COLORBLIND, The Katrina Monologues

by Tom Flannery

The turmoil that Hurricane Katrina wrought in its aftermath is explored by playwright Tom Flannery. The dossier of cases that he has assembled for this docudrama will rend your hearts with their plaintive cries: Where was the help? Where was our government? How could this happen in America?

September 19 – 21
Friday and Saturday at 7:30 pm, Sunday at 2 pm
Tower Fine Arts Center Mainstage
$12/$10 Seniors, Faculty and Staff/$8 Students

Link to Tom Flannery's Website

Link to Photos from Colorblind

BRINGING IT HOME

Thomas Honeck in Concert

An alumnus of the theatre department, Honeck takes his audience on a journey from his idyllic hometown of Brockport, NY, to the mythic New York City. His storytelling, punctuated with songs from the worlds of pop and Broadway, will leave you looking at the world from a slightly different perspective.

This benefit performance will raise funds for the Friar’s Club Foundation, which provides scholarships to students in the Department of Theatre.

Sunday, September 28, 2008 at 2 pm
Tower Fine Arts Center Mainstage
$12/$10 Seniors, Faculty and Staff/$8 Students

Link to Thomas Honecks' Website

by William Shakespeare

What fools these mortals be! And immortals too, sometimes! Shakespeare’s romantic comedy is full of lovers, unrequited lovers, magically united lovers, the King of the faeries, actors, and young Greeks. Oh, and a donkey.

November 7 – 9 and 13 – 15
Thursday through Saturday Evenings at 7:30 pm
Sunday Matinee at 2 pm
$12/$10 Seniors, Faculty and Staff/$8 Students
Tower Fine Arts Center Mainstage

Link to Midsummer Online Script

Ten New Ten-Minute Plays

After an international search, and reviewing hundreds of plays, the sixth biennial Festival of Ten has culled these scripts down to ten. The ten 10-minute plays you will see are at times thought-provoking; at times sly and witty. But they are always the result of a writer putting words on paper and thus creating a living, breathing thing: a play. 

February 27 – March 1 and March 5 – 7
Thursday through Saturday Evenings at 7:30 pm
Sunday Matinee at 2 pm
$12/$10 Seniors, Faculty and Staff/$8 Students
Tower Fine Arts Center Mainstage

THE COVER OF LIFE

by R. T. Robinson

When three brothers from Louisiana enlist to fight in World War II, their wives move in with their mother. A reporter for Life magazine is dispatched to write a feature story about the “women left behind,” only to realize that the men aren’t the only ones fighting the war.  In their own ways, the ones keeping the home fires burning also have their own minefields to negotiate.

April 24 – 26 and April 30 – May 2
Thursday through Saturday Evenings at 7:30 pm
Sunday Matinee at 2 pm
$12/$10 Seniors, Faculty and Staff/$8 Students
Tower Fine Arts Center Mainstage

Stage Directions:

Conversations with Theater Professionals

As part of the Department of Theatre’s relationship with Geva Theatre Center, this series of interactive panels allows attendees to discover various aspects of making theatre. Open to the public.

Thursdays at 10 am

September 25, 2008, November 13, 2008

March 5, 2009, April 30, 2009

Free
Tower Fine Arts Center Mainstage

Harlequins Student Theatre Production

Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead

Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday,
October 1, 2, and 4 at 7:30 pm

Tower Fine Arts Center Lab Theatre
Tickets:  Brockport Student Government
Box Office (585) 395-2487

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