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"Bad Jews," Good Play: Senior Theatre Thesis Thrills

The Amherst Student

Emma Ratshin '22E's senior thesis "Bad Jews" was performed last weekend, providing a provocative and dark examination of family, religious identity, and community. Assistant opinion editor Tapti Sen '25 breaks down the play and its brilliantly difficult characters.

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Emma Ratshin Takes the Stage in "Bad Jews"!

The Amherst Student

Emma Ratshin 22E's senior thesis — a performance of "Bad Jews" by Joshua Harmon — will kick off the Amherst Theater and Dance Department's annual schedule.

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Bridging the Social Distance

The Valley Advocate

With campuses closed and classrooms empty, teachers are applying long-distance work-arounds to complete their spring courses.

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Stagestruck: Theater in Motion

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Cast, Stage, Author, a three-part installation and performance work by the New York-based collaborative a canary torsi, explores issues of perception and representation.

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Theater & Dance major MacKenzie Kugel '20E

Stagestruck: Campus Cornucopia

The Valley Advocate

Valley colleges present a fall cornucopia of performances – a culture clash at Amherst, a gamer fantasy at Mount Holyoke, and the Valley premiere of a national dance piece at Smith.

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Student Production “Medea” Reinterprets Greek Tragedy

The Amherst Student

This Halloween weekend, "Medea" will take the stage in Kirby theatre with an old-Hollywood thematic gloss.

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Theater & Dance major Christianna Mariano '21

The Sound of Science

She went to Italy, and all she got was this life-changing experience: How one student blended art with neuroscience.

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Punk Iteration of “Dr. Faustus” Transforms Elizabethan Play

The Amherst Student

Wesley Guimarães’ ’19 senior honors thesis, "Dr. Faustus," provides a punk, provocative revival of an Elizabethan play.

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DIRECTOR SERIES: JAKE MEGINSKY

Champ Magazine

Musician and producer Jake Meginsky’s first feature length documentary on the avant-garde percussionist Milford Graves is an incredibly original visual and aural journey, communicating more than just a single subject matter. This is about altering our perspective on life and the way we live.

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Wendy Woodson's "Sourcing the Stream" at Brown University

Each year, the Institute at Brown for Environment and Society sponsors an interdisciplinary program under the title of “Earth, Itself,” designed to stimulate conversations and collaborations across the natural and social sciences, humanities and the arts, and to highlight contributions to and ways of understanding earth systems and elements.

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Director Jake Meginsky Makes New Milford Graves Documentary

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Director Jake Meginsky has made a documentary about US drummer and avant garde pioneer Milford Graves. Meginsky filmed Graves in his back garden martial arts dojo and basement sound laboratory, both housed in the artist’s current home in Queens, NY where he grew up.

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"Peer Gynt," performed at Kirby Memorial Theater, Amherst College.

Starring the Self

A contemporary adaptation of a classic play explored an age-old question: what does it mean to know yourself?

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Wendy Woodson : She Will Persevere

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Wendy Woodson is a featured artist in a new online publication about the arts, The Take Magazine.

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Theater and Dance alumna Lisa Biggs '93 speaks at Kirby Theater

Making Theater in These Times

Actress, playwright and performance scholar Lisa Biggs ’93 returned to campus for the Five College Theater Alumnae of Color Residency. In preparation for her visit, she reflected on her time at Amherst and the importance of making theater, then and now.

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"Bad Jews," Good Play: Senior Theatre Thesis Thrills

Emma Ratshin '22E's senior thesis "Bad Jews" was performed last weekend, providing a provocative and dark examination of family, religious identity, and community. (Photo by Emma Ratshin '22E)

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