Theatre Arts
‘Boeing, Boeing’ Goes Supersonic for Laughs
Rollicking farce arrives on time for Ole Miss Theatre’s spring season FEBRUARY 12, 2020 BY KATHERINE STEWART “When one door closes, another opens.” This well-known aphorism, coined by Alexander Graham Bell and often trotted out in times of difficulty or missed opportunity, doesn’t typically refer to literal doors – unless you’re watching Ole Miss Theatre […]
Spring SouthTalks Begin January 29
January 23, 2020 by Rebecca Lauck Cleary The SouthTalks series, sponsored by the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi, is offering a wide variety of events this spring, including five lectures focused on movement and migration in the South. SouthTalks explore the interdisciplinary nature of Southern studies and includes […]
Ole Miss Theatre Brings ‘Little Women’ to Big Stage
Classic novel, reimagined in winsome musical, comes to Ford Center OCTOBER 23, 2019 BY KATHERINE STEWART “Christmas will be gory!” is hardly a sentence most people would associate with the Christmas of their finest dreams. Nor do most people expect to hear those words belted by a petite young woman careening around in a corset […]
‘The Wolves’ Delivers Adolescent Reality Through Soccer
Opening production of Ole Miss Theatre season posed challenges for production team SEPTEMBER 18, 2019 BY KATHERINE STEWART n the opening scene of “The Wolves,” the chatter of a group of teen-aged girls ricochets around an otherwise empty gymnasium, conversations overlapping as the uniformed young women sit in a circle on the AstroTurf, performing a […]
Community Wellbeing Initiative Unveils New Seed Grants
Flagship Constellation grants promote state tourism, childhood health, more MAY 27, 2019 BY SHEA STEWART Helping create an Ida B. Wells Commemorative Tour in Holly Springs and exploring the therapeutic use of vocal training in older adults are projects being funded through a new round of seed grants from the University of Mississippi‘s Flagship Constellations initiative. […]