Opened in Sept. of 1999, the W. Carroll Coyne Center for the Performing Arts is a 20,000 sq ft facility dedicated to education and performance at Le Moyne College. The facility was designed by Robert Haley, then of Quinlivan, Pierik and Krause of Syracuse, NY.
The PAC includes an intimate and flexible main theatre, a studio theatre, dance and design studios, classrooms, production shops and attractive lobby. Theatre arts, music, and dance students are the primary users of the PAC. It is home to eleven student performance ensembles and the Le Moyne campus venue for visiting professional artists, such as Ladymith Black Mombazo, Repertorio Español, and pianist Andrew Russo. The PAC also hosts the community outreach organization Music Journeys, Inc.
W. Carroll Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
Kristi McKay, Facilities Manager
For general inquiries call 315.445.4523
For the box office, call 315.445.4200
pac@lemoyne.edu
Directions
From the South (Pennsylvania, Binghamton, Ithaca, etc):
Route 81 North to Route 690 East to Thompson Rd. South exit. Thompson Rd. uphill, right turn on Springfield Rd (top of the hill), left at first intersection (still Springfield Rd.) Enter campus at Parking Lot C. See a map of campus.
From the North (Ontario, Watertown, N. Syracuse, etc.)
Route 81 south to Route 690 east to Thompson Rd. South exit, then same as above
From the East (Albany, Utica, Rome, etc.)
Route 90 (NYS Thruway) Westbound to Route 481 South, to Route 690 West, to Thompson Rd. South exit, then the same as above.
From the West (Rochester, Buffalo, Auburn, etc.)
Route 90 (NYS Thruway Eastbound to Route 481 South, to Route 690 West, to Thompson Rd. South, then the same as above.
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Theatre Production Schedule 2009-10
Fall semester:
“Darwin In Malibu” by Crispin Whittle
Campus location: Grewen Auditorium
Dates and Times: September 17-19 at 7pm (note the early performance time)
Directed by Patrick McHugh (’11)
Presented as a part of the Darwin celebration, this contemporary comedy by a British author, Crispin Whittel brings together Darwin, Huxley, Wilburforce and a California girl to discuss issues of science, ethics and the afterlife. Mike Barbour will play Darwin; Steve Braddock, Huxley; Alan Fischler, Wilberforce; and Kelsey Moriarty (’12), Sarah. Here’s a link to a review of the play when it was produced recently in London: www.curtainup.com/darwinmalibu.html
“As You Like It” by William Shakespeare
Campus location: W. Carroll Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
Dates and Times: October 29-31 & November 5-7 at 8pm
Directed by Steve Braddock
An astutely funny pastoral comedy, "As You Like It" runs the gamut of the comedic canon, combining cross-dressing and slapstick with gentle satire and sparkling, witty conversation.
"As You Like It" follows the lively exploits of banished Rosalind and her quest for true love amid the schemes of two warring brothers. In the untarnished and idyllic Forest of Arden, Rosalind, disguised as a gentleman farmer, stumbles upon an extraordinary assemblage of characters, including a fool, a malcontent traveler, her own exiled father, and the cast-out young man she loves.
The play, which contains some of Shakespeare's loveliest poetry, including “All the world’s a stage”, provides a glimpse into the contrasts between the court--bristling with envy and rivalry--and the compassionate harmony of the forest, allowing us to recognize our own human foibles by considering the romantic versus the realistic, and by laughing at the excesses of love.
Spring semester:
“Emma’s Child” by Kristine Thatcher
Campus location: W. Carroll Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
Dates and Times: February 18-20 & 25-27 at 8pm
Directed by Steve Braddock
When a married couple, after years of trying to have a child of their own, decides to adopt a newborn baby only to discover the baby has a terminal condition, their lives are thrown into a crisis that threatens to tear their marriage apart. What are a couple’s rights and responsibilities to a child and to each other? How does a hospital staff and administration, bound by regulations and laws, negotiate waters clouded with strong feelings and emotions?
The first play ever commissioned by the internationally acclaimed Oregon Shakespeare Festival, "Emma's Child" is a riveting story, emphasizing, “Life matters and the connection between lives matter.” Tenderly and insightfully written with a light, comedic touch, it is a play that deeply involves the audience with the title character, a brave little individual, and the adults that are forever changed by sharing his life.
Here’s a review of the play when it was performed in NYC last year
You can also read the script online via Google Books
“The Fall of Lucifer,” “Meat Pie, Fruit Pie,” and “The Blessed Apple Tree”
Campus location: W. Carroll Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
Dates and Times: April 15-17 at 8pm
Directed by Michael Barbour
Late in the spring semester we will present three short medieval plays from the 1400s. “The Fall of Lucifer,” the first play in the British medieval Chester Cycle, begins with the creation of the world and ends with a revolt by God’s two brightest angels, Lucifer and Lightbourne. They are transformed on stage to devils and thrown into Hell.
“Meat Pie, Fruit Pie” is a wonderful medieval French farce, translated into entertaining couplets. Two tricksters succeed in fooling a baker’s wife into giving them a fabulous meat pie (featuring ham, lamb, clam, veal, eel and orange peel) only to be caught trying to get the fruit pie.
The third play is a Dutch medieval morality play, “The Blessed Apple Tree.” Featuring characters such as Lusty Youth, Reckless Living, the Devil, Death, and God, the moral lesson (trust in God truly and He’ll take care of you) is learned by all those who try to remove the fruit from a poor farmer’s enchanted apple tree.
Depending on the weather, we’ll either perform the plays outside on the campus green or inside in the Marren Studio, which is upstairs at the PAC. The production of “The Fall of Lucifer” later travels to the University of Toronto (May 21-24) as a part of a symposium on The Chester Cycle: Drama and Religion 1555-1575.