Adapted from Haruki Murakami’s short story of the same name, Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s “Drive My Car,” nominated for four Oscars including Best Picture, is a bittersweet meditation on grief, connection and language.
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“Two Gentlemen of Verona,” put on by Smith Shakes, Smith College’s Shakespeare Theatre club, follows the dramatic and devious tale of Valentine (Talia Natoli ’22) and Proteus (Annie Grace Cummings Ledbetter ’24) as they navigate life and love in Milan.
Duct Tape Productions Finds Its Corner of the Sky with Fall Production of “Pippin”
Photo by Sherry Li
Duct Tape Productions (DTP) debuted their fall musical, “Pippin,” co-directed by Katherine Heyman ’24J and Eve Mekahlick Wilcox ’22, in the Davis Ballroom on Nov. 18. This is the student-run theatre company’s first show since the cancellation of “Newsies” due to COVID-19 in March of 2020.
Lincoln Park, KORN, and Dwayne (“The Rock”) Johnson are three singers that diners at Cutter Ziskind (or Cutter Z as nicknamed by students) might hear…
Hearing that the “girth of the elephant's cock is staggering” was not what I anticipated hearing on a Thursday night. But then again, nothing that happened in this reading was even slightly predictable.
It has been a year and half since the curtains rose and the spotlight shone at Hallie Flanagan Studio Theater, but this lull in live productions didn’t stop the Smith Theatre Department from putting on a show-stopping rendition of Christin Eve Cato’s “Stoop Pigeons.”
As dancers navigated the runways with clean lines, leaps and spiraling torsos, a distant voiceover listed off indiscriminate dates, which would continue intermittently throughout the performance: March 13, 16, all the way to Oct. 18 of the following year. It was with the listing off of these dates that I realized “Afterwardsness” was a pandemic project.
You can listen to their music on Spotify through your earbuds or on a speaker, but to be face to face with Matthews, dancing in unison, is clearly how this music is meant to be heard.
Smith College is in the midst of an Instagram renaissance. New accounts dedicated to niche aspects of Smith culture have sprouted up on the social…
Queuing in front of the box office, the audience was restless. All felt that the concert was a sign of revitalization.