Olivia Kroh performs as Elvira in “Blithe Spirit” at Hillsdale College in 2021. Courtesy | Olivia Kroh Olivia Kroh is a senior studying theatre, music, and German. She has been a part of the Tower Dancers for the last four years. What was the first play you ever performed in? The first play I ever...
The Hillsdale College theatre department will be performing “Mr. Burns, A Post-Electric Play” Oct. 15-16 at 7:30 p.m. Directed by Professor Emeritus George Angell, the production is a staged reading of American playwright Anne Washburn’s 2012 play. “Of course the plays of the staged reading series can be seen and enjoyed by anyone,” Angell said....
“Let us all be as vulgar as legally possible,” declared junior Ian Brown at the beginning of the theatre department’s adaption of “The Mystery of Edwin Drood.” And the cast delivered. Rupert Holmes’ murder-mystery musical “The Mystery of Edwin Drood” is based on the unfinished novel of the same name by Charles Dickens. The musical...
War-torn Germany at the height of the Thirty Years’ War will be the scene for next month’s Tower Players’ production of “Mother Courage and her Children,” opening at Markel Auditorium on Feb. 24, but themes found in the play also apply to today’s political landscape. Written by German communist playwright and poet Bertolt Brecht in...
Rehearsals are underway for “Mother Courage and Her Children,” by Bertolt Brecht. The Tower Players will perform the 20th-century German drama in Markel Auditorium from Feb. 24 to Feb. 28. Senior theatre and English double major Catherine Coffey will play the lead role of Mother Courage for her senior theatre project. Her fellow cast members...