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Emerson College’s only independent, student-run newspaper since 1947

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Emerson College’s only independent, student-run newspaper since 1947

The Berkeley Beacon

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New shows prepare for takeoff during pilot season

December 12, 2012

 It’s finally getting closer to that glorious time of year — pilot season. A bit like Christmas for avid television watchers, pilot season...

Stroopwafel alleviates midterm stress

Stroopwafel alleviates midterm stress

December 12, 2012

In the Piano Row Multipurpose Room on Tuesday, Feb. 28, the Emerson comedy troupe Stroopwafel, provided a much-needed escape from the stress of midterms...

Pelton packs Pacific paintings

Pelton packs Pacific paintings

December 12, 2012

President M. Lee Pelton narrowed his eyes as he studied a challenge unrelated to the business of running a college: making sense of abstract art.  “The...

Shakespeare Society blends Bard and Big Easy

December 12, 2012

The trumpet blared. The saxophone wailed. Improvised banter and dance persisted among the cast. And the audience roared with delight this past Thursday...

Alumni-run theater company gets In-Yer-Face

Alumni-run theater company gets In-Yer-Face

December 12, 2012

The Brown Box Theatre Project produces shows that might be hard to sit through, but that’s the point. The company wants to challenge audiences even...

Review: The Lorax does justice to Seuss' vision

Review: The Lorax does justice to Seuss’ vision

December 12, 2012

With incredible, in-your-face images, the 3D-animated release of The Lorax maintains Dr. Seuss’ illustrative style but brings it to a whole other...

Benefit concerts for less fortunate hit DVD

December 12, 2012

Rock stars are often considered a selfish and sometimes ignorant group, many of whom are paid lavishly to jump around on stage. While some are in the...

A haunting ride along Spoon River

A haunting ride along Spoon River

December 12, 2012

A girl stands alone on stage in a plain black dress. Trembling, she tells of her rape at the age of eight and how her husband, after two years of marriage,...

A Marionette Mission

A Marionette Mission

December 12, 2012

The scene is spectral, the music haunting, the characters a cast of papier-mâché ghosts floating through images and noise. The audience is...

Make a date with Morrie at the Colonial

December 12, 2012

The adaptation of Mitch Albom's bestseller, currently being performed at the Colonial Theatre, is entertaining and amusing, and also sweet...

Swift simplicity in Under Milk Wood

Swift simplicity in Under Milk Wood

December 12, 2012

“We are not wholly bad or good, those who live our lives under Milk Wood,” said the Rev. Eli Jenkins in the lyrically beautiful radio-drama-turned-staged-reading...

The Wang makes it Rain with a show of Beatles covers

December 12, 2012

John, Paul, George, and Ringo will be rocking the Wang Theatre this weekend. Well, sort of.Wearing wigs and appropriate Beatle garb, Steve Landes as John,...

Theater should tackle, not just concede to, technology

December 12, 2012

Modern technology is changing the wiring of the human brain, and American theater is unprepared. The theater is one of a few places left where a person...

Writer Nick Flynn talks crossing genres during Ploughshares event

December 12, 2012

Britney Spears is author Nick Flynn’s greatest inspiration — or so he joked during an event sponsored by Ploughshares, an award-winning literary...

Tracking Temperance: Student's memoir chronicles long, dark road to sobriety

Tracking Temperance: Student’s memoir chronicles long, dark road to sobriety

December 12, 2012

It all began with Smirnoff Ice. The burning liquid scorched traces of regret as it worked its way down the esophagus, erasing memories one by one. While...

Event celebrates Emerson’s authors

December 12, 2012

Among cheese plates and chatter, just a stone’s throw from the set of Will & Grace, new books by Emerson faculty waited for their spot on the...

Paranormal production to possess Cab

Paranormal production to possess Cab

December 12, 2012

Vaudeville may be dead, but this weekend it will rise from the grave to haunt the Little Building’s Cabaret.  Promoted as “An Evening...