Emerson alumnus and rapper George Watsky, ‘10, sat in the Little Building in 2009 and watched the White House Poetry Jam. On his screen, the then-senior...
For some, the golden age of cinema is resigned to a chapter of a film textbook, or a category on Netflix. But for Wesley Emblidge, a senior visual and...
As a Bachelor of Fine Arts acting major, junior Riley Hillyer was planning on auditioning for Emerson Stage, a requirement that he was happy to fulfill....
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...
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,...
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...
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...
