{"id":23671,"date":"2022-04-07T15:57:09","date_gmt":"2022-04-07T19:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/?p=23671"},"modified":"2022-04-11T11:10:06","modified_gmt":"2022-04-11T15:10:06","slug":"marshalls-department-of-theatre-and-dance-to-present-original-play-by-marshall-grad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/2022\/04\/marshalls-department-of-theatre-and-dance-to-present-original-play-by-marshall-grad\/","title":{"rendered":"Department of Theatre and Dance to present original play by Marshall grad"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>The Marshall University School of Theatre and Dance will present \u201cOther Life Forms,\u201d an original play by Marshall University Theatre graduate Brandon McCoy. It will be performed at 7:30 p.m. nightly Wednesday, April 13, through Saturday, April 16, in the Joan C. Edwards Performing Arts Center.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOther Life Forms\u201d tells the story of roommates Ben and Jeff, who couldn\u2019t be more different. Ben is a struggling journalist who can\u2019t get anything to go his way. Jeff is a successful researcher who glides through life with little resistance. At Jeff\u2019s insistence, they both give online dating a try. Ben meets Molly and the results are volatile, while Jeff meets Leslie and they make a connection.<\/p>\n<p>The show is directed by School of Theatre and Dance Assistant Professor T. Fulton Burns, and the cast includes the following Marshall students: Van Preston, Kendra Williams, Jimi Lee, Nikki Riniti and Sierra Lutz.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Marshall University School of Theatre and Dance is thrilled to welcome back playwright Brandon McCoy, who is an alumnus of our program,\u201d said Samuel Kincaid, box office and public relations manager for the school. \u201cTheatregoers will remember his play \u2018West By God,\u2019 which was a huge hit with audiences two years ago.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Admission is free for Marshall students with their MU ID; $15 for faculty;\u00a0staff and seniors;\u00a0and $25 general admission. Call 304-696-2787 for ticket information.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Marshall University School of Theatre and Dance will present \u201cOther Life Forms,\u201d an original play by Marshall University Theatre graduate Brandon McCoy. It will be performed at 7:30 p.m. nightly Wednesday, April 13, through Saturday, April 16, in the Joan C. Edwards Performing Arts Center.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":134,"featured_media":23672,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,45,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cam","category-featured","category-news-releases"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/134"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23671"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23671\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23688,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23671\/revisions\/23688"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}