Jason Madanjian
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Madanjian can be reached at jason_madanjian@emerson.edu.
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A glimpse into married life through California Suite
The almost two-hour show featured four vignettes chronicling various married couples who stay in the same hotel room at different times of the year.
Freshman is named Rookie of the Year
On Sunday night, freshman Alex Frapech was browsing the Great Northeast Athletic Conference website when he noticed his name — he was selected as rookie of the year for his work on the men’s volleyball team this season.
Will & Grace creator gives an inside look into network television
An audience of over 100 students and faculty filled the Bright Family Screening Room as Mutchnick held a candid discussion and presentation about his latest television show, Partners, which was canceled this past fall after only six episodes aired on CBS.
Chocolate Cake City’s TED Talk
Like the Twilight Zone and Edgar Allen Poe-themed shows before, Chocolate Cake City anchored its latest performance piece around a continuous idea, this time spoofing the increasingly viral global conferences that focus on a myriad of subjects: TED Talks.
Rareworks’ 2013 Playwright’s Festival presents A Yellow Watermelon
Written by first-time playwright Lizzie Milanovich, a junior performing arts major, A Yellow Watermelon premiered Tuesday night in the Greene Theater as one of two plays selected for Rareworks’ annual Playwright’s Festival, which produces student-scribed texts.
Former player now head coach of men's lacrosse team
Daniel Gold came to Emerson hoping to write screenplays and direct films. Now, less than a year after graduation, he is writing game plans and directing plays on the lacrosse field.
Dream on: BFA film student creates cinematic nightmare
Aust describes the film — which follows one nightmare creator as he falls in love with one of his victims — as fast, loud, and out of control. It’s a dash of Freddy Kreuger mixed with Joss Whedon’s Dr. Horrible.
Strong Emerson presence at Boston Student Film Festival
After graduating from Northeastern University with a degree in communications and cinema studies in 2011, Kelly Soule said she found Boston to be a desert for the filmmaking community in a city brimming with a pool of talent.
Kidding Around has a ball with Cinderella
Directed by junior marketing communication major Eric Maxwell, this tuneful take featured the standard tropes of the glass slipper, Prince Charming, and the pumpkin carriage. But Maxwell said he also wanted to leave his own visual mark on this timeless tale.
Emerson student appears on the Oscars stage
I like those types of movies that have magical elements to the reality.
Playing with light & language: experimental filmmaker
The resulting film Odysseus in Ithaca was screened alongside five other shorts on Tuesday night in the Bright Family Screening Room for the event An Evening With Experimental Filmmaker Peter Rose.
Bombing in Beirut: Director talks about her film
Fox was only 21 when she traveled to Beirut at the end of 1981. For three years, she and her editor tweaked the script, creating a new cut annually. And then Fox spent years looking for distribution before finally breaking through at the Sundance Film Festival in 1988.
Student show AMPED! will cover Boston music scene
Three Emerson students are looking to turn up the volume with a new television show on the Emerson Channel called AMPED!. It aims to be a music series that focuses on new albums, shows around Boston, and live performances.
Ballads and blood: Shakespeare Society’s mash-up
Ballad will be performed on Feb. 12 and 13 at 7:30 p.m in the Greene Theater of the Tufte Performance Production Center. This original marriage between two texts is the brainchild of senior performing arts major Kelsey Jayne Hogan and junior performing arts major Nicky Maggio.
Student choreographers go footloose for X Dances
X Dance, held on campus in the Greene Theater, starts next Thursday at 8 p.m. and runs through the weekend.
Iraq veteran bikes from Boston to D.C.
His ride raised $2,000 for the Wounded Warrior Project, a non-profit organization that helps service members transition back to civilian life and provides relief and programs to wounded vets in America.
Emerson prof honored with innovative teaching award
On Feb. 2, the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival (KCACTF), in conjunction with the Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE), will honor her achievements in innovative teaching with a ceremony held on Cape Cod.
Birthday bash boasts 65 years for WECB
During the bash, WECB aired a snippet from an in-progress documentary about the station by Veltser. Since the spring, he has been conducting interviews with alumni, as well as gathering archival radio transmissions and old newspaper clips.
Jimmy's lines up laughs on Black Friday
A time crunch sent Sender and the other Jimmys scrambling to make the best possible show in a short amount of time.
MTS creates urban fairytale in Brooklyn
The musical follows the characters as they stagea play. Five homeless men and women present an “urban fairytale” of struggling musician Taylor Collins and Faith, the love of his life.
The Cyclops and the one-eyed monsters
According to Blaszko, his production follows tradition for a show that was sexualy charged, even in ancient times.
Emerson student produces parodies
Chamberlain writes, directs, edits, and often stars in his videos, which have gained notice among the Emerson community after his parody of LMFAO’s “I’m Sexy And I Know It.”
Jimmy’s pomp chameleon comedians
immy’s eclectic team of writers and performers created a kaleidoscopic medley of jokes.
Experimenting with celluloid
The second annual International Experimental Cinema Exposition demonstrated 12 16mm short films, projected in their original formats.
Harlan Bosmajian talks Backwards
The family-friendly sports drama follows Abigail Brooks, a thirty-year-old rower who has trained for the Olympics her whole life and has learned once again that she did not make the team.
