Author: Matt Helm

If you are at all inspired by the current spirit of social activism present in our country and in our local community, I implore you to see Slavery/Women/Writing, onstage this weekend at the Broad Center on Pitzer’s campus and next weekend at Pomona’s Seaver Theater. It lasts less than an

Infidelity abounds in There’s One In Every Marriage, on stage this weekend at Seaver Theater. Focusing on the amorous hijinks of well-to-do bourgeois Parisian society, this farce by French playwright Georges Feydeau (1862-1921) sets out to make you laugh—a lot. And it does. Over the course of two hours and

This week’s column is inspired by current events, and by a nascent sense of social agency and responsibility, one which I can honestly say I have never felt before. As such, this column is deeply personal, and writing it has prompted some real introspection. How can theater and performance contribute

Like almost all schools, Pomona requires theater majors to serve on a production crew (lighting, costumes, makeup, etc.). It’s an instructive experience. When you crew a show, you see it a lot—around ten times, not to mention countless pieces of scenes in between. While this can get a bit grueling,

Last week, the Pomona Theater Department put on Frozen, a 1998 play by Byrony Lavery, under the direction of Theater Professor Betty Bernhard. Frozen centers around the rape and murder of 10-year-old Rhona and charts the evolution of the three main characters’ personal lives and handling of the aftermath of

Welcome, TSL readers, to the theatre column. This space will normally be dedicated to reviewing theater/performance pieces at the 5Cs. Though there is an inherent element of critique in reviewing, the goal of this column is not to criticize. Rather, it’s to support performance at the 5Cs as much as