Drake Theatre People presented “This Is What ___ Feels Like” on Sunday, Feb. 10, a performance that made history as the organization’s first full-length dance performance. Choreographed by sophomore Kurtis Nethington and junior Devon Vick, the show explored all of the emotions that come with love, breaking up and moving on. Nethington and Vick mapped […]
Where the world is in short supply of kindness, associate professor of theatre arts and director Michael Rothmayer brings “Almost, Maine” for its glimmer of positivity and optimism. Drake Theatre brings this tale of a chilly, moonless Friday to the stage from Nov. 16 to Nov. 18 at the Performing Arts Hall in the Harmon […]
Money talks. It’s an understandable, yet unfortunate, reality of higher education as it exists now. It talks when it comes to framing, it talks in regards to social justice and, as of this week, it talks when it comes to death. This week we received an email from our university president informing us of the […]
John Michael Graham, a Drake University acting professor and lifelong theater artist, died at the age of 54 on April 3, 2023, at his family home in Des Moines. Graham was born in Santa Clara, California to Donald and Clarine Graham on Oct. 5, 1969. He began his theater career in the early 1970s with […]
On April 3, 2023, our Drake community lost the kind, creative soul that was Professor John Graham. He taught in the Theatre Department, and I knew him as one of the leaders of the Theatre History J-term that I took in London this past January. When I heard JG had passed away, I felt confused […]