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Spotlighting exciting performance-related seminars and scintillating conversations being hosted throughout this academic year by Cornille Visiting Scholar Harvey Young at the @newhousehumanities Center! Take advantage of the wealth of theatre-related perspective Dr. Young and guests are offering our campus community - starting Monday 10/26!
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ACTORS FROM THE LONDON STAGE make a triumphant return to Wellesley College! Thursday, September 17 at 7pm Friday, September 18 at 7pm Saturday, September 19 at 7pm Diana Chapman Walsh Alumnae Hall Auditorium Wellesley College Theatre invites the general public and campus community to FREE performances of Shakespeare's beloved Much Ado About Nothing! The Actors From The London Stage (AFTLS) present Much Ado About Nothing in a unique actor-driven production, with just 5 actors and minimal tech, featuring Pamela Flanagan, Grace Lilley, Chenise Lynette, Hayden Mampasi, and Alex Phelps. Much Ado About Nothing is one of Shakespeare's most imaginative and exuberant comedies, contrasting two pairs of lovers in a witty and suspenseful battle of the sexes. Attracted to each other, the maddeningly skeptical Beatrice and Benedick are dead-locked in a lively war of words until their friends hatch a plot to unite them. The mutually devoted Hero and Claudio, on the other hand, all too quickly fall victim to a malicious plot to part them. Near-fatal complications ensue, but with the help of the hilarious Constable Dogberry and his confederates, the lovers are ultimately united. About AFTLS: Actors From The London Stage was founded in 1975 at the University of California, Santa Barbara, by Professor Homer “Murph” Swander and the renowned stage & screen actor Sir Patrick Stewart. One of the oldest established touring Shakespeare companies in the world, the AFTLS company ethos and mission is simplicity at its finest. Five actors take the stage, with minimal props and costumes, and direct themselves in a performance of a complete Shakespeare play, with each actor portraying multiple roles. Coming from such prestigious companies as the Royal Shakespeare Company, the National Theatre of Great Britain and Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre, these classically trained actors are equally dedicated to presenting first-rate professional performances, and to working with students to bring Shakespeare’s work alive. Alongside free public performances, the company of five actors will lead classes and workshops throughout the residency week.
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The actors are here, the actors are here! Thanks to all who were able to come out and give our Actors From the London Stage cohort a rollicking great welcome to @wellesleycollege ! They will be popping up in your classes and spaces across campus all week during their residency, and perform their 5-person (!) MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING Thursday-Saturday on the Barstow stage in Alumnae Hall. Free!
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Maple strolls the campus on Labor Day weekend.
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Events! Congrats on making it to the last week of classes we are so proud of you 🪿🪿🪿
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🌀2 show Saturday!🌀 Carol, it's the weekend! Put your briefcase away and come outside!! (At 2 and 7!) HURRICANE DIANE By Madeleine George In the RNJ Saturday and Sunday! 🌀Tickets via link in bio 🌀 (📸: @anni.elly )
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Ancient gods meet The Real Housewives of New Jersey! Lesbian pulp fiction meets permaculture! Sunday coffee on the cul de sac with butch landscapers who have great trucks! Natural prints and Capitalist hellscapes! A lovely Zin and the polenta at Delfini's! Paw-paws, a fecund void of sexy consent-based ritual and French doors! This play has something for everyone! HURRICANE DIANE By Madeleine George OPENS THURSDAY! April 23-25 - 7pm April 25-26 - 2pm Directed by @rainermarrrt Starring: Vivi Li '26 Hannah Williams '26 Ava Orcutt '28 Jessica Zhang '26 Esme LaPointe '28 Designed by: Arwyn Wu '28 (Set) Sidney Kronbach '26 (Lights) Katelyn Sharp '28 (Costume) Penny Davis '26 (Sound) Angela Wu '28 (Deck SM) Tickets via link in bio - DON'T MISS IT! 📸: @anni.elly
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omg abigail read a Shakespeare sonnet in Boston!?!? this is too much tysm to @wellesleyshakes for making this happen and to everyone sending me videos & pics from the states 🇺🇸 #shakespeare #sonnet #boston #roadrunnerboston #abigailmorris
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Wellesley College Theatre presents HURRICANE DIANE by Madeleine George Directed by Marta Rainer 🌀🌀🌀🌀🌀 TICKETS ON SALE TODAY! https://share.google/duRH67KdpYt6ZKFRX April 23-25 7pm April 25-26 2pm Ruth Nagel Jones Black Box, ALH The Bacchae meet the Real Housewives of NJ meet climate change activism in this Obie-winning comedy! "It's going to feel amazing to save the world." “An astonishing new play by Madeleine George that whirls ancient myth, lesbian pulp, ecological thriller and The Real Housewives of Monmouth County into a perfect storm of timely tragicomedy.” – The New York Times 🌀🌀🌀🌀🌀 Meet Diane, a permaculture gardener dripping with butch charm. She’s got supernatural abilities owing to her true identity—the Greek god Dionysus—and she's returned to the modern world to gather mortal followers and restore the Earth to its natural state. Where better to begin than with four housewives in a suburban New Jersey cul-de-sac? In this comedy with a twist, Pulitzer Prize finalist Madeleine George - currently producer /writer/story editor on Only Murders in the Building - pens a hilarious evisceration of the blind eye we all turn to climate change and the bacchanalian catharsis that awaits us, even in our own backyards. 🌀🌀🌀🌀🌀 “Smart and boisterously funny... On multiple levels, this is the play we need right now.” – The Boston Globe  🌀🌀🌀🌀🌀 Poster design by @anyasheldon_art '20!
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God, match me with a good dancer!
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soooo much ado this semester... and most of it was about nothing 💕💕 so glad to have gained a biological identical twin @gillianslayy and the eternal bond of watch-hood with @zansemrac and @caropilidlv love u guys forever
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Announcing Wellesley College Theatre's Fall 2026 Mainstage Production: LIZZIE A Punk-Rock Musical By Steven Cheslik-Demeyer Alan Stevens Hewitt Tim Maner Rage! Sex! Betrayal! Bloody murder! In the heat of late Massachusetts summer 1892, Andrew Borden and his wife are found murdered in their house. The main suspect? Andrew’s youngest daughter from a previous marriage: Lizzie Borden. This fem-driven musical sets American mythology to a searing rock score, zeroing in on what's been critically heralded as Lizzie's rage and desire for liberation, creating an evening that is "both viscerally entertaining and thematically uncompromising." (- DC Theatre News) THST 345 Mon/Tues/Wed 6:30-9:30 Tech 11/21-12/2 Performances 12/3-6 Performers who sing! Rockers! Musicians! AUDITION DURING FALL ADD/DROP! Stage Managers: contact dtowlun@ now PRESS ON LIZZIE: “A volcanic, quasi-operatic punk rock beat that captures the sense of female rage … and feels custom-made for the current climate” - Chicago Sun Times “The greatest American musical since Sweeney Todd” - British Theatre "A true crime fever dream" - DC Theatre News “One of the best rock scores this side of Jesus Christ Superstar” - The Stage, UK “A gothic rock ritual with a riotgirl attitude” - The New York Times “Explodes with energy coming from punk music and the power of sisterhood.” - The Korea Times “The most authentically kick-ass rock musical score since Hedwig and the Angry Inch” - Orlando Weekly
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