FIU professor named stage director for Miami Lyric Opera
FIU Theatre associate professor Phillip Church has been asked to direct the stage for Miami Lyric Opera’s premiere of I Puritani, Vincenzo Bellini’s three-act opera. Church is a recognized professional...
View ArticleFIU Theatre crosses the boundaries between stage and screen
Students in the non-credit course will have access to professional resources to create original commercials and explore stage-to-screen dramatic scenes. By Sissi Aguila FIU Theatre and Miami World...
View ArticlePeek into FIU Theatre’s 2009-’10 Season
Known for its controversial selections and fresh remakes, FIU Theatre will kick off the 2009-’10 season with a dramatic production of “Sonia Flew” Sept. 24-Oct. 4 in the Wertheim Performing Arts Center...
View ArticleFIU theatre professor marks first annual Human Trafficking Awareness Day
FIU theatre professor Phillip M. Church marked the first annual Human Trafficking Awareness Day with the production Body & Sold, a powerful play featuring the real-life experiences of exploited...
View ArticleFIU presents 2010 Alternative Summer Theatre Festival
FIU Theatre kicks off this summer’s Alternative Theatre Summer Festival (ATSF) June 23. Created in 2006 by FIU Theatre professors Phillip Church and Marina Pareja, ATSF offers a mix of feisty and...
View ArticleAlternative Theatre Summer Festival presents “PRODIGAL – The Execution of...
FIU Theatre kicked off this summer’s Alternative Theatre Summer Festival (ATSF) in June. If you missed the first two productions, you have one more chance too see PRODIGAL – The Execution of William...
View ArticleOn-campus ‘Nutcracker’ performances to aid Haiti
Proceeds from the FIU Alternative Theater and School of Music’s collaborative staging of the Christmas classic Dec. 15 at MMC will benefit the university’s Haiti Relief Task Force. One of Tchaikovsky’s...
View ArticleFIU students headed to D.C. to perform in ‘Body & Sold’ Jan. 11
Nine FIU Theater students and one alumnus will join a handful of students from McKinley High School in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday, Jan. 11, for a dramatized staged reading of Body & Sold, a play...
View ArticleFIU Theatre brings ‘Pride and Prejudice’ to the stage
For its second production of the spring semester FIU Theatre will present a production of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, adapted by Jon Jory and directed by Phillip Church, associate professor of...
View ArticleFIU Theatre shines at Kennedy Center American College Theatre Regional Festival
A group of FIU Theatre students was honored at last month’s Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival (KCACTF) in Daytona Beach. The KCACTF is a national theater program involving 18,000...
View ArticleCast members, director preview FIU Theatre’s ‘Pride and Prejudice’
The production will run at the Wertheim Performing Arts Center March 3-13. Starting this evening, and through March 13, the FIU family will be able to enjoy a real on-stage treat when FIU Theatre...
View ArticleFIU’s Summer Alternative Theatre Festival kicks off June 21
FIU’s Summer Alternative Theatre Festival will kick off its fifth season Tuesday, June 21, and run through the end of July at Modesto A. Maidique Campus. Directed by FIU Theatre professors Phillip M....
View ArticleFIU students to perform ‘Body and Sold’ at International Youth Arts Festival...
FIU theater students are in the United Kingdom this week to perform Body and Sold, a play about modern-day human trafficking. Actors from three universities representing the United States and United...
View ArticleProductions of ‘The Nutcracker’ to raise funds for arts scholarships
FIU’s Alternative Theater Festival continues its tradition of presenting an innovative version of E.T.A Hoffman’s The Nutcraker with two shows taking place Wednesday, Dec. 7, and Saturday, Dec. 10,...
View ArticleFIU’s Spring 2012 starts here
Find out everything you need to know to navigate the new semester FIU is resuming the academic year with the first day of Spring 2012 classes on Monday, Jan. 9. Here are some important dates to keep in...
View ArticleFIU Theatre’s ‘The Arabian Nights’ opens March 2
FIU Theatre’s fourth and final production of the season brings The Arabian Nights, by Mary Zimmerman, to the Herbert & Nicole Wertheim Performing Arts Center Main Stage Theatre at Modesto A....
View ArticleAll ‘eyez’ on FIU Theatre alumnus Meshaun Labrone’s portrayal of Tupac Shakur
FIU Theatre alumnus Meshaun Labrone ’05, had a successful run with his one-man show Right to Remain…The Life and Mind of Tupac Shakur at the Capital Fringe Festival in Washington, D.C., which was held...
View ArticleLaw clinics improve community life, serve as teaching tool, Pt. 2
Eight law clinics are currently operating within the College of Law at FIU. There, law students are not only gaining hands-on experience in many areas of practice but also improving the lives of their...
View ArticleFIU Theatre, students return from Kennedy Center regional festival with honors
FIU Theatre’s “The Cook” takes home Best Show honors at the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival regional competition. Several students were also […]
View ArticleFaculty excellence recognized at convocation
Professor Arindam Chowdhury took top honors Sept. 27 at Faculty Convocation, an annual event that welcomes new faculty and recognizes […]
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