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Script to Screen aims to audition scripts by professional screenwriters, showcase local acting talent and draw attention to Houston as a film locale within the context of an entertaining evening. Scripts are performed in their entirety as readings before live audiences to generate new interest and potential investors.

Actors from the London Stage is an ensemble of five professional actors from Great Britain who each have experience with the Royal Shakespeare Company, the Royal National Theatre of Great Britain, and the BBC Shakespeare Series. In this special presentation produced by University of Notre Dame, five actors play all of the starring and supporting roles. In doing so, they draw on their experience, skill, and versatility as actors to deftly convey all the action and shifts of character without relying on elaborate sets or costumes. The experience is exciting! Audience member's imaginations are drawn in by the power of Shakespeare's text as they each participate actively in conjuring the world of the play.

For tickets call 713-348-PLAY
Students $10, Seniors $15, Rice Faculty & Staff $15, General Audience $20.
Groups of 10 or more will be eligible for a discount price--please contact Hamman Hall Box Office at 713-348-7529 or e-mail to hamman@rice.edu for details.

A farcical meditation on melancholy and angst. Tilly, a swoony bank teller with melancholy of an exquisite quality, embodies that “sexy sad feeling” and every stranger she meets falls in love with her. Inexplicably, Tilly becomes happy and wrecks havoc on the lives of her paramours. It is up to Tilly to get them back.

The Rice Players are Houston’s oldest collegiate theatrical troupe. The extra-curricular and entirely student-run theatre group produces relevant and engaging works of art for Rice and the Houston community.

For tickets call 713-348-PLAY
Rice students $5, faculty and staff , non-Rice students and seniors $8, general admission $10

Calculus: The Musical!
By Sadie Bowman and Marc Gutman
Production by Rice Players

Calculus: The Musical! is a comic “review” of the concepts and history of calculus that promises to entertain everyone from arithmophobe to rocket scientist. Born as a teaching tool, Calculus is sketch comedy, musical theatre and classroom lecture using musical parodies to illuminate such concepts as limits, integration and differentiation. From Archimedes to Riemann, Calculus comes to life through music spanning opera to hip hop and The Beatles to Eminen.

For tickets call 713-348-PLAY
Rice students $5, faculty and staff , non-Rice students and seniors $8, general admission $10

Opening Performance, April 8, 8 pm is “Neighborhood Night." Admission to this performance is free and open to the public. Following the performance there will be a cast party cafe.

Theartre that aerobicizes the brain and tickles the heart! This critically-acclaimed evening of comedy shorts combines wit, intellect, satire and just plain fun. Ives humorously explores a variety of complex situations experienced through an assortment of unusual characters, from awkward singles to philosophizing chimpanzees. The eccentric personalities usher the audience through a dizzying and absurd exploration of the English language.

This is Rice Theatre’s first collaboration with the professional training program at University of Houston. Two MFA candidates from the UH graduate theatre program will direct the six plays. Jonathan Gonzalez hails from San Francisco where he was a professional director and the Education Director for the nationally acclaimed Marin Shakespeare Festival. Samual Sparks, a Mississippi native, was director and scenic director at the New Stage Theatre in Jackson, MS. Mr. Sparks also designed for the LORT recognized Mill Mountain Playhouse in Virginia.