Emporia State University

Emporia State Summer Theatre presents "Don't Hug Me" June 28 through July 1.

ESU Theatre's third production of the summer season opens Wednesday, July 12 with their children's theatre production of "The Top Job!" by Robin Moyer Chung and Brian Feinstein.

Emporia State Summer Theatre opens its 63rd season with "The Star-Spangled Girl" by Neil Simon.

Emporia State University Theatre will present "The 39 Steps," adapted by Patrick Barlow from the novel of the same name by John Buchan.

Emporia State University Theatre opens its season with musical "Big River."

Emporia State Summer Theatre closes its 62nd season with "The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales." Though the characters may be familiar, this charming family comedy by John Glore retells favorite storybook fables with uproariously derailed makeovers.

Emporia State Summer Theatre presents the third show of the season with the fast and furious farce, "Don't Dress For Dinner," written by Marc Comoletti.

Emporia State Summer Theatre presents the second show of the season with "The Dinner Party." Written by Neil Simon, this romantic comedy involves six people invited to dine at a fine Parisian restaurant, unaware of who the other guests will be or why they were invited.

A collaboration of Emporia State art students and the Emporia Police Department is a visual reminder of the relationship between the community and law enforcement.

Emporia State Summer Theatre opens its 62nd season with "Coming to America," by James Hindman and Ray Roderick, a cross between an old book musical and a musical revue telling the true stories of five unknown Ellis Island-American heroes who changed the face of this country. This show features ragtime music, sketch comedy and landmark composers of the early 20th century, including Irving Berlin, George Gershwin and George M. Cohan.

Emporia State University Theatre is hard at work on "The Birds: A Modern Adaptation" by Don Zolidis. "The Birds" is the first collaborative project between ESU Theatre and ESU's newly reinstated chapter of Alpha Psi Omega, an honorary theatre society, giving students the opportunity to take on more of the production responsibilities.

Congratulations to Nathan Short, who will spend a week in New York City working with some of Broadway's biggest stars, performers, directors, choreographers, agents and casting directors.

A group of Emporia State students performed with the Emporia State horn ensemble on March 1 to introduce a lecture by Robert Watt, the first African American horn player hired by a major U.S. symphony orchestra.

A group of Emporia State students attended the 2016 Mid-South Horn Conference at the University of Oklahoma in late February.

Emporia State University Theatre will present the regional premiere of "The Flick" by Annie Baker, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 2014.

ESU Theatre was well represented at the regional festival of the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival (KCACTF) last week in Bloomington, Minnesota. Hosted by Normandale Community College, Emporia State was represented by 25 students and several members of the faculty.

An encore performance of "The Treehouse Effect" will help the ESU Theatre company fine-tune its production before competition next week at the Kennedy Center Region V American College Theatre Festival.

Students from Emporia State University will compete at the Kennedy Center Region V American College Theatre Festival in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Jan. 17 – 23.

Congratulations to these theater students working on "Creating Claire."

Emporia State University Theatre opens its season with musical "South Pacific."

The award-winning musical "Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day," based on the popular children's book by Judith Viorst, is the final show of the 61st season of Emporia State University Summer Theatre.

"The Nerd," a hilarious and popular comedy by Larry Shue is the third show for Emporia State Summer Theatre.

Emporia State University's 61st Summer Theatre season continues with "Things My Mother Taught Me," a charming new romantic comedy by Katherine DiSavino.

The 61st season of Emporia State University Summer Theatre proudly continues a favorite Emporia tradition with four delightful shows sure to please audiences of all ages.

"Promland" marks the 10th year that Lindy Bartruff has staged a spring dance show and celebrates the joy of dance — in all forms — as an essential element of the performing arts.

ESU Theatre is proud to present "As You Like It," Shakespeare's beloved comedy about love and mistaken identity. "As You Like It" begins with political intrigue at court and ends with love in the woods. The confusions abound.

ESU Theatre is proud to present the world premiere of "The Treehouse Effect," an original comedy written by senior Brandon Jensen and alumni Mark Warner.

The 60th anniversary season of Summer Theatre at Emporia State University ends with a beloved children's show, "The Arkansaw Bear," running July 23-26. Written by Aurand Harris, the play is celebrated worldwide as a sensitive and family-friendly depiction of life and death.

Marah Melvin presents "Miss Adelaide's Late Night Hour (The Psychology of Love)" on Friday, July 11.

The third production of ESU Summer Theatre's 60th Anniversary season is "Too Many Cooks," a sidesplitting farce sure to have audiences laughing loud and long. Written by the Canadian writing team of Marsha Kash and Douglas E. Hughes, the production will be presented in the Karl C. Bruder Theatre, July 9-12, 2014.