{"id":113065,"date":"2022-07-22T18:43:18","date_gmt":"2022-07-22T22:43:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=113065"},"modified":"2022-07-22T18:43:18","modified_gmt":"2022-07-22T22:43:18","slug":"muhlenberg-theatre-dance-department-announces-2022-23-performance-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=113065","title":{"rendered":"Muhlenberg Theatre & Dance Department announces 2022-23 performance season"},"content":{"rendered":"
The Muhlenberg College Department of Theatre & Dance announces its 2022-23 performance schedule, which will include several dance productions, two staged readings, and four full-scale theatre productions, including Bertolt Brecht’s musical “The Threepenny Opera.”<\/p>\n

“We have worked hard to put together a season that reflects values of our department,” says Rebecca Lustig, director of the co-curricular\/production program. “Work that puts into practice what we explore in our classrooms, studios, and shops; work that foregrounds issues of social justice; work that fosters collaboration between students and faculty and creates community; and work that provides opportunities to tell stories from a diversity of perspectives and experiences.”<\/p>\n

Tickets will go on sale in August. Showtimes, tickets, and dates in full description will be available at\u00a0muhlenberg.edu\/seeashow<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“We Are Proud to Present\u00a0a Presentation About the Herero of Namibia, Formerly Known as South West Africa, From the German S\u00fcdwestafrika, Between the Years 1834 – 1915”
\n<\/b>by Jackie Sibblies Drury
\ndirected by Nigel Semaj
\nSept. 29 \u2013 Oct. 2, 2022<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

A group of actors gather to tell the little-known story of the first genocide of the 20th century. “We Are Proud to Present\u2026” takes place largely in a rehearsal room that descends from collaborative to absurd as a group of idealistic actors \u2014 three black and three white \u2014 attempt to recreate the extinction of the Herero tribe at the hands of their German colonizers.<\/p>\n

“The Threepenny Opera”
\n<\/b>by Bertolt Brecht
\nin collaboration with Elisabeth Hauptmann
\nmusic by Kurt Weill
\ndirected by James Peck
\nmusical director: Vincent Trovato
\nOct. 28 \u2013 Nov. 6, 2022<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

When the seemingly innocent Polly Peachum elopes with the suave but ruthless gang leader Macheath, their marriage sets off a turf war with the elder Peachums for control of London’s lucrative underground. One of the most influential works in musical theatre history, this gangland satire launches a vitriolic broadside at the corruptions of capitalist modernity.<\/p>\n

“Oedipus”<\/b><\/div>\n

by Seneca
\nadapted by Ted Hughes
\nA Staged Reading, directed by Matt Moore
\nNov. 11-13, 2022<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
In perhaps the world’s first reboot, first-century Roman Playwright Seneca the Younger takes on the tale of the unlucky King Oedipus, better known from Sophocles’ “Oedipus Rex.”<\/p>\n

“Reset: New Dances”<\/b>
\nDec. 1-3, 2022<\/p>\n

Our fall student dance concert, featuring exciting new choreographic works by Muhlenberg dancers.<\/p>\n

“(&Medea)”<\/b>
\na new play conceived by Janet Howe
\nwritten & developed by Jess Shoemaker
\nA Staged Reading, directed by Jamie McKittrick
\nJan. 27-29, 2023<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

“(& Medea)” is a poetic re-telling of the classic myth, following Medea through the most overlooked chapter of her history\u2026 the love story. Plans are tentative, but stay tuned for details about this exciting new-play development project.<\/p>\n

“Love + Information”<\/b>
\nby Caryl Churchill
\ndirected by Jessie Dean
\nFeb. 23-26, 2023<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Someone sneezes. Someone can\u2019t get a signal. Someone put an elephant on the stairs. Someone hates irrational numbers. Someone told the police. Someone\u2019s never felt like this before. In this fast-moving kaleidoscope, more than 100 characters try to make sense of what they know.<\/p>\n

“In Motion”<\/b>
\nMarch 30 \u2013 April 1, 2023<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

The Dance Program presents its annual premiere concert, featuring dynamic new dance works by Muhlenberg’s acclaimed dance faculty & guest artists, and featuring more than 50 of the\u00a0 program’s talented dance students.<\/p>\n

“Local Girls”<\/b>
\nby Emma Goidel
\ndirected by Beth Schachter
\nApril 19-23, 2023<\/p>\n

“Local Girls” is a play with music about searching for big-time glory in a small-time town. In the play, Diskit is a high school chemistry genius who needs some friends, while Riley is a high school burnout who needs a new screamer for her heavy metal band. A local \u201cBattle of the Bands\u201d contest could transform them both from high school losers to rock gods, but will that be enough to get both girls out of Tucker, Georgia?<\/p>\n

“Dance Emerge”<\/b>
\nApril 27-30, 2023<\/p>\n

The spring student dance concert features exciting new choreographic works by Muhlenberg dancers.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\nAbout the Muhlenberg College Theatre & Dance Department<\/b>
\n<\/span>Muhlenberg offers Bachelor of Arts degrees in theatre and dance. The Princeton Review ranked Muhlenberg\u2019s theatre program in the top twelve in the nation for eight years in a row, and Fiske Guide to Colleges lists both the theatre and dance programs among the top small college programs in the United States. Muhlenberg is one of only eight colleges to be listed in Fiske for both theatre and dance.<\/p>\n

About Muhlenberg College<\/span><\/b>
\nFounded in 1848, Muhlenberg is a highly selective, private, four-year residential, liberal arts college offering baccalaureate and graduate programs. With an enrollment of approximately 2,200 students, Muhlenberg College is dedicated to shaping creative, compassionate, collaborative leaders through rigorous academic programs in the arts, humanities, natural sciences and social sciences; selected preprofessional programs, including accounting, business, education and public health; and progressive workforce-focused post-baccalaureate certificates and master\u2019s degrees. Located in Allentown, Pennsylvania, approximately 90 miles west of New York City, Muhlenberg is a member of the Centennial Conference, competing in 22 varsity sports. Muhlenberg is affiliated with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.<\/div>\n

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