Undergraduate Theatre students at The University of Tennessee are reminded that the deadline for filing applications for theatre scholarships is March 6.
Free money, but you have to claim it…
For answers to your questions, contact Linda Robinson at the UT Department of Theatre Office. Telephone 865-974-7063 or email her at lindar@utk.edu.
Some of you have, but many have not yet noticed that we have added a page here that takes you quickly to a collection of Clarence Brown Theatre show photographs from the past three seasons. We don’t have every show, but many of them are here.
Disclaimer: some of these photos were a learn-as-you go process, and most of them were taken not with an SLR with proper creative controls, but with a memory card on a video camera. The resolution is also a lot lower than today’s digital SLRs provide, so the picture size (and blow-up-ability) is less. We have a new Nikon now, and we’re making progress, though! Nevertheless, there are some interesting shots here you might find interesting. We’re storing our photos on flickr, which allows for easy maintenance and several display options.
To go to my CBT summary page, just hit the “Photos” link on the menu bar, or click here or head to http://www.uttheatre.org/flickr.php.
Enjoy!
TODD ROSENTHAL 
2008 Tony Award Winner for Set Design - August: Osage County
Todd has agreed to meet with our students, faculty, staff and anyone interested, for a Q&A. Topics Covered will be: Collaboration with Directors, Other Designers, Shops and Actors; making a career in the theatre.
DATE: Thursday February 19th
TIME: 3:45 – 5:00 p.m.
LOCATION: CBT LOBBY
If you are not familiar with Todd’s work, you will enjoy his website at http://www.toddar.com
He designs regularly at the Steppenwolf Theatre Company: The Viewing Room, Three Days of Rain, The Weir, Wedding Band, We All Went Down to Amsterdam, Man from Nebraska (chosen by Time magazine as one of the top ten productions of 2003) and Intimate Apparel, The Crucible. At The Goodman Theatre: The Story, A Christmas Carol, The Clean House and Romance. At The Philadelphia Theatre Company: The Goat and Take Me Out. At Milwaukee Repertory Theatre: A Month in the Country, Glengarry Glen Ross. Regional theatre designs: Arena Stage, Alliance Theatre, Yale Repertory Theatre, Alley Theatre, Paper Mill Playhouse, Centerstage, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Cleveland Playhouse, Barrow Street Theatre - NY, The National Theatre – London, Actors Theatre of Louisville and others. August: Osage County is currently running on Broadway and London
Other credits: created designs for the Big Apple Circus; exhibited at 2007 The Prague Quadrennial exhibition in the Czech Republic.
Teaching: design, Northwestern University.
Congratulations, Coach Summitt!
The University of Tennessee has been very fortunate having Pat Head Summitt as its Women’s Basketball coach for many years.
Last night, the Lady Vols won their 1000th game with Pat Summitt as their coach – something no other NCAA Division I coach, man or woman, has ever done before — and perhaps no one else will ever do again.
She’s done it through the years with class and dignity — and of course amazing intensity. She is a winner, and it’s fun to be a witness to an event like this!
For the record, the Lady Vols defeated Georgia 73-43 before a big crowd at Thompson-Boling Arena. After the game, there was a special program of recognition, featuring various local dignitaries, things being done to memorialize the feat, and Coach Summitt addressed the audience.
One of the “fun” things was Coach Summitt getting the “Gatorade shower” — only this time (it being indoors in an arena, etc.) it was confetti dropped on the Coach and the Fox Sports South sideline reporter interviewing her. In the photo below (from the UT Athletic Department’s Elizabeth Olivier), you can see this observer’s son (Roger W. Hoover) at the far right peaking around his computer to watch the action.
The Clarence Brown Theatre Reading Series continues tonight (Friday, February 6, 2009) with The Exonerated. The reading is in Room 132 at the Law School.
This powerful and moving play, written by Erik Jensen and Jessica Blank, tells the stories of six people who were wrongfully convicted of murder, then exonerated and freed after life-altering experiences in prison. The National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers awarded Jensen and Blank the Champion of Justice Award for the play.
It’s part of a Consortium on the death penalty in Tennessee, and decision makers about Tennessee’s death penalty will be in the audience.
It’s free, and many of our faculty and students are involved!
The Clarence Brown Theatre’s production of Pierre Marivaux’s The Triumph of Love is in full swing, and those who have seen it seem to be enjoying it.
This romantic comedy/French farce closes the day after Valentine’s Day.
Here’s the official CBT Press Release.
Here’s a link to the review in the UT Daily Beacon.
And here’s a link to the review in the Metropulse.
(The Knoxville News-Sentinel has given up trying to be a grown-up newspaper, so it doesn’t review all our plays anymore.)
Finally, here’s a link to buy tickets online!
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