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FIU Theatre’s third production of the season brings In the Next Room (The Vibrator Play) to the Herbert & Nicole Wertheim Performing Arts Center Black Box Theatre at Modesto A. Maidique Campus beginning on Friday, Jan. 27, at 8 p.m. The show will run through Sunday, Feb. 12. Directed by international guest [...]
Find out everything you need to know to navigate the new semester FIU is resuming the academic year with the first day of Spring 2012 classes on Monday, Jan. 9. Here are some important dates to keep in mind: Sun., Jan. 8: Last day to add courses without incurring a [...]
FIU Theatre‘s second production of the season brings The House of the Spirits to the Herbert & Nicole Wertheim Performing Arts Center Main Stage at Modesto A. Maidique Campus. Directed by Michael Yawney, this new play with songs by Caridad Svich is based on the best-selling novel by Isabel Allende, which [...]
Chilean writer Isabel Allende will receive the 3rd annual Lawrence Sanders Award from the Creative Writing Program at FIU on March 5 at Biscayne Bay Campus. The award-winning scribe joins a growing group of illustrious honorees that includes Pat Conroy (Prince of Tides) and Scott Turow (Presumed Innocent). The award [...]
Another exciting season of FIU Theatre is about to debut at the Herbert & Nicole Wertheim Performing Arts Center at Modesto A. Maidique Campus. Up first is Adam Bock’s Swimming in the Shallows, directed by associate professor Wayne E. Robinson Jr. The unconventional and quirky exploration of the problems and [...]
Find out everything you need to know to navigate the new academic year, whether you’re an incoming freshman or a returning Panther. FIU’s faculty and staff are poised to welcome an anticipated 46,000 students to the university Monday, Aug. 22, for the first day of Fall 2011 classes. Among this [...]
FIU theater students are in the United Kingdom this week to perform Body and Sold, a play about modern-day human trafficking. Actors from three universities representing the United States and United Kingdom are joining forces to perform the docudrama by playwright Deborah Fortson. Performers from Florida International University and the [...]
FIU’s Summer Alternative Theatre Festival will kick off its fifth season Tuesday, June 21, and run through the end of July at Modesto A. Maidique Campus. Directed by FIU Theatre professors Phillip M. Church and Marina Pareja, the festival showcases FIU Theatre students’ artistic talents and the department’s diversity in each of [...]
FIU Theatre’s last show of the season brings William Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night to the stage at Modesto A. Maidique Campus. In this classic comedy about mistaken identities, twin brother and sister Viola and Sebastian are separated when their ship capsizes and each thinks the other is dead. When Viola washes [...]
The production will run at the Wertheim Performing Arts Center March 3-13. Starting this evening, and through March 13, the FIU family will be able to enjoy a real on-stage treat when FIU Theatre presents its production of Jane Austen’s classic tale, Pride and Prejudice. Directed by associate professor of [...]
