Since the ‘70s, Emerson’s magazine, the Independent, has strived to surface underground autonomous filmmakers who were overshadowed by big-budget productions.
By its twelfth anniversary, the Bright Lights Cinema Series has introduced three generations of Emerson students to hundreds of independent films, highlighting social issues and marginalized perspectives.
Elisa Gabbert '05 began working on her essay collection before the COVID-19 pandemic began in 2020, causing her writing to take a turn to reflect on the tumultuous time.
By Sam Shipman, Living Arts Editor
/ September 9, 2024
As the lights went down at MGM Music Hall on Sept. 2, the opening chords of Goose’s “All I Need” began after the more than 5,000 seat venue shouted—“Goooooooose.”
“The Queen of Versailles,” starring Kristen Chenoweth with a score by Stephen Schwartz and book by Lindsay Ferrentino, played at Emerson’s Colonial Theatre from Aug. 1 to 25.
By Annie Sarlin, Dept. Living Arts Editor
/ September 5, 2024
The first Tough Luck Fest will take place at Brighton Music Hall this week and feature 12 alternative, pop punk, and metal acts, including several local artists as well as headliners deathcore band Monochromatic Black and pop punk group Young Culture.
By Clara Faulkner, Operations Managing Editor
/ August 2, 2024
Oscar-nominated actor Colman Domingo brings to life the inspiring story of a prison theater program in “Sing Sing,” a powerful A24 film that highlights the transformative impact of the arts within the walls of New York’s Sing Sing Correctional Facility.
Before Company One Theater got its hands on the BIPOC-led stage gem “Hoops,” it began as a photography exhibition by Wisconsin-born photographer Nicole...
By Sam Shipman, Living Arts Editor
/ July 14, 2024
Levitate Surf Shop’s Music and Arts Festival hosts another successful year of a wide range of different musical genres, arts, and food for its festival-goers to enjoy.
For six weeks, visual media arts senior Jacob Warman called Khlong Toei in Bangkok, Thailand, home. He didn’t realize that among the foreign roads and...
Emerson alumni Omar Robison ‘06 and MFA alum Todd McNeel ‘21 are underway with rehearsals for the Huntington Theatre’s revolutionary production “Toni...
By Clara Faulkner, Operations Managing Editor
/ April 24, 2024
The depiction of long-term relationships in "The Tortured Poets Department" feels hauntingly familiar—the gradual unraveling, the eventual understanding...
By Clara Faulkner, Operations Managing Editor
/ April 18, 2024
When 500 young girls gather in one crowded room and begin to form their government, one might wonder, what could go wrong? Or, most importantly, what could...
