MSUM Musical Theatre majors caught a lucky break last Saturday when New York City based actor and writer, Matt Webster, came to MSUM to work with them. Webster, who’d just finished working on a show in St. Paul, Minn., is a successful actor and writer whose first musical, Kingdom Come, won Best Musical at the Downtown Urban Theatre Festival in NYC. […]
Wednesday, Feb. 21 | 4:30-5:30 p.m. | MA 167 Professor Ted Gracyk will be presenting his colloquium “Book Reading: Jazz and the Philosophy of Art” on Wednesday, Feb. 21 at 4:30 p.m. in MacLean Hall 167. All are welcome to attend! Please see flyer for more information.
Friday, Feb. 2 | 12 p.m. | Fox Recital Hall American avant-garde composer Mark Applebaum (the “ Mad Scientist of Music”), presents a free lecture demonstration Friday, Feb. 2, at noon in Fox Recital Hall in the Roland Dille Center for the Arts. As a Professor of Composition at Stanford University, Applebaum has challenged the conventional boundaries of music throughout his […]
Seventeen Theatre Arts majors traveled to the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival (KCACTF) in Des Moines, Iowa, last week and came home with commendations in the areas of performance, directing, management, design, and devised theatre. More than 315 pairs of actors competed in three qualifying rounds for the Irene Ryan Acting Competition. MSUM sent seven pairs, four of which […]
Thursday, Jan. 25 | 7 p.m. | Library 103 MSUM’s School of Media Arts & Design presents a workshop on the process of researching and successfully navigating the highly competitive film festival circuit. Festival coordinators representing six regional film festivals will discuss the decision-making process involved with programming their respective festivals. The workshop will take place in MSUM’s Livingston Lord […]