theater – Temple Update

Head Over to “Head Over Heels”

Thu, 24 Feb 2022 15:10:43 +0000

Before packing your last-minute items to head home for spring break, get your tickets to see Head Over Heels. It is currently playing at the Tomlinson Theater. Head Over Heels invites its audience to an unmasked adaptation of The Arcadia by Sir Philip Sidney, featuring well-known songs by The Go-Go’s such as “We Got the Beat,” “Vacation,” and “Heaven is a Place on Earth.

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TFMA Gets Creative with Online Class

Thu, 01 Oct 2020 13:33:37 +0000

Temple University’s School of Theater, Film and Media Arts has moved most of its classes and performances online. Both faculty and students are now coping with their new reality. Globally, the theater industry has undergone many changes during the COVID-19 pandemic, including socially distanced shows and online learning. “When I’m sitting alone in my room doing a scene, I have to be the…

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Now Showing: Sunday in the Park with George at Tomlinson Theater

Thu, 21 Feb 2019 15:29:03 +0000

Tonight, Temple Theater celebrates its opening night of Stephen Sondheim’s Sunday in the Park with George, which runs through February 28 at the Tomlinson Theater located at 13th and Norris Streets. The musical draws inspiration from French painter George Seurat’s A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte. The plot revolves around two storylines, a fictionalized version of Seurat…

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Historic Uptown Theater Celebrates 90th

Thu, 21 Feb 2019 15:00:29 +0000

Archival photographs used in the story by Jack T. Franklin, Courtesy of the Charles L. Blockson Afro-American Collection, Temple University Libraries. The lighting of the Uptown Theater‘s historic marquee took place this Saturday. While lighting its original marquee, it is also celebrating its 90th anniversary. In the theater’s prime, it would house acts such as The Jackson 5, James Brown…

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Theater Professor Promotes the Positive

Thu, 30 Mar 2017 14:30:38 +0000

Maggie Anderson, an Assistant Theater Professor, is working to make a positive impact on her students. With the countless auditions that actors must face, one’s personal image can be brought down by rejections. Professor Anderson is taking on that cost with her classes, which promote motivational thinking and a healthy mind-set. “So we work on a wide range of kind of emotional places that a…

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Temple Theaters Presents “Reggie Hoops”

Tue, 31 Jan 2017 15:30:45 +0000

Kristoffer Diaz, a Pulitzer-Prize nominated playwright, is the first-ever recipient of Temple’s Playwright Residency Program. Through this program, Diaz collaborated with students and professors from Temple’s theater department and wrote a full-length play with the student artists in mind. The play, Reggie Hoops, will premiere at Temple this week as part of the mainstage season.

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At the Ballet: “The Nutcracker”

Wed, 07 Dec 2016 13:00:39 +0000

With winter and the holidays quickly approaching, there are many events and activities happening in Philadelphia to commemorate the season. One holiday tradition you do not want to miss is the Pennsylvania Ballet’s annual production of The Nutcracker. The Nutcracker is a timeless story that has graced the stage and screen in movies, television, and, of course, the stage.

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Off to See “The Wizard of Oz”

Mon, 05 Dec 2016 13:15:16 +0000

Get ready to follow the yellow brick road to the Walnut Street Theatre’s production of The Wizard of Oz! The Wizard of Oz is one of the most classic stories of all time. It tells the story of young girl Dorothy Gale living in Kansas, dreaming of a place “somewhere over the rainbow”. Suddenly, when a tornado sweeps through her town, she and her dog Toto, along with her house, are taken into a…

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Temple Theater’s Sidestage Presents Colaizzo’s “Really, Really”

Fri, 18 Nov 2016 14:42:26 +0000

Temple Theater’s Sidestage is set to premiere their first production of the semester, Paul Downs Colaizzo’s play, “Really, Really.” I had the opportunity to chat with the student director of “Really, Really,” Peter Loikits, about the show. What is “Really, Really” about? “Really, Really” is a contemporary drama that pushes the edges and embraces the harsh reality of today’s youth.

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Temple Theaters Presents “Marat/Sade”

Mon, 07 Nov 2016 13:34:36 +0000

Get ready to be taken back in time to the French Revolution and experience the stories and struggles of insane asylum inmates in Temple’s production of Peter Weiss’s play Marat/Sade. Marat/Sade is set in the historic Charenton Asylum in France, right in the wake of the French Revolution. It is almost entirely a “play within a play”, with the asylum inmates being the actors.

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