Author: Claudia Crook

Now that Halloween has come and gone, if you find yourself feeling disappointingly un-frightened, pull yourself out of your candy-induced coma and make your way down to Pomona College’s Seaver Theatre, where you will be haunted by demons that are not dead and gone but alive and present.  The Department

Upon opening the program for The Rimers of Eldritch, audiences find a director’s note centered on a quotation: “Have you ever turned a stone over in damp soil … and when you turn it over there are worms crawling on it … and it’s damp and full of fungus …

Gruesome Playground Injuries by Rajiv Joseph invites audiences to watch as the two sole characters, Doug (John Maidman PO ’11) and Kayleen (Tori Gaines CMC ’13), change before their very eyes. The play follows their friendship from their first meeting at age eight to their last at 38, weaving through

Famous for the controversy surrounding the “door slam heard ’round the world,” as one colleague of mine cleverly put it, Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll House is often interpreted as one of the first works of feminist drama.  The play follows the story of Nora Helmer, a young Norwegian woman who

Disclaimer: This will not be your average theater review. Unfortunately, due to limited availability of rehearsal/performance space allotted for student theater, I was unable to attend an actual performance of Slippers on the Street before the print deadline rolled around (and what use is a review if it comes out

Pomona College’s Seaver Theatre opens its season this week with the play Kindertransport. Written by Diane Samuels and first performed in the United States in 1994, Kindertransporttells the story of Eva (Roxanne Cook PZ ’13), a young German Jew who was one of 10,000 Jewish children sent away from Germany

The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee tells the story of six awkward middle-schoolers as they compete for the top prize in the—you guessed it—25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee. While a play about a spelling bee may sound like a snore, this one absolutely is not. Rachel Sheinkin’s book