September

 October

Stephen Dobyns,
Visiting Poet Reading and Book-Signing

8-200

 November

 December

Free and Open to the Public

This workshop will offer insight into the principles addressed by professional scenic, lighting, and costume designers. Audience members will participate in conversation and interactive activities and then will be invited to witness firsthand the transformative potential of professional design on a theatrical production.

12:00 pm

DCC Community Rm 4193

 January

 February

 March

Medicine Show:
A Living Newspaper Event

Free and Open to the Public

This staged reading of the 1939 Medicine Show will invite audience members to experience the political raucous pageantry of the living-newspaper plays popular in the 1930s. Focusing specifically on public health-care policies, the production will offer a searing glimpse into American social history while provoking debate over health-care issues in America today.

 April

 May

Fourth Annual Student Playwriting Competition

Free and Open to the Public, Reservations Required

This competition encourages MCC students to write plays for an audience, to provide MCC students a competitive venue for their scripts, and to offer winning playwrights the opportunity to see their scripts performed and to receive constructive feedback for future play development. Scripts will be accepted for consideration beginning in September.

 June