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By Craig Heckman and Courtney Walton

With the big finale approaching in less than two weeks’ time, Professor Fee’s Medieval Drama (ENG 312) class looks forward to their play, “You’re Outta Here: The Story of Adam and Eve” with excitement and anticipation. Consisting of three parts translated from Middle English and reinterpreted by several members of the class, the production provides ...

By Amelia Grabowski

 There are some moments in your life where you feel that all the world is a stage, and you’ve stumbled on set into the role of a lifetime.

That is how I felt as I danced around the church-turned-performance-center in Selma, Alabama with the Random Acts of Theater Company (RATCo), sashaying under outstretched arms, bending and snapping to ...

By Emily Francisco

This past Valentine’s Day weekend was bustling with activity on campus, but the most exciting event was the Theatre Department’s premiere production of The Importance of Being Earnest. Performed at the Majestic Theatre rather than the Kline stage, the show earned a lot of laughs with its classically clever plotline.

Considered Oscar Wilde’s finest comedy, The Importance of Being ...

By Emily Francisco

Since the early 1990s, Gettysburg College has been in possession of three art pieces by the renowned artist Judy Chicago. A gift intended to serve as a campus resource in understanding feminist art, until now the works have remained relatively unseen by students, faculty, and staff, with one tucked in a Schmucker classroom and two hidden in Weidensall. ...

By Emily Francisco

Gettysburg College Department of Theatre Arts kicked off its Mainstage season this past weekend with The Good Times are Killing Me, a play adaptation of the novel by Lynda Barry. A show chronicling the social and political changes of the Civil Rights movement through the eyes of children, the performance was an immediate success.

Typically, the Theatre Arts Department ...

By Liz Williams

Last week, Gettysburg Student Musical Theater (Gburg SMuT) kicked off their 2012-2013 performance season with a production of Songs for a New World. The musical was directed by John Grimsley ’15 and featured current students Kate Forton ’14, John Grimsley ’15, Kelly Hagerty ’14, Wes Jackson ’14, and Rachel Lovelidge ’13.

Songs for a New World is comprised of ...

By Emily Francisco

Musselman Library is proud to present a number of new and fascinating exhibits this semester, featuring objects such as Civil War weaponry, Lincoln bookends, and prints of the Battle of Gettysburg. The most noteworthy exhibits this fall, though, are the ones that correspond with the upcoming Presidential Election. Displaying artifacts from the Election of 1860 (“The Race for ...

By Jane Freeborn Judging by the dramaturgical notes in the program for Chris Kauffman’s main stage production of Romeo & Juliet, the thematic and artistic aim was significantly higher than  most other mid-sized east-coast second-tier liberal-arts college student productions. To say that aim was true is perhaps optimistic, but Gettysburg certainly put on a good show.

With Adam Pelta-Pauls and Sara Vanasse ...

By Emily Francisco

This semester in Schmucker features a new, yet familiar, artist: one of Gettysburg College’s own beloved Studio Art professors.

Titled Jim Agard: A Retrospective, the latest Schmucker Art Gallery Exhibition celebrates the works of retiring Professor Jim Agard, who has taught at Gettysburg College for twenty years. The works on display date from 1962 through 2011, exploring a variety ...

By Taylor Andrews

Last Saturday, the second annual Black Box Blitz was held in Stevens Theatre, presented by the Owl and Nightingale Players. This mini-festival of sorts is a new tradition at Gettysburg College in which students write, rehearse, and perform a series of brief plays (about five to ten minutes each) all within the span of a week. The plays ...