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An Oscar-winning costume and set designer shared stories of his life and career Feb. 21 during a presentation to performing arts students who crowded McKinnon Hall to hear reflections of his time working on Broadway and in Hollywood.

Andrew Lloyd Webber’s “The Phantom of the Opera” opened Feb. 14 to a packed McCrary Theatre in the Center for the Arts, making it the one of the largest debut crowds for a theatrical event in �鶹��Ƶ history with tens of thousands of dollars raised for the Performing Arts Scholarship Fund.

See how one Russian family makes decision after decision to not decide how to lose its money in the Department of Performing Arts’ production of “The Cherry Orchard,” a play by Anton Chekhov that opens Jan. 18 in the Black Box Theatre.

Life is a Cabaret, old chum... Come to the Cabaret! The Department of Performing Arts is presenting Kander and Ebb's hit musical "Cabaret" in the McCrary Theatre starting Oct. 25 with two additional performances scheduled for Homecoming weekend.

Academy Award-winning actress Olympia Dukakis will answer questions from the public on Wednesday, Oct. 17, as part of her two-day visit to �鶹��Ƶ that includes an afternoon master class in the Center for the Arts.

The tallest hurdle in her storied career was overcoming her own name. For Academy Award-winning actress Olympia Dukakis, a Greek heritage limited early opportunities to audition for theater productions in the 1950s and 60s. Her lesson to current �鶹��Ƶ students: “Take total and full responsibility for yourself. You want to work? Figure out a way to do it. … Just don't wait for people to give it to you.”