The audience for the recent sold-out Ozarks cabaret show already has the scoop on this, but for the rest of you: U of O has acrobats! Linda Ollivier, a freshman from Chihuahua, Mexico, is an expert in the high-flying arts. Well, one acrobat, anyway. Linda Ollivier, a freshman from Chihuahua, Mexico, is an expert in […]
Fans of song and dance, drama and comedy and live entertainment are in luck: U of O Theatre Department is putting on "University Cabaret," a dessert theatre cabaret show, from Wednesday, February 22, through Saturday, February 25, at 7:00 in the Black Box Theater in Walton Fine Arts Center. "Our University Cabaret includes everything from […]
You can't go home again, someone said, but at least it turns out you can intern there. When Alisha Nystrom, a rising sophomore theatre major from Bentonville, wanted to do a summer internship at the end of her freshman year, she did not follow the usual route: going to conferences, networking, and applying to the […]
The word that best describes Clayton Becker's summer internship with the highly regarded Opera Santa Fe (OSF) is 'intense.' "My summer internship began on May 23 and ended at 4 a.m. on August 28," says Becker, a junior theater major from Arlington, Tex. "Two hours later I was on a plane home." Becker spent those […]
University Theatre's production of Ira Levin's "Deathtrap" did U of O proud at the Arkansas State Kennedy Center, American College Theatre Festival held October 26 - 29 at Henderson State University in Arkadelphia. "Three of our performers were awarded acting awards," said Walton Professor of Theatre Bruce Brown. "Jacqueline Jurcik, David Pluebell, and Jordan Kulow […]
Clarksville, Ark. --- University of the Ozarks Theatre will present its first production of the 2011-2012 academic year, Ira Levin's comic murder thriller "Deathtrap," on Oct. 13, 14 and 15, in the Walton Fine Arts Center. The production will begin at 7:30 p.m. each evening in the Seay Theatre. General admission tickets are $8 and […]
Tori Rhein's summer internship at the Theater of West Virginia from May 16 to August 21 had much in common with any similar project - adapting one's knowledge of the craft taken from classes here at Ozarks, working long hours for little money (if any), and otherwise doing the thousand-and-one tasks required of anyone in […]
For Rebecca Arnold, her internship last summer at the Crown Uptown Theatre in Wichita, Kansas, was a little like going home. “Both of my parents acted at the Crown during the Eighties,” Rebecca said. “I had actually been there before, when I was younger, and my dad did a show there the summer before I […]
"An opera begins long before the curtain goes up and ends long after it has come down." -- Maria Callas Clayton Becker will spend this summer putting that quote to the test. The sophomore theater major from Arlington, Tex., has been awarded an internship with the highly regarded Santa Fe Opera (SFO), and he is […]
Clarksville, Ark. --- The University of the Ozarks' Theatre Department will present Horton Foote's "Blind Date" and Ken Jenkins' "Rupert's Birthday and Other Stories" on April 13, 14 and 15, in the Walton Fine Arts Center on the U of O campus. The two productions comprise the third annual Cecil and Ruth Boddie Farmer Endowed […]