Publicized with a cheerfully vague, rainbow-colored poster, “My H8 Letter to the Gr8 American Theatre” drew a diverse audience to Hallie Flanagan Studio Theatre on its fifth and final sold out show on March 4. Audiences were notified in advance of “some strong language, slaying, Queer space, and hot joy;” the writers kept their promise.
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Davis Ballroom was in full swing on Nov. 17 to 19 as Duct Tape Productions took packed audiences back to the 1920s with their production…
I spoke with alumna Lisa Hori-Garcia ’96, an actress, activist and artist currently living in Denver. We spoke about her time at Smith College, what…
Duct Tape Productions Finds Its Corner of the Sky with Fall Production of “Pippin”
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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.
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.”
The Theater Department recently hosted the 60th anniversary of its student-led event, “Do Clothes Matter?” The symposium was held April 6 in the Campus Center, where a group of students studying Costume Design presented the culmination of a semester of research, alongside keynote speakers such as Vanessa Friedman, Sonnet Stanfill and Jan Glier Reeder.
Tziona Breitbart ’16Assistant News Editor Last Thursday, April 11, the Five College Multicultural Theater hosted the WORD! Festival. The festival consisted of original staged student…