The Talon Theatre at Tennessee Tech

07/11/2024

Audition opportunity for this year's Dogwood Shakespeare!

We're less than a month away from our Shakespeare in the Park open auditions in Dogwood Park and it is never too early to start preparing your audition monologue!

This year's production will be "The Two Gentlemen of Verona" directed by Mark Harry Creter, opening in the park October 4th!

For more information call (931) 528-1313

10/13/2017

October, 19th, at 7PM in the Backdoor Playhouse. ​

The Up On the Mountain Music Series will feature country music singer-songwriter Brandon Lee Adams on October, 19th, at 7PM in the Backdoor Playhouse.

The debut album by Brandon Lee Adams is called Hardest Kind of Memories. Brandon started to play the guitar at the age of eight when his grandfather Robert Adams put his old Martin D-28 in his grandson’s hands saying, “Learn G,C and D. You’re playing in church this weekend.” After learning the chords and putting many grueling hours into his practice, he got his hungry hands on Tony Rice’s Church Street Blues album. His musical career began while trying to learn Tony Rice’s works. To this day, Tony has a profound influence on the direction of his musical journey. To Brandon, it was not just playing the guitar, it was the song, the words, the vocal.

This event is free and open to the public, and is sponsored by the English department.

08/14/2017

The Talon Theater is closed but look for the new Talon Sweat Lodge and Massage Emporium opening in October 2017.

05/11/2017

To all who have supported the Talon Theater, thank you. With all the people scheduled to move temporarily into Foundation Hall in the coming months it has been decided that the Talon Theater will not exist as a performance space for the foreseeable future. The good news is that the Backdoor Playhouse will be open for business in the fall of 2017. Thank you again for all your support.

04/10/2017

ATTENTION PEOPLE INTERESTED IN THEATRE:

Theatre artists Matt Bassett and Tia Shearer will be meeting with students interested in pursuing careers in the theatre. Matt and Tia have been working for many years in the theatre and are looking forward to sharing their experiences with interested students. This conversation and Q&A will take place on Tuesday, April 11 beginning at 11:00am in the Talon Theater located in Foundation Hall. For more information, please contact Mark Creter at 372-3478.

Matt Bassett (TTU class of '03 - BA English, minor Theatre) is the Associate Artistic Director of The Hub Theatre, Chair of Acting at Metropolitan School of the Arts and a Helen-Hayes-Award nominated freelance director in the Washington, DC area. Directing credits include The Hub, Arts on the Horizon (with whom he has created multiple world premieres), Flying V Theatre, Imagination Stage, Compass Rose Theatre and multiple university and educational productions. Performance credits include Ford's Theatre, The Hub, Clarence Brown Theatre, Nashville Shakespeare Festival and the Virginia Shakespeare Festival as well as multiple films, industrials and television projects. He is also a voice artist with Graphic Audio. Matt holds an MFA in Acting from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville and lives outside Washington, DC with his family.

Tia Shearer has been a member of Actors Equity Association since 2005. She has performed with Second City, Baltimore Center Stage, and The Kennedy Center Theatre for Young Audiences (including two national tours) to name a few. She also creates nonverbal theatre for ages 0-6, often with her husband, Matt Bassett, and is known for multi-character roles and physical work.

04/05/2017

Save the Talon!

04/02/2017

Special thank you to all the people who helped with load-in today. You are a terrific group of people who worked hard and made it both fun and fast. I am so grateful to you all.

04/01/2017

Packed house tonight for Darren Nicholson tonight! Great bluegrass music filled the joint.

03/31/2017

There has been a lot of questions lately concerning the recent decision by the Space Request Committee at the urging of Jim Cobb and Jack Butler to close the Talon Theater and make it back into a storage room. We in the theatre program have done our level best to convince them that this is not a good idea but no one is listening to us. The only hope is for students, faculty, alumni, and friends of the University theatre to reach out to Dr. Oldham, Dr. Ghorashi and Dr. Stephens and make the case for the continued existence of the Talon Theater in Foundation Hall. I have hoped that we would be able to continue to use the Talon as a "second stage" for the campus community but no one in Facilities is supporting that idea. Let them know you want to SAVE THE TALON!!

03/31/2017

Great Improv Night in this cool theater that the administration would rather be a storage closet.