Performance

A showcase of student and faculty work across the spectrum of digital and electronic arts in Creative Computing and Hybrid Arts practices. The time-based media will start at 5 p.m. (performances and film screenings). The event will include interactive dance, computer, video games, interactive installations and more. Faculty work by Rob Frank, Courtney Brown, Ira Greenberg, and more...

In Eurydice, Sarah Ruhl reimagines the classic myth of Orpheus through the eyes of its heroine. Dying too young on her wedding day, Eurydice must journey to the underworld, where she reunites with her father and struggles to remember her lost love.

At the height of the foreclosure crisis, single mother Crystal loses more than her house. She struggles to stay positive, though - with plenty of help from a roommate with conspiracy theories, a motivational speaker with a secret and her colleagues at the local Saturn dealership. But optimism is no match for a bad economy, and before long Crystal's desperate quest to regain what she's lost turns into the fight of her life. This darkly comic thriller explores just how far we'll go to get back what's ours.

An aspiring young director rampages against the art created by his mother's generation. A nubile young actress wrestles with an aging Hollywood star for the affections of a renowned novelist. And everyone discovers just how disappointing love, art and growing up can be. In this irreverent, contemporary and very funny remix of Chekhov's The Seagull, Aaron Posner stages a timeless battle between young and old, past and present, in search of the true meaning of it all.

SMU Meadows has partnered with the Dallas Theater Center on an upcoming co-production of Frankenstein. Join fellow local graduates for an unforgettable performance produced by SMU student and faculty cast members and crew. Before the curtain goes up, enjoy complimentary drinks and appetizer at a pre-show reception.

Directed by Kara-Lynn Vaeni

Tom Stoppard’s internationally celebrated play won the Tony Award and New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award for best play. It focuses on Hamlet from the perspective of the two flummoxed courtiers, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, who are bewildered by the action surrounding them. Part Shakespearean tragedy, part Laurel and Hardy comedy routine, and part Waiting for Godot absurdity, it leads its two honorable, adventurous and inept characters to their unfortunate, unavoidable fate.

Sean Griffin, professor of film & media arts, will sign copies of his new book, Free and Easy? A Defining History of the American Film Musical Genre at the SMU bookstore. The book narrates the evolution of the film musical genre, discussing its influences and how it has come to be defined. It surveys centuries of music history from the music and dance of Native Americans to contemporary music performance in streaming media. Dr. Griffin teaches courses on the history of animation and on musicals – and often sings to his classes!

The Division of Theatre presents three contemporary American plays in rotation over a two-week period.

Bethany by Laura Marks
Thursday, April 26 at 8 p.m.; Sunday, April 29 at 2 & 7:30 p.m.; Friday, May 4 at 8 p.m.

Stupid Fucking Bird by Aaron Posner
Friday, April 27 at 8 p.m.; Wednesday, May 2 at 8 p.m.; Saturday, May 5 at 2 & 8 p.m.

In honor of Leonard Bernstein’s 100th birthday in August 2018, we celebrate this amazing composer, conductor, educator, musician, cultural ambassador and humanitarian through his “artful way of learning” with iconic scenes from West Side Story, On the Town, Wonderful Town, Trouble in Tahiti, A Quiet Place and Candide. In his words, those who can “Shout the Big Dreams” will save us!

The 25th annual benefit concert for SMU Meadows will feature the critically acclaimed Meadows Symphony Orchestra, led by conductor Paul Phillips, in the presentation of three works. Opening the program is Samuel Barber’s short, dramatic Essay No. 1 for Orchestra, followed by his Toccata Festiva for Organ and Orchestra, an exuberant, celebratory work composed in 1960 for the inauguration of a new organ at the Academy of Music in Philadelphia.