APSU theater, dance students secure record number of internships
September 10, 2018
Austin Peay State University
Clarksville, TN – For the past three months, 18 students from the Austin Peay State University Department of Theatre and Dance have been busy gaining valuable work experience through a variety of internships and summer study opportunities across the country.
This year’s students span rising sophomores to seniors and represent all four concentrations offered through the department.
Austin Peay State University gives Shakespeare’s “The Taming of the Shrew” a comic book makeover
February 11, 2018
Clarksville, TN – In the late 1940s, shortly after World War II, American comic books took on the daring subject of love. Jack Kirby, co-creator of Captain America, helped popularize these soap opera-like tales with his comic “Young Romance.”
The brightly colored covers—which would later inspire Roy Lichtenstein’s pop art creations—featured couples embracing or kissing, often with someone crying in the background.