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The latest news from the Department's faculty, students and alumni.

  • Summer Music Theatre 32nd Season features old, new, borrowed, and ... purple
    Summer theatre festival opens June 13, featuring 'Hairspray,' 'HMS Pinafore,' 'Harold and the Purple Crayon'  Read more
  • Unexpected romance, shocking violence are at the core of 'Stop Kiss'
    Muhlenberg College mainstage production opening Feb. 22, breaks the 'lesbian play' mold  Read more
  • Exhibition showcases work by senior design students
    Martin Art Gallery show runs Feb. 24 through March 18.  Read more
  • Muhlenberg receives $1 million donation
    James R. Lentz '66 and Deborah Lentz pledge $1 million for Muhlenberg Theatre and Dance scholarships.  Read more
  • Master Choreographers showcases Balanchine restaging
    Dance concert, Feb. 9-11, features original works by acclaimed choreographers. Read more
  • Muhlenberg receives end-of-year accolades from Lehigh Valley press
    2011 year-in-review articles offer honors for Muhlenberg Theatre & Dance, Summer Music Theatre productions. Read more
  • Shepard's Curse of the Starving Class explores family dysfunction, desperation
    Muhlenberg College theatre production marks Larry Singer’s return to stage after 20 years. Read more
  • Moving Stories dance concert showcases innovative work by student choreographers
    Dance performance Nov. 17-19 displays talents of 13 young choreographers, more than 50 dancers. Read more
  • Merrily We Roll Along takes audiences backwards through a life in the arts
    Wistful and innovative, Sondheim and Furth's backstage musical opens Oct. 28.  Read more
  • 'Berg Theatre Program named country's best college theatre
    The Princeton Review has ranked Muhlenberg's theatre program No. 1 in the country, in the 2011 edition of its annual college guide, The Best 376 Colleges.  Read more   Rankings
  • MSMT presents a joyful, celebratory Godspell
    The music and the message are the focus in this production of the Broadway hitby Wicked composer Stephen Schwartz.  Read more
  • Larry Singer is Back Stage readers' favorite
    Muhlenberg faculty member is named Favorite Scene Study Teacher and Favorite Acting Coach in New York Readers' Poll.  Read more
  • MSMT offers accessible Godspell performance
    July 17 performance will be offered with Open Captioning and Audio Description for hearing- and visually impaired patrons.  Read more
  • Summer Music Theatre alums are back for The Music Man
    Familiar faces in the first show of the SMT season will include Broadway star David Masenheimer, opera singer Lauren Curnow.  Read more
  • The Tempest receives accolades from collegiate theater association
    Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival praises Troy Dwyer and Charles O. Anderson's brave dance-theater adaptation of Shakespeare's classic.  Read more
  • 'Berg Dancers perfom in NYC Alwin Nikolais tribute
    NY Times Dance Review: "The opening 'Crucible' (1985) was splendid: 10 students from Muhlenberg College created shapes behind low mirror panels..."   Feature story     Times Review
  • History and gender are up for grabs in Muhlenberg's joyful Orlando
    Virginia Woolf's groundbreaking tale takes the stage April 28 to explore what we mean when we talk about identity, gender, poetry and love.  Read more
  • Dance theater adaptation of The Tempest delves deeper into Shakespeare's classic
    With its parallel universes, Afro-contemporary choreography, non-traditional casting, and a keen ear for issues of power and privilege, Charles O. Anderson and Troy Dwyer's Tempest is anything but traditional Shakespearean fare.  Read more

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Photo: Stop Kiss, photo by Kenny Ek, Kenek Photography.