Tag: theatre
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After Thousands of Shows, Costume Designer and Alumna Aletta Vett Expresses Herself through Art
Written by Marla Ogden Story edited and packaged by Jessie Russell Students in Professor Lindsay Lennon’s Feature Writing class were assigned interviews with SUNY New Paltz alumni who were featured in Wired Gallery’s “Golden Age of New Paltz” exhibition. This is what they found: Featured images by Jack Murphy and SUNY Ulster Aletta Vett is…
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Self To Stage
Students in Professor Lisa Phillips’ Literature of Journalism class were assigned to immerse themselves in the unfamiliar. Here’s what they found: Maeve Allen watches puppets perform during a rehearsal of Avenue Q, where the theater department students express themselves through their characters. Connie Rotunda danced her way to the center of the classroom. The students…
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Cast Prepares For Fall 2017 To Kill A Mockingbird Production
Photos by Steph Golub Edited by Tyler Fischer and David Tregaskis
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A Look Into “EUGENIA”
Transgender issues may be a hot topic on campus, but they are nothing new, as the Theatre Arts Department reminds us with the play “EUGENIA.” Written by playwright Lorae Parry, “EUGENIA” is a gender-bending play that is set in two time periods, 1916 and modern day New Zealand. It addresses the issues of gender roles…
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New Play Festival Premieres at SUNY New Paltz
The New Play Festival’s inaugural season premiered on April 8, and continued until April 10. For the weekend of performances, the audience was brought into a new world of theatre –one where actors are on stage with scripts, wearing basic costumes on a stage absent of props and scenery. The New Play Festival…
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Rosendale Theatre Revisited
At first glance, there won’t seem to be anything different about Rosendale from any other quaint little upstate town, save for the historical Rosendale Theatre, which opened its doors more than 60 years ago in February 1949.