For the first Senior Arts Spotlight, The Round Table sat down with Theatre major Isabel Chavez for an interview on Feb. 18. Chavez, who just finished stage managing Chelonia for the final time, was thrilled to share about her experiences with the arts at Beloit.
Last weekend, I took a trip back home to Milwaukee to catch the Broadway tour of the musical “Mean Girls.” While in Milwaukee for its five-day run (Jan. 25 — Jan. 30), the show played at the Marcus Center for the Performing Arts. Located in
This past Saturday, Nov. 20 at 7:30pm, the students in Beloit’s Dance program were given the chance to show off what they’ve been working on this semester in a series of stunning and elaborate performances. The doors to the Neese Theater were opened early, and
This year’s Fall Theatre production, The Revolutionists, took place Nov. 4, 5, 6 and Nov. 11, 12, 13. Written by Lauren Gunderson and Directed by Amy L. Sarno, the audience is brought to 1793 Paris, where playwright Olympe de Gouge (Played by The Round Table’s
On Fri Nov. 5, the Rocky Horror Shadowcast was held at Wilson Theatre. Doors opened at 9p.m, and within a half hour, every seat was filled. Students were greeted by ID checkers and some lingerie-wearing Transylvanins marking admittance in red lipstick. At 9:30 the pre-show
Adapted from an interview with Leilani Schaller. The Fall play is The Revolutionists by Lauren Gunderson, can you tell me a little bit about it? The Revolutionists is about these four badass women during the French Revolution. They’re all a little different in their own
This year the December Dance Workshop was once again very well done and incorporated fourteen pieces ranging from two five minutes. Throughout the semester student dancers met to rehearse with the piece’s choreographer who were also students. There were pieces that displayed love, hate and
“Double double, toil and trouble…” So say William Shakespeare’s Three Weird Sisters, whose words aptly describe the tremendous preparation currently under way for this year’s production of Macbeth, directed by John Kaufmann. Kaufmann’s cast and crew have been working on Macbeth for the better part
Written by Lynn Nottage and directed by Amy Sorno, Intimate Apparel, is a fascinating, moving, and frequently hilarious play, which will continue its showing at the Neese Theater on Nov 17, 18, and 19. Set in 1904, Nottage’s script is filled with characters whose lives
Baby with the Bathwater, the first of this year’s theater productions, will premiere on Thursday, Sept. 29, and run until Oct. 8. Written by playwright Christopher Durang and directed by John Kauffman, Baby with the Bathwater was first performed in 1983, 33 years ago. Though