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Whether you want to direct in a community theatre setting or be the next hit Broadway director, every directing student must have a strong educational foundation. While learning from experience is always beneficial, there is nothing wrong with taking direction (no pun intended!) from the directing pros. Here are the top five directing books that every directing student should read at least once in their life!

Wright State University’s Theatre program has announced its 2022-23 season, featuring an exciting array of classic and contemporary dramas, musicals and dance.

The Human Race embraces its mission of “exploring the human condition” in its 36th season by presenting themes of family, national security, dementia, creativity, race, and autism. Honoring its mission by “promoting enlightenment, inclusion and understanding,” the season includes two World Premieres (one play and one musical), a regional premiere, a Tony and Pulitzer Prize winning play, and the return of a favorite. 

If playwright Matthew Lombardo's searing look at actress Tallulah Bankhead in Looped was the main course, then his spicy confection about Cindy Lou Who in Who's Holiday! - playing this December at The Human Race - is the decadent dessert we have been waiting for. Called a 'raunchy riff on Dr. Seuss,' Who's Holiday! is a wildly funny and heartfelt adult-only comedy about grown-up Cindy Lou Who, as she recalls that Christmas Eve when she first met the Grinch and the twisted turn of events her life has since taken. Who's Holiday! will fill the Loft Theatre with laughter, December 2 - 19, 2021.

Human Race's Who's Holiday! dishes up a hilarious good time, not for the whole family! 

Wright State University’s Department of Theatre, Dance and Motion Pictures will present the worldwide dance musical sensation MAMMA MIA! from October 29-November 14th in the Festival Playhouse of Wright State’s Creative Arts Center.

Lush designs and laughter will fill Wright State University’s Festival Playhouse when they return to live performance with the hilarious farce, Ken Ludwig’s LEND ME A TENOR, as their first indoor live production in a year and a half.

The new edition of Acting in Musical Theatre was released on April 28, 2021 and is available wherever books are sold. 

Wright State University's Department of Theatre, Dance and Motion Pictures presents its final performance event of the school year with the streaming musical production, Fugitive Songs, a 19-song journey across America. 

Wright State University's acclaimed Motion Pictures program will present its annual Big Lens Film Festival Thursday, April 22nd at 8:00pm at Dayton's Dixie Twin Drive-In.

After almost a year of creative silence, Wright State University’s Department of Theatre, Dance and Motion Pictures has come back to life with a Spring festival of classic, contemporary, original and re-invented Theatre, Films and Dance.

Wright State University's Department of Theatre, Dance, and Motion Pictures proudly presents the Emerging Choreographers Concert 2021 streaming on YouTube from February 26-March 7th.

Looking for something new to read while staying inside, but still need your Broadway fix? We've rounded up 10 of our favorite books on directing!

Looking for something new to read while staying inside, but still need your Broadway fix? We've rounded up 10 of our favorite books on acting!

Wright State University Theatre continues its 54th season in the Festival Playhouse with the family-friendly musical comedy, The Addams Family, running from October 31st a?' November 17th. Toronto Post City proclaimed: a?oeIt will entertain you to death!a?? This Broadway musical inspired by Charles Addams's well-known cartoons is sure to delight audiences of all ages a?' bringing to the stage the beloved, ghoulish American family living in a haunted house with an affinity for all things macabre, featuring an original story: it's every father's nightmare.

Put on your seatbelts for a wild ride around the world with the cast of AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS, playing through March 17 at the Human Race Theatre Company.

Proper gentleman Phileas Fogg strikes a wager and sets off on a race that puts his fortune and life at risk.

Jules Verne's classic tale springs to life in this clever, fast-paced comedy for the whole family. Proper gentleman Phileas Fogg strikes a wager and sets off on a race that puts his fortune and life at risk. With his faithful servant at his side, he has just 80 days to circle the globe-an inconceivable feat in the year 1872! Fierce natives, furious typhoons, runaway trains, a damsel in distress and a dogged detective threaten to delay him at every step in this delightful, whirlwind odyssey that will keep you on the edge of your seat from beginning to unexpected end.

Jules Verne's classic tale springs to life in this clever, fast-paced comedy for the whole family. Proper gentleman Phileas Fogg strikes a wager and sets off on a race that puts his fortune and life at risk. With his faithful servant at his side, he has just 80 days to circle the globe–an inconceivable feat in the year 1872! Fierce natives, furious typhoons, runaway trains, a damsel in distress and a dogged detective threaten to delay him at every step in this delightful, whirlwind odyssey that will keep you on the edge of your seat from beginning to unexpected end.

Proper gentleman Phileas Fogg strikes a wager and sets off on a race that puts his fortune and life at risk.