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Author Sheila Callaghan can certainly be considered experimental, but she is certainly no stranger to high praise. In 2010 she was named by Marie Claire as one of '18 Successful Women Who Are Changing the World'. She's been published by Playscripts, Inc., Samuel French Inc. as well as many others, and her plays have been produced internationally in New Zealand, Norway, Germany, Portugal and the Czech Republic. She has written over ten plays, her most well known being Dead City. It wasn't Dead City, though, that made Rider University faculty member Ivan Fuller want to direct a Callaghan piece, it was the darkness of Crumble: Lay Me Down, Justin Timberlake that caught his attention.

This week's School in the Spolight is the Department of Theatre and Dance at Winthrop University in Rock Hill, South Carolina, where students can pursue a B.A. in Theatre with concentrations in Performance, Design/Technical Theatre, or Teacher Certification (K-12).

Baldwin Wallace University's Theatre Department presents Anton Chekhov's classic work THE SEAGULL. This comedy concerns the romantic entanglements and regrets of a group of actors, writers and artists gathered on a Russian estate. Scroll below to see production shots from Wallace Theatre's production - now on stage thru April 7!

The Duke University Dept. of Theater Studies will present Young Jean Lee's Lear April 4-14, 2013 in Sheafer Theater in Duke's Bryan Center. Jody McAuliffe, chair of theater studies and professor of the practice of theater studies and Slavic and Eurasian studies, is directing the play. Click below to see a promo shot!

Commissioned by Pepperdine University and first presented in its world premiere by Pepperdine students in summer 2012 at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, where it won a prestigious Scotsman Fringe First Award for 'innovation and outstanding new writing' and was a finalist for three more honors, including Amnesty International's Freedom of Expression Award.

From 1964-68, Famed photographer Ansel Adams spent time at the University of California on a groundbreaking photographic project commissioned by UC President Clark Kerr. At its core the project, entitled Fiat Lux (Let There Be Light, the University of California motto) asked Adams to answer the question "How can we imagine our future?" Over the course of the project, Adams took thousands of photos of the entire UC system, culminating in a published book written by Nancy Newhall in 1967, which was revisited in a full-year, campuswide multimedia exploration of Adams' work this year called On the Same Page.

This week's School in the Spolight is the Drama Depatment at Vasser College in Poughkeepsie, NY! Scroll below for a historical look at the department, see what's upcoming in their production season and view photos from past shows!

Playwright Sarah Ruhl will visit Vassar College on April 10 to read her recent work; a series of micro-essays about theater making, being a mother, Eurydice, poetry followed by a Q&A where she will discuss and answer questions about Dear Elizabeth.

With classic red draperies framing the stage and and silhouettes of the orchestra tuning against a blue scrim, SBU Theater presented their nostalgic adaptation of Robert and Willie Reale's musical A YEAR WITH FROG AND TOAD last weekend in the Regina A. Quick Center for the Arts.

AKip Productions assembles various University of Michigan musical theatre students, graduates, professors, and local Ann Arbor artists to celebrate cancer survivorship through music.

Celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of Penn State's College of Arts and Architecture with the modern classic MASS, Leonard Bernstein's provocative exploration of faith. Watch the video below to hear the Music and Theatre faculty discuss this special collaboration!

Muhlenberg College dancers tell their stories through movement, as the Muhlenberg Theatre & Dance Department presents 'Dance Emerge,' a showcase for dance works created by emerging choreographers, April 18-21 in the College's Dance Studio Theatre. Jeffrey Peterson and Teresa VanDenend Sorge are co-artistic directors for the concert.

In this week's School in the Spotlight, we feature the Theatre Department of Brandeis University in Waltham, MA! Read about their programs below and scroll down to see photos from the 2012-2013 production season!

Wayne State University's Maggie Allesee Department of Theatre and Dance is proud to announce 'A Conversation with Apple Award Recipient Elaine Stritch' at the Hilberry Theatre on April 27 at 4 p.m. Stritch will appear on campus as the recipient of the 2013 Apple Award and will entertain her audience in an 'Actors Studio' style interview and question-and-answer session.

The Theatre Department at Missouri Valley College will present ZOMBIES FROM URANUS on April 3-6, directed by Wade Hughes. BroadwayWorld brings you a look at the promo image for the production!

The University of Central Florida presents SPRING AWAKENING by Duncan Sheik and Steven Sater. The show begins its run tonight, March 21, thru March 30 on the Theatre's Main Stage.

Once a Bonnie, always a Bonnie. That's a commonplace phrase creeping into conversations around springtime on the Olean, N.Y. college campus, but it rings true for Alexandra Herryman, a 2004 Bonaventure graduate returning to her former home to bring her puppetry skills to SBU Theater's production of Robert and Willie Reale's musical A YEAR WITH FROG AND TOAD.

America's obsession with physical beauty is confronted headlong in reasons to be pretty, a brutal and exhilarating work by playwright and screenwriter Neil LaBute. Is there more to life than simply how one looks?

The School of Theatre at Florida State, known for its nationally reputable program, encourages the creation of art, defies standards and makes bold moves to produce caliber productions. With the upcoming presentation of William Shakespeare's comedic classic Much Ado About Nothing, director Walter Kmiec embraces the spirit of experimentation and sets the production in Southern Florida during the glamorous 1920's. This show will run from March 29 - April 7 in the Lab Theatre, located by the Pensacola Street parking garage

With 5 shows together under their belts, Bonaventure seniors Brett Keegan and Ian Rogers are preparing to share the stage in SBU Theater's production of Robert and Willie Reale's musical A YEAR WITH FROG AND TOAD. Keegan, a philosophy major playing Frog, and Rogers, a modern languages major playing Toad, sat down to talk about their favorite parts of the show, future plans and playing best friends onstage.

What I love best about the UMass Amherst Theatre department shows is the originality each brings to the productions. Everything is so different, like nothing you have ever seen before. The production of 'Suitors' was the epitome of originality.

In this week's School in the Spotlight, we feature the Theatre Department of Brandeis University in Waltham, MA! Read about their programs below and scroll down to see photos from the 2012-2013 production season!

Ready to hop into its first musical in more than five years, SBU Theater's production of A YEAR WITH FROG AND TOAD directed by Ed. Simone opens Wednesday evening at the Rigas Family Theater at the Regina A. Quick Center for the Arts.

Winner of the 2006 National New Play Network Commission Award, RISING WATER takes us to New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina, and into the attic of Camille and Sugar as rushing water fills their pitch-dark house. Trapped amidst a lifetime of possessions and memories, they wait for rescue as a flood of secrets, joys and fears reveal the turbulent ebb and flow of their own relationship. BroadwayWorld brings you a look at the production below!

The University of Central Florida presents SPRING AWAKENING by Duncan Sheik and Steven Sater. The shows plays March 21 thru 30 on the Theatre's Main Stage. BroadwayWorld brings you a look at the cast below!