Fronkensteen Experimental Theatre Group begins its Second Season with a lot of Firsts

Clarksville, TN – The Fronkensteen Experimental Theatre Group (FETG) will open its second season with Shifting Gears: Three Plays by Jeri Weiss on the Friday and Saturday of January twenty-seventh and twenty-eighth directed by Ricky Young. The play will be performed at The Coup starting at 8:00pm.

This production marks the first play in Fronkensteen’s partnership with The Playwright’s Lab at Hollins University in Roanoke Virginia. The partnership came about when Artistic Director Ricky Steven Young Jr., also a member of the Playwright’s Lab, discovered a gap in their regular programs and services. [Read more]

Fronkensteen Experimental Theatre Group Presents Last Play of its First Season

Clarksville, TN – Fronkensteen Experimental Theatre Group is proud to announce that they will be putting on the last play of their first season, “Last Hope for Twenty Miles” at The Coup starting on Thursday December 15th through Saturday the 17th. All performances are at 4:00pm and tickets are only $4.00.

Directed by Sara Schichtel this play, written by Fronkensteen’s founder, Ricky Steven Young Jr., is an excellent capstone to Fronkensteen’s first season. “We have had so many stops and starts, gotten so many bumps and bruises along the way that this performance is almost a celebration that we have made it through this year. [Read more]

Fronkensteen Calls out to Local Playwrights

Written by Ricky Steven Young Jr.
Fronkensteen Experimental Theatre Group

Clarksville, TN – Ricky Steven Young Jr., the Founder and Artistic Director of the Fronkensteen Experimental Theatre Group announces that they will be holding their first ever open submissions by local playwrights.

“Open Submissions open the doors to everyone in the community to share their work to us,” says Young, “Fresh voices always make for greater theatre and it has been our mission to share those voices with the community.” Any playwrights that send in a new play to Fronkensteentheater@gmail.com by November 30th are guaranteed to have their work considered for its next season. [Read more]

Fronkensteen Experimental Theatre Group Opens the Stages at the Coup

Written by Ricky Steven Young Jr.

Clarksville, TN – On Thursday October 20th and Friday October 21st, the Fronkensteen Experimental Theatre Group will host an open stage at The Coup on Crossland Avenue at 9:00pm. Admission is donations only.

Fronkensteen is a non profit theatre group that opened its first season this year and is eagerly anticipating opening its second season next year. All acts wishing to participate should arrive early because the order will be taken at the door at 8:30pm. The first fifteen acts to arrive will make it onstage. The admission is donations only and all donations will go to funding Fronkensteen’s next second season. [Read more]

APSU begins spring sessions of Library Athenaeum

Clarksville, TN – The popular Library Athenaeum series at Austin Peay State University will begin its spring schedule of sessions next week.

Library Athenaeum events, held on the third floor of Woodward Library, are free and open to the public; students especially are encouraged to attend. [Read more]