Author: Chase Kvasnak "Anna Karenina," performed this last weekend in the Center for the Art's Seeler Studio Theatre and directed by Cheryl Faraone,professor of theater and women's and gender studies, was undoubtedly impressive.Written by Helen Edmundson and published in 1992, the play is a three-hour ...
Author: Erika Mercer Imagine that you are trespassing in an old deserted house. You push open the heavy front door, stepping cautiously inside to find yourself enveloped by pervading darkness and the unsettling whistle of air through empty halls. You are uneasy, but your curiosity overwhelms your fear, ...
Author: Jonathan White Most people have a love-hate relationship with Broadway. You either look forward to a visit to the theater district next time you venture to New York, or you wouldn't be caught dead at "The Phantom of the Opera." Yet I'd wager that Mel Brooks' current Great White Way sensation ...
Author: Liz Braunstein Assisstant Professor of Chinese Carrie Reed addressed a packed McCullough Social Space on Oct. 18, cautioning, "Be prepared for a loud, raucous, lively and passionate performance." Her words of warning could not have braced the audience for the imminent spectacle — a melange ...
Author: Erika Mercer The first time listening to Sonic Youth is a lot like taking your first bite of sushi — raw, cold, foreign and delicious. It's a taste you've never experienced before, one that startles you with its strangeness and amazes you with its distinctive flavor. Your palate, initially ...
Author: Chase Kvasnak Dan O'Brien, Tennessee Williams Fellow in Playwriting and Middlebury alumnus, spoke at the Center for the Arts. "How to Almost Starve on Purpose," the title of O'Brien's speech, explored the relationship of the writer and the real world in an autobiographical essay. O'Brien majored ...
Author: Suzanne Mozes The broad gyre of emotions stirred in "The Philadelphia Burn," the seventh annual first-year show, but finally surrendered to the prevailing casual atmosphere of the Hepburn Zoo on Oct. 18. Intense emotional extremes lobbed to and fro, as the six plays created a balance with the ...
Author: Kate Prouty After the annual Clifford Symposium opened the semester with a discussion on why "Art Matters" in the 21st century, many organizations have followed suit, proving that, to lots of groups on campus, art really does matter. Soon after the Clifford's "24 Hours of Art" the College experienced ...
Author: Crystalyn Radcliffe Each stage of life carries its own burdens, fears, victories and struggles. Each stage is distinct from the ones before and after it, yet sometimes we forget about the important connections and similarities between them. "Pursuing Happiness," an independent film directed ...
Author: Abbie Beane We've all seen it: Students winding through campus with large, foreign objects, composed of anything from three wire hangers strung with plastic bowls and an eyeless teddy bear, to a cardboard box decorated with bay leaves and a telephone hanging upside down inside. It's the work ...
Author: Richie Lawless This past Saturday, the Emerson String Quartet graced a sold-out audience with their music in the Center for the Arts (CFA) Concert Hall. Foregoing the traditional setup of all four members sitting, viola player Lawrence Dutton and violinists Eugene Drucker and Philip Setzer stood, ...
Author: Kate Prouty Whether it's the Magnetic Fields or the Microphones, the only independent radio station in Addison County is emitting sounds to be reckoned with. Entirely student-run, WRMC 91.1 FM contributes a chunk of quality airtime to be admired when compared to other, sometimes less-impressive ...
Author: Erika Mercer It's like going for a midnight swim during late summer in a secluded mountain lake. You're surrounded only by distant stars, the frequent gleam of moonlight teasing the rippling water and a slight breeze rustling the trees. You've swum far out, and the water is black, deep and chilly, ...
Author: Liz Braunstein The variety and quality of artistic ability of 24 Hours For Peace was as impressive and dense as promised. The second annual celebration began Oct. 11 and lasted until late the next day, consisting of dance, music and comedy. The event, heavily influenced by the pending war with ...
Author: Alexandra Hay On Oct. 5, Mead Chapel was illuminated by François Clemmons, Twilight artist-in-residence, dressed in a bright gold jacket and enshrouded by the sound of his own glorious tenor voice, which was accompanied by Assistant in Music Cynthia Huard on the piano. The theme for this fifth ...
Author: Daniel Wolf Roda The Middlebury music and arts scene waits in anticipation for the upcoming second Annual "24 Hours of Peace" music and entertainment festival. The event will kick off this Friday evening in Pearson's lounge, migrate to the Gamut Room at 1 a.m. and then continue in front of McCullough ...
Author: Abbie Beane Someone paints a small, red dot on a white canvas — it's art. Someone blends a grapefruit and puts the purée into a shopping cart — it's art. Three people squirm around onstage wearing nothing but banana peels and salsa — it's art. Hence the reason why art and performance ...
Author: Erika Mercer "It's really liberating for me to cock my hip to one side and sneer sometimes." Uninhibited, notoriously hot-blooded and irresistibly charismatic, Ryan Adams has, in a span of two years, hypnotized the music world with his sound and persona. He's the eighth grade bully who picks ...
Author: [no author name found] The Vermont Symphony Orchestra (VSO) played at Middlebury College last Saturday rounding out its fourth concert of this fall's "Made in Vermont" Music Festival. The sold-out event at the Center for the Arts Concert Hall was well attended by parents who were on campus for ...
Author: Crystalyn Radcliffe Once in a while theater takes you to both extremes of the emotional continuum and back again. Bouncing between sorrow and delight, you are left anywhere but in between. When a joke can just as quickly become a dismal commentary on human nature, and a funny quirk turn to angry, ...