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Allegheny’s Playshop Theatre to Present “Detroit”

by Emma Highland '19 March 30th 2018

The Allegheny College Playshop Theatre will present Lisa D’Amour’s “Detroit” from April 12-15 in the Gladys Mullenix Black Theatre in the Vukovich Center for Communication Arts. Show times are Thursday, April 12, through Saturday, April 14, at 8 p.m., and Sunday, April 15, at 2:30 p.m. Directed by Professor Mark Cosdon, the show will feature

Hart Presents Research on Women in the Military

by Erica Erwin November 3rd 2017

Associate Professor of English and Director of Writing Alexis Hart presented some of her research on women in the military on the panel “Remembering Differently: Re-Figuring Women’s Rhetorical Work” at the Feminisms and Rhetorics conference held in Dayton, Ohio, on October 4-7. Hart and Assistant Professor of Communication Arts and Director of Speaking Jon Wiebel

Wilson’s ‘Neoliberalism’ Published

by Erica Erwin August 31st 2017

Associate Professor of Communication Arts and Community and Justice Studies Julie Wilson published “Neoliberalism,” an introductory textbook designed to engage students in addressing the pressing and interconnected issues of our day. The book was written in collaboration with many Allegheny students with support from the Andrew W. Mellon Collaborative Undergraduate Research in the Humanities grant.

O’Connell Presents at International Conference

by Erica Erwin August 31st 2017

Communication Arts major Arianna O’Connell ’18 presented her paper “White Rage in the Post-Racial United States: Donald Trump and the White Subaltern” at the Console-ing Passions international conference on television, video, audio, new media, and feminism at East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina. O’Connell’s research was developed in collaboration with Professor Ishita Sinha Roy through

Mehler Speaks at United States Institute for Theatre Technology Conference

by Erica Erwin May 3rd 2017

Associate Professor of Communication Arts & Theatre Michael Mehler presented on “Sustainable Strike” at the USITT (United States Institute for Theatre Technology) Conference in March. Convened by the Broadway Green Alliance, the session panel discussed how to minimize waste stream impact when a theatrical production closes. On April 27, Mehler hosted a conversation with Tony-Award

Allegheny’s Playshop Theatre Presents ‘Baby With the Bathwater’

by Emma Highland '19 April 5th 2017

Allegheny’s Playshop Theatre will close out its 2016-17 season with “Baby With the Bathwater” from April 20-23 in the Gladys Mullenix Black Theatre in the Vukovich Center for Communication Arts. Performances are at 8 p.m. April 21-22, and at 2:30 p.m. on April 23. “Baby with the Bathwater” was written by Christopher Durang in 1983

Cosdon Hosts Seventh Annual ‘Brilliance of the American Theatre’ Series

by Erica Erwin April 3rd 2017

Associate Professor of Communication Arts/Theatre Mark Cosdon hosted the seventh annual “Brilliance of the American Theatre” author series at the Tony-honored Drama Book Shop in Times Square, New York City. The event brought together authors from the University of Kansas, Tufts University and Ithaca College for a wide-ranging discussion of their new books with an

Allegheny Students Develop Ad Campaign, Film Commercial

by Erica Erwin March 6th 2017

Clay Dawson stood under a giant American flag hanging from the plant’s rafters and studied his lines. A few steps away, Allegheny College senior Shu Yi Tang flipped through sheets of paper that laid out the entire video shoot in detail: what scenes would be filmed and when, where and how they would be shot,

Allegheny College’s Playshop Theatre to Present ‘Luna Gale’

by Joseph Merante ’20 February 2nd 2017

The Allegheny College Playshop Theatre will present “Luna Gale” from February 23-26 in the Gladys Mullenix Black Theatre in the Vukovich Center for Communication Arts. “Luna Gale,” written by Rebecca Gilman and directed by Mark Cosdon, centers on a social worker who is confronted with an unforgiving dilemma — what to do with a child

Allegheny Professors Study the Story of Zika, Effects on Behavior

by Erica Erwin December 8th 2016

What are people reading and hearing about the Zika virus? How are their behaviors changing as a result? Those are the questions three Allegheny College professors are asking as part of an interdisciplinary effort here to better understand the global consequences of Zika, a virus at the center of an international public health emergency. The

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