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The two students in the Advanced Directing Workshop presented two comic one act plays this weekend in the Frear Ensemble Theater. Al Bradbury directed "The After-Dinner Joke," by Caryl Churchill, [...]

Opera fans have another weekend to check out the Philadelphia Opera Company's production of Aida, or more accurately to check out soprano Angela Brown's dazzling performance in the title role. [...]

Eliza Blair '07 was recently named First Runner-Up in the Dell Magazines Award for Undergraduate Excellence in Science Fiction and Fantasy Writing (previously known as the Isaac Asimov Award) for [...]

Last night, five professors discussed the purpose of study of the humanities and the disconnect between the general public and the academic world. English professor Nora Johnson moderated, and gave [...]

Yesterday, in a talk entitled "The Color of Money: Critical Race Theory and Urban Educational Policy", Sabina Vaught presented an ethnography that is the basis for her upcoming doctoral dissertation [...]

Adam Grabois and Gloria Shih gave a whirlwind tour of 150 years of classical music in the form of a cello and piano recital on Saturday night. The well-chosen program [...]

On Friday evening, Susan Marshall & Company performed two dance works, "Sleeping Beauty" and "Other Stories," in the Pearson-Hall Theatre in LPAC. The first piece, set amidst hanging panels of [...]

The many Swatties (at least according to Facebook) who consider "Pride and Prejudice" one of their favorite books should check out the new movie "Bride and Prejudice," an updated, Bollywood-ized [...]

Yesterday, Gerald Graff gave a lecture entitled "Keeping the Disciplines a Secret," part of the Mellon Tri-College Symposium on the Teaching of Writing. Graff argued that undergraduate education frequently shortchanges [...]

Hunger and Homelessness Awareness Week kicked off last night with a panel entitled "Faces of Homelessness". Two formerly homeless people and a third who is still homeless discussed their paths [...]