Austin Peay State University Department of Theatre and Dance opens Fall 2016 season with “Picnic”
September 27, 2016
Clarksville, TN – The Austin Peay State University Department of Theatre and Dance begins its Fall 2016 season with a production of William Inge’s “Picnic.” The play, which runs from September 28th through October 2nd, will be held in the Trahern Theatre on the University campus.
“Picnic” runs from September 28th-October 2nd at APSU.
“Footloose: The Musical” coming to Austin Peay State University this week
April 20, 2016
Clarksville, TN – The Austin Peay State University Department of Theatre and Dance will present “Footloose: The Musical” at the Trahern Theatre this week.
The performance will highlight the work of students, faculty and staff associated with the musical theatre concentration of the department’s new Bachelor of Fine Arts degree program.
Austin Peay Department of Theatre and Dance to host Latin Grammy Award winners Lucky Diaz and The Family Jam Band
April 5, 2016
Clarksville, TN – At 7:00pm on Friday, April 8th, Latin Grammy winners Lucky Diaz and The Family Jam Band will perform in Austin Peay State University’s Trahern Theatre as this spring’s APSU Roy Acuff Chair of Excellence recipients.
The performance starts at 7:00pm.
Latin Grammy Award winners Lucky Diaz and The Family Jam Band to perform at Austin Peay State University’s Trahern Theatre Friday, April 8th.
APSU professor Darren Michael publishes first full-length play, “Scarecrows Will Never See the Sunset”
April 1, 2016
Clarksville, TN – As a child growing up in Arkansas, Darren Michael often heard stories about the town of Smackover. Thanks to the oil boom of the 1920s and 1930s, thousands flocked to the southern town in search of fortune.
Predictably, however, when the oil wells ran dry, those residents left as quickly as they came – and the city atrophied.
APSU professor Darren Michael
APSU professor Dr. Christopher Bailey performs on tour with Celtic Woman
March 18, 2016
Clarksville, TN – Aside from his duties as an assistant professor of musical theatre at Austin Peay State University, Dr. Christopher Bailey is also an accomplished, singer, composer, music director and audio engineer.
APSU professor Dr. Christopher Bailey with internationally renowned vocal group, Celtic Woman.
APSU’s Brian Vernon awarded 2015 Margaret Martin Award by the Tennessee Association of Dance
October 9, 2015
Clarksville, TN – Austin Peay State University associate professor and chair of the Department of Theatre and Dance Brian Vernon has been awarded the 2015 Margaret Martin Award by the Tennessee Association of Dance (TAD).
The Margaret Martin Award recognizes individuals or corporations who make long term, consistently outstanding contributions that further the public image and accessibility of dance in Tennessee. Vernon was chosen to receive the award following a unanimous selection by TAD voting members. [Read more]
APSU to host evening of traditional Japanese dance on October 5th
September 29, 2015
Clarksville, TN – On a warm summer evening, Dr. David Rands, Austin Peay State University associate professor of history, put on a dress shirt and tie and headed to the cultural and political center of Tokyo.
The Supreme Court of Japan stood to his south, and only a few blocks away, surrounded by a moat, was the famed Imperial Palace.
Comedy legends The Second City to return to APSU with new show
August 29, 2015
Clarksville, TN – At 7:30pm on Saturday, September 5th, Chicago’s famed sketch and improv comedy theater, The Second City, will return to Austin Peay State University’s Trahern Theatre with “The Second City: Fully Loaded.”
This new show will feature classic material made famous by Second City stars like Tina Fey, Stephen Colbert and Steve Carell, as well as brand new scenes, songs and improv from the theater’s sold-out shows in Chicago and Toronto.
“The Second City: Fully Loaded” coming to Austin Peay September 5th. ( Todd Rosenberg 2015)
APSU to break ground on new fine arts building September 1st
August 4, 2015
Clarksville, TN – When Barry Jones was a student at Austin Peay State University in the early 1990s, he heard rumors about a new fine arts building going up on campus.
Ten years later, Jones returned to his alma mater as an assistant professor, and he was reassured that the growing art department would soon move out of the cramped Trahern Building.
Austin Peay Fine Arts Building, North Perspective.
APSU Theatre and Dance Department ends season with Ibsen’s “Ghosts”
April 7, 2015
Clarksville, TN – When Henrik Ibsen’s now classic play, “Ghosts,” premiered in London in 1891, some 10 years after the Norwegian playwright first published it, the reviews were harsh. The influential theater critic Clement Scott, writing for The Daily Telegraph, called it “an open drain: a loathsome sore unbandaged; a dirty act done publicly.”
For Scott and others in Victorian London, a play dealing with incest and venereal diseases seemed beyond profane, but today, the intense family drama is credited with helping usher in a new era in the world of theater.
