Theater

Overview Emerson College Southwick Recital from June 3, 2000 at 2PM at First and Second Church. Welcome by Dr. John D. Anderson. Kenneth C. Crannell '55 G'57 performs The Lessons from "My Fair Lady" book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner and music by Frederick Loewe, adapated from George Bernard Shaw's "Pygmalion," the accompanist was Wilma Recklitis Messina. Al Cremin '73 G'76 performs selections, Scene 1. The Murder from "Oliver Twist" and Scene 2. The Trial from the "Pickwick Papers," from his...

Overview Alumni Recital held on June 16, 2001 in the Emerson College Library President's Room at 3 pm. Welcome by Professor John D. Anderson. Barbara Ann Ferreira '77 performed selections from "Shirley Valentine" by Willy Russell. Judith C. Espinola '61 performed "Rituals" by Nikki Giovanni, excerpt from "A Room of One's Own" by Virginia Woolf, "M. Dega Teaches Art and Science at Durfee Intermediate School Phillip" by Phillip Levine, "Beauty I Would Suffer For" by Marge Piercy. Michele Drabant...

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Welcome by Dr. Phillip Glenn. Moonyene Jackson-Amis '69 performs as Harriet Ross Tubman: A One-Woman Presentation.

Overview Welcome by Dr. John Anderson. Elizabeth Towner Morrell G'78 performed in Laughter and Hope and a Sock in the Eye: An Evening with Dorothy Parker which included selections from: "Neither Bloody Nor Bowed," Life, August 26, 1926; Review of Hedda Gabler, Vanity Fair, June 1, 1918; "The Dark Girl’s Rhyme," New York World, October 7, 1926; "The Far-Sighted Muse," Life, March 9, 1922; "Men," Life, August 19, 1926; "News Item," New York World, August 16, 1925; "A Well Worn Story," New York World,...

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Welcome by Dr. John Anderson. Clare Dalton as Virginia Woolf performs "A Room of One's Own" directed by Mark Lindberg.

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The 100th Anniversary Southwick Recital held on Thursday, October 26, 2000 at 7pm in the Little Building Cabaret. Welcome by Dr. John D. Anderson. During the (Per)forming Race performance by Bryant Keith Alexander and Tami Spry. Bryant Keith Alexander performed "Race, Rigor, and Regrets" and Tami Spry performed "From Goldilocks to Dreadlocks: Racializing Bodies."

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Alumni Weekend 1996 Southwick Recital held on June 8, 1996 at 2:30pm at The Vault, 216 Tremont Street. Welcome and introduction by Dr. J. Gregory Payne and Sybil Siegel Tonkonogy '58.

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Alumni Weekend 1997 Southwick Recital was held on June 7, 1997 at 3pm at the Boston Park Plaza Hotel. The Recital was decicated in memory of June Hamblin Mitchell '35, G'44, H'55, H'80, an alumna and professor at Emerson College. Martha Jussame Patz '80, G'97 and Susan Picillo '78 perform "The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe" by Jane Wagner, directed by Al Corona '66, G'72.

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Emerson College Alumni Southwick Recital from Alumni weekend was held on June 6, 1998 at 3:00pm at the Boston Park Plaza Hotel. Suzie Sims-Fletcher G'93 performs "Fortune" by Lawrence Ferlinghetti, "Prince Myshkin, and Hold the Relish" by Harlan Ellison, "Snow" by Ann Beattie and "Reflections on a Gift of Watermelon Pickle Received from a Friend Called Felicity" by John Tobias.

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Shanaé Burch is a storyteller at heart and is now using her roots in the theater to revive health and reconcile hearts while pursuing an EdD in Public Health at Columbia University. Her path may seem like a winding one but as she shares her experiences on the stage, in the classroom and as a co-editor of Poetry for the Public’s Health, you’ll find that this Emerson alum is a living embodiment of our motto, Innovation in Communication and the Arts. Recorded on August 2, 2022.

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The Ethel Berner Babbitt Collection consists of materials related to the life of Emerson College alumna Ethel Berner Babbitt, including schoolbooks, photograph albums, scrapbooks, manuscripts, and written personal correspondence.

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Video recording of a performance of Gaudete anima! the end result of a workshop inspired by the authors beginning explorations in using transformational theatre which combines theatrical arts with the inner spiritual processes of the actor.

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"The purpose of this study is to utilize drama based pedagogies to examine the concept and understanding of individual, collective, and societal identity in Midwestern teenagers." --Abstract.

Overview An in-person event featuring faculty, student, and alumnae/i artists produced by the Department of Communication Studies. Welcome by Dr. Gregory Payne, Chair, Communication Studies Department; introductions by co-hosts Ken Grout, Executive-in-Residence, Oral Presentation of Literature Instructor, Communication Studies Department and Leo Wilson, a Junior Communications Studies major at Emerson; "Hungry and Scared: Salat, Schüssel, und Pommes Frites," a spoken word piece written and performed...

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Emerson College Southwick Recital held on May 5, 1994 at 7pm in the Helen Rose Room, 21 Commonwealth Avenue. Richard Hudson and Natalie Chilvers read from the works of Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning.

Scope and Contents This collection documents the teaching and writing career of Pearl Wallace Chappell and the history of the Dallas Academy of Speech and Drama. Included in the collection is biographical information about Pearl Wallace Chappell and historical information about the Dallas Academy of Speech and Drama. There are published poems and plays by Pearl Wallace Chappell and an audio recording of her giving a poetry reading shortly before her death. Also included are alumni directories and yearbooks,...

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The performance was held at The Ritz Carlton Hotel Monday, January 26, 1998. Suzie Sims-Fletcher performs "The Legend of 1911" by Ruth Barnum, "Personal Responsibility" by Henry Lawrence Southwick, "A Royal Family: A Comedy of Romance in three acts" by Robert Marshall, and "The Child" by Annie Hamilton Donnell.