Barbara Bushey came to Hillsdale in 2001 for a position she knew was perfect for her. Twelve years later, Bushey now sits as the head of the art department as the chairman, replacing Professor of Art Samuel Knecht who held the position for 35 years and is taking a semester-long sabbatical. “Well, when there’s only...
This year’s Opera Workshop production of Gilbert and Sullivan’s “The Mikado,” or “The Town of Titipu,” Gilbert and Sullivan’s comic British operetta, ridicules nineteenth century Japanese stereotypes and satirizes the British political system. The boisterous storyline involves mistaken identity, doomed love, and absurd plot-twists. The opera will be performed in February or March of 2014....
Lovers of theater, professors and students alike, look forward to the annual theatre department pilgrimage to Stratford, Ontario, for the Stratford Shakespeare Festival in an amazing opportunity to bond with fellow thespians and watch phenomenal professional performances. This year, 14 students and five chaperones drove up on Oct. 5 and attended five plays: William Shakespeare’s...
Poet and essayist James Matthew Wilson is an assistant professor in the department of humanities and Augustinian traditions at Villanova University. During his career, Wilson’s compositions have appeared in journals and periodicals such as “The Dark Horse,” “Chronicles, Measure,” and “Front Porch Republic.” He is also the author of “Four Verse Letters,” a chapbook of...
Recently, I began reading a book well known in academia—Alan Bloom’s “The Closing of the American Mind.” One of his central premises is that modern American students are indoctrinated with a single virtue—“openness.” Nothing seemed more pertinent to my experience this summer. I interned at a well-established non-profit theater company in Los Angeles, known for...