Despite several stumbling blocks along the way, the UMass Theatre Guild’s spring production of “Firebringer” was a success thanks to the production’s strong crew, adaptable…
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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.
“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.
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 Smith College Department of Theatre recently introduced a new play reading series, of which “The Song of the Maw” was the first offering of the semester. Written by MFA student Mary Beth Brooker ’20 and directed by Allison Smith ’20, “The Song of the Maw” was staged last Friday in Hallie Flanagan Studio Theatre.