Paige Johnson (PJ): What is a normal day for you? Marissa Koppy (MK): There’s never a normal day at Theatre NDSU. It’s always crazy and wild, and you never really know what’s going to happen, but that’s why it’s…
For the past week, NDSU students have been scrambling to place the final touches on seven individual plays, lasting only 11 minutes. Why? These students have been participating in Newfangled Theatre’s annual 7/11 Project, a creative project that challenges…
Last week, Theatre NDSU debuted their performance of “The Odyssey,” directed by Kara Jeffers and Chelsea Pace, as part of the Mary Zimmerman Festival in the Fargo-Moorhead area. The cast and crew produced a very fine show, with several…
A night at the theater is full of comedy, drama and a special kind of magic that can only be experienced during a live show. Actors bear their souls in front of hundreds of people while audience members have…
Magic filled the air last Tuesday during rehearsal for Theatre NDSU’s “The Odyssey,” as the student actors huddled in a close circle. This rehearsal was unlike any other: Tony Award-winning director, playwright and adaptor of “The Odyssey,” Mary Zimmerman,…
On a Thursday night in the Walsh Studio Theatre, the lights turn off, leaving everyone awash in darkness. Suddenly, the lights flick back on. Junior Burleigh Holder is sitting in a chair, seemingly waiting for something. Then Hannah Siverston…
On Tuesday, several artists from around the Fargo-Moorhead area gathered in Askanase Hall to gain wisdom from Tony Award-winning director and playwright Mary Zimmerman. Zimmerman classifies herself as an “adapter.” She told the group she primarily works on adapting…
The lights dimmed and the music started. The seemingly blank stage became a ship, and then a window ledge on the 57th floor of a New York apartment building. But why did the set matter, when it’s all…
What’s a story without words? What’s a show without song? What about a show that’s all song? That’s exactly the most unique component of Theatre NDSU’s latest production, “Songs for a New World.” “Songs for a New World,” written…
On Jan. 26, Broadway producer Kevin McCollum announced the 2006 movie, “The Devil Wears Prada,” will be adapted into a musical. Pop legend Elton John and playwright Paul Rudnick have agreed to begin working on the project. “The Devil…
