Upcoming Productions



Washington Women in Theatre Goes to Georgia! Please join us for a Guest Artist presentation of Long Beach '44 at Georgia College and State University on October 28, 2008 in Russell Auditorium at 7PM. Playwright Sidra Rausch will give a Talkback after the show. Yours, Anne Symposium on Holocaust Theatre: Staging Justice and Diversity in our Global World 2008 Presented by Georgia College & State University Milledgeville, Georgia Symposium Chair: Professor Karen Berman, Artistic Director of Theatre Programs SCHEDULE OF EVENTS All events free except for show tickets . Show Tickets $14 General/$10 Seniors/$6 Students For performance tickets and reservations for free and paid events, call Tina Alvarez at (478) 445-4226. The Theatre Program Presents The Chamber Opera Yours, Anne A Story of Hope About Anne Frank November 19-22 8PM and 23 2PM Russell Auditorium October 15 – December 15 Photo Exhibit Bergen Belsen Photo Exhibit entitled Bergen-Belsen Revisited: Photographic Memoir of Colonel Charles Curtis Mitchell in the Wooten-Garner House ArtFix Gallery in collaboration with the Department of Art. October 22 Exhibit Opening Reception 6:30 p.m. Opening Reception of the Bergen Belsen Photo Exhibit in the Wooten-Garner House with food and Dr. Schoenfeld, Holocaust Survivor, as Keynote provided by Georgia Commission on the Holocaust. Music by Lev Ryabinin provided by The Harriet Goldstein Greenhut Woman of Valour Chapter of Hadassah (Milledgeville) with an Introduction by Jane D. Leavey, Executive Director of the Breman Museum. October 28 Play Reading 7 p.m. Concert Reading of a WWII play in Russell Auditorium entitled Long Beach ‘44 by Sidra Rausch directed by Karen Berman about a Nazi U-Boat landing in New York with talkback afterward with the playwright. Russell Auditorium. November 12 Lecture/Music Performance 12:30 p.m. Lecture/Performance by Dr. Wendy Mullen: Terezin and Viktor Ullmann: Creation in the Midst of Chaos. Viktor Ullmann (1898-1944) was a successful composer, conductor and music critic who was imprisoned in the concentration camp of Terezin during WWII. The lecture will focus upon the unusual treatment of prisoners at Terezin and the works that Ullmann composed during his incarceration with Introduction by Dr. Bob Wilson. University Banquet Room. November 17 Playwriting Workshop 10:00 and 11:00 a.m. Israeli Playwright Motti Lerner will provide a Playwriting Workshop on Internationalizing Textual Themes in Playwriting. In Miller Gym 101 and Porter 228 November 19 Guest Speaker 12:30 p.m. Faculty Brown Bag Lunch in Max Noah Recital Hall for GCSU with Sylvia Wygoda from the Georgia Commission on the Holocaust with Introduction by Dr. Ginger Carter Miller. November 19 Opening Reception 6:30 - 7:00 p.m. Yours, Anne Show OPENING Reception in the Library Atrium sponsored by the Dean’s Office of the School of Liberal Arts and Sciences. November 19 Opening Performance and Guest Speaker 8 p.m. Yours, Anne Show in Russell Auditorium Opening Night followed by Guest Speaker Sylvia Wygoda from the Georgia Commission on the Holocaust with an introduction by Dr. Ginger Carter Miller. November 20 Matinee Performance of *Yours, Anne* 10 a.m. Yours, Anne Show Matinee in Russell Auditorium for 150 High Schoolers for “Lunch and Learn” with Holocaust Survivor Andre Kessler from The William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum to be followed by lunch at the Student Union and mural drawing with the Art Professor Valerie Aranda. November 20 Guest Speaker 7 p.m. Holocaust Survivor Tosia Schneider provided by the William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum will speak before the Show in Russell Auditorium. November 20 Performance and Guest Speaker 8 p.m. Yours, Anne Show followed by Guest Speakers Dr. Amy Ross on the Bosnian Crisis and Dr. Bill Risch on Holocaust Origins. November 21 Performance and Panel Discussion 8 p.m. Yours, Anne Show in Russell Auditorium followed by a panel on diversity and tolerance including student campus groups and the Director of Institutional Equity & Diversity Yves-Rose SaintDic followed by Reception after the show Provided by Dr. Harshbarger in the Library Atrium. November 22 Performance and Panel Discussion 8 p.m. Yours, Anne Show in Russell Auditorium followed by panel on diversity and tolerance including local church and synagogue representatives including Dr. Jay Hodges, Senior Pastor of the First United Methodist Church and Rabbi Rachel Bat-Or, Congregation Sha’arey Israel and Moderated by Karen Berman who will speak on the German theatrical perspective of playwright Irwin Sylvanus who wrote a Holocaust drama Dr. Korczak and the Children and including Dr. Ginger Carter Miller. November 23 Performance and Panel Discussion 2 p.m. Final Matinee of Yours, Anne Show in Russell Auditorium followed by a panel including the student actors in the show and the Director to talk about their own experiences with the show “In Their Own Words”. *Special Thanks to the following organizations who* *have made these events possible:* The Georgia Commission on the Holocaust, The Consulate General of Israel to the Southeast, The William Breman Jewish Heritage and Holocaust Museum, The Harriet Goldstein Greenhut Woman of Valour Chapter of Hadassah (Milledgeville), The Georgia College & State University Department of Art, The Georgia College & State University Division of Student Affairs, and the Georgia College & State University School of Liberal Arts and Sciences Dean’s Office, Public Relations Writing in the Mass Communication Program *Special Thanks to the following individuals* who have made these events possible: Dr. Dorothy Leland, President, Georgia College & State University Sylvia Wygoda, The Georgia Commission on the Holocaust Mona Mansour, Cultural Attache, Consulate General of Israel to the Southeast Shelley Gavriel, Director, Academic and Cultural Affairs, Consulate General of Israel to the Southeast Dr. Ginger Carter Miller Jennifer Campbell, Director, Special Exhibitions of The William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum Michael Weinroth, Coordinator, State of Georgia Interviews & Holocaust Education Speakers of the William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum Dr. Ken Procter, Dean,Georgia College & State University, School of Liberal Arts and Sciences Dr. Bruce Harshbarger and The Georgia College & State University Division of Student Affairs Dr. Euguene Schoenfeld Lee Snelling and The Georgia College & State University Office of Advancement Mrs. Samuel Goodrich Mr. and Mrs. Jake Goldstein Mr. and Mrs. Harold Goodrich Dr. William Fisher and the Art Department of Georgia College & State University Mark E Weaver, Fine Arts Coordinator, Baldwin County Schools Dr. Dwight Call, Assistant Vice President, International Education Rabbi Rachel Bat-Or, Congregation Sha’arey Israel Dr. Gregg Kaufman, Director, Georgia College American Democracy Project Dr. Todd Shiver, Interim Music Chair Dr. Jay Hodges, United Methodist Church Andre Kessler Tosia Schneider Tina Alvarez, Senior Secretary Denise Forehand, Administrative Assistant and Box Office Manager

Washington Women in Theatre Goes to Georgia!

Please join us for a Guest Artist presentation of Long Beach '44 at Georgia College and State University on October 28, 2008 in Russell Auditorium at 7PM. Playwright Sidra Rausch will give a Talkback after the show.