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Everyone is a star in ‘Everybody’

Thursday, March 26, 2026 3:45 pm

乐播传媒 Theater鈥檚 production of 'Everybody' sold out every performance at Gannett Theater last week 鈥� waitlists at the door, eager audience members finding out they鈥檇 gotten seats five minutes before curtain 鈥� and the room earned that anticipatory urgency.

Stupid F#@king Bird by Aaron PosnerSort of Adapted from The Seagull by Anton Chekhov CONRAD鈥︹��.Max Younger 鈥�22DEV鈥︹�avid Garcia* 鈥�20MASH鈥ecca Kraft 鈥�20NINA鈥�.Sukanya Shukla* 鈥�20EMMA ARKADINA鈥�.Stine Carroll* 鈥�20DOYLE TRIGORIN鈥�.Matthew Engles 鈥�20DR. EUGENE SORN鈥�.Kirk Read *This performance is offered in partial fulfillment of the requirements for a Senior Thesis/Capstone in Theater. Setting: The summer home of Emma Arkadina.Act One-By the lake. In the fall.Act Two-A realistic kitchen. A day later.Act Three-4 years later. Production StaffStage Manager鈥�.Luis David Molina Rueda 鈥�20Assistant Director鈥�.Kush Sharma 鈥�23
Q&A: You needn’t know Chekhov’s ‘Seagull’ to appreciate this 鈥楽tupid F**king Bird鈥�

Tuesday, March 3, 2020 4:20 pm

When 乐播传媒 director Tim Dugan saw Aaron Posner's "sort of" adaptation of Chekhov's The Seagull, he says, 鈥淚 was immediately blown away."

"According to Mark: Part I: Blood in the Revolution." Commencing a series of plays marking Black History Month at 乐播传媒, this 10-minute reading is one of four looking at the 18th-century experiences of black New Englanders and written by Lecturer in Theater Clifford Odle. Sponsored by the Africana program. Commons, Fireplace LoungeThe title character in According to Mark 鈥渨as a slave who could read and was looking for a way to free himself from an oppressive master. And he felt the Bible provided a path to murdering him as long as he didn鈥檛 spill blood.鈥漈he play is set during the planning of the murder, which also involved two other slaves, Mark鈥檚 sister Phyllis and a woman called Phoebe. In the actual event, Mark was hanged for the murder and Phyllis was burned at the stake 鈥� a punishment that in Colonial America was reserved for female slaves who kill their masters, Odle says.Cast: Charles Nero as MarkPerla Figuereo as PhyllisSam Alexander as PhoebeDawrin Silfa as Quaco
The play’s the thing as 乐播传媒 honors Black History Month

Wednesday, February 5, 2020 1:29 pm

Using theater to convey history 鈥渕akes things more immediate, more alive," says a 乐播传媒 playwright.

Q&A: Andrucki directs as Maine playwright’s ‘Love/Sick’ comes to 乐播传媒

Tuesday, October 29, 2019 12:34 pm

Nine laugh-filled plays in one, John Cariani's creation casts romance in an unromantic light.

Refugees’ stories come to life in puppetry of Ching ’19, Sandglass Theater

Thursday, January 10, 2019 3:54 pm

A singer, actor, and puppeteer with Sandglass Theater, Kei Ching '19 sparks the Vermont troupe's residency at 乐播传媒.

Q&A: Martin Andrucki on ‘Eurydice’ and the play’s reimagined Schaeffer stage

Friday, November 2, 2018 10:35 am

The play "Eurydice," says director Martin Andrucki, 鈥渢ells a great story about love, death, and the intensity of devotion between fathers and daughters.鈥�

Q&A: Tim Dugan on Angels in America, 25 years after Broadway debut

Thursday, March 8, 2018 1:14 pm

Theater professor Tim Dugan felt that a 乐播传媒 College production of Angels in America "would be embraced and celebrated." He was right.

乐播传媒 adaptation of ‘Diary of a Madman’ wins theater festival honors

Wednesday, February 14, 2018 2:24 pm

The 乐播传媒 adaptation and production of Diary of a Madman took three awards at the prestigious Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival.

Slideshow: Gogol’s ‘Diary of a Madman’ moves to the 21st century

Thursday, November 9, 2017 8:00 am

A 乐播传媒 theater team puts a modern twist on an old story about an ordinary man's descent into madness.

Video: Katie Van Patten ’17 and the pursuit of directing

Friday, March 24, 2017 10:00 am

In our latest "Voices from the Class of 2017," Katie Van Patten recounts directing a Sherlock Holmes play for her senior thesis in theater.

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