by Haleigh Ker | Mar 6, 2014 | News Slider
Circle Players, partnered with Lipscomb’s Department of Theatre, will open Shrek the Musical this Thursday, March 6 at 7:30 p.m. in Collins Alumni Auditorium. Show participants has been rehearsing music and preparing for the production since January. “It’s a blast,” said sophomore theatre major Jonah Jackson, who plays the main antagonist in the musical, Lord Farquaad. “I’ve had more fun with this character than any other character I’ve done.” Shrek the Musical runs March 6-8, 13-15 at 7:30 p.m., and March 9 at 3:30 p.m. Tickets are $15 for general admission, $10 for Lipscomb faculty, $5 for students with ID or free, with SGA providing the free tickers. Photo courtesy of...
by Haleigh Ker | Jan 24, 2014 | News Slider
Opening night is here for Blackbird Theater’s production of George Bernard Shaw’s Man and Superman, with the first show Friday at 7:30 p.m. in Shamblin Theatre. The Lipscomb and Nashville community is promised a show with romance, comedy, witty women and deep, philosophical conversations about the reasons of human existence. Possibly between the characters and the devil himself, with a few pieces by composer Berlioz playing on the side. Blackbird Theater’s founders Wes Driver and Greg Greene waste no breath when picking their plays for each season by finding unique shows to “thrill” the audience to inspire and create “intellectually stimulating” conversation. To create such conversations takes months of planning and script adjustments, many staff and cast meetings and weeks of rehearsal. Cast member and junior acting major Austin Hunt says that some of the characters’ monologues are up to “three to four pages long.” Show director Beki Baker has been working hard on this show since this last summer where she and her dramaturge, junior theatre major Emily Eytchison, studied Shaw’s Man and Superman. Eytchison said that they would study the time period in which Man and Superman takes place, “find the important bits and put it together for the actors” to help further character development. “The dramaturge is going to be the one who spends all their printing quota on scholarly articles,” Eytchison added, “and that dramaturge may or may not have spent most of it all in one day.” In Baker’s Directorial Statement, she compliments Shaw’s intelligence within his work, as well as his comedic wit. Aiming to explore the purpose of humanity in this universe,...
by Haleigh Ker | Apr 10, 2012 | News Slider
Lumination Radio is Lipscomb University’s very own student-run radio station and it’s on the air now! The core of our format is Contemporary Christian and Gospel music. We also provide live play-by-play coverage of selected Bison sports events. Our goal is to consistently add more shows and more variety. Lumination Radio is continuously adding new music, but what will help make the station great is more student involvement. Have an idea for a show? Pick up a program proposal form outside our studio in Ezell 166. Want to host some of our music hours by learning to voice track? We want to meet you! Your input and participation are important to us. What would you like to hear? Email us at luradioprogramming@gmail.com with your opinions and suggestions. We’re on Twitter and Facebook! Follow us @LuminationRadio and see our posts at Facebook.com/LuminationRadio. Have a smart phone? Download the Mixlr app from either the Apple App Store or Google Play and find our station to listen to us anytime, anywhere. Or use your laptop to listen on most any browser at...
