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Spring Awakening is an extra is an extraordinary musical that celebrates youth and rebellion in a daring fusion of morality, sexuality and rock & roll. Set in repressive 19th-century Germany, a group of teenagers are caught between their sexual urges and society's contradictory teachings. Revealing their alluringly melancholy story of self-discovery and coming-of-age anxiety, they attempt to reckon with the thrilling, complicated, and confusing time of their sexual awakening.

This week's School in the Spotlight is the Department of Theatre & Drama at Indiana University Bloomington! Scroll below to get to know the department and see photos from past shows!

A unique collaboration between the Stephen F. Austin State University Schools of Theatre and Art has resulted in a rare opportunity for East Texas patrons of the fine arts to simultaneously experience the opening nights of an art exhibition and a theatre performance involving the same subject.

The Theatre Department at Miami University will present Stephen Sondheim's INTO THE WOODS beginning April 18 at the Gates-Abegglen Theatre in the Center for Performing Arts. BroadwayWorld brings you a look at a promo shot below!

The Florida State University Student Theatre Association and the Possum Effect Comedy Troupe present GASP! A Sketch Comedy Show directed by FSU students Audrey Polinski and Claudia Castillo. This production will run from April 12 - 14 in the Augusta Conradi Studio Theatre, located in the Williams Building.

Midsummer Night's Dream is a long-time favorite of Shakespeare's plays. It has been done by actors, dancers, and musicians alike. Now the Casper College Department of Theatre and Dance has taken it into the urban 21st century dance scene! Come enjoy the sheer playfulness of this classic that has been transformed into neon colors, 21st century characters doing 21st century dance to Mendelssohn's score with a 21st century twist.

Author Sheila Callaghan can certainly be considered experimental, but she is certainly no stranger to high praise. In 2010 she was named by Marie Claire as one of '18 Successful Women Who Are Changing the World'. She's been published by Playscripts, Inc., Samuel French Inc. as well as many others, and her plays have been produced internationally in New Zealand, Norway, Germany, Portugal and the Czech Republic. She has written over ten plays, her most well known being Dead City. It wasn't Dead City, though, that made Rider University faculty member Ivan Fuller want to direct a Callaghan piece, it was the darkness of Crumble: Lay Me Down, Justin Timberlake that caught his attention.

This week's School in the Spolight is the Department of Theatre and Dance at Winthrop University in Rock Hill, South Carolina, where students can pursue a B.A. in Theatre with concentrations in Performance, Design/Technical Theatre, or Teacher Certification (K-12).

Baldwin Wallace University's Theatre Department presents Anton Chekhov's classic work THE SEAGULL. This comedy concerns the romantic entanglements and regrets of a group of actors, writers and artists gathered on a Russian estate. Scroll below to see production shots from Wallace Theatre's production - now on stage thru April 7!

The Duke University Dept. of Theater Studies will present Young Jean Lee's Lear April 4-14, 2013 in Sheafer Theater in Duke's Bryan Center. Jody McAuliffe, chair of theater studies and professor of the practice of theater studies and Slavic and Eurasian studies, is directing the play. Click below to see a promo shot!

Commissioned by Pepperdine University and first presented in its world premiere by Pepperdine students in summer 2012 at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, where it won a prestigious Scotsman Fringe First Award for 'innovation and outstanding new writing' and was a finalist for three more honors, including Amnesty International's Freedom of Expression Award.

From 1964-68, Famed photographer Ansel Adams spent time at the University of California on a groundbreaking photographic project commissioned by UC President Clark Kerr. At its core the project, entitled Fiat Lux (Let There Be Light, the University of California motto) asked Adams to answer the question "How can we imagine our future?" Over the course of the project, Adams took thousands of photos of the entire UC system, culminating in a published book written by Nancy Newhall in 1967, which was revisited in a full-year, campuswide multimedia exploration of Adams' work this year called On the Same Page.

This week's School in the Spolight is the Drama Depatment at Vasser College in Poughkeepsie, NY! Scroll below for a historical look at the department, see what's upcoming in their production season and view photos from past shows!

Playwright Sarah Ruhl will visit Vassar College on April 10 to read her recent work; a series of micro-essays about theater making, being a mother, Eurydice, poetry followed by a Q&A where she will discuss and answer questions about Dear Elizabeth.

With classic red draperies framing the stage and and silhouettes of the orchestra tuning against a blue scrim, SBU Theater presented their nostalgic adaptation of Robert and Willie Reale's musical A YEAR WITH FROG AND TOAD last weekend in the Regina A. Quick Center for the Arts.

AKip Productions assembles various University of Michigan musical theatre students, graduates, professors, and local Ann Arbor artists to celebrate cancer survivorship through music.

Celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of Penn State's College of Arts and Architecture with the modern classic MASS, Leonard Bernstein's provocative exploration of faith. Watch the video below to hear the Music and Theatre faculty discuss this special collaboration!

Muhlenberg College dancers tell their stories through movement, as the Muhlenberg Theatre & Dance Department presents 'Dance Emerge,' a showcase for dance works created by emerging choreographers, April 18-21 in the College's Dance Studio Theatre. Jeffrey Peterson and Teresa VanDenend Sorge are co-artistic directors for the concert.

In this week's School in the Spotlight, we feature the Theatre Department of Brandeis University in Waltham, MA! Read about their programs below and scroll down to see photos from the 2012-2013 production season!

Wayne State University's Maggie Allesee Department of Theatre and Dance is proud to announce 'A Conversation with Apple Award Recipient Elaine Stritch' at the Hilberry Theatre on April 27 at 4 p.m. Stritch will appear on campus as the recipient of the 2013 Apple Award and will entertain her audience in an 'Actors Studio' style interview and question-and-answer session.

The Theatre Department at Missouri Valley College will present ZOMBIES FROM URANUS on April 3-6, directed by Wade Hughes. BroadwayWorld brings you a look at the promo image for the production!

The University of Central Florida presents SPRING AWAKENING by Duncan Sheik and Steven Sater. The show begins its run tonight, March 21, thru March 30 on the Theatre's Main Stage.

Once a Bonnie, always a Bonnie. That's a commonplace phrase creeping into conversations around springtime on the Olean, N.Y. college campus, but it rings true for Alexandra Herryman, a 2004 Bonaventure graduate returning to her former home to bring her puppetry skills to SBU Theater's production of Robert and Willie Reale's musical A YEAR WITH FROG AND TOAD.

America's obsession with physical beauty is confronted headlong in reasons to be pretty, a brutal and exhilarating work by playwright and screenwriter Neil LaBute. Is there more to life than simply how one looks?

The School of Theatre at Florida State, known for its nationally reputable program, encourages the creation of art, defies standards and makes bold moves to produce caliber productions. With the upcoming presentation of William Shakespeare's comedic classic Much Ado About Nothing, director Walter Kmiec embraces the spirit of experimentation and sets the production in Southern Florida during the glamorous 1920's. This show will run from March 29 - April 7 in the Lab Theatre, located by the Pensacola Street parking garage