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When Everybody Needs To Laugh
It was February 2017. I was a senior in high school. I was on Union’s campus for a Scholars of Excellence weekend. I had no idea what I was doing, but this was the weekend […]
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A Thankful Heart: David Burke’s Heart Surgery Story
No one expected it when it happened. The last time I saw David Burke, director of the theater department for 32 years, before his surgery was in class that Thursday. As we watched a movie […]
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Jack & the Beanstalk: The Challenges of Children’s Theater
It’s been a long time since I’ve been to a children’s show. Growing up in Franklin, I went to three or four shows a year at Nashville Children’s Theater with a local homeschool group. I […]
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Broadway composer and playwright speaks about overcoming fear of failure
Christopher Smith, composer of the Broadway production “Amazing Grace,” came to Union and gave a motivational lecture entitled “The Edge of Impossible” on April 21 at 7 p.m. and led an audition practicum the next […]
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Upcoming “Little Women” play will include sword-fighting
Union’s theater department will present the musical “Little Women” March 23-28 in the PAC Powell Theater. The play is filled with comedy, tragedy and a little bit of sword-fighting action. David Burke, the director of […]
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Out of the classroom and onto the stage: Theatre and English departments collaborate
The Union University Theatre Department will be presenting Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream from Nov. 10-15. This particular production is unique in that John Klonowski, assistant professor of theatre and director of the play, invited the English […]
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Preview: The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds
“The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds is a semi-autobiographical drama about hope blooming even in the midst of a toxic environment that does everything it can to kill it,” Sydney Fly, senior interdisciplinary […]