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Monday, September 11, 2017

Marshall's Upcoming Theatre Season

   Writer Paul Sebert files a great story in the Herald-Dispatch previewing the upcoming season for Marshall's School of Theatre, which begins with The Miracle Worker.

   You can read the story at this link - here's an excerpt:

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   For its 2017-18 season The Marshall University School of Theatre has a full slate of productions, from comedy to drama with a holiday favorite sprinkled in as well. 
   In addition to training actors and theater technicians, the department presents a full calendar of stage shows with big time production values. 
   This year's lineup includes a classic drama, a holiday favorite, a Southern gothic fable and a production of Shakespeare.
   The first play of the fall season is William Gibson's The Miracle Worker, which tells the real-life story of educator Annie Sullivan and her blind and deaf student Helen Keller. The story has been retold both on stage and on film, most famously in the 1962 movie starring Anne Bancroft and Patty Duke. The play will run at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 4-7 and Oct. 12-14 at the Francis-Booth Experimental Theatre at the Joan C. Edwards Performing Arts Center.

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