Author: Gabriel Wolthuis Singer-songwriter Chris Renzema has built a career out of expressing feelings of doubt, faith and hope with a level of maturity and humility difficult to find in the Christian music landscape. Hailing from the nearby city of Grand Rapids, he found success early in his career with the single “How to Be…
This spring, director Chris Garcia Peak was invited to come work with Hope theatre students to create a fun and interesting devised work. During the fall, students were invited to attend a three-day workshop led by Garcia Peak. From here, the students along with Garcia Peak created a concept that he would then present to…
Devised theatre is a Hope College tradition that takes place every few years. This is where an invited guest artist comes in to work with students on creating an original work. Hope Theatre’s last production of the year, “The Boy Who Hates Everything”, opens this week and it is exactly that. The script has been…
By: Kelsey Sivertson Imagine if theatre operated like film. As the production wrapped, how many of us would sit through someone narrating the names and titles of all who worked on it? Okay, maybe a few of us would because getting up and leaving while someone is speaking is rude. We don’t leave time to…
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…