Dear Mandela fights for South Africa
he documentary follows Mazwi, a South African who is the youth leader for Abahladi base Mjondolo, a protest organization formed to fight The Slums Act. Mazwi, along with the documentary’s co-director Dara Kell, took questions from the audience after the viewing.
ArtsEmerson's 1871 expo
On Thursday night, ArtsEmerson kicked off its third season with investigative theater troupe The Civilians’ world premiere of Paris Commune in the Paramount Center Mainstage.
The Wild and wonderful youth abscond West Virginia
The Tribeca Film Institute helped fund the project by awarding an undisclosed grant to the undertaking in August.
Talking television with Tom Werner
The event was held in The Bright Family Screening Room at the Paramount Center and hosted by Jonathan Wacks, professor and chair of the visual and media arts department. Werner served as executive producer on numerous television shows including The Cosby Show, Roseanne, and That 70’s Show.
Hollywood Reporter ranks Emerson ninth for film
And for the second year, Emerson College found a spot on the list. The college placed at number nine, soaring past its position at number 18 during the inaugural year.
Getting technical with The Uplink
The Uplink, which aired at 9 p.m. on Tuesday each month of this semester, is Emerson Independent Video’s only tech news show produced by and for geeks.
Writer Nick Flynn talks crossing genres during Ploughshares event
Fifty-three people filed into the Charles Beard Room in the Little Building April 4 to hear Nick Flynn’s sarcastic wit and to offer the writer a hodgepodge of questions.
Swift simplicity in Under Milk Wood
Presented by Rareworks last Saturday and Sunday in the Piano Row Multipurpose Room, Under Milk Wood, written by famed poet Dylan Thomas, is about the denizens of a fictional Welsh town, Llareggub.
Getting retro and raunchy with Pokémon
Childhood cartoons and pop culture of yesteryear spilled off the TV screen and into the Little Building Cabaret March 28 in Pokémon: The 90s Rock Show, a gaudy musical from the mind of sophomore visual and media arts major Andrew Barret Cox.
Roughing it on EmStage: Student's dark survival comedy hits Black Box
A year ago, Patrick McDonald didn’t have an inkling of the idea that would become the black comedy Rough & Tumble.
Q&A: Seth Grahame-Smith
The day after he spoke at his alma mater March 20, author/screenwriter/producer Seth Grahame-Smith talked with the Berkeley Beacon.
Review: Wanderlust a rare misfire for both cast and producer
Apatow Productions, whose film Bridesmaids became the comedy event of last summer, has produced a rare misfire with Wanderlust.
Gamers gather, go-kart, groove at Geekout
Saturday night, Emerson College’s avid gamers found their little slice of virtual solace in WECB’s event Saturday Night Geekout.
No Kidding Around with Illiteracy
Imagine a world where you couldn’t read road signs, letters from your daughter look like gibberish, and bank bills are a headache-inducing riddle. This is the harsh reality for the patriarch of a family in Kidding Around’s performance of José Cruz González’s play Salt and Pepper.
Oscar reviews: The Artist defies Hollywood conventions with charm and ingenuity
The Artist, a silent, black-and-white movie, has defied modern Hollywood conventions by becoming the breakout film of the awards season.
Oscar reviews: My Week with Marilyn
My Week With Marilyn is about more than Monroe. It tells the story of her tryst with a member of her fan club, Colin Clark.
Oscar reviews: In Darkness brings nightmares to life
Agnieszka Holland’s new film, In Darkness, offers a glimpse into a horror few have ever known. The film, based on the book “In The Sewers of Lvov” by Robert Marshall, takes place in Nazi occupied Poland during World War II. Its characters bring that nightmare to life on the screen.
Emerson Comedy Workshop pushes some buttons
Emerson Comedy Workshop (ECW) celebrated their 35th anniversary Friday in the Cabaret with a 16-piece sketch show — suggestively and tellingly titled Love is in My Hair — that leaned toward the uproarious and racy.
Broads and brogues in Mercutio’s Dancing at Lughnasa
In a dark theater, a film projector hums a family’s silent black and white home movies project onto a screen. Before any lines are spoken, it is clear the performers have embodied emotionally passionate characters. Monday and Tuesday in the Cabaret, Mercutio Troupe offered an uncompromising portrayal of family life with Dancing At Lughnasa.
VMA department kicks off Bright Lights series with "Visual Storytellers"
Through both fiction and non-fiction, local filmmakers showed what it means to be a visual story teller last Tuesday night during the first installment of the visual and media arts department’s Bright Lights Series.
Shakespeare Society blends Bard and Big Easy
The audience roared with delight this past Thursday and Friday night as the Shakespeare Society rocked the Cabaret with their two-night, four-performance tour de force in the Shakespearean Jazz Show.
A Fight to the Clef
After 26 acts submitted, it’s down to five. On the line: a one year recording contract with Emerson College’s student-run record label, Wax on Felt.
Show Times: The Descendants with producer and Screenwriter-in-Residence Jim Taylor
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The funniest woman not in the room: Becastled Emerson comedienne to be roasted after nabbing gig on Archer
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The funniest woman not in the room: Becastled Emerson comedienne to be roasted after nabbing gig on Archer
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