theatre and dance department

Theater department: behind the scenes

February 23, 2017February 23, 2017 Trojan Living

Lirona Joshi Staff Writer Theater productions offer the audience a chance to experience an alternate reality, even if it is for just a few moments. The actors may be the most visible in the production, but the show that’s put on display is impossible without a number of hidden people pulling the strings behind the scene. According to Scott Anderson, lecturer of costume design in the theatre and dance department, the background work for a production begins weeks before the rehearsals. “We start off with reading the script and getting…

Theatre and Dance to open auditions this week

August 17, 2016 Trojan Living

Lacey Alexander Staff Writer Students will have the opportunity to showcase their singing and acting skills Friday, Aug.19, and Saturday, Aug. 20, at the Theatre and Dance department auditions for the upcoming theater season. Many of the department’s theater projects and shows will be cast from these auditions, including “Flyin’ West” by Pearl Cleage, which has an all-black cast. The play focuses on three sisters who have moved to Kansas in 1898 to escape Jim Crow laws and other forms of racism in the south. “Flyin’ West” will be directed…