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GSU Theatre and Performance Studies Presents: Othello 

Get Ready to see Othello as you've never seen HER before...

Meet the Cast

	Jane F. Cox
Nekia Driver Othello	Brian Whitlock Iago	Hannah Hamel Desdemona	Marquis Parks Cassio
Maya Shelton Emilia	Dylan Bales Roderigo	Victoria Dean Lodovico	Dakota Keel The Duke
Xavier Thompson Montano	Dominiqe Y. Adams Bianca	Lynne Clayton Brabantio/Gratiano	Chevelle Blackburn u/s Othello
	Kimelia Carter Stage Manager	LaT'ya Johnson Assistant Stage Manager  u/s Lodovico

 

News

2022-23

• Governors State University’s Dance Company will “RISE UP” to Social Injustice Through Dance
•  Theatre and Performance Studies Presents: Cloud 9

•  Universally Renowned Ailey II Dance Company Returns to Governors State University Center for Performing Arts October 15

•  Tickets now on sale for Southland Film Festival Oct. 13 to 15   

• Governors State University to produce The World Premiere of Red Summer by Shepsu Aakhi and Andrew White with music by Shawn Wallace

•  2022-23 Season Announcement  

 

 

2021-22

• ORBERT DAVIS’ CHICAGO JAZZ PHILHARMONIC Forward Momentum
  
  
• Theater and Performance Studies Presents A Delightful Quarantine
  
  
• Opera Up Close Presents Viva La Zarzuela
  
  
• CHICAGO'S WTTW-TV TO AIR SWEET HOME CHICAGO -- CELEBRATING 50 YEARS OFALLIGATOR RECORDS ON SEPTEMBER 10 AND SEPTEMBER 12
  
  
• 2021-22 Season Announcement 
  
  
• WTTW to air Sweet Home Chicago Blues -- Celebrating 50 Years of Alligator Records Filmed at Governors State University Center for Performing Arts

 

2020-2021

• Center for Performing Arts Returns to Live Concerts this Fall. Messages of Hope Streaming June 5 - July 3
• Governors State University Academic Theatre Returns with bobrauschenbergAMERICA Live Streaming May 6-8 
• Governors State University’s Center for Performing Arts Launches Opera & Beyond Endowment   Fund
•  Governors State University Celebrates 50 Years of Alligator Recrods with Streaming Concert   Premiering March 13, 2021
•  Governors State University’s Center for Performing Arts Continues its Opera Up Close Series
•  Shaping our Future using the Past Lessons from Anne Frank’s story
•  GSU Holds Virtual Silent Auction to Benefit Arts Programs, GSU Food Pantry 
•  Governors State University Fall Drama Failure: A Love Story
•  MPAACT Podcast Plays explore arts and activism with Beyond Conversation Series
•  25th Anniversary Season Announcement
•  Virtual Theatre Camp at GSU
•  WBEZ’s Unforgettable: Stories of Local Grads and the School Mentors Who Changed Their Lives -   featuring box office manager  Patricia Guy and student worker and 2020 graduate DeMario Tribett

2019-2020

•   Theaters Hope Crowds Return for 2020-21 Performances
•   The Greatest Love of All: A Tribute to Whitney Houston Starring Belinda Davids
•   Salt Creek Ballet Presents a Time-Honored Holiday Tradition
•   Governors State University Alumnus Chuck Smith Returns to Direct Acclaimed Gospel Musical CROWNS
•   GSU Theatre and Performance Studies Program presents The Laramie Project
•   The Center for Performing Arts’ 2019-2020 Season Celebrates GSU’s 50th Anniversary

 2018-2019

•  Scenes Newsletter: Stories From the Stage Spring 2019
•  A Valentine's Celebration with Heart and Soul
•  Scenes Newsletter: Stories From the Stage Fall 2018
•  The Iconic Aaron Neville in Chicago
•  WIVR Interview with Lana Rogachevskaya and Josh Young
•  2018-19 Season Announcement

2017-2018

• The Blues Hip Hop Experience
• Shange's 'For Colored Girls' addresses social issues through dance, music
• GSU Dance Company Brings the Big Screen to Life On Stage
• Southland Area Theatre Ensemble Presents the Ground-breaking Musical Caroline, or Change
• A Musical Celebration of the Black Experience at GSU's Center for Performing Arts
• Salt Creek Ballet Presents Time-Honored Holiday Tradition The Nutcracker
• Chicago Dreamgirl Celebrates the Legendary Aretha Franklin
• GSU Students Have a Positive Message for the Community in The Scarlet Letter
• Starting Over: A Love Story for LGBT History Month at Governors State University
• CPA Voted Best Live Entertainment Venue in Chicago Southland
• 2017-18 Season Announcement
• NEA Grant Awarded to the CPA  
  

2016-2017

• "Let Them Eat Jazz" Festival Celebrates a Century of Jazz
•  SLATE Presents The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
•  Guest Artists Announced for Nutcracker
•  Fat Pig
•  Evil and Good
•  2016-17 Season Announcement
• Music and Food From Around the World

2015-2016

• The Nutcracker
• Chevere de Chicago
• Philadanco
• Curious George
• Whose Live Anyway?
• Viva Italia!
• Big Read Grant