Director of Theater George Angell’s last play on a Hillsdale stage has challenged him with a green cast — mostly freshmen — and an unwieldy Shakespeare script. But his young actors have responded with only one thing: excitement. The Tower Players opened Shakespeare’s “All’s Well That Ends Well” Wednesday evening, and performances continue Thursday through...
After a black walnut tree fell in his yard, Director of Theater George Angell carved the lumber into a dining room table and gave it to Professor of Spanish Carmen Wyatt-Hayes. “It has been one of my great joys,” Wyatt-Hayes said. “It’s my favorite piece of furniture.” Professor of Philosophy James Stephens has one,...
“Be connected in the moment and make magic happen.” This was actress Dwandra Lampkin’s advice to the students in her Acting for the Camera class before they began their exercises. Lampkin brings her experience with film and television to the Acting for the Camera class for the first time this semester. Lampkin, associate professor of...
The Tower Players are bringing Bermuda to Hillsdale as they begin rehearsing Shakespeare’s classic comedy “Twelfth Night” this week. While Shakespeare set the scene in Illyria, on the Mediterranean coast off of Italy, director and Professor of Theatre George Angell will set the play in 18th-century Bermuda. He said he believes the new setting fits...