Tag: theatre

The Factory Theatre presents it's fall show: The 39 Steps! The 39 Steps is a hilarious fast-paced spy thriller. The play’s concept calls for the...

“The mission of the theatre, after all, is to change, to raise the consciousness of people to their human possibilities” Going to the theatre...

Why is it that those who can play a piece by Mozart or recite a monologue by Shakespeare are looked less upon than those...

We’ve probably at least been told one ghost story that we remember. Maybe we even have our own fiction ghost story to tell. Perhaps...

Written by Zack Silvas. Media by Ashley Chaney. The Factory Theatre has hosted many good productions in the past. From Romeo and Juliet to The...

Written and Media by Mitch Thompson. On April 13, I had the opportunity to have Taylor Meyers sit down with me and talk about her amazing semester...

Written by Erin Lobner. Media by Bre Pollitt. This week, Greenville Papyrus representative, Bre Pollitt, sat down with Logan Murphy to discuss the new live-action, “Beauty...

Written by Emma Canady. Media by Logan Nelson. There are very few things in this world that I love more than live theater. The lights,...

Many of us enjoy watching movies, but even more of us don’t want to pay the high cost of going to the movie theater. In Greenville, the only way to see current movies is the Globe, and while it is a good movie theater, and the prices aren’t too high, sometimes people want a bigger variety of movies, and don’t necessarily want to sit inside a movie theater for two and a half hours. Here enters the opportunity to get out of town and head over to the Skyview Drive-In movie theater in Belleville, IL.

"I'll agree to the fact that I have any number of awful character traits. But not to the fact that whatever they did to us as kids automatically made me sick and gay while you stayed straight and healthy." Welcome to The Normal Heart. When I left my faculty position at Greenville College last year to pursue an MFA in stage management from the University of Illinois, I already knew 3 things: 1. I was ridiculously blessed by this opportunity, 2. my faith was one of the few things unwelcome in the theatre world, and 3. I would be working on The Normal Heart. What I didn't expect was that I would have my faith both challenged and strengthened while working on The Normal Heart, nor that I would walk away completely captivated by the story and truth of the show. In the midst of the 80s AIDS crisis, a love story between 2 gay men, and playwright Larry Kramer's angry railings against everyone imaginable - the straight world, the gay world, Christians, non-Christians, the rich, the government, etc. - lives The Normal Heart. And it is tragic. And beautiful.