College of Arts and Humainties 2010-2011 Provost’s Promising faculty Award Recipeints

Congratulations to the recipients of the 2010-2011 Provost’s Promising faculty Awards.

• J. Daniel Herring – Professor of Theatre Arts
• Thomas Loewenheim – Professor of Music

Please join us for the reception recognizing the distinguished achievements of our colleagues.

Date: Thursday, May 12, 2011
Time: 3:30 – 5:30 p.m.
Place: University Dining Hall

Additional information on the Provost’s Awards recipients can be viewed on Fresno State News at http://www.fresnostatenews.com/.

Portraits of Courage: American Women Have it

USU Productions Presents:

Portraits of Courage: American Women Have It All

Date: March 7, 2011
Time: 7:00pm
Place: Satellite Student Union

Celebrate Women's History Month with this live theatrical presentation that ties in relevant issues for women of today by enacting the lives and experiences of women of the past.

Helen Keller
Alice Paul
Mary Walker
Sylvia Rivera
Margaret Sanger

Fresno State Students with ID: $2
General Public: $5

For More Information, call (559) 278-2741
www.auxiliary.com/USU

Presented by Will & Company
http://www.willandcompany.com/portraits
(818) 990-1558

It's a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play

It's a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play
Adapted by Joe Landry
from the screenplay by Frances Goodrich, Albert Hackett, Frank Capra and Jo Swerling
Directed by Brad Myers

This beloved American holiday classic comes to captivating life as a live 1940's radio broadcast.
This is a family friendly production!!!
Live pre-show of traditional and contemporary Christmas music starts 15 minutes before curtain

Read Donald Munro's preview at this link
http://fresnobeehive.com/2010/12/more_on_its_a_w.html#more

Visit us at
www.csufresno.edu/theatrearts
or call 278-2216 (noon - 4 p.m. weekdays)
to order your tickets

Fresno State Theater Military Discount

Thank you for your service!!

Discount for those that have served in the military

Purchase your tickets at the Military Discount and put in the code: GIBILL

and receive your tickets at the student price of $10 each a savings of $5 per ticket

No Limit

www.csufresno.edu/theatrearts or call 559-278-2216

Pulitzer Prize WInning Play at Fresno State: A Soldier's Play

A Soldier's Play
By Charles Fuller
Directed by Thomas-Whit Ellis

In a Louisiana army camp in 1944 Capt. Taylor, the white C.O., has a problem. He commands a black company whose sergeant has been murdered.

Winner for the 1982 Pulitzer Prize for Drama

Date: October 1-9, 2010
Time: 8:00 PM (2:00 PM Sunday)
Place: Fresno State, John Wright Theatre

Tkts: http://www.csufresno.edu/theatrearts/performances/current_season.shtml

University Theatre Season Tickets on Sale Now!!!

The 2010 -2011 Season includes

A Soldier’s Play
October 1-9

Eastern Standard
October 29- November 6

It’s A Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play
December 3-11

Centennial Symphonic Dance Project
In collaboration with the Music Department
February 24-27

Servant of Two Masters
March 25-April 2

The Glass Menagerie
May 6-14

The University Theatre offers incredible live entertainment at a price that can't be beat!

6 shows for only $65 per person for faculty and staff
and only $50 for students.

Download a brochure at www.csufresno.edu/theatrearts or drop by the box office in the Speech Arts building for a printed copy. Requests for multiple copies (maximum 25) should be sent to universitytheatre@csufresno.edu. Please include your campus mail stop.

Single tickets to all productions go on sale September 13th.

Box office – 278-2216

Pamela Dyer
Business and Promotions Manager
Theatre Arts Department
California State University, Fresno
5201 N Maple Ave SA 46
Fresno CA 93740
559.278.7512
559.278.7215 - FAX
www.csufresno.edu/theatrearts

Time Again in Oz

University Theatre presents

Time Again in Oz

Dates & Times:
May 7-8 and 11-15 at 8 p.m.
May 9 & 15 at 2 p.m

Location: Fresno State, John Wright Theatre

The play is a musical adaptation of Frank L. Baum’s Ozma of Oz. In this re-imagined version, Dorothy (Sarah Lofgren), Bill (her pet chicken – Molly Kelly) and her Uncle Henry (a crotchety old man in a wheelchair – Matthew McGee) are transported to Oz by a wild storm at sea. Time has been stopped in Oz for what seems like years. After run-ins with the Gnome King (Edward Anderson) and the Wheelers, Dorothy is sure she doesn’t want to have another adventure here. But she soon finds herself embroiled in Oz affairs.

