319 past events with the acting tag

Free community event
Location: Indiana Room, Center Building

Alex’s sister Riley is dead of an accidental overdose, and Alex is alone in the hospital bathroom with a bottle of Riley’s pills. Alex must decide what path to go down: take the pills and follow Riley? Take the pills and numb the pain? Or find a different path?

 Through memories, movement, and a compelling story by the creative team at REACT, a cast of six actors bring to life a story of loss and love that can happen anywhere and does happen everywhere.

Meant for 7th grade and up.
Community programming series sponsor: Open Door Health Services

Free community event
Location: Indiana Room, Center Building

Alex’s sister Riley is dead of an accidental overdose, and Alex is alone in the hospital bathroom with a bottle of Riley’s pills. Alex must decide what path to go down: take the pills and follow Riley? Take the pills and numb the pain? Or find a different path?

 Through memories, movement, and a compelling story by the creative team at REACT, a cast of six actors bring to life a story of loss and love that can happen anywhere and does happen everywhere.

Meant for 7th grade and up.
Community programming series sponsor: Open Door Health Services

Free community event
Location: Indiana Room, Center Building

Alex’s sister Riley is dead of an accidental overdose, and Alex is alone in the hospital bathroom with a bottle of Riley’s pills. Alex must decide what path to go down: take the pills and follow Riley? Take the pills and numb the pain? Or find a different path?

 Through memories, movement, and a compelling story by the creative team at REACT, a cast of six actors bring to life a story of loss and love that can happen anywhere and does happen everywhere.

Meant for 7th grade and up.
Community programming series sponsor: Open Door Health Services

Derek Spencer (Los Angeles, CA) will present an artist talk about his past projects and process on Tuesday, April 5 at 6:30pm in the Arts and Journalism building, room 225, on the campus of Ball State University. This event is free and open to the public. Masks are recommended, but not required. While at PlySpace, Derek has been working with acting students from Ball State University’s Department of Theater and Dance, led by teaching professor Veronica Santoyo, to create a devised adaptation of The Eumenides by Aeschylus as his community collaborative project.

FURY adapts the classic Greek tragedy The Eumenides for a contemporary context. Spencer and his ensemble of BSU acting students draw on physical theater, immersive performance techniques, and improvisation to examine the role of anger in judicial reform. As Athena gathers her jury for the first ever trial, the Furies, ancient gods of anger, eagerly await the execution of the matricidal Orestes. True justice, however, may be more complicated than a simple verdict.

Originally devised with the ensemble and performed in an ornate Masonic temple, Fury asks audiences to examine their own relationship to justice, reform, and authority. Audiences may be directly interacted with by performers in this site-specific, immersive performance.

FURY will run for four nights at Cornerstone Center for the Arts. The opening night will be Thursday, April 21, 2022,  followed by performances on Friday, April 22, 2022 and Saturday, April 23, 2022. The final performance will be on Sunday, April 24, 2022. All performances will be held in the Heritage Room on the second floor of Cornerstone Center for the Arts at 7:30pm. Tickets are $5.00 per person and are available for purchase online at www.plyspace.org/events. For free or reduced-cost tickets, please contact Lexi Musselman, Program Coordinator, at hello@plyspace.org. Masks are not required, but recommended. 

FURY adapts the classic Greek tragedy The Eumenides for a contemporary context. Spencer and his ensemble of BSU acting students draw on physical theater, immersive performance techniques, and improvisation to examine the role of anger in judicial reform. As Athena gathers her jury for the first ever trial, the Furies, ancient gods of anger, eagerly await the execution of the matricidal Orestes. True justice, however, may be more complicated than a simple verdict.

Originally devised with the ensemble and performed in an ornate Masonic temple, Fury asks audiences to examine their own relationship to justice, reform, and authority. Audiences may be directly interacted with by performers in this site-specific, immersive performance.

FURY will run for four nights at Cornerstone Center for the Arts. The opening night will be Thursday, April 21, 2022,  followed by performances on Friday, April 22, 2022 and Saturday, April 23, 2022. The final performance will be on Sunday, April 24, 2022. All performances will be held in the Heritage Room on the second floor of Cornerstone Center for the Arts at 7:30pm. Tickets are $5.00 per person and are available for purchase online at www.plyspace.org/events. For free or reduced-cost tickets, please contact Lexi Musselman, Program Coordinator, at hello@plyspace.org. Masks are not required, but recommended. 

July 27-29; 5–9 p.m. 
July 29; 1–4 p.m., Sensory-friendly event

Cost: $12; $10 members | Kids 2 & under free | One free popcorn per member household

Member presale June 19–July 1
Ticket sales begin July 1

During this multi-day event, children are encouraged to come dressed in their best magical faerie attire as they imagine and play in a magical faerie wonderland. Families can enjoy games, crafts, a theater show, live music and dancing, a bubble garden, and more throughout our enchanted Oakhurst Gardens.

For their Spring performance, Ball State’s Opera Theatre program will present two one-act operas: Donizetti’s Il Campanello di Notte and Puccini’s Suor Angelica. Il Campanello is a comedy and Suor Angelica is a tragedy. Get ready for a night of laughs and deep emotion as you experience these two classic tales!

Learn more about the Ball State Opera Theatre program, director Jon Truitt, and vocal coach Cara Chowning.

Other Performances

This is the first of two performances. The second performance is at 3 p.m. on Sunday, April 21.

Tickets

• General Public: $18 in advance, $20 at the door
  Students: $5 in advance, $8 at the door
  Seniors (62+)/ BSU Faculty/Staff: $15 in advance, $17 at the door

Tickets are sold through the College of Fine Arts Box Office located at Sursa Hall. Purchase options:

• ONLINE
• Phone: 765-285-8749
• In person: Monday through Friday from Noon to 5 p.m., or starting 1 hour before the performance at the performance venue

**Please note: As part of our commitment to sustainability, all College of Fine Arts tickets are paperless and are accessible via email confirmation. Your confirmation email contains your digital tickets which can be scanned at the door from your mobile device, or you can print your digital tickets at home to be scanned. There is no need to visit Will Call prior to the performance.

Parking

Parking is available in the McKinley Parking Garage (entrance on Ashland Avenue) located immediately south of Sursa Hall. This garage is free on weekends.

For their Spring performance, Ball State’s Opera Theatre program will present two one-act operas: Donizetti’s Il Campanello di Notte and Puccini’s Suor Angelica. Il Campanello is a comedy and Suor Angelica is a tragedy. Get ready for a night of laughs and deep emotion as you experience these two classic tales!

Learn more about the Ball State Opera Theatre program, director Jon Truitt, and vocal coach Cara Chowning.

Other Performances

This is the second of two performances. The first performance is at 7:30 p.m. on Friday, April 19.

Tickets

• General Public: $18 in advance, $20 at the door
  Students: $5 in advance, $8 at the door
  Seniors (62+)/ BSU Faculty/Staff: $15 in advance, $17 at the door

Tickets are sold through the College of Fine Arts Box Office located at Sursa Hall. Purchase options:

• ONLINE
• Phone: 765-285-8749
• In person: Monday through Friday from Noon to 5 p.m., or starting 1 hour before the performance at the performance venue

**Please note: As part of our commitment to sustainability, all College of Fine Arts tickets are paperless and are accessible via email confirmation. Your confirmation email contains your digital tickets which can be scanned at the door from your mobile device, or you can print your digital tickets at home to be scanned. There is no need to visit Will Call prior to the performance.

Parking

Parking is available in the McKinley Parking Garage (entrance on Ashland Avenue) located immediately south of Sursa Hall. This garage is free on weekends.