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Season at a Glance
September 2012: David Henry Hwang, Visiting Scholar and Writer
The Department of Theatre and
Dance present The Harold and Ethel L. Stellfox Visiting Scholars and Writers
Program award recipient: David Henry Hwang, Award-Winning Playwright: Reading,
Award Presentation and Book Signing.
For 30 years, award-winning
playwright David Henry Hang has explored the complexities of forging Eastern
and Western cultures in contemporary America. His extraordinary body of work
is marked by a deep desire to reaffirm our common humanity. He is best know as
the author of "M. Butterfly", which ran for two years on Broadway, won the 1988
Tony Award and was a finalist for the 1989 Pulitzer Prize. His play "Golden
Child" received a 1997 OBIE Award for playwriting and three 1998 Tony
nominations including Best New Play. His play "Yellow Face" won a 2008 OBIE
Award and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.
Wednesday,
September 12 (7:30pm)
ATS (Anita Tuvin Schlechter) Auditorium
October 2012: The Spitfire Grill
The departments of
Theatre and Dance and Music jointly present the uplifting and inspiring musical
The Spitfire Grill. After five years in prison, Percy Talbott chooses to start
over in a tiny town of Gilead, Wis. Percy doesn't know a soul in town and
doesn't have a job or a place to stay. Hannah, the cantankerous owner of The
Spitfire Grill, reluctantly takes Percy in, and the town will never be the
same. The Spitfire Grill celebrates hometown life with soul-stirring melodies
and infectious rhythms that will warm and inspire even the most cynical
heart.
Saturday, October 27 (8pm)
Sunday, October 28 (3pm)
Monday, October 29 (8pm)*
Tuesday, October 30 (8pm)
*The Oct. 28th show has been canceled, and an additional show has been
scheduled:
Wednesday, October 31 (8pm)
Mather's Theatre,
Holland Union Building
Regular Admission: $7
Student Admission: $5
Buy Tickets Now! (This performance has ended)
November 2012: Five Under Forty (Dance/Coreography)
Five Under Forty: Dance Works by Five Emerging Female
Choreographers
Each fall the Department of Theatre and Dance
brings new choreographic voices to campus, attracting visiting artists who are
at the apex of their careers. This concert will feature works by five emerging
female choreographers and by faculty members. It will explore a host of diverse
contemporary concerns.
Friday, November 16 (8pm)
Saturday,
November 17 (8pm)
Sunday, November 18 (2pm)
Mather's Theatre,
Holland Union Building
Regular Admission: $7
Student Admission: $5
Buy
Tickets Now! (This performance has ended)
April 2013: The Conference of the Birds
The Conference
of the Birds adapts a 12th-century Persian fable about the search for the
divine into a theatrical voyage for the imagination. In the poem, the birds of
the world gather to decide who is to be their king. Told through fables,
puppetry, music and dance, the lessons of this soaring play resonate through
the centuries.
"The play is a flying carpet gliding us aloft
into a land of mystery, splendor, and ritual."
--The New York Times
Friday, April 5 (8pm)
Saturday, April 6 (8pm)
Monday, April 8 (8pm)
Tuesday, April 9 (8pm)
Mather's Theatre
in the Holland Union Building
Regular Admission: $7
Student
Admission: $5
April 2013: Freshworks 2013
Student
choreographers team up with the Dance Theatre Group (DTG), Dickinson's student
dance company, to present a program of dynamic new dance works. DTG is under
the direction of Professor Sarah Skaggs; Director of Dance.
Friday,
April 26 (8pm)
Saturday, April 27 (8pm)
Sunday, April 28 (2pm)
Mathers Theatre, Holland Union Building
Regular Admission: $7
Student Admission: $5