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Old Gold & Black

"Covers the campus like the magnolias"

Old Gold & Black

"Covers the campus like the magnolias"

Old Gold & Black

"More than anything, what I think this play truly understands about our lives in this age of the internet is just how intimate and intertwined the comical and the tragic is — the quotidian and the catastrophic."

“Love and Information” finds harmony in shocks and glitches

Adam Coil, Arts & Culture Editor November 7, 2024

If you want to know how theater can respond to our current cultural moment of Brat summers and endless doom-scrolling, you need not go any further than Tedford Stage in Scales Fine Arts Center, where Caryl...

Wake Forest's Anthony Aston Players kick off the 2024-2025 theater season with "The Musical Comedy Murders of 1940."

Wake Forest Theatre department stabs into the Fall season

Adam Coil, Arts & Culture Editor September 23, 2024

The Wake Forest Theatre Department opens its Fall catalog with Cindy Genrich’s interpretation of “The Musical Comedy Murders of 1940,” a potent mix of satirical silliness and Nancy-Drew-esque mystery.  The...

John and Fanny Dashwood, played by Bennett Haara and BG Cave, hold hands in the intimate setting of the Ring Theater as they share a tender moment at the crux of the performance.

‘Sense and Sensibility’: WFU Theater ‘Combines humor with sentimentality’

Carolyn Malman, Staff Writer March 7, 2024

From Feb. 16 to Feb. 18 and Feb. 22 through Feb. 25, the Wake Forest Theatre Department presented “Sense and Sensibility,” a play by Kate Hamill adapted from Jane Austen’s novel. On Feb. 22, I attended...

Sona Tatoyan pictured on Tedford stage where her professor Maya Angelou told to express herself without any reservation years ago. (Courtesy of Wake Forest University)

‘Azad (The Rabbit and the Wolf)’ highlights the beauty of the storyteller

Kenley McClure, Staff Writer February 7, 2024

On Feb. 1, Wake Forest University’s Fine Arts Center hosted a multimedia performance of “Azad (The Rabbit and the Wolf)” on Tedford Stage. The show, conceived and performed by ‘00 alumnus Sona...

"Engle and Haara hope for continued interest and engagement from fellow Wake Forest students in the arts, no matter their academic background."

Regency, revelry and regality: The Ring Theater will bring “Sense and Sensibility” to Wake Forest

Lydia Derris, Arts & Culture Editor February 5, 2024

Since it was established in 1942, Wake Forest’s Department of Theatre and Dance, based out of the Scales Fine Arts Center, has been the center of eclectic performing arts programming on campus. Each...

Freshman Aderinola “Nola” Adepoju plays Lynda Blackmon Lowery, the youngest demonstrator in the 1965 Civil Rights march from Selma to Montgomery.

‘Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom’ gives a topical testimony to a uniquely American story

Adam Coil, Arts & Culture Editor November 6, 2023

In 1965, Lynda Blackmon Lowery was the youngest person to march 54 miles from Selma to Montgomery in a campaign for African-American voting rights. One day into the trip, on March 22, she turned just 15...

Sir Wilfrid Robarts, played by Evan Souza, questions the unstable history of his defendant Leonard Vole, played by Joe Bruno.

Eerie secrets reach a fever pitch in ‘Witness for the Prosecution’

Lydia Derris, Contributing Writer September 30, 2023

Nestled in the confines of Scales Fine Arts Center, the Tedford Stage emanated an uncanny, almost sinister aura on the opening night of “Witness for the Prosecution.” When the show began, jazz noir...

British Production Is Livestreamed

British Production Is Livestreamed

Catherine Regen February 27, 2020
The critically acclaimed play was livestreamed in movie theaters across the world
Jump Into A Seat At Ever In The Glades

Jump Into A Seat At Ever In The Glades

Ryan King February 13, 2020
The university's theater department is only the third ever production team to produce the play, and worked closely with the playwright to create the show.
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