This year’s annual Mask And Bauble Dramatic Society musical, Michael LaChiusa’s Hello Again, traversed ten stories in ten decades (ca. 1900’s to 1990’s). Each story depicted a sexual interaction between two people, one of whom always became part of the next decade’s pair. Although Hello Again can get choppy and awkward at times, director Gabriel…
Travel by train: The journey calls for an early rising time, dark coffee, and school reading. The long-awaited long weekend presents the ideal opportunity to see my sister and father in New York City. I sit alone, leaning against the glass where the sunlight flickers through the trees, and look up several times thinking that…
Georgetown University’s Black Movements Dance Theatre (BMDT) will showcase its skillful repertoire in Jubilation!, after more than a semester’s hard work. The showcase will feature choreography by the faculty artistic director Alfreda Davis, three undergraduate company members, and four guest artists. Black Movements Dance Theatre was founded in the ‘80s by African American students on…
Speech & Debate begins by brutally wrenching the audience back into the dark, confusing, and hazy years of high school: painted brick walls, cheesy slogans, and awkward morning announcements. Speech & Debate is a GU Theater & Performance Studies Program and Mask & Bauble Dramatic Society co-production of Stephen Karam’s play. When it begins, the…
Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil, and Vile: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v38MNmDcgrM Panna: Initially the overabundant presence of celebrities in this trailer turned me off, but I have to admit that both Zac Efron and Lily Collins seemed less like themselves and more like other people in this trailer, so I’m willing to see if while watching this movie I…
On the night of the first snowfall in Washington, DC, dozens of colorfully underdressed audience members, most with large, ugly, green stamps on the back of their hands, waited in line outside The 9:30 Club for Louis the Child’s performance on Thursday, Nov.15. Chicago based DJ Dup Freddy Kennett and Robby Hauldren’s electronic music has…
“The government is shut down; all the museums are closed; get your art fix here,” said artist Bradley Stevens, standing in front of his exhibit Museum Studies II: Honoring the Female Perspective in Zenith Gallery last week. The exhibit is not big. It consists of about ten pieces, some of which are no longer displayed…
In this episode, Devon O’Dwyer, Claire Goldberg, and Panna Gattyan talk about Panna’s role as a designer for the Fashion Issue and their favorite pop culture fashion icons. TV and movies we reference in the podcast: (from left to right): Sabrina The Teenage Witch, To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before, and Sex and…
The voices of all the students involved in the making of The Language Archive, from the actors and costume designers to the producers and light directors, weave together and emanate throughout the theater, each one speaking the words “I love you” in a different dying language. The tape, constructed by the play’s sound designer, Shane…
Close relationships take center stage in this year’s Donn B. Murphy One Acts Festival (DBMOAF). Each year for the past three decades, students at Georgetown University have submitted their screenplays to the festival to be developed into full (or near full) productions by the Mask & Bauble Dramatic Society and the Department of Performing Arts….