Where can you see near-professional caliber amateur American actors playing amateurish professional British actors playing insipid British provincials in a British sex farce?
Sometimes writing a letter accomplishes more than one might imagine. This was the case for the Performing Arts Council, one of Princeton's newly recognized student organizations.
On Sept. 10, 2000, the world ended."How is that possible?" you may ask. "We're still here, still going to classes.
The noise of students screaming at each other in packed room parties, neighbors hammering eight-foot lofts and hefty moving and storage students heaving enormous boxes up the stairs can make campus quite cacophonous during the first few days of school.
Lines stretched around the food gallery as students and professors flocked to Frist Campus Center during the first week of school.
Zeus as a British gentleman drinking a martini? Hermes as a biker with a black leather jacket and clipboard?
During a summer workshop on television news, a Harvard professor said that "Survivor" was a "bad" show to watch.
Certain expectations surround a musical about the Passion of Christ. One expects (well, hopes) that there will be some kind of message about humanity, goodness, love, God or all of the above.
'Prince' Arts Editor Caroline Barnard sat down with Barrett Foa, who is currently playing Jesus in the Off-Broadway production of "Godspell."'Prince:' What was it like to work with creator Stephen Schwartz on this show?Barrett Foa: Stephen was very intellectual, very well-spoken, really open-minded and really creative.
Each year during freshman week, crowds flock to Theatre-Intime's Hamilton Murray Theater and line up to see Quipfire!
Prompted in part by student concern over the availability of theater spaces and financial resources for the performing arts on campus, President Shapiro has initiated a comprehensive review of the arts at Princeton.Fifteen years ago, then-University president William Bowen GS '58 devoted his annual report to examining the arts at the University.
Princeton instituted its residential college system 17 years ago to provide students with a friendly, personal environment to help smooth the transition to University life.The residential colleges ? Butler, Forbes, Mathey, Rockefeller and Wilson ? supply students with dining options, places for studying and relaxing and opportunities to pursue athletic, artistic and political interests.Students pay a social fee to their colleges along with their tuition, enabling the colleges to provide special events such as study breaks and trips to Broadway shows and sporting events at discounted prices.
Thursday, April 6, 10:30 p.m.I scurry out of Firestone, after an all-day JP-and-working-in-microforms frenzy to go "watch and critique" my band calico.
After a game of Trivial Pursuit during an Intersession cross-country ski trip, a bunch of us began a discussion about what was the American film of the 1990s.
Edward Champlin - Butler CollegeClassics professor Edward Champlin will begin his sixth year as master of Butler college this September.Champlin has expressed enthusiasm about becoming deeply involved with the issues that are important to students."I was educated in colleges that were parts of universities, such as Oxford, and I really enjoyed that college life," he said early in his tenure.
With most area bars off limits to those under 21, students can turn to the New York-Philadelphia circuit for kicks, but most opt to take the short walk out to the 'Street.'Officially named Prospect Avenue ? but too many syllables become confusing around 3 a.m.
Princeton, like any other aspect of your life, is a game with rules and regulations, dos and don'ts, things to embrace and things to avoid like the plague.Leave high school memories in high school.
Of the University's dining halls, the Center for Jewish Life is rumored to serve the best food. Conveniently located on Washington Road near Ivy Lane, the CJL serves kosher meals and is open to all students.Jonathan Slutzman '01 said he chose to buy a meal contract at the CJL for two reasons.
Prospect Avenue offers a lot more to Princeton students than just eating clubs. It boasts the Third World Center ? a social and cultural center founded by the University to promote multiculturalism.The TWC sponsors intellectual and social programs for the entire campus community ? regardless of affiliation or background ? to foster discussion of minority issues, TWC director Heddye Ducree said."I've benefited so much from the things they do there," said Andria Boateng '02, chair of the center's governance board.
"Dad, I want to major in drama.""Drama?! What kind of major is drama? What kind of med school can you get into majoring in drama?"These lines are from "Desis of Our Lives," the first student-written, student-directed production by a new on-campus "drama" group, Princeton South Asian Theatrics.
