Sunday, April 28, 2024
Photo by Dana Wehmann The work of Melanie Baker and Anonda Bell are on display in the Berrie Center’s Kresge and Pascal Galleries until Friday, Oct. 19. Both artists incorporate the feminist perspective in their striking and thought-provoking works. Baker’s immensely dark charcoal drawings bring attention to the power of […]
Photo by Michael Pacheco Over the past weekend the Ramapo College theater department produced the acclaimed broadway production “Urinetown.” Set in a post-apocalyptic world where a 20-year drought has caused severe water shortage, a malevolent government has banned private toilets and forced citizens to pay to use public amenities. Allowing […]
Photo by Kim Bongard The cast and crew of “medea and medea/for medea” are prepping for opening week at the Adler Theater. Co-writer Peter Campbell, an associate professor of theatre at Ramapo, describes the play as a mash-up of contemporary and mythological stories. Starring an all-female cast, the plot revolves […]
Photo courtesy of Ramapo College Elementary and middle school students from Bergen County were treated to a holiday spectacle last Thursday morning when Verona, New Jersey’s Pushcart Players performed their enchanting “A Season of Miracles” show in the Berrie Center’s Sharp Theater. The Pushcart Players, a twice Emmy-nominated, “award-winning […]
Photo by Michael Pacheco Ramapo’s run of Shakespeare’s “Twelfth Night” kicked off last Friday night in the Berrie Center. Directed by talented professor of theater Maria Vail and featuring an all-student cast, the production is a phenomenal modern reimagining of the classic play. The romantic comedy follows two siblings, Viola […]
Photo by Michael Pacheco The new Ramapo production of “The Sonic Life of a Giant Tortoise,” a student-performed rendition of Japanese playwright Toshiki Okada’s 2011 play, is moving into its second and final week onstage in the Berrie Center’s Adler Theater. The production stars five nameless characters dressed in black […]
Photo courtesy of Aaron Webb, Flickr Last Saturday, the Berrie Center hosted comedians Michele Balan and Eddie Brill. Balan was the main act, while Brill did a brilliant job heating up the crowd as the warm-up act. As the audience filed into their seats and the house lights dimmed, Eddie […]
Photo by Kyle Ferlita Backstage before the show, as the cast was rehearsing numbers in the halls of the Berrie Center and cracking jokes with one another about previous shows, Samantha Martino was concentrating on her homework. “The life I live certainly isn’t boring,” said the senior from Stevens Institute […]
Photo by Micheal Pacheco Combining post-apocalyptic themes with “The Simpsons,” Anne Washburn’s play “Mr. Burns” premiered in the Sharp Theater last Friday night. The show, labeled as a “post-electric” play, serves as Ramapo’s spring mainstage production. This production of “Mr. Burns” is directed by Pirronne Yousefzadeh and choreographed by Amanda […]
An international art exhibition came to Ramapo on Wednesday night as the Berrie Center held an opening reception featuring a discussion with the scholar behind the exhibit, Midori Yoshimoto, the gallery director at New Jersey City University. Titled “Manga and War,” the exhibition in the Pascal Gallery is a scaled-down […]
