The Hanover Theatre Department’s presentation of “It’s a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play” earned the BroadwayWorld Louisville Awards honor as the region’s top play in 2024-25. BroadwayWorld’s regional awards salute the year’s best productions and include more than 100 cities across the U.S., Europe, Asia, Canada, Central America and South America. To qualify, productions
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Human emotions and engaging stories take center stage throughout the Hanover College Theatre Department’s 2025-26 season, “In Focus.” With a diverse array of productions, ranging from comedy and horror to classic showtunes and even a twist on holiday tradition, each one zooms in on the distinct aspects of the human experience. The five-production series, which
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The Hanover College Theatre Department’s 2024-25 season, titled “Lost/Found: A Season of Stories about Searching for Self,” will offer three distinct plays with central characters who, through purpose, love and self-discovery, “find” themselves. The series will open Dec. 6-8 with “It’s a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play.” This reimagined American holiday classic brings George
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Hanover College faculty member Alejandra Rodríguez Villar has been selected as the recipient of the 2024 David Gitlitz Comedia Prize in Pedagogy and Mentorship from the Association for Hispanic Classical Theater, Inc. (AHCT). The accolade recognizes efforts to foster greater appreciation for Spain’s classical drama in production. The Gitlitz Prize, first awarded in 2018, is
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Shadow puppetry, an art form more than 2,000 years old, will be celebrated during two March events on the Hanover College campus. Esther Fernández, renowned early modern scholar and co-founder of the acclaimed Dragoncillo Puppet Troupe, will present “Puppets in the Spanish Golden Age” at 7 p.m., Tuesday, March 26, in Science Center, room 137.
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The Hanover College Theatre Department will present “Little Women: The Broadway Musical” during a special six-show run in mid-March. This musical adaptation of an iconic American novel is just the second musical performed at Hanover in the past two decades. “Little Women: The Broadway Musical” is based on the beloved 19th-century work by American novelist
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The Hanover College Theatre Department’s staging of “classics with a twist” continues Nov. 17-19 with a three-show presentation of “Everybody.” “Everybody” is a modern take on one of the first recorded plays in the English language, “Everyman.” Written by award-winning American playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, “Everybody” was a finalist for the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
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Indiana University English Professor Jonathan Elmer will be on the Hanover College campus Tuesday, Oct. 24, to present the annual Cornelius and Anna Cook O’Brien Lecture. Elmer’s address, “In Poe’s Wake: Form, Media and Graphic Horror,” will help celebrate Hanover’s acquisition of a first edition of “The Works of the late Edgar Allan Poe: with
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The Hanover College Theatre will open its 2023-24 season with an original presentation of “The Woods,” Friday-Sunday, Oct. 13-15. The three-show run will be held as part of Hanover’s 96th-annual Homecoming celebration. “The Woods” is based on characters created by famed American author L. Frank Baum, who penned “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.” Set in
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Renowned American architect Jens Frederick Larson designed Parker Auditorium in the early 1940s as a “commanding presence at the eastern terminus” of Hanover’s campus quadrangle. Since its completion in 1947, the beloved campus symbol has brought the joys of theatre to thousands of students and spectators. Its 650-seat auditorium has also hosted chapel services, commencement,
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