JustArts sat down with Samantha Gordon '14 and Nicole Carlson '14 to talk about their senior project, a production of the play Matt and Ben, which will be showing this weekend. JustArts: Would you tell us a bit about how you chose Matt and Ben to be your senior project? Nicole Carlson: I looked through two-woman shows, and all of the sudden I found this one, and I was like, "Oh my god, Mindy Kaling wrote this!
The Oct. 25 release of a highly anticipated collaboration between American author Cormac McCarthy and director Ridley Scott has already excited audiences.
This weekend, students and their parents filled up Spingold Theater Center's cozy Merrick Theater for one of the first in a series of senior thesis performances, Helena Raffel's '14 production of [title of show]. As the director, Raffel said in the program, she "has been a huge [title of show] fan for years," and even as she walked around the theater greeting audience members before the show began, it was easy to tell that she was excited to see one of her final projects as an undergraduate come to life. [title of show] is not, in fact, a typo, but it is a one-act meta-musical of sorts-that is, a musical about a group of friends who are writing an original musical-and the play was adapted by Jeff Bowen in the early 2000s based on a book by Hunter Bell.
Spanning from Thursday to Sunday, film enthusiasts flocked to Boston to view a unique and engaging program of cinematic opportunities-the fifth annual Boston Asian American Film Festival.
To kick off their fall 2013 season, this weekend the Brandeis Ensemble Theater performed American playwright James McLure's 1959 Pink Thunderbird. The play dissects the themes of hope and complacency in the small Texas town of Maynard and is told in two acts, "Laundry & Bourbon" and "Lone Star." While 1959 Pink Thunderbird is only a side project for BET and featured a small cast of only six undergraduate students, the production warranted a stellar finished production. The performances were staged in Ridgewood Commons, which posed a unique challenge: how to perform a two-act, almost two-hour-long play that was composed entirely of conversations in an untraditional space.
This week, JustArts sat down with Brian Dorfman '16 and Phill Skokos '15, who directed the Brandeis Theater Ensemble's production of 1959 Pink Thunderbird this weekend. JustArts: Would you guys tell us a bit about your time with Brandeis Ensemble Theater and how you first got involved? Phill Skokos: We really wanted to put a show on-at first it was Harvey, written by Mary Chase.
Last Thursday evening, a sizeable audience of students and English faculty members squeezed into the cozy Mandel Center for the Humanities Reading Room for an unusually highly anticipated poetry reading.
Like a lot of the children of the '90s, I've had my period of obsession with girlbands. While my classmates in middle school were listening to throwback Britney Spears and Backstreet Boys, I was savoring those golden moments of girl power to the tune of The Donnas, The Veronicas, The Faders and The Pipettes-bands that most people have never really heard of. Now that we're into the 2010s, it takes a bit more than a posse of punk girls with eyeliner and rainbow hair extensions to thrill an audience.
JustArts chatted with WSRC Scholar and curator of the newly opened Vivian Maier photography exhibition, Karin Rosenthal. JustArts: Would you tell us a bit about your career as a photographer and your experience as a Women's Studies Research Center Scholar? Karin Rosenthal: Well, I've been a photographer since I was a little kid.
This Thursday evening, a group of eager students poured into the Edie and Lew Wasserman Cinematheque for one of the latest screenings presented by the Wasserman Fund and the Film, Television and Interactive Media Program.
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