{"id":735,"date":"2019-07-17T18:18:45","date_gmt":"2019-07-17T18:18:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wcsu.wpengine.com\/news-archives\/one-actplays\/"},"modified":"2019-07-17T18:18:45","modified_gmt":"2019-07-17T18:18:45","slug":"one-actplays","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/news-archives\/one-actplays\/","title":{"rendered":"Student directors helm one-act plays"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">&#013;<\/p>\n<div id=\"sharingTools\"><!-- #include virtual=\"\/include\/sharingtools.inc\" --><\/div>\n<p>&#013;<\/p>\n<div id=\"breadcrumb\"><!-- #include virtual=\"\/include\/breadcrumb.inc\" --><\/div>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n    &#013;<\/p>\n<div style=\"float:right;padding:0px 10px 10px 10px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/w\/newsevents\/images\/one-act2010.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"179\" \/><\/div>\n<p>&#013;<\/p>\n<p><strong>DANBURY, CONN. <\/strong>\u2014  Eighteen student directors will helm short plays as part of Western Connecticut State University\u2019s \u201cBlack Box Shorties: 10-Minute Play Festival.\u201d The plays will be staged at 8 p.m. on Wednesday and Thursday, Dec. 8 and 9, and at 6 and 9 p.m. on Friday, Dec. 10, in the Reimold Theatre in Berkshire Hall on the university\u2019s Midtown campus, 181 White St. in Danbury. Admission will be free. Because several of the plays contain adult content, parental discretion is advised.<\/p>\n<p>&#013;<\/p>\n<p>The 18 plays, some written by students and others by playwrights including Christopher Durang, Alex Brown and Wendy Wasserstein, represent a broad cross-section of drama, comedy, romance and some difficult topics, too.<\/p>\n<p>&#013;<\/p>\n<p>Andrew Hendrick, a junior in WestConn\u2019s musical theatre program and one of the one-act directors, said, \u201cIt\u2019s great to see what students can direct as opposed to what professional directors or even the university\u2019s theatre professors can stage. There are also stellar performances by young actors.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#013;<\/p>\n<p>For more information, call the theatre arts department box office at (203) 837-8732.<\/p>\n<p>&#013;<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#013;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><em> <br \/>&#013;<br \/>\n  Western Connecticut State University offers outstanding faculty in a range of quality academic programs. Our diverse university community provides students an enriching and supportive environment that takes advantage of the unique cultural offerings of Western Connecticut and New York.  Our vision: To be an affordable public university with the characteristics of New England\u2019s best small private universities.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#013;<\/p>\n<p \/>&#013;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0\">\u00a0  <\/p>\n<p>&#013;<\/p>\n<div id=\"facebookShare\"><!-- #include virtual=\"\/include\/facebookshare.inc\" --><\/div>\n<p>&#013;\n        <\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#013; &#013; &#013; &#013; &#013; DANBURY, CONN. \u2014 Eighteen student directors will helm short plays as part of Western Connecticut State University\u2019s \u201cBlack Box Shorties: 10-Minute Play Festival.\u201d The plays will be staged at 8 p.m. on Wednesday and Thursday, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-735","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/news-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/news-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/news-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/news-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/news-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/news-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/735\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/news-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}