Theatre Professor Rick Roemer is starring in the Austin Playhouse production of “Stop the World – I Want to Get Off,” which runs April 22-May 22. Music Professor Oliver Worthington is musical director for the play and musical theatre student Hannah Rose has a role in the play, along with 2009 graduate Emily Everidge. For more information, visit the Austin Playhouse website.

Kerry Bechtel, associate professor of theatre, designed the costumes for “Souvenir,” which runs through February at the Unity Theatre in Brenham.

Theatre Professor Rick Roemer is playing the role of Lady Bracknell in the Austin Playhouse production of Oscar Wilde’s “The Importance of Being Earnest.” The production runs through Feb. 13. For reservations, call 512-476-0084 or go here. Southwestern graduates Hans Venable and Jessica Colley Mitchell also are involved with the production, along with SU Technical Director Don Day.

Several Southwestern students and faculty members are involved with the Fourthworld Theatre Projects production of “A Samuel Beckett Cabaret,” which will be performed at the Salvage Vanguard Theatre in Austin Jan. 19-30. Tickets for the performance are $14 and are available online at www.hydeparktheatre.org.

Theatre professor Rick Roemer’s book, Charles Ludlam and the Ridiculous Theatrical Company was reissued in May 2010 with a soft cover. Originally published in 1998, the book chronicles the life and career of American actor, director and playwright Charles Ludlam, and offers a critical analysis of Ludlam’s 29 plays.

The Theatre Department at Southwestern is sponsoring a New York Theatre trip April 1-5. The trip includes the best available seats to three Broadway musicals, round-trip coach class airfare from Austin to Newark via DFW on American Airlines, airport-hotel transfers by private motor coach, four nights at the Edison Hotel (228 W 47th St.,) and all taxes and bell-staff gratuities at the hotel. The three musicals trip participants will see are Stephen Sondheim’s “A Little Night Music” starring Angela Lansbury and Catherine Zeta-Jones, “Promises, Promises” starring Sean Hayes of Will & Grace and Tony and Emmy Award winner Kristin Chenoweth, and Nathan Lane and Bebe Neuwirth in the premiere of “The Addams Family.”   For more information, visit their web site
or call 512-863-1548.