Southern Arkansas University students are set to perform in the upcoming play “Our Town.”
The show will run at 7 p.m. nightly at Harton Theatre from Oct. 6-8, and at 2 p.m. on Oct. 9, 2016. There will be an actor talk back session after the play on Oct. 8. Tickets can be purchased at www.showtix4u.com. Patrons can purchase individual tickets for $5 on the website or a season pass for $25 by calling SAU Theatre at (870) 235-4291.
Our Town, written by Thornton Wilder, is a three-act play that revolves around a small fictional town called Grover’s Corners. The play tells the everyday life stories of its citizens from the beginning of 1901 to 1913. This show is the first of a series of productions presented for SAU’s 2016-2017 Main Stage Theatre Season. Following Our Town is You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown showing Nov. 17-20, 2016; Dial M for Murder on Feb. 9-11, 2017; and Disney’s The Little Mermaid April 20-23, 2017.
Southern Arkansas University offers Arkansas’s most affordable Bachelor of Fine Arts in Performing Arts with studies in Musical Theatre and a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Performing Arts with studies in Theatre. SAU’s BFA in Musical Theatre started the fall of 2015, and it entails a complete theatre and music curriculum based on the National Association of Schools of Music. The NASM is the national accrediting agency for music and music-related disciplines.
To find out more, visit https://web.saumag.edu/lpa/depts/performing-arts-mass-communication/.
