Amelia Leach, Campus Life Reporter
• March 9, 2023
On Thursday, March 2, Whitman's Department of Theatre and Dance debuted their production of "Kissing the Witch," a cycle of short stories based on classic fairy tales. The play, based on the book by Emma...
Amelia Leach, Campus Life Reporter
• March 2, 2023
On Thursday, March 2, the Whitman community will have the exciting opportunity to get the lesbian feminist perspective on classic fairy tales they didn’t know they needed. "Kissing the Witch," a play...
The spooky ambiance of fall permeated all corners of campus as students prepared for the fabled "Halloweekend." Whether they indulged in a scary movie, went to a party or enjoyed some fall treats,...
Ben Kearney, Campus Life Reporter
• April 28, 2022
Editor's note: This article has been edited to name and credit some of the students involved in creating this production.
Whitman students finished up a four-show run of the "25th Annual Putnam County...
Elise Sanders, Campus Life Reporter
• September 30, 2021
Four women, who’ve survived in our collective memory as mournful, headless figures of a bygone era, will live once more, resuscitated by Laura Gunderson in her 2017 play "The Revolutionists." On Thursday,...
Zac Bentz, Campus Life Editor
• September 16, 2021
As the fall semester begins, bringing with it the long-absent promise of live community performance, the Whitman theater department welcomes Aaron Chvatal as its new Costume Shop Director and Visiting...
Ghosts, grief and good intentions were three prominent themes in senior theatre majors Eva Sullivan and Oriana Golden’s thesis performance of “Do You Think About Me, Too?”
This last weekend,...
It’s a tale as old as student theatre: two unsuspecting cast members are sent to a corner to figure out how to kiss each other and come back when they’re ready to do it onstage. Or worse, one of the...
Activist and poet Reverend Daniel Berrigan visited Whitman campus twice, once in the 1970s and again in the early 1980s. Each time, he directed a dramatic reading of “The Trial of the Catonsville Nine.”...
"You Can't Take it With You:" The famed comedy about a dysfunctional family caps of Harper Joy Theatre's 2016-2017 season. Evening shows Thursday-Saturday, May 4-6, 8:00 p.m.; matinee show Sunday, May...
"breath, sweat, hair, dirt, dust:" A mixed-bill of new contemporary choreographies, performed by Whitman students. 8 p.m., Thursday-Saturday, April 13-15 (matinees at 2 p.m., Saturday-Sunday, April 15-16),...
"'The Public Thing' Goes Public" Lecture: Professor Sarah Davies, of Whitman, will present on the "image" of Rome in the second century that helped forge an empire. To be held 6:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. on...
