theater
Spotlight on Steubenville: A grand piece of history
AmyLynn Miller Steubenville Columnist Once upon a time, the Grand Theater for the Performing Arts, located on South Fourth Street in downtown Steubenville, was a popular attraction. When it opened in 1924, the theater hosted vaudeville acts and showed silent films accompanied by live organ music. It continued to operate as a movie theater up […]
Shakespeare as never seen before: Uproarious fun and improvisation guaranteed
Francesco Pinque Staff Writer This year’s mainstage production, “Two Gentlemen of Verona,” promises to be an uproarious, interactive theatre experience unlike any other in Franciscan University of Steubenville’s history. Two unique elements are what separate this play from the rest. First, it is being held outside under the large tree near the Finnegan Fieldhouse, which […]
Goats and God: A Franciscan family’s tale
RACHEL MILLER EDITOR-IN-CHIEF How did the Walker family end up at Franciscan University of Steubenville? It all started with a Google search. In 2015, Matt Walker — who is now a senior at Franciscan — was looking into colleges. His father, John Walker, helped him search. Since Matt was interested in theater, John found Franciscan’s […]
Senior theater majors close year with diverse one-act plays
JEN HANTZ STAFF WRITER With only a month left of the semester, senior theater majors are buckling down and cleaning up their acts in preparation for the final curtain call of the year and of their careers here at Franciscan University of Steubenville. This year, three seniors are directing one-act plays as their final project […]
Students captivated by art, repelled by agenda at Pittsburgh production
RACHEL MILLER ASSISTANT EDITOR On Saturday, Feb. 23, about two dozen students from Franciscan University of Steubenville joined Pittsburgh theater-goers in the O’Reilly Theater to watch a production of William Shakespeare’s “The Tempest” with some modern twists that left the students discussing long afterward. Students arrived at the Pittsburgh theater by 2 p.m. to experience […]
A lack of limelight: Anathan’s hidden superpower
ALLEGRA THATCHER EDITOR-IN-CHIEF To the audience, they are names on a program. To the actors, they are what keeps the show together. Behind the walls of the stage in Anathan Theatre, there is a team of over a dozen people who works quietly and without acknowledgement except by those on stage. As the theatre department […]
The show must go on: theatre students to showcase talent in senior one act plays
MEGAN REZNICEK STAFF WRITER Though Franciscan’s mainstage play will end on April 15, the great feast for the imagination need not end there. The theatre department will be offering more drama, more art, more talent and certainly more entertainment to immerse oneself in this year. Running from April 26 to April 29, the senior one […]
Anathan Theater takes down raised stage to create new space
ALLEGRA THATCHER ASSISTANT EDITOR Its walls have heard hundreds of voices, be they screaming, crying or whispering; its floor has held up feet dancing, running and falling; the scenes brought to life on the Anathan Theater have evoked every emotion possible in the audience over many years. Yet time has obscured the history of the […]
University professor takes on role of Chesterton
CHARLES ADAMS STAFF WRITER Franciscan University’s very own Professor John H. Walker was recently asked to take on the “bigger than life” role of G. K. Chesterton in Eternal Word Television Network’s (EWTN) “Saints and Scoundrels” series. Walker, who serves as Assistant Professor of Theatre at the university, has been a film actor for 40 […]