Graduate student speaks to The Eagle after he was arrested by AU Police Tuesday night
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Benjamin Brumer speaks to The Eagle after he was arrested by AUPD.
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Benjamin Brumer speaks to The Eagle after he was arrested by AUPD.
It’s Tuesday, Dec. 5, and MGC 4 has been transformed into a performance space by Rude Mechanicals. As tech rehearsal begins, flowers are scattered across the floor, seven chairs are in a circle and actress Cat Ashley sits center stage. The other actors enter the space one by one, and eventually they all come together to do warmups, in front of the audience. They transition into the first scene, in an audition room, and at first it seems like it’s just another audition. But it soon becomes clear that this isn’t an audition, rehearsal process or performance like any other, just like the development of the show itself. This is “Shakespeare Is A White Supremacist.”
Correction appended.
The Tenleytown mural opened in October.
As a person who has never seen a Shakespeare play live before, I wasn’t sure what to expect when I decided to see theatre troupe Duomuzi’s production of “Antony and Cleopatra.” I was worried that I wouldn’t be able to keep up with it. I didn’t think I would be so moved.
Imagine a major terrorist attack happening on the day of your final dress rehearsal, for the first production of the season at one of your theaters, the Bastille Opera. Do you go on with the show? How do you address the situation? How can you push aside your grief and tell a story? Stéphane Lissner, the director of L’Opera National de Paris, decided that the final dress for the ballet “La Báyadere” would go on despite the Charlie Hebdo terrorist attacks that occurred that morning, and addressed the audience with class at the curtain call, asking for a moment of silence.
Antara Kshettry took the stage as the final solo performance at the South Asian Student Association’s Jalwa. Kshettry’s performance would make audience members be “shook,” hosts Maya Krishnan and Bakhtawar Mirjat warned, and they were shook, indeed. Kshettry began a Bollywood-style dance performance, moving and swaying to a mashup of several different popular item songs, and she was simply radiant. She felt the music, moved with grace and elegance. The audience went wild.
Members of SASA raise the flags of their heritage with pride after their 10th annual Jalwa Culture and Fashion Show.
It’s a sunny Friday afternoon on the Don Myers Plaza, and American University alum Matt Fagan can’t hide his excitement. Today is the day of AU’s STEAM Fair, where he is showcasing his music app, LightSignature, to the public.
It’s 1997. Theater professor Caleen Jennings calls student Tru Tranh into her office. She just cast him as Richard III in Shakespeare’s “Richard III” and believes he’s the most capable actor to play the role. Yet, she’s thinking: how does Tranh feel as an Asian-American portraying a villain in Shakespeare’s canon, possibly enforcing a stereotype?
Matt Fagan, an AU alum and founder of music app LightSignature, demonstrates his app to students at AU's STEAM Fair on Oct. 20.
How do you break the magic? That’s what Rude Mechanicals sought out to do in creating “Something Wicked,” their fourteenth annual variety show that was performed on October 5-7. Unlike their previous variety shows, this show gave a dark twist to classic tales, connecting all of the 10-minute scenes to tell one cohesive story that made audiences shiver with fear.
As audiences walked into Katzen 112 on Friday, Oct. 6, a sign just outside the door read: “What would a better world for women look like?”
Education secretary Betsy DeVos withdrew Obama-era guidance on how colleges and universities respond to campus sexual assault on Sept. 22, prompting strong responses from administrators and student activists within the AU community.
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