Hillsdale College’s Tower Players invite all students to audition this Wednesday and Thursday for this year’s fall production that will revive a nearly 2,500 year-old Greek theater tradition. Written originally by the ancient Greek playwright Aeschylus in 458 B.C., Hillsdale College students and theater faculty will perform “The Eumenides.” Chairman of theater George Angell said he plans to stay...
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Culture Corner
What’s the best book you read over the summer?Dutton Kearney, assistant professor of English: “Fobbit” is the best comic war novel since “Catch-22.” Aaron Andrews, junior English major: I read “The Wind in the Willows” every summer before starting school. It’s a children’s book about home, so it’s like going home in your mind. It’s like vacation. What new music...
Dancing the summer away at Studio 55
While other students spent their summers at the beach or behind the counter of a fast-food restaurant, junior Sarah Casebeer danced away her summer vacation, teaching at a local dance camp through Studio 55. Studio 55, a dance studio in Hillsdale, hosted a variety of week-long daytime dance camps over the summer. The camps were for a range of ages...
Sauk Theatre honors local heroes in ‘The Guys’
Jonesville’s Sauk Theatre will honor the 15th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks next month with a one-weekend performance of “The Guys,” a two-actor play about the aftermath of the 2001 tragedy. The show, which is based on a true story, portrays the relationship that develops between newspaper editor Joan and New York Fire Department chief Nick as she helps...
