Theatre

An absurdist adventure featuring a woman trying to solve the mystery of a recently deceased man unfolds in the SUNY Oswego honors theatre production “Dead Man’s Cell Phone,” opening Thursday, Nov. 21, in the Tyler Hall lab theatre.

“The Fantasticks,” a story about forbidden lovers, incorporating a range of emotions and unexpected twists and turns, will open the SUNY Oswego theatre in Tyler Hall's Waterman Theatre.

SUNY Oswego senior theatre majors Michaela Buckley and Sean Ryan will perform a play they wrote, "Between Fourth and Fifth" to the KeyBank Rochester Fringe Festival with performances on Friday and Saturday, Sept. 20 and 21.

It takes three Alisons to interrogate a lifetime of memories of one brilliant, complex, self-destructive, but ultimately loving father in the SUNY Oswego theatre and music departments' soon-to-open spring musical, "Fun Home."

SUNY Oswego’s spring musical, "Fun Home," is a memory play that director and theatre faculty member Jonel Langenfeld likens to a snow globe -- one that allows the main character to observe from outside the good, the bad and the...

Combine classic tales by famed Russian writer Anton Chekhov with the wit and whimsy of Neil Simon, the author of many Broadway hits, and the result is "The Good Doctor," a series of 10 vignettes in one play, to take...

The SUNY Oswego theatre department will present a one-performance staged reading at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 29, of famed playwright George Bernard Shaw’s “The Shewing-Up of Blanco Posnet: A Sermon in Crude Melodrama.”

The SUNY Oswego theatre department next month will present playwright Neil LaBute's romantic drama "The Shape of Things," a "shocking" production that exposes four college students entangled in relationships to harsh life lessons about moral conflicts.

The upcoming SUNY Oswego production "The Shape of Things," running Nov. 7 to 11 in Tyler Hall's Waterman Theatre. looks at love, choices and identity.

As the SUNY Oswego theatre department approaches opening night Wednesday, Nov. 7, for Neil Labute's "The Shape of Things," the students on the production team help mold a play that emphasizes the power of manipulation in relationships.

A SUNY Oswego storytelling class will bring the tales of local historical figures to life during "A Night at the Oswego Town Rural Cemetery" on Friday, Oct. 26.

Students and faculty from SUNY Oswego’s "Children’s Literature and Film" and "Storytelling" classes will use their respective arts in a free presentation of children’s stories at 2 p.m. Saturday, May 5, at Oswego Public Library.

An April 30 SUNY Oswego production of “Not Someone Like Me” followed by a panel presentation will bring forward the stories of survivors of sexual violence to try to make a positive change.

SUNY Oswego’s presentation of “Urinetown: The Musical” offers a satirical view on what many communities experience: official corruption, corporate greed and an ecological crisis.

Audiences can see the balancing act of SUNY Oswego student cast members Michaela Buckley and Shelby Gilbert -- balance acting and their roles as dance captains -- as the college presents "Urinetown: The Musical," opening at 2 p.m. Saturday, April...

SUNY Oswego students this fall can glide, float, leap and pirouette their way to a new minor in dance.

A group of Oswego students sharpened their skills during a winter break study-abroad session at the prestigious Moscow Theatre Art School.

SUNY Oswego theatre major Nova Grayson Casillo chose an ambitious senior honors thesis, a project with some serious bite: producing and designing the Steven Dietz adaptation of "Dracula."

For Megan Hickey the child, performing in church plays and participating in theatre clubs seemed like just a fun pastime. In the present, it has become one of the most important elements in the SUNY Oswego senior theatre major's life.

The 1960s was a time of revolutionary change, with challenges to social norms as society moved away from tradition. This fall's student honors production of the French farce "Boeing Boeing" at SUNY Oswego portrays this concept of change by challenging...

A storytelling class will bring the tales of historical figures to life during "A Night at the Oswego Town Rural Cemetery" at 6 p.m. Friday, Oct. 27.

The SUNY Oswego theatre department's will present "Clybourne Park," a Pulitzer Prize- and Tony-winning play on race relations, Thursday through Saturday, Oct. 19 to 21 and 26 to 28, in Tyler Hall's Waterman Theatre. SUNY Oswego News got to look...

The SUNY Oswego theatre department's October production of "Clybourne Park," a Pulitzer Prize- and Tony-winning play satirizing ingrained notions about race relations and gentrification, should cause audience members to recognize their shared humanity, the play's director says.

The spring production of Pride & Prejudice, opening April 21 in Tyler Hall's Waterman Theatre, will feature a "contemporary heartbeat."

The SUNY Oswego theater department will premiere its spring play, "Pride & Prejudice," at 7:30 p.m. Friday, April 21, at Waterman Theatre -- a show that one of its lead actors, freshman Sean Ryan as Mr. Darcy, describes as about...

The Acting Company recently named SUNY Oswego senior Michael Jaquez a winner in a national playwriting competition that spun off two plays coming to Waterman Theatre in March, "Julius Caesar" and "X."

To celebrate the grand reopening of renovated Tyler Hall and Waterman Theatre, the SUNY Oswego theater and music departments will stage a contemporary twist on the classic musical “The Wizard of Oz,” swapping out the yellow brick road for train...

A new era in the fine and performing arts at the college will begin unfolding Monday when students enter the new main entrances of Tyler Hall to find bright, modern, flexible, accessible and technologically sophisticated spaces, from the lobby to...

For 14 SUNY Oswego students, winter break brought a crash course in physical theater and Russian culture during an inspiring—and intense—three-week trip to Moscow.Henry Shikongo and Jonel Langenfeld of the college’s theater faculty led the group on the visit to...

Henry Shikongo of the SUNY Oswego theater department recently was chosen for SUNY’s prestigious Faculty Diversity Program, a three-year, salary-assistance and research award that enabled him to join the department as an assistant professor.Since 2008-09, when SUNY’s Office of Diversity,...