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OU’s Brent Frederick gives perspective on the state of Broadway theater in the age of omicron
By: Emily Votaw
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WOUB Digital · OU’s Brent Frederick gives perspective on the state of Broadway in the age of Omnicron Broadway theater has been an integral part of America’s artistic, cultural, and commercial identity for well over a century. However, the last two years have proved especially difficult for the historic New York City theatrical district. On… Read More
Tantrum Theater Presents ‘Spring Awakening’ April 9-17
Spring Awakening is an angsty pop-punk musical about the explorations & trials of adolescent life in 19th century Germany. The eponymous adaption of the groundbreaking play follows a group of teens trying to navigate sexual discovery in an ultra-conservative, sexually repressed world. Tantrum’s production juxtaposes scenes of an 1891 Germany with songs representing a 2021… Read More
Tantrum Theater’s COVID-19 Audio Series Airing on WOUB Radio
The first piece in the series aired on July 9 ATHENS, OH – WOUB Public Media has teamed up with the Tantrum Theater of Ohio University’s College of Fine Arts to bring local theater arts content to the radio airwaves. In May, WOUB broadcast Tantrum’s first ever radio play, a new version of Objects in… Read More
Tantrum Theater Offers Empowering Summer Drama Experience for Kids
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WOUB Digital · Tantrum Theater Offers Empowering Summer Drama Experience for Kids Although the in person theater education experience that Ohio University’s Tantrum Theater typically provides for regional children and teens won’t be possible to execute safely due to the COVID-19 crisis this summer, Tantrum has developed two online programs for children and teens that… Read More
“Objects in the Mirror” Explores Resonate Themes in the Time of COVID-19
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WOUB Digital · ‘Objects in the Mirror’ Explores Resonate Themes in the Time of COVID-19 Ohio University’s professional theater group, Tantrum Theater, had already been conducting in person rehearsals of Charles Smith’s Objects in the Mirror when Governor Mike DeWine issued a stay-at-home order on March 22 in response to the rapidly spreading coronavirus. The… Read More
WOUB Partners with Tantrum Theater for Live Radio Play Broadcast
Objects in the Mirror will premiere on WOUB FM May 31 at 8 p.m. ATHENS, OH – While Ohio and the nation are combatting the spread of the Coronavirus and being asked not to gather in large groups, many have missed being able to experience arts and cultural events like theatrical performances. WOUB Public Media… Read More
Tantrum Theater Announces ‘Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812’ for 2020-2021 Season
OHIO’s Tantrum Theater announces the production of alumnus’ Broadway hit Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812 as part of an exciting 2020-21 season ATHENS, Ohio (April 6, 2020) – Ohio University’s Tantrum Theater, the professional theater connected to the School of Theater in the College of Fine Arts, will stage Ohio University alumnus… Read More
Tantrum Opens Ionesco’s ‘Rhinoceros’ Nov. 21
By: Emily Votaw
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Ohio University’s professional theater, Tantrum Theater, will premiere their production of French-Romanian playwright Eugène Ionesco’s absurdist work Rhinoceros on Thursday, November 21 in Ohio University’s Forum Theater. Rhinoceros was written in 1959, and even 60 years after it’s creation, the work still speaks to the tragically easy way in which humanity has a tendency to conform, even to… Read More
Tantrum Festival Features ‘Blackbone,’ ‘Beyond Words,’ More Aug. 16-24
Tantrum Theater will present its first annual Tantrum Theater Summer Festival—a theater-focused, multi-disciplinary event over two weekends, featuring world-renowned artists at venues located on the Ohio University campus. In its first weekend, Friday, August 16 and Saturday, August 17 at 8 p.m., the festival will spotlight Bill Bowers in Beyond Words at the E. E…. Read More
Tantrum Announces Theater Fundamentals for Kids
Tantrum Theater’s Tantrum Kids Theater Fundamentals is for creative kids ages 8-12 who have some theater experience or none at all! Learn and strengthen the fundamental skills needed for acting in school or community plays. The class will include theater exercises and games to build collaboration, voice and movement awareness, basic scene work, games for… Read More
‘Next to Normal’ Opens For Tantrum Theater July 11
By: Emily Votaw
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July 11 through July 29, Ohio University’s Tantrum Theater will be producing “Next to Normal,” the Pulitzer Prize-winning rock musical penned by Brian Yorkey with music by Tom Kitt. The theatrical work explores a family trying to make a suburban life for themselves amidst dealing chronic mental illness. WOUB’s Emily Votaw spoke with director… Read More
‘The Cake’: a Comedy About The Other, Fear, and True Belief
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Based on a myriad of current events – the least of which is not the phenomenon of “The Great British Bake Off” – “The Cake” is a very new theatrical production written by Bekah Brunstetter of “This Is Us” and “American Gods” fame, which will be produced by Ohio University’s Tantrum Theater June 6 through… Read More
Tantrum Theater Announces 2018 Season
Tickets are now on sale for Tantrum Theater’s 2018 season! You can buy tickets here. The Cake (June 6 – June 24) By Bekah Brunsetter Directed by Shelley Delaney Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. Della believes there’s no problem so big it can’t… Read More
Head ‘Into the West’ With Tantrum Theater Through August 19
By: Emily Votaw
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Turna Mete has a special place in her heart for Into the West, and not just because she’ll be performing as Ally, one of the theatrical version’s main characters, in Tantrum Theater’s production of the play through August 19. “My mom loved the movie Into the West, and I watched it a lot growing up,”… Read More
Tantrum Theater’s “Caroline, Or Change”
By: Emily Votaw
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Caroline, Or Change is the lauded sung-through musical by acclaimed playwright Tony Kushner (Angels in America). Kicking off on July 7, Ohio University’s professional theater company, Tantrum Theater, will host a production of the work at Dublin’s Abbey Theater, directed by Robert Barry Fleming. On this installment of Conversations from Studio B, WOUB’s Emily Votaw… Read More