Arcadia University News

Philly Fringe Festival Blog featured a story on Adjunct Professor Larry Loebell 's film Dostoyevsky Man , which will be screened at Arcadia University's MainStage Theater, Spruance Fine Arts Center, on Sunday, Sept. 16, at 7 p.m. True to his art, Larry shot the entire film on his own iPhone. As he...

What happens when you put a dozen students in a room with a dozen incarcerated individuals to practice yoga? It's up to Arcadians to find out. “Living Your Yoga” is a course offered through the national Inside-Out program. It takes students behind the walls of the Philadelphia Detention Center to...

"Recto Verso," an original bronze and mixed media sculpture by Adjunct Professor of Acting Debra Rosenblum will appear in the upcoming Centennial Juried Art Exhibition at Delaware Art Museum from Oct. 20, 2012 - Jan 13, 2013. The sculpture was also awarded second prize in sculpture at the 2011 "Art...

Trib Total Media reported on July 21 that Olivia Lantz , a junior Acting major, is gaining experience backstage with an apprenticeship at Apple Hill Playhouse in Delmont, Pa., as reported by Alice T. Carter, Tribune-Review Theater critic. “I really wanted to get some other theater experience under...

Jamal Douglas ’10 is cast as Lysander, a principal character, in the Delaware Shakespeare Festival's production of A Midsummer's Night Dream , which runs through July 28 at Rockwood Mansion Park in Wilmington, Del. The Delaware Shakespeare Festival is a professional theatre company dedicated to...

Grace Gonglewski , Adjunct Professor of Theater Arts and Acting, appears in Women in Jep (July 5-15), the Arden Theatre Company’s inaugural production for The Writers’ Room, an innovative playwright residency program, as reported by Montgomery Media Correspondent Rita Charleston. Gonglewski, who...

Kathryn Hummer ’08 , better known in the Philadelphia theatre world as Katie Keith, was featured on NJ.com for her recent achievements both on stage and behind the scenes. Keith is currently starring in The Living News at the National Constitution Center and directing the Mainstage Center for the...

Main Line Times reported on June 21 that Bailey Shaw ’11 , who earned a B.F.A. in Acting from Arcadia University, is playing her first professional role as Quintin in Azuka Theatre 's current production of Allison Moore's Hazard County . The production is part of the New Professionals Program,...

Uwishunu recently featured Azuka Theatre’s new annual program, The New Professionals, "[which is] dedicated to showcasing the talents of recent college graduates as they prepare to enter the professional ranks." Carrie Ryan ’11 is among these recent graduates and serves as stage manager for the...

Montgomery News reported that Ro Gauger ’13 , Mariah Frazier ’ 15, Heather Markowitz ’ 14 and Ruth Oliver ’ 13 have been given a special learning opportunity as set designers for Montgomery Theater’s upcoming production, “Any Wednesday” a comedy written by Muriel Resnik. Michael Kerns , Arcadia's...

Marcelline Krafchick ’54 , Arcadia University’s first Fulbright Scholar, returned to campus to reconnect with friends, tour the new Commons student center and attend the inauguration ceremony of the 20th president of the University, Carl (Tobey) Oxholm III . A renowned literature and drama scholar...

The Futuristic, Fantasy and Paranormal (FF&P) Special Interest Chapter of the Romance Writers of America featured guest blogger Kimberly Gardner 's original piece, "My Muse Has Left Town," on March 8. Gardner earned a B.A. in Theatre Arts from Arcadia University and has been writing...

The Colonial (Fort Washington, Pa.) reported on Arcadia University's upcoming production 'The Children's Hour,' April 19 through 29 on the MatinStage in the Spurance Fine Arts Center. Set in an all-girls boarding school in 1930s New England, Hellman's play is a cautionary tale about the power of...

Stage Directions recently listed Arcadia University for producing the premier of The Swing of the Sea , written by Molly Hagan, in the 44th annual Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts National Festival schedule, which will take place in Washington, D.C., April 16-21. Hagan is the recipient of the...

Philly.com featured Jessica Conda ’03 , an artist in residence at Brat Productions, a club-based theater company in Philadelphia, Pa., on March 29. She recently developed a distinct mix of snarky glam-and-garage punk and brassy vocal-narrative cabaret dubbed "Rock & Awe." "The series is...

Montgomery Media recently listed Arcadia University's production 'The Children’s Hour,' which runs April 19 to April 29 on the MainStage in the Spruance Fine Arts Center, in the Montgomery Life Events Calendar section. Set in an all-girls’ boarding school in 1930s New England, Hellman’s play is a...

Chagrin Valley Times recently reported on Arcadia University's production of The Swing of the Sea , written by Molly Hagan, winner of the National Student Playwright Award at the 2012 Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival (KCACTF). Arcadia's Theater Department was the first to produce it...

The Swing of the Sea was the 2011 winner of the Mimi and Harold Steinberg National Student Playwriting Award, as part of the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival's Michael Kanin Playwriting Awards program. This award is in recognition of the outstanding, full length, student-written...

The Bulletin caught a sneak peek of Arcadia University Theater’s production of Girl Science , written by Adjunct Professor Larry Loebell and directed by Rebecca Wright, Artistic Director of Applied Mechanics , with costume design by Jackie Sherman . The small cast and close-knit production team...

Phillyburbs.com recently reported the opening of the Arcadia University Theatre production of Girl Science , which opened Feb. 23 and runs through March 4. [The play] focuses on Lois, a historian, who selects her great-aunt, Dr. Johanna Vernon, an eminent biologist and "forgotten pioneer of science...