JustArts: What brought you to the theater graduate program here at Brandeis?McCaela Donovan: I was looking for graduate acting programs primarily in and around the Boston area because my husband and I live in Boston and did not want to have to relocate.
Fine Arts major Catherine McConnell '10 served on the grant committee for the 2010 Leonard Bernstein Festival of the Arts.
It may seem counterintuitive: buying tickets to see advertisements? With the advent of DVR, TiVo and on-demand streaming video online, you may have rendered your life (largely) commercial-free.
justArts: How did you get started at Brandeis? How long have you worked here? Scott Edmiston: I have been at Brandeis since 2003.
Every year, the Fine Arts department holds an exhibition of the senior Studio Art majors' work at the end of the first semester.
JustArts: Many of the professors in the theater department work on outside projects. Have you done lighting design (or some other kind of theater-related project) on any non-Brandeis projects lately?Michael Chybowski: Currently I am working on an adaptation of the Carson McCullers novel The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter at New York Theatre Workshop in Manhattan.
For Marivaux's The Game of Love and Chance, the second play by the Brandeis Theater Company this fall, costume design student Deirdre McCabe (GRAD) and the others working on the play faced a dilemma concerning design choices."We talked a lot about making the show accessible to contemporary audiences, and one of the ways we decided to kind of play on it, have some fun, was with these little pops of modern touches," McCabe said of the costumes, which contain many features appropriate for an 18th-century French play, but also incorporate bright colors and modern accessories like sunglasses.
Coinciding this month with the release of The Rose Art Museum at Brandeis, a catalog of the museum's choicest holdings, Director Roy Dawes and former Rose Assistant Curator Adelina Jedrzejczak have put together a show of works from the museum's permanent collection.
Coinciding with tomorrow's exhibition opening celebration is the recent release of The Rose Art Museum at Brandeis, a catalog of the museum's most illustrious holdings in the permanent collection.
This week, Somerville, Mass. is getting a taste of Iceland.Experimental rock group Mum, along with Sin Fang Bous (aka Sindri Mar Sigfusson of the rock band Seabear), will make a stop at the Somerville Theater tomorrow night on what will be Sigfusson's first trip to the U.S.Though the two groups may not seem perfectly matched-the experimental instrumentation and gentle, whispery singing Mum is known for being somewhat far afield from the folksy sound of Sindri's band-Mum's most recent album and Sigfusson's solo album seem to converge stylistically.
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