Dr. N.B. East, a longtime chair of the Marshall University theatre department, will be inducted into the Southeastern Theatre Conference Hall of Fame March 10, during the Annual SETC Business Meeting at the 2018 Convention in Mobile, Alabama.

The Marshall University Theatre company, THEATRE ETC!, has received an anonymous grant in the amount of $20,000. The grant will improve the level of production and affordability of the company’s performances, said the company’s founder and director, John Colclough, a professor of theatre at Marshall.

The Martin Luther King, Jr. State Holiday Commission honored Lewisburg natives Pamela Barry and Neely Seams with the “Living the Dream” award this year. The two wrote and performed a powerful monologue that honored another notable West Virginia native, Katherine Coleman Goble Johnson. 

Marshall University School of Theatre announces Auditions for its Spring productions: Alabama Rain and As You Like It on November 27th, beginning at 7:00 PM  at the Joan C. Edwards Performing Arts Center in the Joan C. Edwards Playhouse. 

Marshall University’s School of Theatre will host a public performance of “*mark: the Gospel of Mark written in the First Century” by the Joan C. Edwards Distinguished Professor of the Arts, theatre artist George Drance, S.J. The free, solo performance will take place at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 21, in Marshall’s Joan C. Edwards Performing

Marshall University’s 2017-2018 theatre season will begin with “The Miracle Worker” by William Gibson. The opening show will play at 7:30 p.m. nightly Wedneday, Oct. 4, to Saturday, Oct. 7, and Wednesday, Oct. 11 to Saturday, Oct. 14, in the Francis-Booth Experimental Theatre in the Joan C. Edwards Performing Arts Center on Marshall’s Huntington campus.

What to Expect “In The Rooms” This is a series of workshops and discussions with Marina Hunley Graham the Artistic Director of Unto These Hills in Cherokee, NC. 

A new online application for students who are ready to graduate has been created.  The link is active in myMU and can be used to apply for December graduation now. This new online process will expedite graduation application processing and eliminate any misunderstandings that might delay graduation. Click Here for a downloadable PDF document that gives

More than 100 West Virginia students between their sophomore and junior years have been immersed in the Governor’s School for the Arts at Marshall University. The audition-based school began June 25 and will end July 15.