The man who will take over the University of Delaware’s professional theatre company and run its theater/dance department is a familiar face who’s been involved with the programs for 32 years. Steve Tague, an actor, director and instructor, has been named producing artistic director of the Resident Ensemble Players, known as the REP, and chair of Theatre and Dance. He …
The Resident Ensemble Players’ 2023-24 season will include a look at the power of words; a stage version of “In the Heat of the Night;” a mash-up of “Waiting for Godot” and “Exodus;” and the crowd-pleasing “Deathtrap.” The season is designed to reflect our lives. “As theater fans you know this, but I never get tired of saying it, these …
The University of Delaware’s Resident Ensemble Players will offer a two-play 2022-23 season, with bonus weekend-only chamber shows. The REP, as the University of Delaware’s professional acting troupe is called, will offer “Arsenic and Old Lace” Nov. 3-Nov. 20 and “Medea” April 13-April 30. In addition, the resident ensemble will off something new: Chamber REP, a series of one-weekend events, …
Much of the action in Delaware Theatre Company’s ‘Other World’ takes place inside a video game, hence the hero avatars and puppet scorpion. Photo by Matt Urban/NuPoint Marketing Delaware theatergoers have a choice of two spectacular performances this week, one in Newark and one in Wilmington. Both “The Blue Door” by the University of Delaware’s professional Resident Ensemble …
Fans of UD’s REP will be saying ‘Halleluiah’ at news the theater will reopen in February. After nearly two years with its theater dark, the University of Delaware’s Resident Ensemble Players will return in 2022 with a two-play indoor season. Its first show will be “Blue Door” by Tanya Barfield, running Feb. 24-March 13. The second production will be …
University of Delaware’s Resident Ensemble Players will present an audio production of Edgar Allen Poe’s The Murders in the Rue Morgue, available for streaming between Oct. 27 and Nov. 14. According to REP, “In this grisly story, all of Paris is shocked by the horrifying murders of a mother and daughter. Their bodies are viciously brutalized – one decapitated, …
The longtime head of UD’s theater program and professional acting troupe will leave in 2022. The longtime head of the University of Delaware’s theatre department is retiring after his theater’s budget was cut more than 50%. Sanford “Sandy” Robbins, who has been working at UD for 32 years, will lead the theater program through one more school year, leaving …
UD’s REP Theatre plans to return to indoor performances in 2002, with curtain calls like this one from 2017’s “You Can’t Take It With You.” The University of Delaware’s professional theater company will keep its offerings online in the fall, but begin planning for a return to live performances in 2022. The Resident Ensemble Players will offer four …
‘The Cornish Mystery’ debuts April 23. Now you can enjoy free streams of another Christie story (‘The King of Clubs’) and ‘Arsenic and Old Lace.’
UD actor, playwright Hassan El-Amin’s play ‘Talk About Race’ is part sketch comedy, part satire, part history and part music.
