When Vickie Washington graduated from Texas Woman's University in 1975, she came away with a degree from what was then a small, generalist theater program that had nonetheless imparted a vital principle about what it took to make it in the world of the stage.

She has returned to TWU to find new faces and facades – new students, new teachers, some new buildings, some buildings updated. A bigger campus. But that decades-old ideal remains.

Washington is back at TWU to direct Recommended Reading for Girls, which will be performed Nov. 29-Dec. 3 at Redbud Theater.