As Lafayette College turns 200, Jane Austen turns 250 — perfect timing for theater professor Mary Jo Lodge to direct a college production of the 2014 adaptation of “Sense and Sensibility.” I sense...
By Allison Stein, Assistant Culture Editor
• April 18, 2025
The Marquis Players will tackle one of the most divisive shows among theater fans — "Rent" — this weekend. The show follows a group of friends in New York City during the AIDS crisis of the 1980s as...
By Allison Stein, Assistant Culture Editor
• March 7, 2025
Lafayette College’s production of “Much Ado About Nothing” is far from old-fashioned but still carries the true spirit of the show: supreme silliness.
This production poses the age-old adaption...
For anyone who loves stories of love, connectivity and the ebbs and flows of life (and bluegrass music!), the college theater’s production of “Bright Star,” is essential viewing this weekend.
The...
I never really got Shakespeare.
After years of reading his work throughout middle school, high school and college, it just never really clicked. There was no reason for me to see Broadway’s newest...
Book lovers and readers of Maddie’s Library rejoice! Lafayette’s theater department’s latest production, “The Book Club Play” by Karen Zacarías, was made for you.
The two-hour play follows...
By Kristen Vincent, Assistant Culture Editor
• December 1, 2023
The Holy Grail of parodies is back on Broadway – and better than ever.
“Spamalot,” the revival of the Tony Award-winning adaptation of the 1975 classic “Monty Python and the Holy Grail,” has...
It is the 1940s in Easton on Christmas Eve. Holiday songs fill the room and cast members gradually file into a recording studio, greeting each other as they gear up to perform a beloved Christmas tale...
Harry Potter, King George III and the Wicked Witch of the West walk onto a Broadway stage — a set up to a bad joke or an incredible musical?
“Merrily We Roll Along,” the latest Stephen Sondheim...
Lafayette’s theater department will invite audiences into Shakespeare’s magical and chaotic world this weekend with its latest production: “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.” With a stellar cast and...
When I walked out of Weiss Theater at Buck Hall after seeing this play last Thursday, my mind was bursting at the seams with emotions. People standing next to me had the remains of tears smeared down their...
By Kristen Vincent, Assistant Culture Editor
• April 14, 2023
If you need a hero, the Marquis Players' production of "Footloose: The Musical" is here to save the day. Full of blissful songs and energetic choreography, "Footloose: The Musical" intends to delight audiences...
