When I came to Princeton my Freshman year, there was one club I knew I had to join. I had spent hours that summer watching videos on the Princeton Triangle Cluba??s website and looking at old production clips and photos.
Earlier this week, I had the awesome opportunity to sit on a panel of current students for a virtual high school senior preview day. It got me thinking about how I picked my school as well as everything that goes into picking a college and a degree.
As disappointed as I am knowing there likely wona??t be a play and my capstone in the Fall semester wona??t be in person, I would say my greatest disappointment was envisioning my lighting design class virtually.
Even though this year will be much different than the rest, thanks to Covid, I can assure you that you will have an amazing year and you will learn and grow immensely.
While the TikToks of Hamilton Jr., Mean Girls Jr., and Tik Tok the Musical grace theatre kidsa?? for you pages, these content creators provide an excellent jumping off point for the question at hand: What will Broadway look like after the shutdown?
This pandemic hasna??t just affected Broadway. Ita??s postponed and even cancelled performances nationwide. Community theaters had to close their doors.
This summer, Ia??m working as a teaching assistant at a virtual theatre summer camp, and working with theater kids during a pandemic has taught me a heck of a lot about life.
But this Freedom Summer that youa??re going to read all about is a new musical written by, now Baldwin Wallace music theatre alumni, based in the events that took place in the summer of 1964.
For anyone in the theatre industry, an added stressor of this summera??s health and political chaos has been the complete loss of our industrya??s traditional in-person activity.
The main complaints about bootlegs are 1) ita??s distracting for the performers, 2) ita??s distracting for the audience, and 3) ita??s a form of theft. It is often the last point that holds the most contention from both sides.
I know eventually, we will all make our way back towards the bright stage lights the echo our name, ita??s only a question of when? The hard truth is that no-one has a definitive answer.
A few weeks ago, I was facing identity imposter syndrome. This, which I have discovered, can be common among mixed race people, used to happen to me when I was younger but hadna??t resurfaced much since.
Carrie Hope Fletcher, a West End actress with too many superlatives to name, has been going above and beyond in her career for years. While she already has an impressive fanbase, most theatre people who may not know her would benefit from an introduction.