theater

Join Case Western Reserve University Department of Theater for a free online presentation of its first show of the season: a staged reading of The Liar. David Ives’ ‘translaptation’ of this 17th century comedy blends Elizabethan-style verse and modern language, relishing in its own rhyming word gam...

The Case Western Reserve University/Cleveland Play House Master of Fine Arts Acting Program will host an online production of The Last Days of Judas Iscariot this week, featuring the program’s Class of 2022. Written by Pulitzer Prize Award-winner Stephen Adly Guirgis, this play takes the audience o...

2020 (hindsight), the latest Case Western Reserve University Department of Theater production, is a time capsule: The virtual production is a compilation of student experiences amidst the COVID-19 pandemic in the form of monologues, poems and dances. Performances will be held today (Nov. 12) throug...

2020 (hindsight) is the November 2020 production from the Department of Theater at Case Western Reserve University, directed by faculty member Beth McGee. During this live presentation over Zoom, students will perform original monologues, poems and dances reflecting on their experiences with the COV...

Case Western Reserve’s theater department lost one of its most loyal supporters when adjunct associate professor Kevin Moore died suddenly on Saturday, Oct. 24. Managing director of the Cleveland Play House (CPH) since 2007, Moore actively engaged in the CWRU/CPH MFA Acting Program, regularly atten...

While this semester is different, the Department of Theater invites all Case Western Reserve University students to reflect on their experiences in a unique way. 2020 (hindsight) is a world premiere original play written by students. CWRU Students are invited to write personal essays for a live Zoo...

Kevin Inouye, assistant professor of theater, recently had a book published titled The Screen Combat Handbook. The book uses practical instruction, examples, interviews and illustrations to show how effective fight sequences can be put on-screen. Inouye includes sections on pre-production planning, ...

When Ohio’s stay-at-home order began on March 24, the artistic community had no choice but to close their studios and performance spaces to the public. Shanna Beth McGee, professor of theater at Case Western Reserve University and co-founder of the immersive theater company Shadow of the Run, wanted...

When Case Western Reserve courses went remote in March, Mad Men and Glow actor Rich Sommer (GRS ’04, theater) immediately reached out to Donald Carrier, interim director of the Case Western Reserve University/Cleveland Play House Master of Fine Arts (MFA) in Acting Program, to see how he might help ...

Members of the Case Western Reserve University community are invited to Caleb Beidelman’s MA thesis presentation, a production of The Chairs, Tuesday, Dec. 10, from 7:30 to 10 p.m. in the basement of Eldred Hall. The Chairs is a play written by Eugene Ionesco and this production will star Laurel Wi...