WBU Theatre Program Opens Season With “The Good Doctor” by MaKenzie Free Williams Baptist University’s theatre program is set to open its 2018-19 season with “The Good Doctor.” The production will run Friday, Nov. 2, through Saturday, Nov. 3. “The Good Doctor” is a comedy with music written by Neil Simon. It consists of short plays,…
The Felix Goodson Library at Williams Baptist University is set to host a Scholastic Book Fair October 30 – November 3. The event offers specially priced books and educational products, including picture books for the youngest children, early reading books, upper elementary books, mid-level reading books, YA books for high school students, fiction and nonfiction…
Williams Baptist University’s art department is hosting an Alumni and Friends art show from October 29 through November 7. The opening reception will be take place on Monday, October 29, from 5:30-7:00. The event will be held in the Maddox Center Art Gallery and will showcase work from WBU alumni and former WBU art students.…
Williams Baptist University’s History Department, the Division of Arts and Sciences, and the Coe Scholars Program are jointly hosting a public lecture on Monday, October 29 at 7:30 p.m. in WBU’s Eagle Grill. Dr. Brooks Blevins, the Noel Boyd Professor of Ozarks Studies at Missouri State University and the prize-winning author or editor of nine…
Harvest Fest will take place Wednesday, Oct. 24th, at Williams Baptist University. The annual event is a popular festival for local children and church groups, with Williams students operating the games and activities. Harvest Fest is held in WBU’s Southerland-Mabee Center from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. Admission is free, and tickets for games and activities…
Bethany Dorton of Judsonia, Ark., will perform her senior recital at Williams Baptist University on Thursday, April 19. The performance begins at 7 p.m., in the choral room of WBU’s Maddox Center. Dorton’s recital will be a compilation of music from composers such as Giacomo Puccini, Franz Schubert, Andrew Lloyd Webber and Richard Rogers. The…
The Williams Baptist University theatre department will close its 2017-2018 season with Lauren Gunderson’s “Silent Sky,” which will run April 5-6. The show is set to begin at 7:30 p.m. in the Old Chapel at Williams. “Silent Sky” is based on a true story and highlights the life of Henrietta Leavitt, who became the…
The Williams Baptist University theatre program will close its 2017-18 season with Lauren Gunderson’s “Silent Sky.” The production will run Thursday, April 5, and Friday, April 6, in WBU’s Old Chapel. The play tells the true story of 19th-century astronomer Henrietta Leavitt and explores a woman’s place in society during a time of immense scientific…
Cody Harp of Alma, Ark., will perform his senior recital at Williams Baptist University on Thursday, March 15. The performance begins at 7 p.m. in the choral room of WBU’s Maddox Center. Harp’s recital will be a composition performance, and his selections will be music he composed and arranged himself. The senior music major is…
Dr. Robert D. Sluka is set to present Williams Baptist University’s latest Mondy-Carroll Lectureship on Tuesday, March 13. The lecture, entitled, “Hope for the Ocean: Christians Caring for the 71% of the Planet Underwater,” will be held in the Mabee Student Center, beginning at 7 p.m. Sluka leads A Rocha’s Marine and Coastal Conservation Programme,…
