Black Super Hero Magic Mama, written by Inda Craig-Galván and based on a true story, is coming to Skidmore on November 22. This is the first play by a Black playwright to be presented as a seminar production by the college. During this past month, I sat down with the cast members and asked their thoughts and experiences working on this production and why its story is important to them.
Read moreDim lights rise in the Black Box Theater, furnished with two wooden platforms, an upright piano, and a short, circular stage painted with a map of the night sky. The audience surrounds the thrust stage on three sides. A woman in Edwardian clothing with an old-fashioned hearing aid around her neck enters the stage and stands on the star chart, gazing upwards.
Read moreThe Skidmore College Theater Department is kicking off their Spring 2020 season with Radium Girls, opening this Friday.
Read more“The Hour We Knew Nothing of Each Other” is arguably Skidmore’s most abstract production yet, consisting of 450 characters and no dialogue from any of them.
Read moreWith so many events jamming themselves into the weekend before Thanksgiving Break, how can you keep them straight?
Read moreWith all that goes on both on-campus and in town, it can be tough to know what to do and where to go, so we’ve compiled the top five things Skidmore students ought to do, see and attend this week.
Read moreThe Harvest, written in 2017 by Samuel D. Hunter, follows seven Evangelical Christians, four of whom are in their early twenties and preparing to leave on a missionary trip to spread the “good news” of relief through God to a nondescript Middle Eastern location.
Read moreThe JKB mainstage has been entirely transformed into the smoky, sexy, and claustrophobic Kit Kat Klub that lives and breathes behind Cabaret, the first musical Skidmore Theatre has done in seven years.
Read moreBlending comedy and drama together, Bonnets attacks inherited trauma head-on, providing characters that react like real people. The play, which opens on Nov. 16 and deals with themes of addiction, inheritance and womanhood, was written and directed by Julia May Jonas, professor of playwriting at Skidmore.
Read moreProfessor Larry Opitz is the director of Janet Kinghorn Bernhard’s (JKB) mainstage play this semester. And if Skidmore is going to put on a Shakespearean play, no one is better to direct it than Opitz. With Julius Caesar opening this week, students, faculty, and community members will be able to see for themselves the intricate world and knowledge of detail inherent in any of his productions.
Read moreThe upcoming play deals with themes of body image and representation, and if this moment shows anything, it’s the love and support radiating from the cast. It’s the kindness, the tenderness of people with a story to tell. And, eventually, it’s the anger they feel.
Read moreStarting on October 19th, Skidmore’s Black Box will be occupied by the gory coming of age story, “Let the Right One In.” The play follows Oskar, a young bullied boy, as he finds companionship with Eli, a vampire. Together, there is a fierce connection that -- no matter their stark differences or innocence -- cannot be broken.
Read moreIf you liked NBC's The Office, then Eddie Godino is sure you'd enjoy Knights of the Sales office, a studio lab performance put on by the Skidmore theater department. To find out more, read Eddie's review! (Photo credits go to Dante Haughton)
Read moreIf you haven't already, go see Fragments, a thought provoking black box production at JKB Theater this week. It's playing until March 8.
Read moreHECUBA, the Skidmore Theater Company’s mainstage production, opens this Friday April 8th.
Read moreGo and see this "gender-bending" rendition of Macbeth, which opens tonight at 8pm in JKB.
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