FIU Theatre Students Visit Sweetwater Elementary for Career Day

FIU Theatre Students Visit Sweetwater Elementary for Career Day

November 3, 2016/By Ivan Lopez

For the second year in a row, FIU Theatre students visited students at Sweetwater Elementary for Career Day. Junior BFA Performance candidates Matthew Alexander and Rachel Willis, along with...

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“After Orlando” Celebrates the Lives of the Pulse Nightclub Victims

Theatre

November 2, 2016/By Ivan Lopez

FIU Theatre is participating in After Orlando, an evening of short plays in response to the shooting at Pulse Nightclub in Orlando, Florida. After Orlando is an international theatre...

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FIU Theatre Family Mourns the Loss of Dr. Therald Todd

Theatre

October 28, 2016/By Ivan Lopez

Dr. Therald Todd, retired faculty member and long-time chairperson of the Florida International University Department of Theatre passed away in Port Townsend, Washington last week at the age of...

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FIU Theatre Produces Its First Spanish Language Play – “La Nona”

Theatre

September 23, 2016/By Ivan Lopez

FIU Theatre kicks off its 42nd season with Roberto Cossa’s hilarious dark comedy La Nona – FIU’s first ever production entirely in Spanish (with English subtitles). “One of the...

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Alumna France-Luce Benson Wins the 2016 Samuel French Off Off Broadway Short Play Festival

Theatre

August 22, 2016/By Ivan Lopez

France-Luce Benson (BFA, 1998) was named one of six winning playwrights at the 2016 Samuel French Off Off Broadway Short Play Festival, the nation’s premier short play competition. Over...

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New Music Faculty 2016-17 Positions Announced

Music, Theatre

August 15, 2016/By Michelle Vires

The FIU School of Music has four new full-time faculty positions for the 2016-17 academic year: Bruce Allen Carter, research associate in music education, is an arts educator and...

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Music Student Participates in Disney’s Royal Welcome Show on August 11

Music, Theatre

August 15, 2016/By Michelle Vires

Nadya Borno, a vocal performance student in her junior year, will be playing a principle character role in Disney’s Latina Princess Elena’s Royal Welcome Show to be debuted on...

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Villain Theater Transforming Improv Comedy in South Florida

Theatre

June 29, 2016/By Ivan Lopez

Picture yourself standing on a stage. There’s an eager crowd anticipating your next move and it’s your turn to speak, but you haven’t a clue what you’re going to...

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Alumnus Darwin Aquino ’15 Wins at Soberano Awards 2016

Music, Theatre

June 14, 2016/By Michelle Vires

Less than a year after graduating, FIU School of Music alumnus and conductor/composer Darwin Aquino ’15 received the Successful Dominican Artist Abroad Award in the classical category at the...

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Soprano Alumna Laura Martinez Leon ’15 Performs In Madrid

Music, Theatre

May 25, 2016/By Michelle Vires

[Photo Courtesy: Michelle Vires; Borja Mariño accompanies Laura Martinez León for the Opera Fusion-FIU School of Music “Zarzuela de las Americas” competition, located at FIU’s Herbert and Nicole Wertheim...

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FIU Singers and John “Bowzer” Bauman Celebrate Jewish American Heritage Month

Music, Theatre

May 18, 2016/By Michelle Vires

Repost from Sun Sentinel, May 16, 2016 By Marvin Glassman Jewish American Heritage Month was celebrated musically recently with a salute to the many Jewish American composers who created...

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FIU Indoor Winds Take Gold Second Year in Row

Music, Theatre

May 17, 2016/By Michelle Vires

The FIU Indoor Winds once again placed first in the Independent Category at the annual Winter Guard International (WGI) Winds World Championships this April, becoming the only world team...

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2016 School of Music Award Winners Announced

Music, Theatre

May 17, 2016/By Michelle Vires

[Photo, Left to Right- Diana Fernandez, Maria Gutierrez, Esther Umansky Roth, Maureen Reyes] On Wednesday, May 11, the FIU School of Music announced its 2016 award winners. Every spring,...

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‘Superb’ Season Finale Tribute Concert to Founding Director Fredrick Kaufman

Music, Theatre

May 3, 2016/By Michelle Vires

The Florida International University School of Music honored the 80th birthday of its founding director Fredrick Kaufman on April 26 with an all-star celebratory performance featuring FIU faculty artists and guests....

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FIU Musicians Participate in Cuba Cultural Exchange

Music, Theatre

May 3, 2016/By Michelle Vires

FIU faculty and other U.S. based artists will share the stage with Cuba’s National Symphonic Orchestra in Havana, Cuba as the opening concert for the 2016 Cuba Disco Festival...

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Music Technology Alumnus Ricardo Lopez Lalinde ’12 Wins Grammy

Music, Theatre

May 3, 2016/By Michelle Vires

At the 58th Annual Grammy Awards, music technology alumnus, Ricardo López Lalinde ’12 added another award to his collection for his work as a recording engineer and arranger. This...

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FIU Jazzist Robert Grabowski Lectures On The Unexpected Side of Pat Metheny

Music, Theatre

April 27, 2016/By Michelle Vires

School of Music professor, Robert C. Grabowski, gave a lecture about the unexpected side of guitarist Pat Metheny entitled “Metheny, The Pat that you know and the Pat you...

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FIU Theatre is Breaking the Guy Code with Shakespeare’s “Two Gentlemen of Verona”

Theatre

April 13, 2016/By Michelle Vires

FIU Theatre closes out its 2015-16 season with Shakespeare’s bromance, “Two Gentlemen of Verona,” directed by Associate Professor and Head of Performance Wayne E. Robinson, Jr. The production opens...

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Creating Devised Theatre- Study Abroad in Spain, Summer 2016!

Theatre

December 10, 2015/By Michelle Vires

Theater is about telling stories and capturing a wide range of experiences. This summer you will have the chance to broaden your performance style to include local traditions from...

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Study Shakespeare in London, Study Abroad Summer 2016

Theatre

December 10, 2015/By Michelle Vires

Experience the world of Shakespeare and his plays while in the company of his fellow dramatists, the Royal Shakespeare Company, during a summer session spent in Stratford-upon-Avon and London,...

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