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May 6, 2010 |

To end the Ithaca College theater season with a show about nothing may seem like a random choice. But Shakespeare’s comedy “Much Ado About Nothing” is a fitting note to end the year on after the department’s array of edgy, contemporary pieces.


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Apr 29, 2010 |

Some theatergoers consider the “fourth wall” a necessary facet of contemporary theater. This invisible curtain between the audience and the actor creates an illusion that the former is looking into the world created onstage, but when the fourth wall is stripped down, conversations can go deeper than they ever would have before.


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Apr 15, 2010 |

Viewers didn’t know the second flight of stairs in Friends Hall would lead them to a theatrical world filled with blood, terror and torture Sunday. But then again, a play based on the brutal “Dirty War” in Argentina suggests nothing less.


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Apr 8, 2010 | When death rears its ugly, menacing head, there are those who cower in fear, those who face it tenaciously, and those who don’t have a choice in the matter. Trapped in a cave with little hope to survive, 1920s Kentucky cave explorer Floyd Collins represents the latter.
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Mar 11, 2010 |

A few elderly people in the audience of the Kitchen Theatre’s production of “Speech & Debate” seemed not at all amused by the premise, outcome and action of the ballsy, controversial play.


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Mar 4, 2010 |

Moral integrity and childish exuberance are the underlying messages of Ithaca College’s production of the two-act opera “The Little Prince,” directed by David Lefkowich and based on the French novella of the same name by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry.


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Feb 18, 2010 | Sometimes a brilliant performance only needs an open microphone and an empty stage. In addition to these two essentials, the crowd’s enthusiasm and the actresses’ talent made this year’s annual Valentine’s Day production of Eve Ensler’s popular play “The Vagina Monologues” a success.
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Dec 6, 2009 |

Through a bold combination of lighting, sound effects, stellar acting and originality, the Ithaca College theater department has, yet again, produced a gripping adaptation of an influential piece of theater by excluding the mundane and welcoming the provocative.


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Nov 12, 2009 |

If Adam and Eve had the musical prowess and dancing capabilities of the actors who portray them in “Children of Eden” — Ithaca College’s second main stage show this season — then maybe God would have been more lenient with his judgment.


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Oct 29, 2009 | Prior to the performance of “First Day” — the Kitchen Theatre Company’s second main stage show of its season — artistic director Rachel Lampert greets the audience gathered in the intimate Clinton House theater, introducing the show as a “theatrical event unlike any other.”
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