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STEPHENVILLE, Texas—Presentations of Rumors<\/em>, Dracula<\/em> and The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe<\/em> highlight the fall lineup for the Theatre at Tarleton.<\/p>\n Performances take place in the Clyde H. Wells Fine Arts Center on the university’s Stephenville campus.<\/p>\n The fall season opens Tuesday, Sept. 26, with the annual ULTRA Club Dinner Theatre. Festivities include a catered dinner for club members followed by the opening presentation of Rumors<\/em>, Neil Simon’s first attempt at farce.<\/p>\n Ironically, Rumors<\/em> is set at a dinner party in Palisades, N.Y., gone awry, and is one of Simon’s most celebrated comedies. Rumors<\/em> runs through Saturday, Sept. 30, with performances at 7:30 nightly.<\/p>\n The Young People’s Series presentation of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe<\/em>, part of The Chronicles of Narnia<\/em> series by C.S. Lewis, features 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. performances on Saturday, Oct. 21.<\/p>\n The finale for the fall 2017 Theatre at Tarleton season, Dracula<\/em>, runs Tuesday, Nov. 7, through Saturday, Nov. 11, with performances beginning at 7:30 p.m. The iconic vampire fantasy—an adaption of the novel by Bram Stoker—tells the story of the title character’s attempt to spread the curse of the undead from his castle in Transylvania.<\/p>\n Season tickets for Theatre at Tarleton go on sale in August. Call 254-968-9639 for more information.<\/p>\n To learn more about the Theatre at Tarleton and the university’s Department of Fine Arts, visit www.tarleton.edu\/finearts<\/a>. For information on the ULTRA Club, visit www.tarleton.edu\/ultra<\/a>. Club members provide support to fine arts students through membership dues, gifts and fundraising activities.<\/p>\n Tarleton, a member of The Texas A&M University System, provides a student-focused, value-driven educational experience marked by academic innovation and exemplary service, and dedicated to transforming students into tomorrow’s professional leaders. With campuses in Stephenville, Fort Worth, Waco, Midlothian and online, Tarleton engages with its communities to provide real-world learning experiences and to address societal needs while maintaining its core values of integrity, leadership, tradition, civility, excellence and service.<\/p>\n #<\/p>\n Contact: Lori LaRue, Fine Arts Operations Manager Presentations of Rumors<\/em>, Dracula<\/em> and The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe<\/em> highlight the fall lineup for the Theatre at Tarleton.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":29515,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"advgb_blocks_editor_width":"","advgb_blocks_columns_visual_guide":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[423,424],"tags":[440,442,453],"class_list":["post-29514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academics-research","category-arts-events","tag-college-of-liberal-fine-arts","tag-community-events","tag-performing-fine-arts"],"acf":{"image":null},"author_meta":{"display_name":"keegan","author_link":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/author\/keegan-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2\/"},"featured_img":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/65\/2021\/11\/image-1726-300x200.jpg","coauthors":[],"tax_additional":{"categories":{"linked":["Academics & Research<\/a>","Arts & Events<\/a>"],"unlinked":["Academics & Research<\/span>","Arts & Events<\/span>"]},"tags":{"linked":["College of Liberal & Fine Arts<\/a>","Community Events<\/a>","Performing & Fine Arts<\/a>"],"unlinked":["College of Liberal & Fine Arts<\/span>","Community Events<\/span>","Performing & Fine Arts<\/span>"]}},"comment_count":0,"relative_dates":{"created":"Posted 9 years ago","modified":"Updated 4 years ago"},"absolute_dates":{"created":"Posted on June 2, 2017","modified":"Updated on November 12, 2021"},"absolute_dates_time":{"created":"Posted on June 2, 2017 12:00 am","modified":"Updated on November 12, 2021 2:24 am"},"featured_img_caption":"White abstract sculpture in front of red brick buildings under a clear sky.","series_order":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29514\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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