Cobb visits campus to discuss his one-man play with Bowdoin students. He also gets a chance to connect with the ghost of his grandfather—one of the first African Americans to graduate from Bowdoin, more than a century ago.
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The founder of Bowdoin’s dance program, Professor of Dance Emerita June Vail, has written a memoir, Folly Cove Sketches: Remembering Virginia Lee Burton.
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“Our Town is THE high school play,” said Professor of Theater Davis Robinson. There’s probably a production happening on any given day of the school year in the US, he explained, and there’s a good reason for that.
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More than thirty students from four dance classes performed in the Spring Dance Concert May 4–5, 2022, as the Department of Theater and Dance and celebrates fifty years of dance at Bowdoin.
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The theater department tapped a wealth of in-house talent to stage a musical adaptation of the French play Ondine. Read about the production, see a slideshow of images by Alex Cornell du Houx '06—and watch the show and a short video featuring some of the students who helped bring it to life.
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Art, music, comedy, theater, and dance lovers at Bowdoin could get their fill during the week of December 3 to December 10, when students performed or displayed works they had created this fall.
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Last week, student musicians performed nine concerts over seven days (and that doesn't include individual recitals).
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Bowdoin’s Department of Theater and Dance presents “The Wolves,” a 2016 play that centers on the experiences of a high school girls’ soccer team. The drama occurs as the teammates meet for their weekly pre-match warm-ups.
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Julia Jennings ’23 enjoys a summer internship as stage manager at the Theater at Monmouth. “Stage management is really hard,” she says. “You have to be really on top of things and know the language different people use.”
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Despite the lockdown and isolation of the past fifteen months—or perhaps because of it—director Kevin Newbury ’00 has helped create a new artist collective focused on community and inclusion.
Read moreThe theater and dance program at Bowdoin offers students the opportunity to examine the ways in which theater and dance provoke the imagination, tell stories, create community, and challenge assumptions.
Emphasis is placed on theater and dance’s fundamental connection to the liberal arts curriculum at Bowdoin, as well as theater and dance literacy, performance skills, and an understanding of historical and social influences on drama and dance. The aim is to develop imaginative theater practitioners who collaboratively solve problems of form and content with a passionate desire to express the human condition on stage.
No prior experience is expected to participate in Theater and Dance at Bowdoin.
