Every other year, Lawrence’s theatre department produces a play by William Shakespeare. This year, the department is working on “Richard III.” Professor of Theatre Arts and the J. Thomas and Julie Esch Hurvis Professor of Theatre and Drama Timothy X. Troy is directing. During the process of deciding this season’s shows last year, Troy was…
Jazz series branches out with Bill Frisell
Bill Frisell, a Grammy-winning guitarist, performed his newest album “Harmony” alongside Petra Haden with vocals, Hank Roberts on cello and vocals and Luke Bergman on baritone guitar and vocals in the Lawrence Memorial Chapel on Friday, Feb. 7. The program asserted that the quartet “annihilates the concept of genre,” and the group delivered. The space…
LSO performs with aplomb
The Lawrence Symphony Orchestra concert on Friday, Jan. 31, started off with a booming phrase. At 8 p.m., the first piece of the evening was Dvořák’s “Slavonic Dance” No. 8, Op. 46. The appeal of this piece was that it was interspersed with layers and layers of texture, from the lighter trickling notes to the…
SOUP gives Broomball tutorial
On Monday, Jan. 27, Student Organized University Programming (SOUP) organized an event to give Lawrence students a chance to familiarize themselves with a long-standing Lawrence tradition. Broomball, a hockey-like sport, has been a wintertime staple sport for Lawrentians for years. The crowd at the event was small, but that meant the stakes were low. Erin…
Wriston opens winter exhibitions
Friday, Jan. 17, marked the opening of the Wriston Art Center Galleries Winter Exhibitions. Starting at 6 p.m., the upper floor of Wriston was bustling with people enjoying refreshments and wandering the gallery to take in the new installations. One of the featured artists, Maeve Jackson, gave a talk to honor the opening. Jackson is…
Upcoming: Student climate art show
What began as just a vague idea by seniors Amos Egleston and Christina Sedall to unite Lawrentians is now a student-run art show series called Uncovered that accepts submissions of art in any medium. In the winter of 2019, the two friends expressed to each other their concern that art is not always an accessible…
Visiting artist talks printmaking and Black experience
Artist Ben Blount took the spotlight Nov. 7, in the Wriston Auditorium to present his work in a presentation called “See Something, Say Something.” Blount is a visual artist specializing in books, type and, as he put it, “putting ink on paper.” As a child, Blount was an “art kid,” and started out his journey…
Senior theatre majors collaborate on capstone
Last weekend, the theatre department presented their show “Into a Void, Out From the Light” to four separate audiences in Stansbury Theatre. The show was devised in collaboration with several seniors — Flora Aubin, Samantha Torres and Illyana Yates — for their senior capstone projects, as well as the J. Thomas and Julie E. Hurvis…
Open Movement Jam continues
The Open Movement and Music Jam is a hidden gem among events at Lawrence. The most recent of these monthly events was on Sunday, Oct. 27, from 12 to 1:30 p.m. in Esch Hurvis Studio in the Warch Campus Center. The jam opens up with everyone sitting in a circle on the floor of the…
Students “pop the bubble”
Many, if not all Lawrence students have heard of the colloquialism “the Lawrence Bubble.” The campus is small and can feel like a vacuum of internal events and concerts. It can be easy to slip into familiar routines without ever engaging with the communities that surround the school. This constitutes “the bubble.” Last year, a…
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