The Williams Baptist University theatre department will close the 2020-21 season with These Shining Lives, a play written by Melanie Marnich, based on the true story of four women who worked for the Radium Dial Company, a watch factory based in Ottawa, Ill. The play dramatizes the danger the women faced in this workplace and highlights the wider…
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,…
Ali Turbyeville Kristin Britt Maggie Morgan Three students at Williams Baptist University have been inducted into Alpha Psi Omega, a national honorary drama organization. Inductees were: Maggie Morgan of Mammoth Spring, Ark., Kristin Britt of Chandler, Texas, and Ali Turbyeville of Portia, Ark. Alpha Psi Omega National Theatre Honor Society is an American recognition honor…
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…
By: MaKenzie Free Every year, elementary students from around Northeast Arkansas submit stories to The Story Store, which is an annual children’s production put on in conjunction with Williams Baptist University and the Northeast Arkansas Educational Co-op. Gifted and Talented students from around the region submit their stories to Melinda Williams, assistant professor of…
The Williams Baptist University Theatre Program will stage Steven Dietz’s “This Random World” this Friday, Nov. 3, and Saturday, Nov. 4, as a part of WBU’s Homecoming celebration. The play will take place in the Old Chapel. “The play definitely makes you rethink many of the encounters you have had in your life,” said Melinda…
Williams Baptist University’s Theatre Program is set open its new production season with a fitting new play. Steven Dietz’s This Random World, which premiered at the Humana Festival in Louisville, Ky., in the spring of 2016, will run Friday, Nov. 3 – Saturday, Nov. 4. “It’s both exciting and a little nerve-racking working on a…
