Marissa Mitchell, TNE Writer

This past week, the Sequoyah Institute presented the holiday classic “It’s a Wonderful Life: Live from WVL Radio.” The show is the retelling of the age-old story through a cast of four 1940s radio actors who have been abandoned in the WVL radio station with a full, live audience in the middle of a blizzard. The actors use the foley arts and take on almost 15 different roles a piece to tell the story of George Bailey to the live audience, as well as the fictional radio listeners.

Marissa Mitchell, TNE Writer

In a time when technology has become a social norm, newer generations have found new means of courting significant others. NSU drama’s upcoming production of “For Better” by Eric Coble follows Karen Baedeker who falls in love with a man she only communicates with via phone or computer. In fact, 85 percent of the dialogue in this play is spoken over the phone.

Marissa Mitchell, TNE Writer

Sequoyah Institute’s motto is “Enriching lives through arts and culture.” It is the aim to enrich the lives of everyone involved, even the drama students backstage at the shows. For many years, students and instructors of the drama program have teamed up with the SI to assist in all sorts of theatrical technical aspects for the SI season of shows. Even though every show in a typical SI season is not a play, drama students are still able to help with technical aspects they have already learned about in the classroom like lighting or sound.

Marissa Mitchell, TNE Writer

Originating in the 1980s in New York, play bake-offs have offered a healthy dose of competition for thespians for years.

Madeline Jurus, TNE Writer

The NSU drama department is known for its student-led productions put on each semester, but sometimes outside theater groups are brought to NSU for the campus and local communities to enjoy. This year the Montana Repertory Theater will come to NSU to perform “Barefoot in the Park,” a romantic comedy by Neil Simon.