“He can’t hear me. Do you have a gong or anything?” asked the character of Masha in a line that captures the signature style of humor laced throughout the American playwright Christopher Durang’s “Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike.” The fall main stage theatre production, “Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike,” directed by […]
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Rewind two years to fall 2014. Eryn Hoang is a first-year at Wheaton College. Having left Boston before starting middle school, she comes from a small suburban town close to and much like Norton and commutes to school every day. She continues taking French courses but doesn’t think she’ll major in the subject. She goes […]
I’ve been living in Copenhagen, Denmark for almost two months now, and I was not expecting it to feel this normal. I haven’t been hit by any homesickness yet, so I’m crossing my fingers that it doesn’t happen at all. This is the first time I’ve been outside of North America, and the first time […]
Alumni artwork is currently being displayed outside of the studios on the first floor of Meneely Hall. The featured artists include Ellen Llewellyn ’04, Cynthia L. Rodday ’92 and Evan Morse ’09. The improvement of these artists contributes to an expansive list of Wheaton graduates’ accomplishments. Take Llewellyn, for example, who graduated from a dual […]
Sometimes, all you need is a striptease, teacups and a good fairytale. In “Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike” by Christopher Durang, this is exactly what you will get — at least according to Anastasia Tammen ’17, who plays Sonia. Revolving around the lives of three middle-aged siblings and their life troubles, “Vanya and […]
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An Evening of George Gershwin
An Evening of Gershwin, hosted by Brad Conner and Ben Sears, recounted the tale of George Gershwin’s rise to fame, his exploration of music, and his importance in defining the golden age of American musicals. After an amusing tale of Gershwin’s childhood and his discovery of music, Conner and Sears plunged into their routine. They […]
The Beard and Weil Galleries are now welcoming pieces from artist Judy Pfaff. “Drawings Thick and Thin” is an installation where the breathtaking variety of Pfaff’s work can be found. The London-born Pfaff has had her work exposed in important art museums and galleries, some of which include The Whitney Museum of American Art, MoMA, […]
There are unending factors contributing to the success of any theatrical mainstage production. Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, written by Christopher Durang and chosen as the fall 2016 mainstage production here at Wheaton, is no exception. As Stage Manager Alivia Cross ’19 revealed, “The week before the show we do a ten-to-ten, so […]
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The new bees of ARTHive
As a result of revived leadership, Wheaton’s only student-run art history club has begun to make a name for itself on campus. Most famous for their bus trip to The Met, Cooper-Hewitt, and the Guggenheim Museums last spring, ARTHive appears ready to continue the momentum this fall. As President Maddy Cook-Comey ’19 put it, the […]
My experience from studying abroad for a year in two different countries: As I’m getting ready to go back to the United States and face responsibilities such as applying for law school, working a job, applying for fellowships, and seeing myself in the near future where I no longer will be in college, I am […]