Department of Theatre and Dance
APSU鈥檚 Theatre and Dance Department fosters artists, scholars and professionals who positively impact our world. We provide a creative environment in which we educate and prepare students for the professional worlds of Theatre and Dance.
- Students progress through a rigorous training program that incorporates both practice and scholarship.
- We support student鈥檚 creative, performance, and scholarly aptitudes through exposure to expansive practical and philosophical approaches to dance and theatre studies.
- We advance critical thought processes by stressing the theoretical, pedagogical, and historical aspects of theatre and dance studies.
- We nurture and inspire excellence in student achievement.
- We cultivate engaged industry professionals who strive to represent the changes the industry requires.
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The show will run from Nov. 13-16 in the Mike and Sara Gotcher Theatre, located in the Trahern Building at APSU. Playwright Gina Femia and Farm Theater Executive/Artistic Director Padraic Lillis will also host a free playwriting masterclass on Nov. 13.
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A Brief* History* of Manmade* Spacefaring* Objects* (*Mostly) ran from Oct. 2-5 as part of APSU's New Musicals Project, with Gibson as assistant director. The one-act production sees personifications of Entropy, Curiosity, Hope, and Inevitability gather around a campfire at the end of the universe to reflect on humanity.
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The Department of Theatre & Dance is presenting two new one-act musicals, "A *Brief *History of *Spacefaring *Objects (*Mostly)" and "Slotherhouse: The Musical," from October 2-5 in the Sara and Mike Gotcher Theatre.
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