Jiayan Sun and Edward Arron stepped onto the stage to thunderous applause, and moments later, with the first triumphant slamming of piano keys of “Grand Duo sur des thèmes de Robert le Diable,” the concert began. This was the sixth and final performance of Sun’s series “The Timeless Genius of Chopin.”
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“Maya Lin: Mappings,” a collection of Lin’s works commenting on the relationship between humans and the environment, will be in exhibition at the Smith College Art Museum through Aug. 7.
“I think we can expect that people will be pretty upset tomorrow,” Phoebe Collins '22 announced to the eight Smith students packed into her postage stamp-sized dorm. I felt the excitement in the room bouncing off the walls—a kind of childlike giddiness that can only come from doing something that you know will earn you a scolding.
From their two-bedroom house in Western Massachusetts, darkwave band Boy Harsher pushes the boundaries of experimental music. The Florence-based duo, Jae Matthews and Augustus “Gus”…
At the Best of Valley Voices Story Slam at the Academy of Music on Feb. 20, 10 New England residents competed without props, notes or costumes to tell the best story.
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.
“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.