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Alumni News: Class Notes from Spring 2017 and Fall 2018

Colorado State University School of Music, Theatre, and Dance is proud to share the latest news and achievements from our Alumni. Amy Barkley (Mills) ’12 After graduating, Amy spent time stage managing and designing at Bas Bleu Theatre Company in Fort Collins. She moved to Seattle in 2014, and completed a stage management internship with […]


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CSU Theatre named best undergraduate theatre program in Colorado

OnStageBlog.com recently published their top choice for undergraduate theatre programs by state, naming CSU Theatre as the best theatre program in Colorado. According to the article, criteria consisting of tuition, facilities, academic rigorousness, performing opportunities, career support, location, were used when determining their “picks for the best undergraduate programs in each state of this great […]


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CSU Alum’s Environmental Fiction Unearthed at Bas Bleu

By Nicole Towne, SMTD Publicity Intern Twenty years from tomorrow, a young woman named Estella finds herself pregnant. She lives in an underground bunker with her love interest, Leopold. The current state of the earth above is deemed to be uninhabitable, and the two are surviving off a dwindling number of food pellets. This is […]



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CSU Theatre’s Urinetown: The Musical uses satire to capture modern political discord

By Brody Hornaday, SMTD Publicity Intern During last week’s evening rehearsal, the stage of the University Theater was filled with students singing their hearts out in a musical about a pertinent political dystopia where citizens need to pay to use the toilet. Urinetown: The Musical, Colorado State University Theatre’s new satirical musical packed with relevant […]


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Heather Bellotti receives the 2017-2018 Outstanding Achievement Award

The School of Music, Theatre, and Dance is proud to announce that Heather Bellotti, office manager for the School, has received Colorado State University’s 2017-2018 Outstanding Achievement Award, which recognizes meritorious and outstanding achievement in job skills and service to the University by State Classified employees. In her nomination of Heather, Music Therapy Professor Blythe […]


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A magical night at the opera

Die Zauberflöte, German for “The Magic Flute,” is a classic opera making its way to the Griffin Concert Hall stage during the first week of April. The CSU Ralph Opera Program is delighted to perform this fan-favorite by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The premiere of Die Zauberflöte took place in Germany in Sept. of 1791, and has […]


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Regional KCACTF 2018 Awards

Once again, CSU students competed at the annual Region 7 Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival (KCACTF), which brings together exceptional student actors and technicians from across the western states.


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Northern Exposure: CSU Theatre Travels to KCACTF Regional Conference

By Jennifer Clary Jacobs with Laura Jones For Laura Jones, one of her favorite weeks of the year is happening right now! The long-time theatre professor is spending Feb. 19-23 in Spokane, Washington at the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival’s regional conference, taking more than three dozen students and faculty with her to the […]


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Appropriate: New play at CSU considers when is it suitable to take for one’s benefit

“Light abandons us and a darkness replaces it.” Instantly, a billion cicadas begin trilling in the dense, velvety void. ~ Prologue, Appropriate by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins Drenched in historic and relevant themes dealing with race relations and suppressed emotions, Colorado State University Theatre’s daring play is fairly new and being performed in the region for the first […]