Welcome!
Nevada Repertory Company collaboration with Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival Follow this link for further information.
Welcome to the Department of Speech Communication and Theatre
Communication, rhetoric, argumentation, and debate have roots that can be traced to ancient Greece and the beginnings of western civilization. Acting, theatrical design, storytelling, and even directing, share those origins. Though our lineage is similar we are two very different divisions housed within the same department here at the University of Nevada, Reno.
Speech Communication Division
Students can earn a Bachelor of Arts or a Master of Arts in Speech Communication. Our programs offer a social science approach to the theoretical and applied process of communication. Faculty expertise and curriculum emphasize three areas of communication: interpersonal, organizational and public. Qualified students in the master’s degree program receive teaching assistantships. Assistantships provide both financial support and valuable experiences in teaching.
The University of Nevada, Reno has a highly successful Debate and Forensics program housed in Speech Communication. The team is regularly competitive in national debate meets.
Theatre Division
Theatre offers either a Bachelor of Arts or Bachelor of Fine Arts degree. The Bachelor of Fine Arts degree is recommended for theatre students who hope to pursue a professional career in the theatre. Two significant tracks of study, performance and design & technology, are available, though all students receive a well rounded education in each. The theatre curriculum provides a balanced set of experiences in practical application and theory and history.
The Nevada Repertory Company, the production unit of the theatre division, mounts a wide variety of theatrical productions each year. Students have the opportunity to work on new work, classic plays, musical theatre and every now and then something unexpected. The collaborative nature of theatre is valued, upheld, and promoted.
Faculty
Both Speech Communication and Theatre are populated with intelligent, creative, caring instructors willing to spend time with University of Nevada students. Faculty in both divisions are eager to teach and learn from our students.
I invite you to contact me or any of my colleagues with questions about our program.
Rob Gander, Chair
Department Events
The university of Nevada, Reno Theatre program is pleased to continue an ongoing professional affiliation with the Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival. The partnership brings working actors, directors, designers, and technicians to our campus and allows university students to work in a professional arena on the shores of beautiful Lake Tahoe.
Celebrating its 37th season, the Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival brings summer audiences Shakespeare’s deliciously scandalous Measure for Measure, the hilariously scheming duos of Much Ado About Nothing and the premiere of the Urban Village Monday Night Music Series featuring rotating artists each week.Tickets for the 2009 Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival, July 11 – Aug. 23, 2009, are now available for online purchase at www.LakeTahoeShakespeare.com.
For information on the upcoming season, go to our Nevada Repertory Company website or see below.
The Nevada Repertory Company
2009-2010 Season
AUDITION INFORMATION
Fall Auditions for UBU THE KING and ROMEO AND JULIET:
Tuesday, August 25, 2009 at 7:00 p.m. in the Redfield Proscenium Theatre.
Spring Auditions for GREASE: TBA.
UBU THE KING*
By Alfred Jarry
Directed by Rob Gander
October 2—11 • Redfield Proscenium Theatre
One of the most extraordinary events of the late nineteenth century in Paris happened December 11,
1895 at the Theatre de l’Oeuvre where the audience was scandalized by Alfred Jarry’s revolutionary
satire Ubu Roi. Developed from a school boy farce, Ubu Roi began with a four letter word, defied all
the traditions of the stage, and ridiculed values of the bourgeois society. The script for this production will be adapted, translated, devised, and improvised by University of Nevada, Reno students to recapture the outrage, lewdness, and satire of Jarry’s original. *Warning: This production contains crude language,
bathroom humor, and may offend conservatives, liberals, independents, women, men, eunuchs, Christians, Muslims, Buddhists,
and people from all walks of life. Sorry, no nudity.
This production is a proud entry in the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival and organization dedicated to
encourage, recognize, and celebrate the finest and most diverse work produced in university and college theater programs.
ROMEO and JULIET
By William Shakespeare
Directed by Jim Bernardi
November 12—22 • Redfield Studio Theatre
One of Shakespeare’s most popular and accessible plays, Romeo and Juliet tells the story of two star crossed-lovers and the unhappy fate that befell them as a result of a long and bitter feud between their
families. The play contains some of Shakespeare’s most beautiful and lyrical love poetry and is perhaps the finest celebration of the joys of young love ever written.
GREASE
Book, Music and Lyrics by Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey
Directed by Sue Klemp
April 16—May 2• Redfield Proscenium Theatre
Here is Rydell High's senior class of 1959; duck-tailed, hot-rodding "Burger Palace Boys" and their gumsnapping,
hip-shaking "Pink Ladies" in bobby sox and pedal pushers, evoking the look and sound of the
1950s in this rollicking musical. Head "greaser" Danny Zuko and new (good) girl Sandy Dumbrowski try
to relive the high romance of their "Summer Nights" as the rest of the gang sings and dances its way
through such songs as "Greased Lightnin'", "It's Raining on Prom Night", "Alone at the Drive-In Movie" recalling the music of Buddy Holly, Little Richard and Elvis Presley that became the soundtrack of a
generation. An 8-year run on Broadway and two subsequent revivals along with innumerable school and community productions place Grease among the world's most popular musicals.
"A lively and funny musical--as well as the dancingest one in town...it's a winner...the songs are dandies [that portray]
the early rockers with zip and charm...the sheer energy of Grease carries all before it."---N.Y. Daily News
2009-2010 Technical/Design Staff
Michael Fernbach
Matthew McKinney
Larry Walters
Tickets for all Neveda Repertory Productions available through tickets.com or at Lawlor Events Center box office. More information below & at arts365.
Nevada Repertory Company Resident Technical/Design Staff
Michael Fernbach
Matthew McKinney
Larry Walters
2009-2010 Box Office Information
Advance tickets can be purchased by phone (1-800-225-2277) or in person at the Lawlor Events Center, 1500 N. Virginia St., lower level entrance, Mon. - Fri., 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sat. 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. and University Arts Theatre Box Office, located in the lobby of the Church Fine Arts Building, on the evening or afternoon of performance when remaining tickets will be sold at the theatre box office beginning one hour before curtain time. Tickets may be charged to an American Express, Discovery, MasterCard or Visa credit card.
Tickets are also available online around the clock at www.unr.edu/arts. Click on the “buy tickets here” logo, select the event you wish to attend, and follow the prompts to purchase tickets.
Information: (775) 78404ART Fax: (775) 784-3566 www.unr.edu/nevadarep
Season Ticket:
For information contact: Lawlor Events Center, 775-784-4444.
Parking is available in the Brian J. Whalen Parking Complex just north of the Church Fine Arts Building. Parking for patrons is free after 7 pm Monday through Thursday, after 5pm Friday, and all day Saturday & Sunday.
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Student Productions -- in CFA Room 19
For more information on these shows contact Sue Klemp, 775-784-6541.
No shows scheduled for Fall 2008. Watch this space for Spring 2009 offerings.
Children's Theatre Class Production
TBA
For information on tours to area schools, contact Sue Klemp for more information, sklemp@unr.edu or 775-784-6541.
