Nearly three weeks ago, the cast of Broadway hit Hamilton addressed Vice President-elect Mike Pence after he attended the show. The musical, which is a...
It’s difficult for me to pick a song these days. In periods of transition, I always find myself in a musical identity crisis, more lost in the internet’s...
Last month, Hope Alexander, a sophomore visual and media arts major, approached her friends and pitched the idea for a short horror film. Three weeks later,...
Sitting cross legged on what is meant to be a table in the Max Cafe, junior performing arts major Travis Amiel, explains how using non-traditional theater...
On Sunday night, the smell of pizza, tacos, and beans wafted through the Bill Bordy Theater. In the air hung the last note from Josiah Seet’s guitar,...
In light of the current political climate, it comes as little surprise that some of the most cerebral films and shows this year are analyses of human nature....
When I was in high school, the musical icons were poised and impossibly beautiful. They were usually multi-talented pop stars and at sixteen, I related...
In 1935, Langston Hughes composed the poem “Let America Be America Again.” The piece openly criticizes imperialism, settler colonialism, capitalism,...
In the dark, Michelle Smith asks her mom to teach her how to light a match. She attempts to bring the flame to the wick, but tells her mom she can’t...
There are novels about colonialism. There are novels about the Civil Rights era. There are novels about race in present day America. But rarely do novels...
With Halloween right around the corner we here at the Berkeley Beacon put together a list of our favorite spooky songs from newbies such as Wolf Alice...
At the newly named Robert J. Orchard Stage (formerly the Paramount Mainstage), audience members were confronted with a striking image: a “rope drawing,”...
Like many other Emerson students, Braden LuBell ‘03 wants to explore controversial topics in his work. In his new webseries, Quick and Dirty, released...
The 1973 film The Exorcist is considered a classic, and is generally regarded as one of the best horror films of all time. So it was only a matter of time...
