Play

Zombies take over Cooper Center June 28 to July 1

June 21, 2012 No Comments

South Texas College Theatre is bursting at the seams with the living dead walking through the halls and aisles of the Cooper Center for Communication Arts. The theatre company is starting the summer right with “Diner of the Dead!!! A Zombiefied Experience”, which is an original play written by STC’s Theatre Support Services Coordinator Jason Lee Huerta, and Jerrome Warden. “Producing an original work is a first for us here at South Texas College Theatre and there is no one better to start this tradition than Jason and Jerrome.” said Joel Jason Rodriguez, chair of STC’s Drama … Read More …

Filed Under: Around Campus, Arts, Community, Featured, Student Life

Play brings zesty twist to classic fairy tales May 3 to 6

April 20, 2012 No Comments

South Texas College Theatre is ending its 2011-2012 season with “The Brothers Grimm Spectaculathon.” Led and designed by the STC Drama Department’s Academic Cooperative Class, the students produce the play from the ground up under the advisement of director, Joel Jason Rodriguez, and technical director, Jason Huerta. “This class encourages the students to apply all they have learned in the classroom and in previous productions with us, and places them in the position of becoming producers, designers, performers and technicians,” said Rodriguez. “In essence, they become their own … Read More …

Filed Under: Academics, Around Campus, Arts, College News, Community, Featured, Student Life

Sit back and enjoy as the hilarity unfolds with STC’s ‘The Man Who Came to Dinner’

February 9, 2012 No Comments

It’s time to relive holidays past by remembering the fun times had with the guest who overstayed their welcome. South Texas College’s Theatre Program begins its spring season with Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman’s “The Man Who Came to Dinner.” The show runs from Feb. 23 to 25, 2012 at 8 p.m. each evening, with a Sunday matinee on Feb. 26 at 2 p.m. The production will be held at STC’s Pecan Campus Cooper Center for Communication Arts located at 3201 W. Pecan Blvd in McAllen. Directed by STC Theatre Director, Joel Jason Rodriguez, “The Man Who Came to Dinner” tells the story … Read More …

Filed Under: Around Campus, Arts, College News, Community, Featured, Student Life

STC brings hilarious intrigue to stage with Neil Simon’s ‘Rumors’ Dec. 1 to 4

November 16, 2011 No Comments

What a better way to celebrate the holidays than with a reminder of how much we love to go to parties? That is unless you are a character in Neil Simon’s play, “Rumors.” South Texas College’s Theatre Department will kick off the winter holidays with Simon’s successful Broadway show, which runs from Dec. 1 to 3, 2011 at 8 p.m., with a Sunday matinee on Dec. 4 at 2 p.m. The “party” will be held at STC’s Pecan Campus Cooper Center for Communication Arts located at 3201 W. Pecan Blvd. in McAllen. Directed by STC Theatre Department Technical Director Jason Lee Huerta, … Read More …

Filed Under: Around Campus, Arts, College News, Community, Featured

Auditions for Neil Simon’s “Rumors” at STC Cooper Center Oct. 18, 19

October 17, 2011 No Comments

South Texas College’s Theatre Program announces auditions for its December production, Neil Simon’s “Rumors.” In “Rumors,” four couples are at the townhouse of a deputy New York City mayor and his wife to celebrate their 10th wedding anniversary. The party never begins because the host has shot himself in the head (it’s only a flesh wound) and his wife is missing. His lawyer’s cover up gets progressively more difficult to sustain as the other guests arrive and nobody can remember who has been told what about whom. Doors slam and hilarity abounds as the couples get more and … Read More …

Filed Under: Around Campus, Arts, Community, Featured

Interactive play ‘Earth Watch’ to be presented this week at STC Cooper Center

May 3, 2011 No Comments

Taking a page out of the Universal Studios script, the South Texas College Theatre will present the interactive science fiction play “Earth Watch,” written by STC Drama Instructor Jack Carroll and funded by a grant from the McAllen Arts Council. The show takes center stage from May 4 to 8 at the Cooper Center for Communication Arts Black Box Theatre, located at the Pecan Campus on 3201 W. Pecan Blvd. in McAllen. The May 4 and 5 performances will be at 8 p.m., while the May 7 and 8 performances will be 2 p.m. matinees. All performances are open to the public. Admission for “Earth … Read More …

Filed Under: Around Campus, Arts, College News, Community

Summer play auditions coming soon to STC

May 2, 2011 No Comments

South Texas College Theatre would like to invite all to auditions for the Summer Main Stage Children's Theatre Production at the Cooper Center. The play is “Wiley and the Hairy Man,” a drama by Suzan Zeder and is directed by Joel Jason Rodriguez. The group is holding auditions May 16 and 17, with call backs on May 18 at STC’s Pecan Campus Black Box Theatre at the Cooper Center for Communication Arts located at 3201 West Pecan Blvd. in McAllen. All activities are from 7 to 9 p.m. Three men, one woman and a chorus are needed for the show. Anyone interested in auditioning needs to … Read More …

Filed Under: Around Campus, Arts, Community

Production of “The Laramie Project” shares message of tolerance

February 15, 2011 No Comments

The cast from left front are Jamie Garcia, Summer Flowers, Juan Garza, Gerry Rodriguez, Cecy Molina and Jennifer Rodriguez. From left back are Rex Rivas, Joie Laney, Mayra Ochoa, John Flores, Justin Ozuna and Robert De Hoyos.

Focused on a senseless death in a small town, “The Laramie Project” highlights perspectives on tolerance in modern day American. Written by Moises Kaufman and members of the Tectonic Theater Group, the three act play is based on a series of hundreds of interviews of the inhabitants of Laramie, Wyoming, following the brutal 1998 murder of Matthew Shepard, a gay University of Wyoming student. “Tolerance is an important lesson for us all and there is no better time than now to bring home that message and that’s why we chose to bring the play to stage this spring,” said Joel … Read More …

Filed Under: Academics, Alumni, Around Campus, Arts, College News, Community, Featured