Category: Arts & Entertainment

  • Renowned comedy group to visit

    Brittany Previte Senior A&E Writer The Upright Citizens Brigade Touring Company (UCB) will perform in McGaw Chapel this Friday night at 8:30 p.m., bringing professional improv comedy to campus in one of Wooster Activities Club’s (W.A.C.) most exciting events of the year. The touring company takes some of the finest performers from its theater acts…

  • The scene: Adapting a genre

      Brittany Previte Hollywood loves Young Adult fiction, as do I. This month we will see Ender’s Game, The Book Thief and The Hunger Games: Catching Fire on the big screens nationwide. These three films are just the latest installments in a long line of YA book-to-film adaptations, a trend that will plow through 2014…

  • Islamic Art documentary screening and discussion

    Laura Merrell A&E Editor This Wednesday a screening of Islamic Art: Mirror of the Invisible World will be held in Lean Lecture Room in Wishart Hall, beginning at 6:30 p.m. Assistant Professor of Art History Kara Morrow will give a talk before the film screening and lead a discussion afterward. This is the second of…

  • The Goliard revives a favorited Wooster tradition, Covers

    Dani Gagnon A&E Editor Last Saturday evening, 45 students saw a ghost at the Underground. The Goliard, the College of Wooster’s student run literary magazine, presented the resurrected ghost of Covers with the appropriate theme, On the Road Again. Covers used to be a well-known and loved C.O.W. tradition when students with various musical skill-levels…

  • THE SCENE: ‘Tis Pleasure,

     Dear Reader R Taylor Grow Listen, guys! I feel compelled to express, in approximately 567 words, that I am overflowing with something that I can only describe as ecstasy. But why, Taylor, is ecstasy gamboling through your rainbow-tinted veins? Why, imaginary voice that I have conjured for narrative purposes? I am glad you have asked!…

  • “The Golden Age” tackles issues of race and colonization

    Laura Merrell A&E Editor   This year’s fall play from The College of Wooster’s Department of Theatre and Dance is “The Golden Age.” The play runs Oct. 24-26 in the Freedlander Theater. The selection of the play was meant to complement and explore the themes of this year’s forum, “Facing RACE.” Shirley Huston-Findley, the director…