theatre-arts
2021: The Year in Review
This past year, the Furman community showed its resilience and care for one another amid the second year of the pandemic. It was a year of putting our values into action, enacting community and striving...
Continue ReadingHave we gotten student success completely backward?
In an article appearing in The Chronicle of Education, Aaron Basko, associate vice president for enrollment management at the University of Lynchburg, in Virginia, cites the Gallup-Purdue Index, which lays out “The Big 6 for...
Continue ReadingFurman climbs in US News ranking; voted ‘most innovative’ 5th straight year
For the fifth consecutive year, Furman University is one of the “Most Innovative Schools” among national liberal arts colleges and universities, according to the U.S. News & World Report “Best Colleges” rankings released today. Furman...
Continue ReadingFurman Theatre announces 2021-22 season
Furman University Department of Theatre Arts has announced its 2021-2022 season including a musical, two plays and a new works festival. All events are open to the public and take place in various venues on...
Continue ReadingRobert McLane’s trip to a very natural thing
In an article he contributed to The Gay & Lesbian Review, Nick Radel, a professor of English at Furman University, describes a connection between the university where he's taught for over 30 years and the...
Continue ReadingAn ‘Our Town’ for our time, staged in the New England community that inspired it
Lighting and sound designer, Kevin Frazier '07, a Furman University theatre arts graduate, snags a mention in The Washington Post for his work in the Peterborough Players' (New Hampshire) production of "Our Town." The play,...
Continue ReadingJuneteenth is an opportunity to reflect
President Elizabeth Davis sent the message below to the campus community on Friday, June 18, 2021. Dear Campus Community, The first time I heard about Juneteenth I was a first-year student in college at Baylor...
Continue Reading‘Miss Nancy’s Store’
Before "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood" and "Sesame Street" there was a little show known as "Miss Nancy's Store," a production of WFSU Public Media. Short-lived, but nevertheless popular in the 1960s among children in the viewing...
Continue ReadingStudents, faculty honored at 2020 and 2021 commencement ceremonies
Student and faculty awards and honors were handed out at the commencement ceremonies for the class of 2021 on Saturday, May 8, and for the class of 2020 on Saturday, May 15. The Donaldson-Watkins and...
Continue Reading‘Hamilton’ artist Bryan Terrell Clark: ‘There is a deeper conversation than: Are we being treated well?’
“America, you great unfinished symphony, you sent for me!” Echoing one of the most compelling lines in “Hamilton,” the hit Broadway production in which he stars as George Washington, Bryan Terrell Clark told a group...
Continue ReadingFurman receives second $25 million grant from The Duke Endowment
Furman University has received a $25 million grant from The Duke Endowment to expand and advance The Furman Advantage, the university’s transformational approach to offering every student a pathway toward a meaningful and valuable college...
Continue ReadingSolving the ‘expert blind spot’
Ben Haywood kept a Rubik’s Cube in his fridge at home for six weeks during the 2020 winter break. You can imagine it sitting there, between a jar of pickles and the OJ. Haywood, assistant...
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