Fine and Performing Arts

Dance majors go “Into the Unknown”

Photo of dancers in purple

Wright State’s junior and senior dance majors will present their world premiere works June 1–2. Continue reading

“The Phantom of the Opera” haunts Festival Playhouse

Photo of Christine and the Phantom

The show has already sold out its entire 15-performance run. Continue reading

Wright State students to perform “The Laramie Project” in unique show

Photo of Matthew Shepard, who died as a result of an attack in Wyoming in 1998.

Wright State University’s Department of Theatre, Dance & Motion Pictures is hosting a public reading of The Laramie Project Sunday, April 29, at 7 p.m… Continue reading

Motion pictures alumnus to screen film on Ohio’s rivers during Earth Week at Wright State

Photo of Tom Mayor by a river

Wright State will screen “Call of the Scenic River: An Ohio Journey” on April 16 as part of its Earth Week events. Continue reading

Student artists dazzle at 13th annual ArtsGala

Photo of Dr. Hopkins and Dr. Taylor

View photos from the event. Continue reading

World-renowned percussionist to perform April 2

Photo of Bob Becker with Drums

The concert will begin at 8 p.m. in the newly renovated Schuster Hall of the Creative Arts Center on Wright State’s Dayton campus. Continue reading

Theatre students rock controversial hit musical

Photo of three male students during a scene from Rent.

Wright State continues its 2011-12 theatre season with the rock musical “RENT.” Continue reading

Wright State professors’ first film added to National Film Registry

Photo of two women from the 1970s wearing sunglasses.

Julia Reichert and Jim Klein’s 1971 documentary Growing Up Female has been selected to join the list of landmark works of American cinema. Continue reading

Music Department’s Cha the subject of second Korean documentary

Photo of In-Hong Cha conducting the university symphony during a rehearsal.

A hero in his native South Korea for being a master violinist and the current record holder for wheelchair track and field and marathon… Continue reading

Kick off the holiday season with a Dayton tradition

Photo of the orchestra and choir onstage at the Schuster Center.

The Holidays in the Heartland concert has been a Miami Valley tradition for over 15 years. Continue reading