Press "Enter" to skip to content

Posts published in “Arts and Culture”

An Interview about ‘Gender: Two Novellas in Verse’ with Poet and Author Anne Harding Woodworth

In under 100 pages, Anne Harding Woodworth (’65) dives into a conversation on gender fluidity.  By looking to a mysterious past and future, in “Gender: Two Novellas in Verse,” she explores secondary universal themes of parenting, companionship and survivorship. Harding Woodworth brings genderfluid people to the forefront of her narrative, starting a conversation on representation and whose stories are worth telling. 

Confessions from a Literary Elitist: Review of Colleen Hoover’s “Verity”

Last week I set out on an expedition to find and read a Colleen Hoover book.

I’m an English major and, more relevantly, a lifelong literary elitist. Pretentious books have been the pillars of my superiority complex since grade school, as I peered disdainfully at my classmates’ beyblade battles over my copy of “Beowulf” and once told my seventh-grade teacher that I found “Great Expectations” just so much more rewarding when reading it for the third time.

Romance, Comedy, and Fantasy in Valley Light Opera’s ‘Iolanthe’

On Nov. 3, the Valley Light Opera (VLO) opened their fall opera “Iolanthe” by Gilbert and Sullivan at the Academy of Music, marking the organization’s sixth staging of the comic operetta since 1976. The production boasts delightful performances from Valley Light Opera veterans Elaine Crane and Thom Griffin, and captivating ensemble numbers that kept the audience laughing.

Devotion to Dahl in Wes Anderson’s “The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar”

The literary world of Roald Dahl is eccentric, humorous and often mischievous; naturally, the cinematic universe of Wes Anderson is its perfect match. Yes, Anderson’s latest Dahl adaptation, “The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar” (Netflix, 2023), is every bit as charming as his last, “The Fantastic Mr. Fox” (2009). Despite a seemingly never-ending influx of movie adaptations, Anderson claims “The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar” as his own by combining his eccentric aesthetic and Dahl’s authorial wisdom in this 41-minute short.