Theater fall lineup examines social issues

By Careen Wong • Aug 28, 2013

Fresno State is in for an exciting theater season this fall, with three diverse offerings that will put audiences on the edge of their seats. The three plays in production this fall are “The First...

Fresno State theatre celebrates 100 years of production

By Esra Hashem • Feb 15, 2012

Near the corner of McKinley and Wishon Avenues, a small ensemble of Fresno State students gathered for the school’s first ever theatrical production. It was 1912, and the Fresno State Normal School’s Dramatic Club was to perform its first play.

Good Company Players’ 2nd Space Theatre celebrates nearly 30 years of business

By Cameron Woolsey • Sep 19, 2011

For nearly 30 years the Good Company Players' 2nd Space Theatre has entertained Fresno residents with a wide variety of live performances on a stage specifically designed to captivate and engage the imagination of the audience.

A date with death

By Sarah A. Peterson • Mar 4, 2009

The colorful walls of the Tower District’s Ashtree Studios displayed a variety of abstract art, dominated by a giant purple button—hardly the place where one would expect to have a run-in with Death.

A night ‘exposed’ to Rogue

By Valerie Nevens • Mar 4, 2009

It could have been just another average Friday night—shoving popcorn down my throat at the $3 theater in celebration of completing another week of assignments.

“Single…” woman finds identity

By Sarah A. Peterson • Mar 7, 2008

“Blacula,” “Foxy Brown,” “Coffy” — these retro posters for Blaxploitation films help set the stage — literally — for University Theatre’s production of Jeannette Jackson-McNeil’s “Single Black Female, Looking…” about one woman’s search for love via a personal ad in the Bay Area circa 1973.

A common connection: the monologues

By Heather Halsey • Feb 11, 2008

The Vagina Monologues is performed in dozens of communities each year as they take part in V-Day, a global movement to end violence against women and girls.