Hope College Theatre Department attended the Region 3 Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival Jan. 11-15. At this festival, there are workshops for all facets of the field such as playwriting, design, directing and acting. There are also competitions that students participate in such as Design Storm, National Playwriting Program and The Irene Ryan Acting…
Blank Panther: Wakanda Forever is the sequel to the original Black Panther. This movie was dedicated to Chadwick Boseman after his sudden death due to colon cancer in 2020. In the movie, the people of Wakanda are forced to move on from the death of Boseman’s character King T’Challa quickly in order to protect their…
On Oct. 21, countless fans stayed up until late hours of the night to be one of the first to listen to Taylor Swift’s new album, “Midnights.” Within days after the new album release, Swift announced her next tour which would include songs from all eras of her music. Fans were over the moon as…
Some may remember the “Scenes from ‘Rabbit Hole’” presentations that the Directing 1 class produced this October. The students in the Directing 1 class recruited several auditioning actors and then tried their hand at directing. Now the class has progressed to producing a showcase of 10 Minute scenes called “Doritos, Love, and the Lack Thereof”…
The Center for Global Engagement hosted the annual IMAGES last weekend to a full audience. Community members and Hope College students filled the Knickerbocker seats so much that some people had to find seats on the stairs to watch the show. Fara Ling (‘23) and John Kim (‘24), two of the Emcees this year, with…
Rhett Luedtke is a visiting professor in Hope’s Theatre Department for the 2022-23 academic year. In most cases, a visiting professor is asked to teach at a college that is not their own, for a set amount of time. Luedtke previously taught in the theatre department at George Fox University in Oregon. George Fox is…
This past week the Sculpture II class at Hope displayed their exhibit titled “What Remains” in the DeWitt staircase. They hosted a closing reception on Thursday, Nov. 3, where students could walk through the staircase at night and see the final show complete with lighting. Each of the five students did one piece in the…
“Silent Sky” is the newest theatre production for Hope College’s 2022 fall semester. The play focuses on Henrietta Leavitt and her work in the field of astronomy. This is the first piece by playwright Lauren Gunderson that the Hope College Department of Theatre will see in this academic year with “The Revolutionists” succeeding it in…
Dancing, striving to become a professional in the arts and executing those plans can be mentally and physically exhausting. For dancers, this means hours upon hours of work on the daily. Performers spend anywhere from months to only a couple of weeks preparing themselves for just a few shows; the pay-off, a thrill in the…
After 29 years of silence, “Hocus Pocus 2” made its debut. While many of the original cast members were not included in the second movie, the actresses for Winifred (Bette Midler), Sarah (Sarah Jessica Parker), and Mary (Kathy Najimy) remained the same. Many people were skeptical of the movie’s plot leading up to its release…