Stories about "Bates Theater"
Humanity comes first in casting students for Bates theater’s ‘The Gravediggers Union’
Friday, March 8, 2024 11:21 am
Filling in for a cast member during a dress rehearsal, visiting director Kevin R. Free hopped into a grave on the set, but not before offering a giggle and a burst of mirth because, he says, “Joy is my activism."
Q&A: Director Tim Dugan on the racial tension and theatrical ethics of ‘We Are Proud to Present’
Thursday, March 7, 2019 3:20 pm
"If people say that the play feels improvised, that to us is a success," says Dugan, a Bates theater professor and director of We Are Proud to Present.
Video: Nate Stephenson ’18 plays the madman ‘who could be anyone’
Wednesday, January 17, 2018 11:07 am
For his honors thesis in theater performance, Nate Stephenson ’18 plays Everyman from Nikolai Gogol's short story “Diary of a Madman."
Slideshow: ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ meets Hollywood’s golden age
Thursday, March 9, 2017 10:23 am
Midsummer's famous Fairyland has too often been populated by "actors covered in bark or in tutus, wearing mosquito wings," says director Martin Andrucki.
BatesNews Monthly Update: September 2010
Friday, September 3, 2010 2:05 pm
For Bates alumni, parents, and friends, here is a look back at…
Screening features films by 'Acting and Directing for the Camera' class
Wednesday, April 1, 2009 3:23 pm
Students in the Bates course "Acting and Directing for the Camera" screen their class projects on April 3. The projects are scenes adapted from well-known motion pictures such as Armageddon, 28 Days Later, Juno, Bridget Jones' Diary and American Beauty.
Bates' 'Measure for Measure' moves to 1970s New York City
Wednesday, February 27, 2008 2:05 pm
Martin Andrucki, Dana Professor of Theater at Bates, directs the college theater department production of "Measure for Measure," William Shakespeare's dark comedy about sex, public morality and private hypocrisy.
Bates College theater department offers 'Taming of the Shrew'
Friday, October 28, 2005 3:42 pm
One of William Shakespeare's first comedies, "The Taming of the Shrew" is the major fall production of the Bates College theater department. Directed by Professor of Theater Paul Kuritz, "The Taming of the Shrew" will be performed at 8 p.m. Wednesday through Saturday, Nov. 2-5, and 2 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 6, in Gannett Theater, Pettigrew Hall, Andrews Road. Admission is $6 for the general public and $3 for Bates faculty and staff, senior citizens and non-Bates students.