Stories about "Theater"
Arts Crawl, Sangai Asia Night to showcase student creativity for the fifth year

Monday, January 26, 2015 2:42 pm

For the fifth year in a row, Bates College presents a dazzling double-header of student creativity in the arts on Jan. 30: the Bates Arts Crawl and Sangai Asia Night.

For senior thesis, Schwolsky ’15 directs ‘Boxing 2000’

Wednesday, November 12, 2014 3:47 pm

Directed in partial fulfillment of his senior thesis project by Jonathan Schwolsky, a Bates College production of the play "Boxing 2000" will be performed Nov. 14-16.

Play-within-a-play offers absurdist look at ‘Hedda Gabler’

Tuesday, October 28, 2014 9:17 am

Bates College presents "The Summer in Gossensass," a meta-theatrical comedy about the first English-language production of "Hedda Gabler," from Oct. 30-Nov. 3.

Bates Arts in Action presents performance smorgasbord

Thursday, October 23, 2014 2:05 pm

Dancers, actors, musicians and improv comics offer a smorgasbord of performing arts in the annual Bates Arts in Action concert on Oct. 25.

Theater majors present Vietnam War drama, boxing play as thesis projects

Tuesday, October 7, 2014 4:39 pm

For theater majors Gunnar Manchester ’15 and Jonathan Schwolsky ’15, senior thesis involves both putting on a challenging production and exploring their creative and intellectual process in writing.

Ozzie Jones ’92 seeks ‘truth of the words’ in directing all-black Death of a Salesman

Friday, August 22, 2014 11:00 am

How did Jones make the play feel like "a black play written by a black writer for a black audience"?

Theater Production Workshop presents bittersweet ‘Little Egypt’

Monday, May 12, 2014 4:39 pm

Bates College presents Lynn Siefert's 1987 play "Little Egypt," a bittersweet comedy about romance's roller-coaster rides in a small Midwestern town, May 15-18.

‘Enjoy,’ a black comedy depicting Japan’s ‘Lost Generation,’ opens at Bates

Friday, February 28, 2014 11:24 pm

The style of the play, says director Brooke O'Harra, asks student actors to think "not in terms of character, but instead in terms of clarity and their relationship to their audience."

Renovated Pettigrew Hall welcomes ‘age of the screen’

Wednesday, January 29, 2014 9:09 am

The $1.2 million renovation features the new Digital Media Studios, a boon for faculty and students who use the screen to teach and learn.

It’s a creative cornucopia as Bates again presents Asia Night, Arts Crawl

Tuesday, January 21, 2014 2:54 pm

Bates presents Asia Night and the fourth annual Arts Crawl, a celebration of student creativity in the performing, literary and visual arts, the weekend of Jan. 24-25.

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