Sandefur Theatre - Guzzetta Hall
November 3 - 5, 2016 | 7:30 PM
November 6 & 12, 2016 | 2:00 PM
November 10 - 12, 2016 | 7:30 PM
$12 general admission
$10 senior/alumni/faculty/staff
$6 students
Join us immediately following the show dates listed below for Talkback Nights to learn more about the production and participate in a Q&A with the cast, director, and production team!
November 3, 6, 10 & 12, 2016
The University of Akron Theatre Program welcomes its esteemed alumni to Alumni Night, November 5, 2016. Alumni are invited to attend the 7:30 PM performance of The America Play by Pulitzer Prize-winning author, Suzan-Lori Parks. There will be refreshments and
RSVP by calling the ticket office at 330-972-7895 or register online.
The University of Akron Theatre Arts Program invites you and your students to the Fall 2016 Drama Day - A High School Student Visit Day on Saturday, November 12,
Drama Day is a wonderful opportunity to experience UA’s Theatre Arts Program and hear about our exciting plans for the future. UA’s full-time theatre faculty members and staff will engage with your students and lead them through a day full of “making theatre work!”
We look forward to seeing you! Please take a moment to register your students for Drama Day. For immediate questions, call 330-972-7895.
A black gravedigger who resembles Abraham Lincoln digs out what he calls "the great hole of history" and creates a sideshow that reenacts Lincoln's assassination at Ford's Theatre. Sitting in a chair dressed as Lincoln, he attracts customers who stop by and shoot blanks at him. In the second Act, his wife Lucy and son travel west to find him and, ultimately, to bury him.
The production of The America Play is made possible through the support of the Center for Conflict Management.
The University of Akron's Fall 2016 Theatre production The America Play will be directed by Jimmie Woody. "As an artist, my goal in directing The America Play is to revisit the African - American experience through shards of American history, a history that has been greatly affected and influenced by the myth of Abraham Lincoln."
Some of his most recent directorial credits
Abraham Lincoln, the Greater
The Founding Father, the Lesser
Mary
Lucy
Lucy
Brazil
Brazil
John Wilkes
Young
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