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Let's face it- as fun and exciting as college can be, campuses are a bit of a cesspool for germs! With winter rearing its head and temperatures dropping, it's important to think about maintaining your health! If you happen to be a performer, your body is your instrument, and keeping germs and…
This past week I got to experience my second film festival at SCAD.
I am not a morning person.
Tech week has begun at the University of California, Riverside! If you've worked on a production, you may be familiar with the term 'tech week'.
Within our theatre department at Ithaca College, we have five majors: BFA Musical Theatre, BFA Acting, BFA Theatre Production & Design, BS Theatre Arts Management, and BA Theatre Studies, or the 'BATS.' To some people, Theatre Studies is the catch-all major, where those who do 'everything else' go.
This tech week is a rough one.
If you're a college freshman, or a transfer student like me, who has finally made the big (and seemingly scary!) decision to move away from home to study theatre in college, CONGRATULATIONS! It is an exciting journey with lots of navigating to be discovered and in the long run, definitely helps you…
College has taught me the importance of being gentle with yourself, and I am still learning just how crucial this is.
UC Irvine's drama department has this fun little policy that if you're absent twice, your grade drops a?" of a letter grade and two tardies count as one absence.
Last Friday, I got to attend my first ever production of The Rocky Horror Show and I'm so appreciative that shows like this exist.
So, you've decided to double major? Or from the fact you opened up this article, you're considering it at the very least...(unless you're my parents, but that's an exclusive exception.
We all love the big hits of our favorite musicals.
A few weeks ago I saw The Lightning Thief.
I've done lots of shows and been a part of many casts throughout my life, and one of my favorite parts of any production process is bonding with my castmates.
It wouldn't be as accurate to say that I found dramaturgy as it would to say that I jumped in headfirst and never quite came up for air.
Last week the book 'Me' was released by the legend Elton John and it got me thinking about Elton's contribution to musical theatre.
The next time I register for classes will be the last time I register for classes below senior-standing.
For the past few years I've been infatuated with the concept of 24 and 48-hour play festivals and last month I finally had the opportunity to participate in one as a playwright! My school, Marymount Manhattan College, hosted the event over 2 complete says with student writers, actors, and directors.
My To Kill a Mockingbird process is moving along, and this week I wanted to talk about how hang and circuit went! To recap, hang is when we look at the plot and hang units in their positions according to what the plot says.
There are many challenges when adapting a source material for the stage, even more so when your source material is an animated TV show about anthropomorphic animals.
My name is Tayler and I'm a fourth year Theatre, Film and Digital Production major with a minor in Media and Cultural Studies at the University of California, Riverside.
Whether you came into college with someone you know or let your university work their roommate matchmaker magic, odds are you are living amongst people with a lifestyle and interests similar to your own.
It's midterms week at my first quarter of my senior year and I find myself reminiscing on my past three years.
College can be extremely stressful sometimes, especially after midterms, which I just experienced last week.
Living in one of the most expensive cities in the United States as a stereotypically broke college student sounds like a financial disaster on paper.
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