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Vol. CLV, Issue 4
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Whitman Wire

“Spotlight: Solo, Slam, Stand-Up” Comedy and Vulnerability at Harper Joy Theatre

“Spotlight: Solo, Slam, Stand-Up” Comedy and Vulnerability at Harper Joy Theatre

Shira Nudler, Campus Life Reporter September 28, 2023

From Sept. 23-24,  students took the stage to perform self-written creative pieces with the guidance of three guest artists as a part of Whitman’s Guest Artists Program. Six solo acts took to the...

Illustration by Eli Rodriguez.

Stop stressing about midterms: Failing is just performance art

Carmel Stephan, Has never been out of Character November 4, 2021

Students all around campus have taken to calling their failed midterms ‘performance art.’ As a great connoisseur of the absurd and abstract (see my 10th grade short film commenting on Neo-Dadaism)...

Janani Balasubramanian Performs Poetry, PowerPoint

Zuhra Amini, Staff Writer February 9, 2017

Janani Balasubramanian, one half of the spoken word duo DarkMatter and wholly themselves, performed to a packed audience in Kimball Theater on Jan. 27. As a solo artist, Balasubramanian works within...

This From Cloudland opens at Harper Joy

This From Cloudland opens at Harper Joy

Michelle Foster, Staff Writer October 20, 2016

A boy’s head is stuck in a bear’s mouth, people speak of stealing free things and two lovers hold themselves hostage in “This From Cloudland,” an original piece written and directed by Whitman...

Community College "Poetry and Dance Project" translates art to new forms

Community College “Poetry and Dance Project” translates art to new forms

Michelle Foster, Staff Writer October 13, 2016

Poetry, dance, music and theatre were intertwined in a moving performance at Walla Walla Community College. “A Poetry and Dance Project” was held at 7 p.m. on Oct. 8, and was centered around the poems...

‘Noises Off’ comes to Harper Joy

Mallory Martin October 18, 2012
"Noises Off," a farce by Michael Frayn, is the latest production to hit the Harper Joy stage.

Local performers get stage time at cantina

Hannah Bartman September 27, 2012

Strolling down Main Street and looking in the quaint boutiques of Walla Walla, one would be surprised to find out that there are battles raging just a mile from the Whitman College campus. However, these...

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