The Princeton Shakespeare Company occasionally ventures beyond the Bard’s own works to mount productions of more contemporary plays that reflect his reception in later drama.
As a self-proclaimed connoisseur of dorm-heating — the first of my kind, I believe — I have experienced highs in the 80s and lows in the 50s, all inside my climate-controlled dorm room!
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1) That chick who lost her black Northface at Cloister
I always find it embarrassing to catch myself in a situation where my preconceived notions of a campus group color my expectations of their performance.
As I walk into a dimly lit side room of Campus Club, I am struck by two things. One: It is 15 minutes into the Friday night meeting of the Princeton Chess Club, and the members have already decimated half a dozen pizzas. And two: The questioning stares of 20 or so people make me very conscious that I am the only female there.
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We all know it: Princeton has a strange social dynamic.
The smell of probably not-that-great dining hall food teased me as I left the North C elevator, and I could hear laughter from the dining hall as I passed through the back hallway en route to the TV room.
Under normal circumstances, seeing an old man in a strange orange jacket wolf-whistle at a chorus line of college students in drag would be reason enough to leave the building, if not to alert the authorities. It is to be expected, however, when Princeton’s famous Triangle show goes on tour.
Alexander Pushkin is considered the founder of Russian literature and is easily the country’s most celebrated poet. For the centennial of Pushkin’s 1837 death, the Moscow Chamber Theatre commissioned a staging of the poet’s novel-in-verse, “Eugene Onegin.”