Theatre at Grand Valley

01/09/2019

04/17/2017

More from our 2017 Year End Theatre Party!

04/17/2017

Dr Roger Ellis as the MC presenting a Shakespeare Scholarship to Bruno Streck Rodrigues.

04/17/2017

03/22/2017

Premier production, in a new translation, surprises and delights with its intriguing take on an ancient tale.

In Euripides’ Helen, the most beautiful woman in the world never abandoned her husband Menelaus for the Trojan prince, Paris. Instead, the gods made Paris a phantom Helen from a cloud, and dropped off the real Helen in Egypt for safe-keeping during the Trojan War. Seventeen years later, Menelaus lands shipwrecked in Egypt with his reclaimed phantom bride. How will Helen persuade him that she is the real Helen? Can she escape marrying the Egyptian king and prevent him from killing Menelaus? Can her cunning win them a ship home to Greece? Is this a tragedy or a comedy?

To purchase tickets, stop by the Louis Armstrong Theatre box office in person Monday - Friday from 10am to 5pm, call us at 616-331-2300 or stop by the Kirkhof's 20-20 Desk to purchase tickets or more information. Tickets may also be purchased through Startickets on-line or by calling 1-800-585-3737.

01/11/2017

Auditions for Helen, March 24 - April 2, 2017, will be held January 24 and 25, 2017. Here are the details:

Open Auditions for our Mainstage show:
Helen
Written by Euripides
New Translation by Diane Rayor
Directed by Karen Libman
March 24 – April 2, 2017

Where: PAC 1103 and PAC 1525
When: Tuesday, Jan. 24 - PAC 1103 4:00pm to 6:00pm
Wednesday, Jan. 25 - PAC 1525 6:00pm to 8:00pm
Call Backs: Thursday, Jan. 26 - KC2263 5:00pm to 7:30pm
Performance Dates: March 24 – Apr. 2, 2017

DETAILS
• Roles for 6 - 15 females, 5 males, 4 either s*x and open to all diversities
• Opportunities for backstage duties
• Casting open to all students regardless of major or minor
• Academic credit available for cast and crew positions
• Rehearsals to be held on weekday evenings and weekends depending on schedule
• 7 Public performances and 1 weekday matinee to be determined

AUDITION PROCEDURES
1. Signing up at the Louis Armstrong Theatre box office in person, call 616-331-2300, or email [email protected]
2. Auditions will consist of cold reads but memorized monologues will be accepted.
3. Attend final casting “callbacks”, if necessary.

Copies of the play for advance reading will be available online from GVSU library’s e-reserve service.
If interested, pick an audition monologue to prepare from any of the library’s
monologue books by searching the catalog for “audition monologues”.
Read about auditioning tips on the GVSU Theatre website:
http://www.gvsu.edu/theatre (click on “Auditions, Workshops & Info”)
Questions or more information at 616-331-2300 or stop by the Louis Armstrong Theatre box off

12/14/2016

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

Music and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim

Stage Direction by Christopher Carter

Music Direction by Brendan Hollins

Artistic Director of GVSU Opera Theatre Dale Schriemer

February 3 - 12, 2017

A tasty, thrilling, theatrical treat. Winner of 8 Tony Awards including Best Musical.

Benjamin Barker, aka Sweeney Todd, is a barber unjustly imprisoned for years by a corrupt judge. He returns to London, bent on revenge — a revenge that turns darkly hilarious and indiscriminately murderous

February 3, 4, 10 & 11 . . . . . . . 7:30 p.m.

February 5 & 12 . . . . . . . . . . . . 2:00 p.m.

Adults $14.00, Seniors, Faculty & Staff $12.00, Students, Alumni & groups $6.00

Tickets at the door are $1.00 additional. Tickets are all reserved seating.

Purchase tickets at the Louis Armstrong Theatre box office, The Kirkhof's 20-20 Desk, or by calling the box office at 616-331-2300 to purchase tickets or more information. Tickets may also be purchased through Startickets on-line or by calling 1-800-585-3737.

Contains adult situations and graphic language. Viewer discretion is advised

10/20/2016

November 11 - 20, 2016! Call the Louis Armstrong Theatre box office at 616-331-2300. Adults $12, all students $6

Read about the story: Read the New York Times article on the verdict and background at http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/18/us/teenagers-found-guilty-in-rape-in-steubenville-ohio.html

08/22/2016

Written by William Shakespeare
Directed by Roger Ellis
SEPTEMBER 30–OCTOBER 9, 2016

Shakespeare’s darkest comedy tackles the twin evils of power and corruption with outrageous humor, giving hope to the hopeless and courage to the powerless. His city caught in a moral free-fall, the Duke of Vienna hands over power to Lord Angelo, who enforces long-dormant codes of chastity with zealous fervor. When Isabella, a pious young nun, pleads for the life of her condemned brother, Angelo's response is surprisingly sensual — revealing a web of desire, deception, and hypocrisy that infects every
corner of society.

September 30*, October 1*, 6**, and 7 at 7:30 p.m.
October 2*, 8, and 9 at 2 p.m.

*GVSU Family Weekend

**Sign language interpretation available.

High School Matinee Performances October 3, 4, and 6 at 10 a.m. available to area high schools only by contacting [email protected]

Tickets are on sale range from $6 for students, $12 for faculty, staff, seniors and $14 for all adults.

For tickets call the Louis Armstrong Theatre box office at 616-331-2300, stop by the 2020 Desk in the Kirkof Center or through Startickets.

08/22/2016

Any faculty member would be thrilled to see that acceptance letter for a Fulbright award. Theatre Professor Karen Libman was understandably excited to jump into her planned projects in Bangladesh.

Read the whole story!
https://www.gvsu.edu/theatre/module-news-view.htm?storyId=012B4B35-F27B-F9FC-9179B27FC9636BB3&siteModuleId=AFF06B9B-E110-1717-2514D44A5FF46C21

04/07/2016

Is your submission to be or not to be?

Call For Papers 2016

Friday, October 7 - Sunday, October 9, 2016

Grand Valley State University, Grand Rapids and Allendale, Michigan

CALL FOR PAPERS – Submission Deadline: June 1, 2016*
Go to: https://www.gvsu.edu/shakesconference/call-for-papers-2016-16.htm

03/24/2016

Want to learn unarmed stage combat!? Attend a May 2-7 workshop at GVSU:
This intensive workshop will enable students to develop and improve a variety of skills essential to performing safe and dramatically effective techniques of unarmed staged violence used in theatre, film and television. As a specialized form of actor/movement work, this course will help to further develop body and spatial awareness, breath and vocal production, centering, concentration, focus, timing, action, and counter-action.
Go to our Theatre website to sign up: www.gvsu.edu/theatre