For more information, call 278-2216 or visit http://csufresno.edu/theatrearts

Pamela Dyer
Business and Promotions Manager
Theatre Arts Department
California State University, Fresno
5201 N Maple Ave
Fresno CA 93740
559-278-7512
559-278-7215 - FAX
http://csufresno.edu/theatrearts

Tomás and the Library Lady

Tomás is a son of migrant workers. Every summer he and his family follow the crops north from Texas to Iowa, spending long, arduous days in the fields. At night they gather around to hear Grandfather's wonderful stories. But before long, Tomás knows all the stories by heart. "There are more stories in the library," Papa Grande tells him. The very next day, Tomás meets the library lady and a whole new world opens up for him.

Date: Saturday, April 17th
Time: 10 a.m. & 2 p.m.
Place: Woods Theatre, Speech Arts Building

FREE - SEATING ON A FIRST COME FIRST SERVE BASIS - NO TICKETS WILL BE ISSUED


http://www.csufresno.edu/theatrearts/

Pamela Dyer
Business and Promotions Manager
Theatre Arts Department
California State University, Fresno
5201 N Maple Ave
Fresno CA 93740
559-278-7512
559-278-7215 - FAX
http://csufresno.edu/theatrearts

Ed EmanuEl's Final Show

Another Opening, A Final Show

After 40 years of entertaining audiences in Fresno, throughout California, across the country and around the world Ed EmanuEl folds up his Fresno State director’s chair with:

The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, The Gangster Play
By Bertolt Brecht

Send him off with a standing ovation on
Friday, December 4, 2009 at 8 p.m. in the John Wright Theatre
Reception following the performance.

http://csufresno.edu/theatrearts 278-2216

Pamela Dyer
Business and Promotions Manager
Theatre Arts Department
California State University, Fresno
5201 N Maple Ave
Fresno CA 93740
559-278-7512
559-278-7215 - FAX
http://csufresno.edu/theatrearts

The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui: The Gangster Play

Date:Friday, December 4, 2009
Time:8:00 PM to 10:00 PM
Place:John Wright Theatre
California State University,Fresno

The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui: The Gangster Play By Bertolt Brecht
Directed by Ed EmanuEl

"Chicago is suffering a terrible depression. The answer to everyone’s’ prayers is a violent gangster who promises to deliver salvation to the world . . . even if it means trading in their souls."

All Performances begin at 8:00 p.m. except on Sunday's when they begin at 2:00 p.m.

Ticket Prices:
General Admission
$17 – Single
Fresno State Faculty/Staff, Alumni Association Members*, Seniors (60 +
$15 – Single
Fresno State Students*
$10 – Single
*ID Required

Box Office Hours
Monday – Friday - Noon to 4 p.m.
North Entrance Speech Arts Building

Phone - 278-2216
Fax 278-7215
Web Site - http://www.csufresno.edu/theatrearts
E-mail - pamd@csufresno.edu

"Welcome Home Jenny Sutter" : Free Veterans' Advanced Performance

Date: Thursday, October 29, 2009
Time: 8 PM (No latecomers)
Location: California State University Fresno
Dennis & Cheryl Woods Theater
5201 N Maple Ave (inside Speech Arts Building)

The Thursday, October 29, 2009 is open to veterans and one guest ONLY. Maximum theater capacity is 75 people.

RSVP is REQUIRED. Please RSVP by no later than Tuesday, October 27, 2009. You may RSVP by email me at tcrabb@csufresno.edu. For ticket receipt purposes. Please include name of Veteran when you RSVP.

Additional performance dates are open to the general public. Please go to the end of the email for additional performance dates, time and prices.

"Welcome Home Jenny Sutter"

LOOKING INSIDE WAR’S SILENCES

Jenny Sutter (Kelsey Oliver) is home from Iraq. She's a 30-year-old Marine, minus her lower right leg. With a mind filled with horrific memories. Those memories were bad enough while she was overseas. They are unbearable now that she's back in Southern California.

Jenny is struggling to return to civilian life — from the mundane struggle of putting on a pair of pants to the deeper struggle of finding meaning to her life. Jenny is in no shape to return to Oceanside, where her mother is taking care of her two kids.

How the kindness of strangers and Jenny's own inner strength allow her to finally make an attempt to return to the reality of civilian life is the ambitious subject of "Welcome Home, Jenny Sutter," by Julie Marie Myatt, that made its world premiere at Oregon Shakespeare Festival.

On a whim, Jenny decides to accompany the ditsy stranger she meets in the smelly waiting room of a Los Angeles bus station to Slab City. Once there, Jenny finds that Slab City, a ragtag camp ground in the California desert, is chock-a-block full of souls just as lost as she is, each trying to run from their own unpleasant reality.

There is Lou (Kelsey Deroian), who never stops talking. Lou is addicted to absolutely everything and frantically trying to quit them all. But she is generous and empathetic and Jenny hooks up with her if only to find a temporary place to alight.

There is Buddy (Matthew McGee), physically twisted from the abuse he suffered as a child but spiritually straight and gentle. Buddy is the self-appointed preacher to the community, giving a message of love and hope to his unlikely congregation.

