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Tickets are now available for four performances, Feb. 16-19, of Our Town, jointly presented by Henderson State University Theatre and Arkadelphia Little Theatre in the Studio Theatre of HSU’s Arkansas Hall.
Eighteen students and community theatre enthusiasts will bring to life Thornton Wilder’s Pulitzer Prize-winning classic, which playwright Edward Albee called “the greatest play ever written.” Performances are at 7:30 p.m. Thursday-Saturday, Feb. 16-18, and at 2:30 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 19.
Tickets may be purchased online at hsu.edu/onlineticketing, by calling 870-230-5291 or sending email to theatre@hsu.edu. All seats are reserved. Tickets are $10 or free with an HSU student ID, courtesy of the Student Activities Board.
Our Town follows the Webb and Gibbs families as their children fall in love, marry, and eventually die in the fictional town of Grover’s Corners, N.H., from 1901-1913. The play’s three acts are titled Daily Life, Love and Marriage, and Death and Eternity. Wilder described the play as “an attempt to find a value above all price for the smallest events in our daily life.”
The cast includes HSU students Sophie Burke, Zandora Chinwah, Natalie Gray, Nathaniel Gray, Camden Dalie Keech, Bryce Nunn and Chelsea Spain; OBU student Hayley Johnson; HSU faculty Russ Breshears and Bill Higgins; public school students Collin Green and Morgan Lewis; and community members Drew Davis, Jim Fletcher, Emily Golden, Sarah Miller, Ali Painter and Bill Sutley.
Claudia Beach, a retired HSU theatre professor and former director of HSU’s Theatre and Dance program, is directing the play. Retired HSU theatre professor Doug Gilpin is scenic and lighting designer, and retired HSU theatre professor William Henshaw is costume designer. HSU student Kylee Hancock is technical director.
Our Town was last staged at Henderson in 2004, for the grand opening of the Studio Theatre, the centerpiece of an Arkansas Hall renovation and expansion.
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