For Will Quinn, 'when improv is good, nothing can beat it'
February 24, 2009
Junior theatre arts major Will Quinn equates improv acting with talking with someone you find attractive.
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With research, set designer crafts unique props
February 24, 2009
Junior theatre arts major Jessica Lee Long knows there is more to designing furniture for theater than joining pieces of wood. Before even picking up a tool, she first must delve into the play to to determine how the set pieces should look.
Scene shop takes on all theatric challenges
February 24, 2009
Walls that drip blood, refrigerators that spill out sand and elevators that rain have all been created in the theatre department's Scene Shop in Squires Student Center.
February 24, 2009
Only actors and a director's voices occupy Squires Studio Theatre. There is no set. It's the week before spring semester begins and the first week of rehearsals for the theatre department's latest mainstage production, "The Trestle at Pope Lick Creek."
Community theatre group promotes multicultural understanding
February 24, 2009
About 15 girls of high school age hold hands and, following the directions of an instructor, mirror one other. They press and pull without releasing their grip. The instructor then asks the girls for words that describe a location. They tell her "around,
After 30 years, Theatre looks forward to renovated Henderson Hall
February 24, 2009
While teaching classes, theatre department head Patty Raun often imagines what has transpired inside the walls of the her department's home for more than 30 years -- the Performing Arts Building.
Hollins, Virginia Tech collaborate to put on play
November 3, 2008
No doubt about it, director Ernie Zulia is excited about his upcoming play "Doubt, a Parable."
Dark Irish comedy comes to Squires Studio Theatre
October 1, 2008
There is a skull on director Greg Justice's desk.
'Arts Initiative' brings new buildings, programs to Tech
September 24, 2008
Whoever said Virginia Tech was known just for its engineering?