This review contains mentions of suicide, substance abuse, and terminal illnesses. Last Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2025, I arrived at the Theater Studios in the Center for the Arts (CFA) around 7:45 p.m. to attend the open dress rehearsal for “When There is No Love to Give,” grateful to escape the bitterly cold night. By the […]
The Shapiro Center for Creative Writing and Criticism hosted Zakiya Dalila Harris, author of “The Other Black Girl” and the executive director of the novel’s Hulu series adaptation, on Tuesday, Feb. 4. Harris’s conversation with Director of the Shapiro Center Merve Emre was the latest installation of the 2024–25 Shapiro Speaker series “The Art of […]
During the commercial break of the 67th Annual Grammy Awards, Lady Gaga debuted her new song and the accompanying music video, “Abracadabra.” Dressed in reptilian red from head to toe, tapping on a red microphone, a nefarious Gaga (who represents the “Lady in Red”), motionless in the face, proclaims, “Dance or die.” The camera cuts […]
Over the course of its early seasons, American crime drama TV series “Columbo” emphasizes the titular character’s unusual relationship with the outside world. He is technically a police lieutenant, but he doesn’t carry a gun, and you don’t see him at the office. He doesn’t even like identifying himself, and will only do it when […]
This article contains spoilers for “Wicked” and has been edited for length and clarity. Read at your own risk. In a cross talk, two writers sit down to discuss a book, movie, TV show, or piece of art they both feel strongly about. Sometimes they disagree; other times, they’re in perfect harmony. Here, Maggie Smith […]
This article mentions depictions of suicide in a theater production. Last weekend I had the pleasure of seeing “LIKEWISE,” a play that debuted at the University in Spring 2024. Kiera Moran ’24, who wrote and performed the show as a senior thesis in partial fulfillment for honors in theater, reprised her role as Joey, a […]
If there’s one thing that my time at the University has taught me, it’s that the most unexpected combinations can lead to the most magical experiences. Watching “The Game of Love and Chance” in the Patricelli ’92 Theater confirmed that belief as the audience and I were transported to the grandiose halls of a French […]
dust scatters behind our motorist matador as he whips heroically around the curve frenzied fans cheer in the fiery fen, bulls surging on a sequined red cape blood like thunder pounds in his ears survival is quite the catharsis; to think only moments before he’d pictured his lifeless body crashing up through the floorboards […]