Theater

Dickinson Community Players present "Next to Normal"

On Friday, April 12, students and community members packed into Chenango Champlain Collegiate Center’s Multipurpose Room to watch Dickinson Community Players (DCP) open its rendition of “Next to Normal,” a musical about...


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Finding home: 'The Wizard of Oz' makes new magic

While most are familiar with the tale of the yellow brick road, this semester’s Mainstage production of “The Wizard of Oz” takes more twists and turns than just a trip out of...


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Hamilton Mixtape 2.0: Broadway soundtracks to try next

Though we all want to be in the “The Room Where it Happens,” most Binghamton University students will not have the chance to see “Hamilton: An American Musical” on Broadway in the...


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Former Bearcat and dancer Bill T. Jones returns for Alumni Weekend performance

Characteristic to Jones’ other work, each piece utilized repetitive motions woven into elegant, yet often frenetic modern dance, and each work appeared to have a political undertone to it — much of ...


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HPC's 'Godspell' puts parables into song

While a play with such religious undertones may seem polarizing at first, “Godspell” brings its lessons back to Earth, hitting at the core of what it means to be human. ...


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In student-directed show 'Problem Child,' theatre evokes discussion

The beauty of “Problem Child” lies in what is absent from it. Without song or dance numbers, and with only a few set pieces on stage, the performance of the cast members ...


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Theatre alumni take a second bow at weekend conference

The sessions held for the conference, which included directing and auditioning workshops and discussions of diversity in theatre, served to give the student audience an idea of where a theatre degree could ...


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Theatre department gears up for Alumni Conference

With panel titles including “Unexpected places theater training can lead” and “Triple Threat x Two: Why musical theater is a great foundation for so much more,” an additional focus of the conference ...


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Mainstage show focuses on faltering family bonds in 1930s Ireland

Music is one of the most critical aspects of the play, as, when the radio interrupts the scene, the actors convey a newfound buoyancy, momentarily forgetting about any hardship or argument the ...


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Dark 'Fun' in Studio B

Possibly the most interesting aspect of the production is the sheer antithesis that exists within the realm of the play: though the play is titled “Fun,” every character appears to be individually ...