There is Donald (Bryce Earp), trying desperately to appear indifferent because he cannot bear to care so much.

And Cheryl (Kelly Derry), Lou's "therapist," who got her "training" from her experience as a hairdresser in the miniscule desert town of Hemet.

All of these misfits reach out to Jenny in one way or another. And gradually — against her instincts — Jenny allows them to get through.

Kathleen McKinley directs. Gwenna Merriman has designed the set, lit by Izzy Eisnidler and Stephanie Bradshaw designed the costumes.

Playwright Julie Marie Myatt grew up in a military family. She has said that she wanted to explore the experiences of the first generation women who have served in combat positions and who can't simply seamlessly reintegrate into civilian life.

Dennis & Cheryl Woods Theater
October 30-November 7, 2009

All Performances begin at 8:00 p.m. except on Sunday when it begins at 2:00 p.m. Closed on Monday

Ticket Prices:
General Admission: $17
Fresno State Faculty/Staff, Alumni Association Members*, Seniors (60 +) & Non - Fresno State Students (Under 5 not admitted) and Military: $15

Fresno State Students*: $10

*ID Required

Box Office Hours
Monday – Friday - Noon to 4 p.m.
North Entrance Speech Arts Building
Phone - 278-2216

Web Site - http://www.csufresno.edu/theatrearts
E-mail - pamd@csufresno.edu

Follow the Yellow Brick Road to Fresno: May 2010

Mark your calendar now!

The Madden Library’s Arne Nixon Center for the Study of Children’s Literature and The International Wizard of Oz Club invite everyone to a national Oz conference, “Oz: The Books,” May 14-16, 2010, on the Fresno State campus.

Featured speakers will include Gregory Maguire, author of Wicked; Michael Patrick Hearn, author of The Annotated Wizard of Oz; John Fricke, co-author of The Wizard of Oz: An Illustrated Companion to the Timeless Movie Classic; and graphic novelist Eric Shanower, author/artist of Adventures in Oz.

The conference will feature a musical, “Time Again in Oz,” produced by the Fresno State Theatre Arts Department and directed by J. Daniel Herring. Playwright Suzan L. Zeder, who based this play on the third Oz book, Ozma of Oz, will also be a speaker.

Submissions are invited for presentations of 15 minutes in length to be presented in breakout sessions on May 14. The Call for Papers information is found at www.arnenixoncenter.org/events/oz_con_call_for_papers.shtml.

Community sponsors include The Fresno Metropolitan Museum, Fresno Pacific University, and The Fresno County Public Library. Planning is still underway; some projects are dependent on the future generosity of donors. As plans progress, information will be posted on the Center’s web site at www.arnenixoncenter.org. The Center’s spring newsletter will include a schedule and a registration form.

For more information about the Oz conference and its underwriting opportunities, please call 559.278.8116 or e-mail Arne Nixon Center curator Angelica Carpenter at angelica@csufresno.edu.

Picnic

Date: October 2-10, 2009
Place: John Wright Theatre

For a listing of show times please go to: https://www.vendini.com/service/tickets/viewEvent.html?e=b114384f7457dbc71323da3359c3bad4&entry=1

Picnic
By William Inge
Directed by Thomas-Whit Ellis

Life will never be the same when a handsome mysterious stranger jumps off a train and into the lives of a group of women in a small, mid-western town.

2009 - 2010 Productions

Picnic
By William Inge
Directed by Thomas-Whit Ellis
October 2-10, 2009
John Wright Theatre

Welcome Home, Jenny Sutter
By Julie Marie Myatt
Directed by Kathleen McKinley
October 30- November 7, 2009
Dennis & Cheryl Woods Theatre

University Dance Theatre
November 19-21, 2009
Lab School Theatre

The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui
By Bertolt Brecht
Directed by Ed EmanuEl
December 4-12, 2009
John Wright Theatre

Portable Dance Troupe
Ruth Griffin, Artistic Director
February 12-20, 2010
John Wright Theatre

Heathen Valley
By Romulus Linney
Directed by Brad Myers
March 12-20, 2010
Dennis & Cheryl Woods Theatre

Time Again In Oz
Story by L. Frank Baum
Adapted by Suzan L. Zeder
Music by Richard Gray
Directed by J. Daniel Herring
May 7-15, 2010
John Wright Theatre

AN EVENING WITH TUCKER SMALLWOOD, ACTOR, AUTHOR, VIETNAM VETERAN

Theatre Arts Department presents
An evening with Tucker Smallwood, Actor, Author, Vietnam Veteran

Reading and discussing his book Return to Eden

Date: Saturday, February 21st
Time: 7 p.m. Free
Place: Woods Theatre, Speech Arts Building

Reception and book signing to follow

Limited Seating
R.S.V.P. to 278.5109 or pamd@csufresno.edu by February 18th

ABOUT TUCKER SMALLWOOD
Born in Washington, D.C. his early years included living for two years in Greece and two more in college in Munich, Germany. He received a BA in Speech/Television Production, from the University of Maryland. He began directing television and was then drafted into the Army in 1967.

