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COVID-19 adjustments

Due to unprecedented circumstances caused by the spread of COVID-19, the School of Performing Arts, and the College of Fine Arts (CFA), has determined that it will be safer to focus on smaller more student driven creative work that can be presented virtually. We will return to larger productions when appropriate safety precautions for students, faculty, staff and audience members can be met. The CFA will maintain a website with additional updates as circumstances evolve.

College of Fine Arts

2020-2021 Current Season

All events are subject to change.

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Fall 2020

We are very excited to be launching the premier of our Season Opener – The Monty Hall Problem – October 29 @ 6:00 pm!

The Monty Hall Problem

Online Theatre Production

Release date: October 29-November 1

Original Script by Ben Connor, Winner of the 2020 Annual Wichita State University Theatre National Playwriting Competition

Theatre 2nd Stage Production, Directed by Jeannine Russell

Description: Where does the smartest woman in the world go for advice? That very question is examined in this fictional reflection of Marilyn vos Savant. In 1993, wrestling with the backlash from a widely read and controversial magazine column she’s written, Marilyn visits her therapist. A logic puzzle that ought to be purely imaginary takes menacing shape when a saccharine game show host interrupts the session. Marilyn, her therapist and Daytime Emmy-Award winner Monty Hall match wits in a reflection on doors, goats, and what it means to be right.

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Welcome to the Senior Showcase Class of 2020! We are so excited to share our virtual showcase with you all. We hope you enjoy the show! It has been a blast watching each other blossom over the last four years at WSU! So with that; sit back, relax, and enjoy the show! We now present to you, THE CLASS OF 2021!

WSU Musical Theatre Senior Showcase Class of 2021

Watch the teaser HERE

Premiering November 20, 2020

We are proud to offer for you a virtual opportunity to support the students, studios, and schools who have participated in our Kansas Dance Festival this year.

Wichita State University 
Kansas State University 
University of Central Oklahoma 
Regina Klenjoski Dance Company 
Two Trains

Kansas Dance Festival

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Kansas Dance Festival

Online Dance Production

Release date: Nov. 20-21

Directed by Nick Johnson & Dance Faculty with original choreography by WSU dance faculty & students

Description: The Kansas Dance Festival 2020 is an annual event where Wichita State University/Dance hosts regional university dance programs in a shared, live performance in Wilner Auditorium on the WSU campus. KDF presents the latest choreography from each of the participating universities. This year, due to the Covid Pandemic, submissions are dance films, visual poetry meant to be viewed through the lens of a camera. With careful us of masks, sanitizer and social distancing, VISITORS was created. Enjoy!

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She Moves the Prairie

Online Dance Production

Filmed in person Fall 2020

Presented online Spring 2021

Release date: TBD

Description: A sociocultural dance film project focusing on patterns of work done by women on Kansas farms in the early 1900’s. Dance faculty Cheyla Clawson, in collaboration with SPA students, will create movement phrases and ideas based on the lives of several women who farmed in Kansas in the early 20th century. The movement phrases will capture women’s physical labor practices on several rural farms. Through abstracting the body practices of female farmers, a full dance will be created to present in a final film in collaboration with film faculty Bret Jones and students from Theatre, Music and Shocker Studios.

Spring 2021

[title of show]

Musical Theatre Production

Presented online or in Wilner Auditorium (TBD as health & safety allows)

Date: March 25-27, 2021 @ 7p & March 28, 2021 @ 2p

Directed by Trevor Seyl

Music & Lyrics by Jeff Bowen; Book by Hunter Bell

Description: Jeff and Hunter, two struggling writers, hear about a new musical theatre festival in New York. However, the deadline for submissions is a mere three weeks away. They gather their two actress friends, Susan and Heidi, and their accompanist and music director, Larry. With the full team assembled, Jeff and Hunter decide to write a musical about two guys writing a musical! [title of show]—taken from the space on the festival’s application form which asks for the [title of show]—follows Hunter and Jeff and their friends on their journey through the gauntlet of creative self-expression. In the span of 90 minutes they write and perform their show at the festival and learn lessons about themselves as people, friends and artists. [title of show] is, above all, a love letter to the musical theatre—a uniquely American art form—and to the joy of collaboration. The musical received a Tony Award nomination for Best Book of a Musical in 2009.

Kansas Lineage

Dance Production

Release date: March 9-13 @ multiple venues TBD in the community & on-campus

Research project with Cheyla Clawson & Twyla Hill (Sociology)

Description: The project, KANSAS LINEAGE, explores identity associated with place based on older Kansas women’s shared stories of matrilineal heritage. Through partnerships with several Wichita assisted living communities, the project will capture and document the important stories of older women Kansans through personal interviews. Cross-disciplinary collaboration will occur between Wichita State undergraduate dance and sociology researchers. Assisted living home participants will be asked to share their most salient memories of their mother’s home and land as well as their grandmother’s home and land. Wichita State sociology and dance students and faculty researchers will work together from September 2020 through March 2021 to conduct interviews and discover themes of identity with place with women across several older adult communities ending in final research presentations/performances.

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