The following is a statement submitted to The Wire by an unknown Whitman student:
The theater is a strange place. Its physical design completely shuts off the exterior world to create a whole new world...
Whitman Musical Theater Project’s production of "Disaster!" transported audience members into a zany casino adventure that wove through the ensemble cast’s romances, secrets and fears. The musical...
Tenzin Uden, Campus Life Reporter
• November 10, 2022
On Tuesday, Nov. 1, students and faculty gathered in the Freimann Studio for a staged reading of “Robbed Women,” a new one-act play by senior Sylvia Adome. Adome, an international student from...
Diana Issa, Campus Life Reporter
• February 24, 2022
At first, you are solving a mysterious murder on a cruise. Then you are growing up from teenagehood to college years while trying to deal with your own anxiety. Finally, you are far from home, feeling...
Diana Issa, Campus Life Reporter
• February 17, 2022
This week, the Whitman community will have the chance to attend the "One Act Play Festival." Everything in the festival, from the scripts to the productions themselves, has been made, performed and...
This Thursday, Dec. 9, marks the opening night of the Whitman theatre department’s last show of the semester, “The Penelopiad.” The play, as well as the book of the same name it was adapted from,...
Ahmed Elsayed, Campus Life Reporter
• December 2, 2021
Whitman's department of theatre and dance hosts a wide range of artists and scholars, who often contribute analytically and artistically to the Whitman community through various methods of live performance....
Last week, "The Revolutionists" by Lauren Gunderson took the Harper Joy Theatre by storm: a feminist political comedy based somewhat in reality and packed with controversy, drama and death.
Starring...
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...
Jaime Fields , Arts & Entertainment Reporter
• March 25, 2021
A man steps out onto a dark stage, facing a theatre full of empty seats. He crouches over a book, lifts a staff and strikes the stage three times. The lights shift, highlighting the actor in a striking...
In the midst of getting back to in-person classes, students and faculty received a new source of stress and confusion: on Feb. 2, President Murray sent out an email containing the Financial Sustainability...
On Friday, Nov. 1, a mix of Whitman faculty, First Congregational Church members and Whitman and Walla Walla High School students stood before rows of pews at the First Congregational Church and performed...
