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Theater line-up released for 2019-20 season
The student production line-up for 2019-20 includes popular “Little Shop of Horrors,” but also is eliminating the annual “A Christmas Carol,” which ran for over 20 years. […]
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Scheidegger’s biggest fans, a couple with no theater background
They have no background in theater; their kids did not participate in theater and yet they have not ceased going to (almost) every show at Scheidegger Theatre since 2014. They are Mr. and Mrs. Foster, also known as James and Barbara. […]
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What to expect from this year’s student productions
KAYLA DRAKE | Multimedia Producer This year celebrates the 10th season the Scheidegger Theater has been open. The theater department decided to make the anniversary memorable; it will bring an array of five classic productions […]
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Theater of life lessons
LINDSEY FIALA | Online Editor Assembling pool tables. Digging ditches. Working at a psych ward. Owning a comic book store. Larry Quiggins had all of those jobs before becoming a theater professor, and he applies those […]
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Building theater sets takes time, teamwork, planning
MEGAN COURTNEY | A&E Editor Designing and building a set for production can take anywhere from four to five weeks according to acting major and set builder William Spaeth. Spaeth said the designer will read […]
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Going stag: freshman musical theater class is all male for first time
ARIN FROIDL | Reporter For the first time in Lindenwood’s history, the freshman musical theater class is all male. Traditionally a female-heavy school, the theatre department is always looking for more male talent, but this […]
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Theater fraternity produces five shows in 24 hours
MITCHELL KRAUS | Editor-in-Chief At 7 p.m. Friday, a group of students gathered their laptops, blankets, pillows and large amounts of coffee and gathered to write five short plays overnight. They came together as part of Alpha […]
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Lost Shakespeare play making debut in St. Louis with help of Lindenwood thespians
ESSI AUGUSTE VIRTANEN | Editor-in-Chief A Lindenwood director, students and alumni are performing a lost Shakespeare play, which is the fourth production ever done on U.S. soil. The play,”Cardenio,” produced by the St. Louis Shakespeare Company, […]
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Alumna returns to Lindenwood as theater adjunct professor
An alumna, Rebecca Lara, used to actively act and direct for the Lindenwood stage as a theater student, and now she is back as an adjunct professor — teaching the same class she took during her undergraduate degree. […]
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Box office management class offers new avenue for theater students
Students have a chance to take a box office management class this fall, which can help theater students to see beyond the stage with their profession. […]