USI Theatre cancels remainder of season
Emma Corry, Features Editor
March 12, 2020
The USI Theatre Department’s upcoming productions of “Eclipsed” and “Little Shop of Horrors” have been canceled. Elliot Wasserman, chair of the performing arts department, confirmed to The Shield through email the remainder of the program’s 2019-2020 season has been canceled after the univer...
Local band “Tapestry” comes to campus
Susanna Fravell, Staff Writer
January 21, 2020
USI College of Liberal Arts hosts Evansville band, Tapestry on Jan. 24 at 7 p.m. in the Performance Center and open to the public. The event is sponsored by the USI Foundation through generous donations. Tapestry is a five member rock band with classically trained singers. Some of the members lead classe...
Award-winning Hollywood Actress Comes to USI
Susanna Fravell, Staff Writer
November 19, 2019
The Performing Arts Department and the College of Liberal Arts will be welcoming award-winning actress Rutina Wesley to Evansville for the 2019 Community of Scholars Lecture. The lecture will be held Dec. 2 at 7 p.m. in the Performance Center. Wesley will speak about her acting career and answer any quest...
Play to combine steampunk with classic Shakespeare comedy
Emma Corry, Features Editor
November 6, 2019
Easton Crisp wears heelys when he plays Puck for the upcoming USI Theatre production of William Shakespeare's “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.” The sophomore theatre major had never worn heelys before he began wearing them after the second or third rehearsal. Crisp would practice with them whenever...
Setbacks delay revolving door removal
Rhonda Wheeler, News Editor
September 24, 2019
The revolving door in the Performance Center has been out of commission since 2016. Director of Facility Operations and Planning James Wolfe said they are working with an engineer to design a new entrance system and they’re going to take it out completely. Holzman Moss Bottino Architecture, the compa...
Sex, math and philosophy
Abigail Suddarth, Staff Writer
February 10, 2016
The only thing that prevents mathematics and predictability from working is sex. This phrase taken from the upcoming USI Theatre production of “Arcadia” is the “truest thing anyone can say,” said Elliot Wasserman, the play’s director.
An all-American charity
Megan Thorne, Features Editor
December 2, 2015
Toby Keith and Albert Pujols attend Don Mattingly's fundraiser event Thursday a the USI Performance Center.
One-man show for piano inauguration
Nick Leighty
September 15, 2015
The university will be hosting two free performances of Philip Hayes Dean’s one-man show, Robeson, Sept. 22 and 23. The shows serve as a formal inauguration of a Steinway Concert Grand Piano custom-made for the University’s Performance Center. The productions are at 7:30 p.m. both days in the...
Theatre season include three plays, one musical
August 19, 2015
The university’s theatre program posted the four productions lined up for the 2015-2016 season on their website. Oct. 15-18 USI Theatre will present “Grapes of Wrath,” a play by Frank Galati based on the novel by John Steinbeck. “Grapes” is set during the Great Depression and fol...