Following his training, his service as an Advisor to Vietnamese troops in the Mekong Delta and his recovery from wounds received, he resigned his commission and moved to New York to study acting. He studied under Sanford Meisner and Stella Adler. After being cast in the soap opera Somerset, he was required to leave school, because students were not allowed to work professionally.

He had an enduring relationship at Joseph Papp’s Public Theater, as well as other roles in Broadway and regional theater productions. Additionally, he filmed more than 1000 television and radio commercials and PSA’s during that decade. During the ‘80’s, he appeared in The Cotton Club and Presumed Innocent.

In 1991, he moved to Los Angeles and began his work in prime time television. After several years of guest starring roles on dramas and sit-coms, he chanced into the universe of science fiction with roles in the series SPACE: Above and Beyond, The X-Files and Babylon 5, as well as in the films CONTACT and DEEP IMPACT. Theatrically, he performed in several productions for the Mark Taper, Cast Theater and Odyssey Theater.
Tucker spent a season as a Xindi diplomat for Star Trek: Enterprise. He's generated controversy as God on the Sarah Silverman Program and the film Black Dynamite that premiered at Sundance in January '09.

Following his return to Vietnam in 2004, in the late summer of 2006, he published an anthology of essays entitled RETURN TO EDEN

The listing of all of his shows and characters can be accessed by typing his name (Tucker Smallwood) into IMDb.com.
Pamela Dyer
Business and Promotions Manager
Theatre Arts Department
California State University, Fresno
5201 N Maple Avenue
Fresno CA 93740
559.278.7512
pamd@csufresno.edu

A TRIBUTE TO WILLIAM SAROYAN

The California State University, Fresno Armenian Studies Program and William Saroyan Society presents:

Saturday April 5, 2008

10:00AM - 12:30PM

William Saroyan at 100: a symposium dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the birth of the author Debashis Bandyopadhyay (Presidency College, Kolkata, India)
"Identity in Abject Space: Conceptualizing Normalcy in the Works of William Saroyan and Ruskin Bond"


Micah Jendian (Grossmont College)
"William Saroyan's Enduring Vision"


Harry Keyishian (Fairleigh Dickinson University)
"William Saroyan, Icon: Samson Raphaelson's Jason and Saroyan's Cultural Significance, 1942"


Michael Kovacs (Gavilan College)
"Saroyan One Hundred Years Later: Let's Nibble at Some Sweet Saroyan"


H. Aram Veeser (The City College of New York)
"Saroyan's 'Late Style'" organized by Dr. Dickran Kouymjian and Barlow Der Mugrdechian of the Armenian Studies Program at Fresno State

University Business Center * Alice Peters Auditorium * Fresno State

Free Admission - Call 559.278.2669 for more information.

Dr. Phillip Walker Passes

WALKER, DR. PHILLIP N. -- Dr. Walker, professor emeritus of the Theatre Arts Department at California State University, Fresno, died Monday, March 31, 2008 at the age of 86. Dr. Walker taught at the university from 1950 until 1990. During his tenure he directed over 100 productions for the university. He performed with New Wrinkles, Good Company Players and the California Shakespeare Festival. He also led tours of the London Theatre scene for over 20 years. Professor Walker received his B.A. and M.A. from University of Washington and his Ph.D. from the University of Southern California.

Private arrangements for Dr. Phillip N. Walker are by Neptune Society of Central California. Remembrances may be sent to California State University Foundation Fund, Phillip Walker Acting and Directing Scholarship, 5244 N. Jackson Ave., M/S KC 45, Fresno, CA 93720-8023.

Theatre Arts Annual Open House

The Fresno State Theatre Arts Department invites you and your students to visit our campus in December for our ANNUAL OPEN HOUSE. This event is designed to give college-bound high school juniors and seniors the opportunity to meet our faculty and to discover more about the programs we offer in the areas of Theatre and Dance. The day on campus will include workshops, orientation sessions, tours of the facility, and lunch. It will then conclude with the viewing of a theatre production performed in the John Wright Theatre.

Any seniors interested in applying to Fresno State for Fall, 2008 will be able to audition or interview for scholarships or study grants. There is no fee for this event, however, we do request that each school be limited to 15 participants *, that students pre-register through their drama teacher by November, and that they are seriously considering attending Fresno State with a major or minor in the Performing Arts. Students will be notified of their eligibility for scholarships in Spring of 2008.


Please visit the link @ http://www.csufresno.edu/Theatre/openhouse/2006/Open_House-Intro_2006.htm to register.