Live on Campus
Live on Campus will feature Eva Schmitt, David Nevarez, and Urvaksh Avanthsa.
Schmitt is a freshman from Geneseo, Ill., and is a member of the Jenny Lind Choir.
Nevarez and Avanthsa are both sophomores from the Phi Omega Phi fraternity. Nevarez is majoring in pre-medicine and biochemistry while Avanthsa is majoring in pre-medicine and neuroscience.
Students are invited to come watch their fellow students perform and enjoy free wings.
Live on Campus
Live on Campus will feature live music at the Brew at 7 PM.
Live on Campus
Live on Campus will feature live music at the Brew at 7 PM.
Live on Campus: Emily Earle
Live on Campus will feature singer-songwriter Emily Earle of NBC's The Voice.
Pizza and drinks will be available.
Live on Campus
Live on Campus will feature live music at the Brew at 7 PM.
Live on Campus
Live on Campus will feature live music at the Brew at 7 PM.
Live on Campus
The "Live on Campus" committee of the Student Life Programming Board is holding their first student showcase of the year this Friday. Live on Campus features Augustana senior, Grace Cowan. She is an active member of Delta Chi Theta and a communication studies major from Plainfield, Ill.
Mississippi Bend Players kick off with 'Big River'
The Mississippi Bend Players, led by Broadway director and Augustana alumnus Phil McKinley, will kick off their second season with the musical "Big River: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn."
The Crucible
American playwright Arthur Miller's "The Crucible" is a dramatized and partially fictionalized story of the Salem witch trials. A mob mentality arises in Salem when suspicions and misinterpretations arise after a group of teenage girls is accused. The girls then begin accusing others and townsfolk turn against each other.
Miller wrote the play as an allegory for McCarthyism, when the United States government ostracized people for being communists. Miller himself was questioned by the House of Representatives' Committee on Un-American Activities in 1956 and convicted of contempt of Congress for refusing to identify others present at meetings he had attended.
"The Crucible" won the 1953 Tony Award for Best Play. It is regarded as a central work in the canon of American drama. Directed by Dr. Jennifer Popple, Augustana assistant professor of theatre.
Play: 'The Why'
Students in the THEA 350 play production class will present the tragicomedy "The Why" about a teenager school shooter.
This weekly student seminar group works under faculty supervision to produce an annual studio theatre production. Students collaborate on every aspect of the production process, culminating in the public performance. Students in the class choose a title, design, direct, and produce a show. "The Why" will be directed by junior Jonathan Quigley.
Playscripts description: "The central story concerns Robert, an American teenager guilty of murdering three of his classmates in what has come to be referred to as a school shooting. Spliced among the dramatic exchanges between Robert and his assigned social worker, a parade of fantastical stereotypes storms in and out, creating a dichotomy between moments of hilarity and sorrow. Confronted by disturbingly accurate exaggerations of the tabloid-like modern media, the audience is made to laugh, and then question that laughter."