skidmore theater living newsletter

Fall 2017 Black Box: “Let The Right One In”

“Love is difficult. Love is complicated. Love is disturbing. Love is unwanted. Love is tired. Love is timeless. Love is mortal. Love is immortal. Love is a sacrifice. And sometimes, to love is to die.”

STLN staff writer Katie Jacobsen on this semester’s Black Box production.

Let The Right One In [JKBLIFE]

A human, a vampire(?) and lots of blood await those who visit our Black Box theater this season.

New Works Lab: Things We Both Like and Why

STLN writer Joe Newman-Getzler ’21 reflects on his experience watching the New Works Lab “Things We Both Like and Why”

“Let The Right One In” Sneak-Peek

The Skidmore Theater Newsletter was lucky enough to receive, from an anonymous source, this diary entry, along with some photos, of Hakan Kolmstun, notorious mass murderer in Let The Right One In, our fall Black Box production.

Visiting Artists: The Living Theatre

This past weekend, Skidmore Theater welcomed Jerry Goralnick and Lois Kagan Mingus, members of The Living Theatre, to teach a three day workshop.

Studio Lab #1: The Zoo Story

Staff Writer Billy Winter ’18 covers the JKB’s first studio lab of the semester.

Alumni Spotlight: Katie Gould ’07

Editor-in-Chief sits down with alumnus Katie Gould ’07 about her career: as an apprentice at Actors Theater Louisville, a graduate student at Pig Iron, and a company member of Lightning Rod Special.

The Zoo Story [JKB LIFE]

“Peter has come to Central Park for some peace and quiet. Jerry has come to Central Park for something else.”

Leading Ladies: The Direction is Female

Editor-in-Chief, Ziggy Schulting ’18, gives Living Newsletter readers the run-down on this season’s fierce female directors and their projects.

Arts Quad Party 2017

Check out our very own highlight reel from this year’s Arts Quad Party, an event hosted by the JKB to connect all of the arts departments on Skidmore campus.

Faculty Spotlight: John Michael DiResta

STLN Editor-in-Chief sits down with Skidmore Theater’s newest Artist-In-Residence, John Michael Diresta.

Summer Spotlights

Read about what Skidmore Theater students have been up to this summer in the field, with experiences that span from right here in Saratoga to all the way across the country.

Spring 2017 New Works Lab #2: Adore

Staff Writer Kallan Dana ’19 on our final New Works Lab of the semester “Adore,” written and directed by Jack Mulheron ’17.

5 Questions for Writer/Director Jack Mulhern ’17

“Adore,” the final New Works Lab of the semester, is a multi-media approach to a homecoming story. STLN writer Nina Slowinski talks with writer/director Jack Mulhern about his experience combining media and theater.

Spring 2017 Mainstage: “Balm in Gilead”

Three Rules of “Balm in Gilead”:
1.) There is an 85 cent minimum to sit at a booth.
2.) A junkie never falls off his stool.
3.) Dopey is our guide in this world of chaos, and the audience’s only hope of knowing where to look.

Spring 2017 Studio Lab #3: “Four Ten Minute Plays”

By Zoe Lesser “Ultimately, we are looking to tell four distinct truths—a task difficult enough to achieve with just one story. Yet, we also acknowledge that we cannot mask our theatrical setting, nor will we try to—we will only reveal it further.”   Director Nina Slowinski ’19 prefaces Four Ten Minute Plays with this excerpt […]

Minute-to-Minute: “Balm in Gilead” takes Compton’s

Philip Merrick ’19 attends guerilla marketing “Balm in Gilead” event at Compton’s and gives the Living Newsletter a minute-to-minute debrief of what went down.

JKB LIFE: BALM IN GILEAD

For one night only, this motley crew of addicts, prostitutes, and thieves take over the diner for an open improv session! This is only a small taste of the dirty, rock ‘n’ roll love-parable that is Balm in Gilead, so get on over to the JKB for this theatrical slice-of-life from 1970s New York!