BY DAVID NICHOLAS
College Theater's "Super Bowl" comes to Saginaw Valley State University this week as the school hosts the 45th Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival. SVSU, the smallest of the schools in the Midwest region, has been tapped as host for the third time in five years for students from Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Wisconsin and Michigan.
Competitions in acting, stage management, set design, writing and more will bring some 1,200 students to the SVSU campus and some $2.8 million in economic boom to the Great Lakes Bay Region.
CMU Public Radio's David Nicholas spoke with Ric Roberts, Associate Professor of Theater at SVSU. Roberts said the event is focused on college age talent.
As Roberts noted, the Temple Theater is hosting some of the performances, tickets for those shows are available through their web site, www.templetheatre.com
For more information about the festival, the web site is www.kcactf3.org