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MONDAY MONOLOGUES | Selections from BABA, a new musical workshop
Directed by Cason Murphy, ISU Department of Music & Theatre Hear selected songs from BABA, a new musical being workshopped and developed at ISU Theatre. BABA is a contemporary, climate-centric musical retelling of Russia’s Baba Yaga fairytale that takes place in familiar-yet-mythic woods of rural America. Weaving together the traditional fairy tale with enchanting Americana folk music and issues of the … Continue reading MONDAY MONOLOGUES | Selections from BABA, a new musical workshop
MONDAY MONOLOGUES | ISU Opera Studio
Chad Sonka and Jodi Goble, co-directors, ISU Department of Music & Theatre The ISU Opera Studio presents beloved opera arias and ensembles from their spring program. Hear the excitng voices of Iowa State, and yes, high notes.
MONDAY MONOLOGUES | Gather in Song
Featuring the Cantamus, Lyrica, and Count Me In ensembles. Conducted by Dr. Jennifer Rodgers, assistant director of choral activities, ISU Department of Music & Theatre. Gather round and stomp, sing, and dance along with three ISU choral ensembles. The students build community and connection through song. Hear everything from a Finnish wedding celebration to the Brazilian samba, to Dancing … Continue reading MONDAY MONOLOGUES | Gather in Song
Monday Monologues: Climate Change Theatre Action
Get a glimpse of ISU Theatre’s Climate Change Theatre Action 2021. These short performance pieces explore climate change and serve as a call to community action in partnership with the MFA Program in Creative Writing & Environment, The EcoTheatre Lab, and the international Climate Change Theatre Action initiative (CCTA). Founded in 2015, CCTA is a worldwide series of … Continue reading Monday Monologues: Climate Change Theatre Action
ISU Theatre: This Is Not a Pipe Dream
Inspired by the life and work of the surrealist painter Rene Magritte, This Is Not a Pipe Dream by Barry Kornhauser follows a young boy who wants to be an artist. Though his desire is dismissed by his father as “a pipe dream”, he is encouraged by his mother, and begins a quest into the … Continue reading ISU Theatre: This Is Not a Pipe Dream
The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail
In 1845 a twenty-eight year old man named Henry David Thoreau moved into a one room house on the shore of Walden Pond in order to think and to write. He was already known for his love of nature, philosophy of life, and his passionate abolitionist views. The following year he spent a night in … Continue reading The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail
The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail
In 1845 a twenty-eight year old man named Henry David Thoreau moved into a one room house on the shore of Walden Pond in order to think and to write. He was already known for his love of nature, philosophy of life, and his passionate abolitionist views. The following year he spent a night in … Continue reading The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail