The theater and dance department performs an exciting and humorous adaptation of the early twentieth-century spy thriller The 39 Steps. Director Lindsay Livingston says the production is inspired by Alfred Hitchcock’s 1935 movie—a “proto noir” take on the original novel.
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Bowdoin will be staging its first bilingual main season production next year, a reimaginingof the seventeenth-century Spanish comedia classic, Valor, Outrage, and Woman, by Ana Caro de Mallén. Auditions are coming up, and you don’t have to be bilingual to take part.
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Professional actors Michael Wood ’06 and Robbie Harrison ’14 feature in a "spirited production” of Shakespeare’s comedy As You Like It, currently running at the Theater at Monmouth.
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The investment professional regularly employs his financial acumen to support theatrical projects. The latest venture to receive his backing is a revival of The Who’s Tommy, a stage musical based on the British rock band’s 1969 concept album.
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Stand-up comic Lucas O’Neil ’12 and choreographer Lou Sydel ’22 will be crossing the pond later this summer to feature in separate shows at the Edinburgh Fringe, the world’s largest performance arts festival.
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This year's spring semester dance concert featured performances by students in the classes Introduction to Modern Dance, Modern II: Technique, and Introduction to Hip Hop.
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Lucia Gagliardone ’20, a dance and sociology major during her time at Bowdoin and a dancer since she was three years old, has put on eleven of her own choreographed dance works—and is now preparing for her twelfth.
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Richard Nelson's "Rhinebeck Panorama" receives recognition; a production with assistance from Gwyneth Jones, Senior Lecturer of Dance Performance at Bowdoin College who was the choreographic consultant for the play in 2019 and 2021.
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Renowned New York-based theater artist Craig Anthony Bannister is directing Bowdoin's upcoming production of the groundbreaking 1950s play at the Wish Theater.
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The 2022 December Dance Concert, one of Bowdoin's most anticipated events of the year, featured performances by three fall-semester dance classes, plus a dance choreographed by Dylan Richmond ’24.
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.
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