This past weekend, on Mar. 3rd and 4th, Dance 49 took place in the Dewitt Main Theatre and it will continue through this coming weekend Mar. 9th-11th. Dance 49 is a showcase where dance students are cast with a choreographer who then creates a piece to perform at the showcase. This year there were seven…
Jack Slevin is a senior at Hope College, studying secondary education with a theatre minor. Currently, Slevin is preparing for his student production of the play “The O’Conner Girls” which will be presented on Mar. 10 and 11 and 7:30 p.m., at the Schaap Auditorium. “The O’Conner Girls” is a play about a family, [the…
Outer Banks is a Netflix series that is set in a coastal town along the Outer Banks of North Carolina, where there is a social divide between the wealthy and the working classes– the Kooks and the Pogues. The show follows a group of teenagers who are determined to find out what happened to the…
Tia Hockenhull (‘23) is soon to be a Hope College graduate. Despite the fact that she is a chemistry major, she has had a passion for acting for as long as she can remember. She always thought that theatre was just going to be a hobby for her until she came to college and got…
PhotoVoice is a method of research that uses participant photography to show an issue in society. It poses meaningful questions to the audience in the hopes of enhancing the community by finding possible solutions to the problem presented. On the Kruizenga Art Museum website, it says this about the project: “This exhibition offers a window…
One of the mainstage productions this semester is a four-women play titled “The Revolutionists.” The play, written by Lauren Gunderson, follows four fictional and nonfictional women alike: playwright Olympe de Gouges, assassin Charlotte Corday, former queen Marie Antoinette, and Haitian rebel Marianne Angelle, during the French Revolution’s Reign of Terror. The cast includes Cecilia Casper…
Content Warning and Disclaimer: This article mentions topics of self harm, depression, and eating disorders. While this article states a review on the success of the show, it in no way is encouraging readers to watch it if that would be triggering for them. In 2019 the world was rocked with the dramatic show, Euphoria….
After a long wait, the Percy Jackson books, written by Rick Riordan, are being transformed into a television series. Previously in 2010, Riordan’s books had been turned into movies. However, when they came out, many avid readers of Percy Jackson complained that the movies did not follow the plot of the books. In early 2022,…
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…