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For anyone seeking a touch of culture or a touch of fun this weekend, the Princeton University Players' newest production ? titled "It Had To Be You" ? promises to be entertaining, engaging and worth the walk to the Matthews Acting Studio at 185 Nassau.The show is geared toward all types of audience members ? those who are familiar with musical theater, those who are not and even those who usually associate musical theater with the less profound aspects of life.Performed in the style of a musical cabaret, "It Had To Be You" contains musical numbers from a variety of shows, ranging from traditional productions, such as "Porgy and Bess," to more modern musicals.

NEWS | 12/06/2000

Dancing like the pros

Dancing like the pros

When you're in the middle of dance class and the instructor asks, "How many of you have ever had whipped cream on your butt?" you can be pretty sure you're in for an interesting experience.In fact, the master class on the style of Bob Fosse that I attended at Pineapple Studios in London was probably the most intriguing ? and certainly the most inspiring ? dance class I've ever taken.Taught by Chet Walker ? one of Fosse's original students and the creator of the hit Broadway show "Fosse" ? and attended by dancers from the London productions of "Fosse" and "Chicago," the class was two hours of insight into the workings of Bob Fosse's very strange, creative mind.When I saw the sign advertising Chet's class (he insisted we call him Chet, but then again, he also insisted we shout out random things while we were dancing), I was incredibly excited.

NEWS | 12/06/2000

'Unbreakable' breaks 'Sixth Sense' director Shyamalan's winning streak

Don't go see "Unbreakable" ? the latest project from writer and director M. Night Shyamalan ? if you are hoping for another movie like "The Sixth Sense," his smash success from the summer of 1999.

NEWS | 12/06/2000

Direct from Forbes: The Holy Smokes light up the University music scene

It was 10:30 on a Tuesday night the week before Thanksgiving, and the Forbes coffee shop was packed.The lights were turned down low, and small candles burned on the tables.

NEWS | 12/06/2000

Mixed melodies

Billy Joel once said that music "is an explosive expression of humanity. No matter what culture we're from, everyone loves music."Indeed, music is the universal language.

NEWS | 11/29/2000

Taking ethnicity to the stage

For many student performers, racial diversity in campus theater groups is an issue that plays itself out behind the scenes.

NEWS | 11/29/2000

Singing songs of the Spirit, the Gospel Ensemble keeps the faith

You might have heard them sing when they visited your residential college dining hall, as many of the campus vocal groups did during the first few weeks of the semester.

NEWS | 11/29/2000

Aleta Hayes, through her own lens

Nothing about Aleta Hayes is stagnant, least of all the way she gives an interview.Before we get started, the professor-choreographer-dancer-singer-actor informs me that she has a few things to do at 185 Nassau before the office closes and asks if I would mind talking as we walk and completing the interview there.

NEWS | 11/29/2000

An acute comedy that's anything but obtuse

The Triangle Club promises to "steel" campus attention this weekend with its 110th production, "Puns of Steel."Boasting puns far wittier than the above, the show is a revue loosely structured around the theft of a young cast's script.

NEWS | 11/15/2000

Is 'Hedda Gabler' past its prime?

Love, loss, money, fear, fame and betrayal come together with fatal consequences in "Hedda Gabler." Theatre-Intime's current production of Henrik Ibsen's late 19th-century drama, directed by Jennie Klein '01 ? while as good an interpretation as possible of this often predictable play ? is unable to generate the energy and excitement inherent in a truly memorable theatrical experience.Set in Norway in 1890, the play revolves around Hedda (Katie Flynn '02), a manipulative and disgruntled newlywed.

NEWS | 11/15/2000

Childhood favorites take the stage in 'Seussical'

Move over, Simba. There's a new cat in town."Seussical the Musical" ? currently in previews at the Richard Rogers Theatre and opening Nov.

NEWS | 11/15/2000

A many-sided Triangle

At the Activities Fair my freshman year, these bizarrely enthusiastic Princetonians tried to hand me fliers to get me interested in their group.

NEWS | 11/15/2000

The glamorous life of a playwright

As I stared at the peeling purple-painted walls of the Aladdin Hotel, I realized that Young Playwrights Inc. wasn't kidding when it said it would give eight winning playwrights the New York City theater experience.Five people to a bedroom, a bathroom door always half an inch ajar, a non-functioning heater and German models shrieking with laughter down the hall ? ah, yes, the artist's life.

NEWS | 11/15/2000

Sexual perversity in Colonial Africa: 185 presents Churchill's 'Cloud 9'

Princeton seems to have a thing for Caryl Churchill. A Churchill play has been done for the past three years, a testament to the allure that the playwright's texts, with their psychological intricacies and shocking visual devices, have for a director.

NEWS | 11/15/2000

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