Senior musical theatre student Breanna Douglas will perform in the culminating staged reading of "Our Tempest," a new play by Jake Brasch, at Theaterlab in New York City on June 6, 2022.

Those seeking a deeper understanding of the war between Russia and Ukraine can attend a public presentation on April 26 at Austin Peay State University.

Austin Peay State University's Corey Finley, who graduated with a bachelor's degree in acting this spring, has landed a highly sought one-year acting internship at Actors Express in Atlanta.

The program will include Christmas standards like "My Favorite Things," "It Came Upon a Midnight Clear," "O Little Town of Bethlehem," "Santa Baby,"and "Mr. Grinch."

From Thursday, Nov. 21-Sunday, Nov. 24, APSU Department of Theatre and Dance and the Center of Excellence for the Creative Arts (CECA) will present "Five Savory Dishes" - a world premiere evening of one-act plays written Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright John Patrick Shanley.

This year's event will feature a special collaboration with the Madison Street United Methodist Church Hand Bell Choir on the holiday staple "Ring those Christmas Bells."

Ashley has directed such hits for Atlanta's Actor's Express as "Rent," "The Rocky Horror Show," "End of the Rainbow," "Six Degrees of Separation" and "Grey Gardens."

The APSU Department of Theatre and Dance will present "Working: A Musical" Oct. 3-6 at the Trahern Theatre.

Veteran film actor Jerry Winsett will lead a masterclass workshop, "Auditioning for the Camera," at 3:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 19, at Austin Peay State University's Margaret Fort Trahern Laboratory Theatre. Anyone in the community can watch the workshop for free.

The discovery happened on Aug. 16, when a carpet installer working in a Music/Mass Communication Building TV studio found a playbill and ticket from a 1988 Austin Peay play. His actions quickly landed the "Arsenic and Old Lace" playbill in the hands of communication professor Dr. Tracy Nichols, who starred in the play 31 years ago.

The Community School of the Arts at Austin Peay State University spans all age groups and skill levels, and the offerings continue to grow. This semester the school is adding two dance classes - named Expressions Through Dance - that will embrace a learning environment for children with disabilities.

Shanley is the writer behind the play "Doubt" and the movie, "Moonstruck," and he wrote and directed the Tom Hanks film "Joe Vs. the Volcano."

NCT's 2019-20 season marks the beginning of a combined educational and professional experience for Theatre and Dance students at APSU.

The concerts, part of Brightman's world tour promoting her new album "Hymn," took place at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Fort Lauderdale and the Dr. Phillips Center in Orlando.

Beginning Thursday, April 11, the Department of Theatre and Dance will present "The Pajama Game," sponsored by the APSU the Center of Excellence for the Creative Arts.

The Austin Peay State University Department of Theatre and Dance attended the American College Dance Association (ACDA) South Region conference March 9-12 at the University of Mississippi. Both works of choreography submitted for blind adjudication were selected for inclusion in the culminating gala performance.

Winsett has appeared in films such as "Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri," "Radio Days," "The Purple Rose of Cairo" and "Stardust Memories."

Lecoq-trained actor, writer, director and teacher David Gaines will lead two physical-acting workshops on Feb. 15 and 16 and perform an original one-man rendition of the Kurosawa epic "Seven Samurai" 7 p.m. Feb. 16 at the Margaret Fort Trahern Laboratory Theatre.

In this modern-day riff on Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter," the play follows Hester La Negrita, a homeless African-American mother of five.

APSU theatre students played disaster survivors to help APSU counseling graduate students practice crisis interventions.

Thanks to the Center of Excellence for the Creative Arts, the Office of Advancement and the Tennessee Theatre Association, from Oct. 11-Nov. 6 the department welcomed a nationally recognized choreographer, a Tony Award-winner, the Phantom of the Opera and much more.

The APSU Department of Theatre and Dance will present "You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown" Thursday, Nov. 15, through Sunday, Nov. 18, in the Trahern Theatre on campus.

Not only is Molière still alive, but, in "Molière Than Thou," coming to Austin Peay State University's Department of Theatre and Dance at 6 p.m. Nov. 6, he speaks English and is every bit as insightful, ribald, irreverent and enthusiastic as the first time around.

The APSU Department of Theatre and Dance, along with artistic director Kevin Bradley Loveland Jr., will present "Fall into Dance." The production will run Thursday, Oct. 25-Sunday, Oct. 28.

On Thursday, Oct. 4, the APSU Department of Theatre and Dance will open its 2018-19 season with "All My Sons" by Arthur Miller. The production will run through Sunday, Oct. 7.

Austin Peay hosted the Tennessee Arts Commission's 2018 Tennessee Arts and Arts Education Conference, which allowed CECA to show off the groundbreaking projects taking place on campus.

Marcus Hayes has been engaged in a year-long collaboration with the visual artist Nick Cave and the exhibition of his work at the Frist Center of the Visual Arts in Nashville.

The Department of Theatre and Dance participated in the American College Dance Conference, where an APSU dance piece was selected for the event's prestigious gala performance.

Three professors in different fields are bringing their classes together to produce a four-episode podcast on Restoration and 18th-century adaptations of Shakespeare's plays.

This February, APSU is bringing the bard's comedy to campus, and the production will feature animation and a pop art sensibility.