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AU Theatre presenting Pulitzer-prize winning play “Proof” Oct. 19-22

ASHLAND, Ohio – The Ashland University Department of Theatre is presenting the Pulitzer-prize winning play “Proof” by David Auburn from Thursday through Sunday, Oct. 19-22. All performances will take place at the Studio Theatre in the Center for the Arts, with the Thursday, Friday and Saturday shows beginning at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday’s matinee at 2 p.m. “Proof” is part of the College of Arts and Science’s Symposium Against Indifference: Perspectives on the…

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AU Theatre to host series of 10-minute plays on April 14-15

ASHLAND, Ohio – The Ashland University Department of Theatre will close out its 2022-23 season by presenting a festival of 10-minute plays Friday and Saturday, April 14-15, in the Studio Theatre of the Center for the Arts (331 College Ave.). To conclude this season’s theme, “Standing Up, Standing Out,” these student-directed short plays each have characters who stand up for themselves and stand out by making choices that will change their lives. Admission is…

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Ashland University grad Beery returns to area to teach theatre with experience in New York

While she enjoyed her time in New York, 1997 Ashland University graduate Maria Beery is happy to be back in the area teaching theatre classes at the Richland Academy of the Arts. “The building may be different and many of the faces are new, but RAA still has the same unmistakable creative energy that it had 25 years ago when I first started there,” said Beery, who first taught classes, workshops and summer programs part time for RAA while she was a student at…

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“Bat Boy: The Musical” coming to AU’s Hugo Young Theatre Feb. 17-20

ASHLAND, Ohio – The department of theatre at Ashland University continues its 2021-22 theme of “Finding Your Place in the World” by presenting “Bat Boy: The Musical” Thursday through Sunday, Feb. 17-20. All performances will take place at the Hugo Young Theatre, with the Thursday, Friday and Saturday shows starting at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday’s matinee at 2 p.m. This musical contains adult themes and may not be appropriate for children under 12. “Bat Boy: The…

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TubaChristmas returning to Ashland on Dec. 4

ASHLAND, Ohio – TubaChristmas, a concert of holiday favorites, will be making its return to Ashland University this Saturday, Dec. 4. The performance, free and open to the public, is scheduled to begin at noon at Hugo Young Theatre. Hundreds of TubaChristmas’s take place around the world, giving the oft-neglected tubists, baritones and euphoniums a chance to perform melodies instead of simple basslines and harmonies as they do in most of their ensembles,…

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AU Theatre performing “She Kills Monsters” from Nov. 4-7

ASHLAND, Ohio – The department of theatre at Ashland University opens its 2021-22 season with “She Kills Monsters” by Qui Nguyen this Thursday through Sunday, Nov. 4-7. All performances will take place at the Hugo Young Theatre, with the Thursday, Friday and Saturday shows beginning at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday’s matinee at 2 p.m. “She Kills Monsters,” directed by Teresa Durbin-Ames, an associate professor of theatre at Ashland, and co-sponsored by AU Eagles for…

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Work of student directors featured in Ten-Minute Play Fest

04/12/2021 ASHLAND, Ohio – The Ashland University Department of Theatre concludes its 2020-2021 season, The Wonder of Human Connection, with a Ten-Minute Play Festival April 16-17 at 7:30 p.m. in the Hugo Young Theatre. No tickets are required, but seating is limited and masks are required. Three plays will be presented directed by students in the directing class. Senior musical theatre major Macy Campbell directs “Bedfellows” by Bruce Kane, while junior…

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