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Every year, the yearlong efforts of Boston-area schoolchildren culminate in an end-of-the-year extravaganza called KIDSHOW. The performance is coordinated by STAGE (Student Theater Advancing Growth and Empowerment), an after-school program that works at five different sites in and around Boston. In the group, Harvard undergraduate volunteers try to teach children important life skills through a performing arts curriculum. “Theater is this really powerful tool, not just for performing arts,” says former STAGE President, current board member, and after-school volunteer Christopher W. Lawton...
...area and does a lot of improv, and they’re both so great. It seems like this is really bringing a lot of people together from a lot of different places and not just the same cast of characters. CH: Having done a lot of Harvard theater, I love it in shows when you get a lot of new people. What I love about people who don’t normally do theater is that they bring that outside perspective. My friend [D.] Morgan [Potts ’08] plays Benvolio. He’s actually a hardcore...
...Regardless, I’m going to be hungry...I don’t know how food stamps work, but I’ll figure that out, I think.” For Brener, unemployment will mean the chance to write or act for TV or theater, which will be a continuation of what he does on campus. “I think it’s what theater is really about is that it embraces a lot of the theatrical values that I hold close to my heart,” he says. “You know, life...
Most musicians view music in creative terms; it’s a medium that’s emotional and moving. But to senior Mark P. Musico ’07, winner of the Radcliffe Doris Cohen Levi Prize for musical theater, music isn’t limited to aesthetics—it’s also a science.“In science, you think of inputs,” he says. “In theater, these inputs are lighting, music, and the like.” His view of music as an “input?...
...says Birnbaum, quoting award-winning director JoAnne Akalaitis. Because she is outside a given scene, she explains, she can tell the actors—divas or no—how they can make it better. Considering Birnbaum’s unqualified fondness for the people in the theater community, however, perhaps divas simply don’t exist at Harvard. In fact, the majority of her tightly-knit blocking group is involved in theater, a common interest that brought them together from their first days at FAP. Birnbaum’s fondness for her colleagues is also colored with intense...