skidmore theater living newsletter
Life and Theater: A JKB Series with Bean Chiodo ’20
By A’ntonia Benson ’18 In Life and Theater: A JKB Series, blogger A’ntonia Benson ‘18 randomly selects members of the Skidmore theater department to chat with about how and why they choose to be involved with theater at Skidmore. Today, A’ntonia sits down with Bean Chiodo ’20. AB: What’s your name and class year? BC: […]
Fall 2016 Studio Lab #1: “Stop Kiss”
Identity, Love, and Un-tucked Sheets By Kellina Moore ’18 There is always a certain element of intrusion that comes with theater. At its best, theater makes us feel like we are watching something we are not supposed to be watching, like we are in on some sort of secret. This is the feeling I get […]
JKB Life: Stop Kiss
Now that you’ve seen the first Studio Lab of the Fall 2016 semester, get a behind the scenes look into the rehearsal process. The cast and crew of Stop Kiss discuss surprises they encountered while working and what silly crimes they may commit.
Video Interview with “Macbeth” Puppet Designer Jessica Lorence ’08
Macbeth, directed by Holly L. Derr, runs through December 6th. Purchase tickets here: http://tiny.cc/8wwu5x Check out Jess’s puppet theater company, Little Did Productions, HERE. Filmed and Edited by Aaron Ardisson ’16 Produced by The Skidmore Theater Living Newsletter
Life and Theater: A JKB Series with Olivia Irby ’18
By A’ntonia Benson ’18 In Life and Theater: A JKB Series, blogger A’ntonia Benson ’18 randomly selects members of the Skidmore theater department to chat with about how and why they choose to be involved with theater at Skidmore. Today, A’ntonia sits down with Olivia Irby ’18. AB: what’s your name, your grade, and your […]
OBIE Award-Winning Actor John Douglas Thompson Gives Talk, Master Class in JKB
A Place In This World By: ZACHARY COHN ’16 The familiar red curtain of the JKB thrust stage theater descends behind two chairs and a blazing ghost light as the Friday company meeting begins. Professor Opitz, chair of the department, delivers an introduction. A crowd of murmurs dissipates as a man steps forward, commanding attention. […]
JKB Life: Playwrights Lab You’ll Be Fine
This week in JKB Life we talk to the cast and crew of the semester’s Playwrights Lab about working with the writer in the room, and learn what famous actors would play each cast member in the film of their life.
Birth, Death, and a Cup of Tea
“Ritual will always mean throwing away something: destroying our corn or wine upon the altar of our gods.” -G. K. Chesterton If theater is a ritual, it is a ritual of death–of human sacrifice. I throw myself into the audience. I die as my character does. The audience members are my gods; I can only […]
JKB Life: Arts Party
This Fall marked the launch of the Skidmore Arts Quad Party hosted by the Theater Department. Take a look inside the party. See who performed, what games we played, and what hopes students have for the party in the future!
What I Learned about Theater from Not Doing Theater This Summer
Or: Coping with Judgment in the Arts By Adina Kruskal ’18 Against the better advice of my Skidmore professors, I did not pursue any theater-related experiences this summer. I spent two months of the summer at a Jewish day camp in Westwood, MA, as I have for nearly all of my life. A big part […]
Special Feature: Andrew Schneider’s YOUARENOWHERE
In this video feature, STLN sits down with performing artist and technical master Andrew Schneider to talk about the creative process behind his show, YOUARENOWHERE, after its NYC remount this Spring. Also featured are a number of Skidmore alumni who assisted with and bore witness to the evolution of this Off-Broadway, OBIE Award-winning hit! Featuring: Noel […]
Bard Is Dead.
An Essay/Collage By Gabe Cohn I. A friend of mine once opened a conversation by saying that he had licked Shakespeare’s grave. He’d been licking notable graves for years: Samuel Adams, Ulysses S. Grant, Rita Hayworth, Marilyn Monroe, Miles Davis, Emily Dickinson…he’d licked them all. Somehow he’d gotten past the velvet rope in front of […]
We Begin, We End
Week One at the Orchard Project and an Interview with Barbara Pitts McAdams By Rachel Karp A Moment: We Begin. Sia’s Chandelier plays, Queen Mary stands center in a green dress with long ribbons attached; two attendants dressed in black tug at the ribbons, controlling Mary’s every move. Mary locks eyes with Queen Elizabeth, enveloped in […]
How to Make a Memory
From Abby Outterson ’16 When your significant other tells you the writer of a well-loved Broadway musical is giving the keynote commencement speech at his college graduation, surprise him by showing up. Remember, you are excited about the graduation part. Try not to drool during the speech. When you find out said significant other could […]
Watching Kaspar: On Language and Socialization
SCHREUER ’16: On the surface Peter Handke’s Kaspar seems to be a play about teaching someone to speak. But it is far more than that, because language is not just a communicative technique. Language constructs how we view the world, how we perceive it, the relationship between things, and our relationship to things. Language determines […]
Siti Summer Lessons in Failure
Hi there, and welcome to my blog series! In these posts, I will try to navigate and share the teachings and insights I’ve encountered during my month-long intensive with Anne Bogart and the SITI Company, in residency at Skidmore this June. These posts will contain some confused rambling, partly because I’m trying to fully absorb […]
Switching Hats in the 24-hour Play Festival
BY: ZIGGY SCHULTING ’18 With Skidmore College’s third annual Together We Can Do So Much More 24-hour play festival, producers Sonya G. Rosen ’17 and Brandon Bogle ’16 made the nearly impossible happen once again. The event featured a series of plays that were written, cast, rehearsed, and performed in the space of 24 hours. This year, […]
Spring 2016 Director’s Lab: “Kaspar”
CRUEL AND UNUSUAL PUNISHMENT BY: CAITY COOK ’18 The story is a disturbing and powerful modern myth. Kaspar Hauser appears on the streets of Nuremberg, Germany, with an anonymous letter addressed to a high-born army captain. The letter asks the captain to take Kaspar in and give him a position in the army. Apparently, the […]
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