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Vol. CLIV, Issue 6
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Whitman Wire

Disaster! gives Whitties disco fever

“Disaster!” gives Whitties disco fever

Alexa Grechishkin, Campus Life Reporter April 27, 2023

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...

“Kissing the Witch” graces the Harper Joy Theatre stage

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...

Photo by Aidan Tribolet.

A roaring success: The Little Theatre produces The Lion in Winter

Amelia Leach, Campus Life Reporter February 23, 2023

The Little Theatre of Walla Walla is only a 15 minute walk from campus, but many Whitman students have never been. They produce four shows a season, and they are currently running the production The...

Photo contributed by Harper Joy Theatre.

Studio Series sparks dialogue about dance

Alexa Grechishkin, Campus Life Reporter December 8, 2022

Hosted during the first four days of December, this year’s Studio Series captured the natural connections between art, academics and activism. Rather than understanding dance as an art form that exists...

Photo contributed by Whitman Theatre Department.

Opening night of “bare” is here

Alexa Grechishkin, Campus Life Reporter November 10, 2022

After five fast weeks of preparation, Whitman’s theater department is prepared for Thursday’s opening night of the musical “bare.” Written in 2000, the musical’s themes of self discovery,...

Photo by Aidan Tribolet.

“Robbed Women” calls attention to human trafficking and exploitation

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...

The One Act Play Festival in review

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...

Upcoming One Acts Festival showcases student work

Upcoming One Acts Festival showcases student work

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...

The Gilmore Studio brings acting lessons to Walla Walla

Jaime Fields, Campus Life Editor October 21, 2021

If you search the Gilmore Studio on Google Maps, you’ll be taken to a supermarket parking lot. Though confusing at first, if you go through an inconspicuous side door and down a long and oddly lit hallway,...

The Revolutionists, a comedic, feminist reclamation of history, to hit Harper Joy Theater

The Revolutionists, a comedic, feminist reclamation of history, to hit Harper Joy Theater

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,...

Illustration by Anna Stone.

Theatrical clubs return to campus

Isabella Hunter, Campus Life Reporter September 23, 2021

In fall of 2019, Varsity Nordic had nine members, consistently attracted major crowds and—according to Matthew Triplett, a senior and member for the past three years—“were all working together to...

Latinx playwrights celebrate art and language in “On Borders and Hybridity: Contemporary Latinx Theater”

Latinx playwrights celebrate art and language in “On Borders and Hybridity: Contemporary Latinx Theater”

Zac Bentz, A&E Reporter April 19, 2021

With their faces luminous against luscious, floral Zoom backdrops, playwrights Migdalia Cruz, Elaine Romero, Luis Alfaro and Enrique Urueta addressed the Whitman community Friday evening in a lecture panel...

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