Ever since we got sent home and started online learning, it has been nothing but work for seven months, with the occasional five-day break given to us before the next term or semester began. Thank goodness it is November because come December, I will be off until March and I cannot wait.

Within the Fordham Theatre community, there’s this idea that no two Mainstage productions are the same, in conception and experience, and that was before the world entered a global pandemic that transforms each day.

2020 has been anything but normal, and I think most everyone can agree. This year has been monumental. One of the more memorable things to have happened this year has got to be the long awaited Presidential Election. 

Special thanks to Northwestern University’s Jeff Hancock, whose incredible Music Theatre Choreography course inspired many of the “homework” activities I discussed!

Although the show only ran for 105 performances at the Bernard B. Jacobs theater in 2008, the legacy of the show still lives on today. Enough so, that Netflix is in the process of adapting the show for the screen.

If you ask any theatre kid about the Golden Age of Musical Theatre, the first two people who come to mind are none other than Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II.

Three Samford University theatre students were integral parts of The Fantasticks at Virginia Samford Theatre, one of Brimingham’s regional theatres.

Doing theatre virtually has given the theatre club at my school the opportunity to do shows we might never have been able to in past seasons.

Thanksgiving is just around the corner, meaning it’s basically Christmas. Time to hang up the decorations and crank the stereo to 11 as we listen to our favorite Christmas songs.

We’re inherently creative people, too, which means one thing is for sure: we will inevitably find  ways to turn anything you buy us into our next prop. Happy spending! ​​​​​​​

Like many other things this year, the iconic 94th Annual Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade is going to look different than in the past.

This system classifies each person as one of the nine types, showcasing a various range of characteristics and unique skill sets in everyone.

No matter which holidays you celebrate, you know that holiday music shapes the season. To get in the holiday spirit while preparing for Thanksgiving and the December holidays, I have designed a playlist full of beloved Broadway holiday songs. 

In early September, a group of seven dancers and University of Iowa Assistant Professor Melinda Myers  met on a Zoom call to discuss creating her piece for the virtual performance of Dance Gala 2020

Yesterday for the first time since March I stepped foot into an actual theatre. Now mind you it was for an hour and a half, my mask was on, and I was six feet away from the two other people in the theatre with me but nonetheless I was in a theatre.

So how do you avoid burn out? Just rest, right?! Take a break?! Put down the work and relax?! Super easy right? Ha. Haha. *sigh*

If you’re a senior in high school, this headline is not news to you. You’re well in the thick of it.

At my high school, every show we performed was recorded and every mom bought the DVD during intermission (including mine).

& Juliet is a jukebox musical of songs written by Max Martin and tells the story of what might have happened if Juliet hadn’t killed herself at the end of William Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet

If you haven’t heard about it by now, there’s a new movie being adapted into a musical: Ratatouille.

Over the past few days, I’ve begun watching two new shows with normalized Hapa characters–one being Dash & Lily, a Christmas rom-com series in NYC, and the other being Grand Army, a series about a diverse group of kids at a school in Brooklyn.

Bootlegs are one of the biggest controversies surrounding the theater industry.

To me, a musical movie isn’t merely a stage production on film.

I recently spoke with a successful actress who emphasized the importance of hyphens in our titles. She wasn’t referring to those little dashes in our last names, but in the addition of our many talents and skills as performers.

I know political theatre isn’t everyone’s cup of tea, but I see it as a good thing. There were so many topics in what the constitution means to me that were incredibly relevant.