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July 22, 2025 | Latest Issue
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Arts



Theater

Student Spotlight: director, performer Virginia Ogden ’18

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As director of last spring’s student production “What Every Girl Should Know,” president of the all-female a cappella group the Subtleties and actress in “In The Next Room,” “Urinetown” and this fall’s “Cabaret,” performer and playwright Virginia Ogden ’18 has completely immersed herself in the arts at Dartmouth.


Theater

Monica White Ndounou joins theater department faculty

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A new name has been posted on the office doors of Shakespeare Alley, welcoming Monica White Ndounou, who joined the Dartmouth faculty as an associate professor of theater earlier this year. The theater department now has nine faculty members, not including adjunct faculty.




Arts

The Dodecaphonics’ new EP features new and ‘iconic’ pieces

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In August, coed a cappella group the Dodecaphonics released their new EP entitled “DDX.” “DDX” is the latest in a long line of albums released by the group since the early 1990s. The Dodecaphonics, founded in 1984, is Dartmouth’s oldest coed a cappella group, according to the group’s website.






Film Review

Guillermo Del Toro's 'The Shape of Water' touches greatness

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“The Shape of Water” is perhaps best understood as a cap to a thematic trilogy that began with “The Devil’s Backbone” and continued with “Pan’s Labyrinth.” All three films fuse fairy tale narratives and period piece war stories together, highlighting the connections they share to illustrate what does and does not work about each.


Arts

'Antigone in Ferguson': a classical reading starts conversation

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What does a play written 2,500 years ago and a suburb of St. Louis have in common? The upcoming Theater of War production of “Antigone in Ferguson” at the Hopkins Center for the Arts draws parallels between the events of the ancient Greek play by Sophocles and those in Ferguson, Missouri surrounding the death of Michael Brown in 2014.