A 'Glee'-ful update of 'Iolanthe'
The Glee Club will bring a modern approach to their performance of Gilbert and Sullivan's "Iolanthe" this weekend, updating references and lyrics to be relevant to the Dartmouth community.
The Glee Club will bring a modern approach to their performance of Gilbert and Sullivan's "Iolanthe" this weekend, updating references and lyrics to be relevant to the Dartmouth community.
On Wednesday, Dartmouth's Displaced Theater Company will be presenting the critically acclaimed show from Montana-based fringe theater troupe The Missoula Oblongata, entitled "The Wonders of the World: Recite!" Preceding the show will be the performance of three short plays written by Latif Nasser '08 and directed by Sarah Hughes '07. Members of The Missoula Oblongata will give pointers on playwriting, performing and clowning in a one-hour workshop before the show begins. Nasser, an avid fan of The Missoula Oblongata, only recently discovered his affinity for fringe theater, in which performers use unique and wacky theatrics to entertain the audience. "I did a research project which involved my traveling around a bunch of fringe festivals across Canada and the United States.
With a nod to the famed Bob Dylan song of the same name, the Dartmouth Wind Symphony will perform a set entitled "Blowin' in the Wind" Sunday at 2 p.m.
A look at the list of nominees for the 79th Annual Academy Awards reveals that, despite what many consider to be a strong year, some tried and true conventions remain.
After the enthusiastic celebration of hedonism that is Winter Carnival, many students might be turning to drier activities this week.
Danny Gobaud / The Dartmouth Staff This term, over 600 ceramic bowls were handmade, glazed and fired for the Empty Bowls project, which will take place on Feb.
The music industry is too diverse and far-reaching -- from salsa idols to "American Idol," from a Miami recording studio to your neighbor's garage -- to see the Grammy Awards as anything other than a popularity contest among the most commercial artists of the year. Indeed, the only reason that the 49th annual Grammy Awards caught my eye was that the Police are reuniting to kick off the show.
God bless the Academy Awards. Just when you're ready to write them off as predictable panderers to public expectation, they go and drop a bombshell on you.
After weeks of interviews and readings by a diverse group of four final candidates, Thomas O'Malley has been selected to join the faculty of Dartmouth's creative writing program.
"Pan's Labyrinth," Guillermo del Toro new film, boldly mixes fairy tales with unmitigated violence.
Courtesy of the Hopkins Center In the wake of Hurricane Katrina it's been easy to forget that there were storms before that one, but Anne Galjour's one-woman play "Hurricane," which premiered in 1993, reminds us that the 2006 natural disaster wasn't a singular phenomenon.
Kawakahi Amina / The Dartmouth Staff This past Friday, groups celebrating dance, music and spoken word combined to kick off Black History Month at Kappa Kappa Kappa Fraternity's first annual "The Movement" event.
by joe indvik "One must respect and sometimes fear ice. It is the giver of life for us." Aqqaluk Lynge, president of the Greenland chapter of the Inuit Circumpolar Council, said these words during his keynote address in Loew Auditorium Wednesday. The speech commemorated "Thin Ice: Inuit Traditions in a Changing Environment," an exhibit that opened at the Hood Museum of Art last week. The show is a joint project between the John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding, the Institute of Arctic Studies at Dartmouth and the Hood Museum. "Thin Ice" displays Inuit artifacts from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries that portray that culture's connection to the environment through its hunting techniques, social organization, religion and technologies.
Forget about Dave Chappelle. Comedy Central has a new comic hitting the small screen who isn't inclined to mysteriously jet off to South Africa anytime soon.
On Thursday, Friday and Saturday, three juniors will perform the lead roles in the ensemble play "Betrayal," written by Harold Pinter. "Betrayal" is a psychological drama set in England.
Last year was a good year for music and classics professor Christian Wolff. His most recent recording, "Christian Wolff: Ten Exercises," has been named among the 50 best albums of the year in the annual list compiled by The Wire, a popular alternative music magazine.
"Friday Night Rock ... wait, does that even happen anymore?" Yes, ignorant freshman, Friday Night Rock is alive and well. "But wait, isn't that just for, like, hipsters?" No, ignorant freshman, Friday Night Rock is for everyone.
For improvised music to have real aesthetic value, not just hints of earnest beauty, takes more than talent.