Theatre
ROC Players
ROC Players elevate ‘Spring Awakening’
The May Room in Wilson Commons is an interesting place to stage a musical because it doesn’t seem built for them. It’s small (compared to something like Strong), and its stage is an elevated platform, also small, with no curtains. But necessity is the mother of invention, as the ROC Players proved in the finer […]
Africa Week
Passion stays strong through Africa Week and Afrikanza
Students gushed with enthusiasm at crowded Feldman Ballroom tables last Saturday for Afrikanza, the culminating event of Africa Week, organized by the Pan African Students’ Association. “Afrikanza is an event that is used to reinforce cultural diversity in the University environment among PASA members,” said sophomore Kaps Chalwe, the group’s vice president. The theme of […]
International Theatre Progarm
Todd one acts are bizarre, tragic, and moving
Have you ever seen something and thought, “Who in God’s green earth came up with this?” If you have, then maybe you’ll have felt a bit what I was feeling when I was watching “The Indefinitely Untitled Play,” the first of four theater pieces performed at the 19th Annual One Act Play Festival in Todd […]
International Theater Company
‘We Don’t Live On Mars Yet’ is touching, if confusing
“We Don’t Live on Mars Yet,” without any context, would seem like a play about the environment or our society as a whole. Instead, it is an extremely creative demonstration of immigrants, aliens, and diversity in Rochester. Unlike most plays, which are prewritten and given to actors who are then told how it should be […]
Drama House
‘The Underhill’ is ambitious and fascinating
I’m not sure how to describe “The Underhill” to someone who didn’t go, because it is nearly impossible to explain. The installation (which is not exactly the correct word, but it’s the one I’m going to run with) is a mix of mystery, fine art, sound art, horror, fantasy, science fiction, and storytelling. It ran […]
College Feminists
‘The Vagina Monologues’ is uncomfortable and important
It’s about time someone talked about how hard it really is to find your vagina. I thought I was the only one who struggled to put in a tampon. At the College Feminists–sponsored production of Eve Ensler’s play “The Vagina Monologues,” which was performed on Feb. 2 in Strong Auditorium, it was definitely a relief […]
Dance
MBDance intrigues in ‘Dying and Dying and Dying’
This is cliché, but when I went to Spurrier Dance Theater to see “Dying and Dying and Dying: A Meditation on Various Endings” last Friday, I didn’t know what to expect. All I knew was that it was the closing event of the InspireDance festival here at the UR featuring the visiting dance company MBDance. […]
ROC Players
ROC Players illuminate with ‘Into the Woods’
Reviewing my notes on the performance, one word kept on popping up: impressive. Read More
Theatre
TOOP mystifies with ‘The Accidental Death of an Anarchist’
The play mainly focuses on the events that follow Pinelli’s “accidental” fall from the fourth floor of a police building. Read More
Media Matrix
The spirit of meliora: Jeff’s farewell column
The thing about Meliora is, it's not so much a state of mind as it is a feeling that starts in your toes and ends where your dreams begin. Read More
