Dim 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 moreA Glow From Within: JKB's "Radium Girls" Opens this Weekend
The Skidmore College Theater Department is kicking off their Spring 2020 season with Radium Girls, opening this Friday.
Read moreDictated by the Senses: Preview of JKB's "The Hour We Knew Nothing of Each Other"
“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 moreWhat to Do Weekly: 11/21 - 11/27
With so many events jamming themselves into the weekend before Thanksgiving Break, how can you keep them straight?
Read moreWhat to Do Weekly: 10/17 - 10/24
With 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 moreSpreading the Good News: "The Harvest" to Open on Oct. 18
The 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 moreWillkommen to the Cabaret: Inside Skidmore’s Main Stage Production
The 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 moreBonnets and Booze: Inside the MainStage Production
Blending 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 moreMaster Class with Larry Opitz: Director of "Julius Caesar"
Professor 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 moreNothing You Notice: A Look into “Everything You Touch”
The 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 moreFinding Beauty Within The Disturbing: “Let the Right One In” Coming to JKB
Starting 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 moreNot Just Another Day at the Office
If 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)
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Fragments: Materializing Thought
If 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
HECUBA, the Skidmore Theater Company’s mainstage production, opens this Friday April 8th.
Read moreMacbeth
Go and see this "gender-bending" rendition of Macbeth, which opens tonight at 8pm in JKB.
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