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Bedford, Balazs honored by UWP, major gift given
UW-Parkside recently said "thank you" to an internationally known faculty member who helped found the music dept. and honored a successful former student. The campus also received a major donation.
Posted: 04-16-2008

Parkside Theatre presents Shakespeare's "Macbeth"
William Shakespeare's shortest and bloodiest tragedy "Macbeth" fills the Communication Arts Theatre stage for eight performances April 25-May 3. This battle of good and evil is "can't miss" theatre.
Posted: 04-11-2008

Sneak a peek: Arts Alive! Preview Night April 17
Everybody wants to be an insider, a person who knows what's going to happen before an event takes place. Here's your chance to get inside information on the new season during Arts Alive Preview Night.
Posted: 04-03-2008

Prize-winning play "Rabbit Hole" read at UW-P
The UW-Parkside FreshINK series returns with three readings of David Lindsay-Abaire's Pulitzer Prize and Toni Award-winning drama "Rabbit Hole" March 27 to 29 in the Wegner Theatre.
Posted: 04-20-2008

UW-Parkside stages "Playboy of the Western World"
Welcome to Flaherty's pub in County Mayo. Nothing much happens here...until a mysterious young man with a shady past (and a good story to tell) shows up and causes quite a stir--and plenty of laughs.
Posted: 02-21-2008

Donald creates award-winning play
Posted: 02-04-2008

FreshINK returns with suspenseful "Boy Gets Girl"
Parkside Theatre's FreshINK staged reading series returns Jan. 31-Feb. 2 with Chicago playwright Rebecca Gilman's "Boy Gets Girl." A blind date leads to obsession turning one women's life upside down.
Posted: 01-24-2008

"Welcome Home, Junior" wins regional competition
Against competitors from majors universities in Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, and Michigan, UW-Parkside student Tiffany Donald and her play "Welcome Home, Junior" took first prize in Milwaukee.
Posted: 01-14-2008

UW-Parkside students' plays picked by ACTF
UW-Parkside students Tiffany Donald and Peter Komistra recently received word that their original one-act plays were selected for the American College Theatre Festival's Milwaukee competition.
Posted: 12-17-2007

Parkside Theatre performance cancelled
Saturday's inclement weather causes cancellation of 7:30 p.m. performance of “The Laramie Project.”
Posted: 12-01-2007

Original play "Welcome Home, Junior" Dec. 14, 15
The prodigal returns; a virtuous, angry brother awaits him. A joyous but grieving mother also awaits as do the prodigal's old pals. Conflict, bliss, temptation...and life: "Welcome Home, Junior."
Posted: 11-30-2007

Shepard Foundation program seeks to erase hate
UW-Parkside continues its semester-long examination of hate crimes with a program on changing behaviors. The program, titled "Erase Hate," features Thomas Howard of the Matthew Shepard Foundation.
Posted: 11-29-2007

UW-Parkside presents unique "Laramie Project"
"The Laramie Project," the story of one town's reaction to a brutal crime, is the most produced college play of the past six years. Parkside Theatre's version is unique thanks to the director's work.
Posted: 11-21-2007

FreshINK presents comedy "Man from Nebraska"
What happens when a man awakes one day to find his ship has lost its moorings and that he's adrift in the sea of life? "Man from Nebraska" takes a comic look at one person's mid-life crisis Nov. 1-3.
Posted: 10-26-2007

Theatre Arts hosts raffle for Broadway trip
Posted: 10-25-2007