 16, 2015 LAMDA Spring 2015 class at the Tower of London Wow have we been busy! We started our regular class schedule this week so…
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Thoughts from a Playwright’s assistant: Emily Schloss (Zhu Yi)
By Emily Schloss This past weekend I had the privilege of assisting Zhu Yi in the rehearsals for the staged reading of her play, “I Am A Moon.” The play had been performed in years past by the Chinese Theater Club in Chinese, but in chatting with Ms. Yi, I learned that the play was…
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Theater Emory presents José Rivera’s “Marisol”
Theater Emory closes its 2014-2015 season “Global Perspectives: A Festival from Pinter to Rivera” with“Marisol,” the magical and highly charged comic play from Oscar nominee and OBIE award winner, José Rivera. Directed by Atlanta’s David Crowe, Theater Emory’s “Marisol” opens April 2 and runs through April 12 in theMary Gray Munroe Theater. Read the press release in full here.
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Creativity Conversation: Playwrights Jack Dalton and Diane Glancy
Global Voices playwrights Jack Dalton and Diane Glancy sat down with professor of theater studies Michael Evenden for a Creativity Conversation in the Schwartz Theater Lab on Feb. 7, 2015 Click here to watch the conversation in full.
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Will Ransom and Tim McDonough Bring Tennyson Poem to Life
In this new YouTube video, seeWill Ransom (Mary Emerson Professor of Piano, Director of Emory Chamber Music Society of Atlanta, Director of Piano Studies) and Tim McDonough (Chair & Professor of Theater Studies, Resident Actor/Director of Theater Emory) bring Alfred, Lord Tennyson’s poem Enoch Arden to life in this production at Emory’s Schwartz Center (January 17, 2015). In the poem, Enoch Arden is a happily married fisherman…