Faculty News
News from Robert Chapel, John Frick and Richard Warner
Robert Chapel, Professor
rcc2u@virginia.edu
Bob traveled back to Russia on May 17 to give a lecture on the American Theatre at an International Theatre Festival in Moscow. Upon his return on May 21 he began preparation for City of Angels, the first Culbreth show of the Heritage Theatre Festival's 2008 season. Along with City of Angels, four other shows will be presented this summer: I Am My Own Wife, Master Class, Forever Plaid and The Light in the Piazza, which Bob will also direct.
John Frick, Professor, Theatre History
jwf8f@virginia.edu
John is finishing his second year as President of the American Theatre and Drama Society, which last August sponsored a conference in New Orleans for doctoral students in American theatre and which will participate in the upcoming Association for Theatre in Higher Education Conference in Denver this summer. Last June, John was invited to present a paper on the theatrical versions of Uncle Tom's Cabin on Stage at a multi-disciplinary conference at the Harriet Beecher Stowe Center in Connecticut; in February, he delivered a series of lectures on Uncle Tom and on the Moral Reform Melodrama at the University of Iowa; and he has been invited to give the keynote address at an international conference in Cadiz, Spain next spring. Recently, John learned that his book Theatre, Culture and Temperance Reform in Nineteenth-century America, a 2003 CHOICE Best Academic Book Award winner, is being re-issued in paperback.
Richard Warner, Professor
rpw2z@virginia.edu
Richard will be performing this summer at St. Michael's Playhouse in Burlington Vermont, playing Ben Hecht in "Moonlight and Magnolias" and a circus performer in the musical, "Barnum". This summer marks the Playhouse's sixty-first year of operation. It's one of the eleven remaining CORST professional summer stock companies in the nation.
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