
UnReal looks at reality TV from backstage
Reality television is usually labeled a guilty pleasure. Why guilty? We tend to derive pleasure from watching petty but vicious competition and a range of emotional breakdowns and breakthroughs. (Though,…
Reality television is usually labeled a guilty pleasure. Why guilty? We tend to derive pleasure from watching petty but vicious competition and a range of emotional breakdowns and breakthroughs. (Though,…
“The Truth About Truth (Everything is Breakfast Food),” as a title, reveals very little about the play’s content. And creator Ethan Cohen ’16 would not have it any other way.…
As an only child, Asia Howard ’16 filled her adolescent world with characters taking the form of stuffed animals and imaginary friends. Things haven’t changed much—Howard spends much of her…
August: Osage County, at least as presented by the trailers that were shown in movie theaters over the last few months, looks to have all the trappings of an “Oscar-bait”…
Part classic American family drama, and part murder mystery, this semester the Britomartis Devised Theater Ensemble will examine family dynamics in their show Game Night: A Three Act Tragedy. The…
Corsets, swords, musicality and betrayal will transform the Martel Theater into a decadent Elizabethan stage for the Drama Department’s fall production, The Way of the World. The show will premiere…
Continuing from last week’s coverage of fall’s new comedies, this week I’ll be looking at the season’s new dramas. Like last week, I’m skipping over shows that have already been…
“Hot mess” has become a buzz-phrase used on college campuses all over the country, epitomizing the youth party culture of our present day in age. To explore this subject not…
Future Waitstaff of America (FWA) has taken on the ambitious project of putting up an intricate musical in just six weeks: Stephen Sonheim’s 1970 classic comedy, Company. “It is difficult…
A week from today the Drama department will present its opening performance of renowned playwright Sarah Ruhl’s Eurydice. Its cast of seven actors will perform in the Powerhouse Theater at…