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Junior Courtney Long writes notes in her score during a rehearsal for Sister Act. The Main Stage Theater shows all have themes of breaking convention and offer promising scores and storylines.

Main Stage Theater prepares for Fall 2019 season

By Linnea Carchedi, Contributing Writer • September 17, 2019

Ithaca College’s fall semester Main Stage Theater lineup explores the theme of breaking convention with “Everybody,” “Sister Act,” “Hedda Gabler” and “The Antigone Project.” Contributing...

Kathleen Mulligan, professor in the Ithaca College Department of Theatre Arts, has worked on many projects over the years, using her experience and knowledge with theater to show women around the world the power that their own voices hold.

Q&A: Professor invited to star in one-woman play in Lebanon

By Brontë Cook • September 4, 2019

Kathleen Mulligan, professor in the Department of Theatre Arts, is in rehearsals for “The Belle of Amherst,” a one-woman play she will perform in Beirut later this fall. While she’s there, she will...

Students pitched “Subject to Change” in May 2018 and are set to air their finished product this May. The show will follow fictional friends as they navigate college life. It will incorporate original pop-rock musical numbers.

Students to create first ICTV musical show

By Ashley Stalnecker • January 29, 2019

Comedic writing, combined with relatable content, adds a lighthearted tone to ICTV’s first musical TV show, “Subject to Change,” which will tackle issues relevant to the daily lives of college students. ICTV...

Shanti Kumar, a sophomore at Cornell University, plays Catherine in the Melodramatics Theatre Company production of Pippin. The musical is produced by a combined cast and crew of students from both Ithaca College and Cornell University.

Ithaca College joins with Cornell University for play

By Ashley Wolf and Steven Pirani • November 5, 2014
The Melodramatics Theatre Company will produce "Pippin" with a combined Ithaca College and Cornell University cast and crew Nov. 6–8.
The cast of “Safety,” an original play by the Ithaca Civic Ensemble about community-police relations, during a rehearsal. The partly non-fiction play will be performed at Ithaca College at 7:30 p.m. Sept. 26 in Textor 101.

Ithaca Civic Ensemble to bring controversial play to Ithaca College campus

By Erin McClory, Contributing Writer • September 24, 2014
"Safety," an original play by the Ithaca Civic Ensemble about community-police relations, will be performed at Ithaca College at 7:30 p.m. Sept. 26 in Textor 101.
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Ithaca College Greens to produce six plays within 24 hour span

By Kalia Kornegay, Contributing Writer • September 10, 2014
IC Greens, Ithaca College's green party organization, will host a 24 hour-theater festival in which students will write and direct six different plays in 24 hours. The plays will be performed at 8 p.m. Sept. 12 in the Hill Center, room 104.
Seniors Alex Tortora and Taylor Misiak, who play John Proctor and Abigail Williams, respectively, star in the Ithaca College Main Stage Theater production of “The Crucible.” The play is set during the Salem Witch Trials.

Paranoia prevails in allegorical Main Stage play

By Ashley Wolf, Staff Writer • April 23, 2014
Ithaca College's Main Stage Theater will perform "The Crucible," written by Arthur Miller, April 22–27 at Hoerner Theatre.
A crowd gathers to watch a film screening at the Rochester Fringe Festival last year. Fringe festivals often feature chaotic and unconventional acts. Ithaca will hold its first fringe festival April 24–27 in downtown Ithaca.

Unorthodox theater festival premieres in Ithaca

By Nina Varilla, Staff Writer • April 16, 2014
On April 24–27, Ithaca will host its first fringe festival, featuring five different acts. Fringe festivals usually deliver unconventional performances.
Members of IC Greens rehearse their upcoming production of The Laramie Project and its companion piece. The Laramie Project will premiere April 24 in Textor Hall, room 103.

Political club tackles social issues in production

By Alyssa Gilliam, Staff Writer • April 16, 2014
IC Greens, Ithaca College's Green Party, is producing a production of "The Laramie Project" and "The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later," the story of a gay college student named Matthew Shepard who was tied to a fence and beaten to death because of his sexuality on April 24–27.
Anne Marie Cummings and Evan Stewart Eisenberg star in the Readers Theatre production of In A Forest, Dark And Deep as Betty and Bobby, respectively, two feuding siblings.

Through the woods: The Readers’ Theatre to present intense thriller

By Tylor Colby, Staff Writer • February 19, 2014
From March 7–9, the Readers' Theatre will stage a performance of Neil LaBute's "In A Forest, Dark And Deep," directed by Cynthia Henderson, associate professor of theater arts at Ithaca College.
Lunchbox Basketball

Lunchbox Basketball

By Brendan Davis • February 13, 2014
Watch and learn about Lunchbox League, the 30-year tradition that brings staff and students together for pick-up basketball games during lunchtime.
From left, seniors Talia Koren and Brennan Banta, and freshman Kate Zasowski rehearse for “Internal Struggle,” a sketch-comedy written and directed by Koren, on Dec. 3 in Friends 307.

Intern life parodied in student sketch comedy

By Evin Billington, Assistant Accent Editor • December 4, 2013
"Internal Struggle," a sketch comedy about interning which was written and directed by senior Talia Koren, will premiere Dec. 5.
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