Arts & Events

The Tacoma Opera finished its 2013-14 season last weekend with great triumph. After a fantastic three shows this year—Pirates of Penzance, Barber of Seville and Madama Butterfly—the company is thrilled for next season, featuring The Magic Flute, The Mikado and Romeo et Juliette. This year Tacoma witnessed the amazing talents of the Tacoma Opera Company in three magnificent productions. Pirates of Penzance by Gilbert and Sullivan, the opera buffa (or comic opera), featured Eric Neuville as Frederic, Director of Vocal Studies at Puget Sound Dawn Padula as Ruth, Ryan Bede...

The Blue Mouse Theatre on Proctor hosted an informal music festival on April 11 of three talented musical groups, each of whom showed off their unique styles through a variety of musical genres and pieces. The first act, What She Said, introduced themselves as Puget Sound’s “only all-women a cappella group.” What She Said’s first piece was a cover of Alicia Keys’s “Fallin’,” arranged by Stephanie Gates, in which the deep, soulful voice of soloist Jennifer Kullby balanced nicely with the lighter background singers and the rhythm vocalists. Following this,...

A free concert honoring the achievement of Paul Fritts ’73 will be held Sunday, April 27 at 2 p.m. in Kilworth Memorial Chapel. Fritts earned the “Outstanding Music Alumnus” award in 2013 for his work in organ-building and design. Accomplished university organist Joseph Adam will perform the concert. The Twenty-third Annual Bethel Schneebeck Organ Recital will include works by Heinrich Scheidemann, Francois Couperin, Johann Sebastian Bach, César Franck and Maurice Duruflé. Adam has performed in numerous cathedrals—including those in the Netherlands, Vienna, England and Washington, D.C.— earned many awards—including first...

Last week’s STF show, Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead, blew audiences away with its original portrayals of every form of teen angst possible. Written by Bert V. Royal, and directed by senior Zoe Drew-King, Dog Sees God transformed the beloved Peanuts comic strip characters into their most troubled high school selves. From Charlie Brown, called CB and played by senior Billy Krolik, to Schroder, called Beethoven and played by senior Blake Erickson, each of the well-known characters saw their childhood quirks developed into near neuroses. The entire...

The world has begun to calm down after the events of 2012’s The Avengers and Steve Rogers/Captain America (Chris Evans) will finally have a chance to explore the brave new world of the 21st century, after having been frozen in ice since the end of the Second World War. In theory. In Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Rogers is instead embroiled in a net of political intrigue and espionage that quickly takes a deadly turn. Unsure who to trust within the government organization S.H.I.E.L.D., he must rely on super-spy Black...

The Senior Theatre Festival is an annual festival of performances put on by students, featuring the Theatre major’s senior directors. This year, the festival, which began on April 4, will consist of Yellow Face, written by David Henry Hwang and directed by Jenna Gerdsen; Dog Sees God, written by Bert V. Royal and directed by Zoe Drew-King; True West, written by Sam Shepard and directed by Joseph Raya-Ward; How I Learned to Drive, written by Paula Vogel and directed by Gaby Gutierrez; and The Skriker, written by Caryl Churchill and...

The voice of one of Puget Sound’s very own a cappella groups, Underground Sound, brought a free concert to the student body in Kilworth Memorial Chapel on Thursday, April 10 at 7:30 p.m. The students prepared for this performance for the entire semester while under the instruction of sophomores Lisa Hawkins and Daniel Wolfert, co-directors of the group. The students of Underground Sound made their concert truly unique from past performances. “Every song, with the exception of our ‘tradition song’ that we sing every spring, arranged by one of our...

ASUPS begins the second half of the semester with a bang, presenting “American Hustle” as its first campus film following spring break. Imagine you’re in the late 1970s, early 1980s New Jersey. You’re a con-artist in the prime of your life, at the height of your career. The film begins here. “Some of this actually happened,” the opening credits say. The film follows the story of Irving Rosenfeld, played by Christian Bale, and his partner in crime Sydney Prosser, played by Amy Adams. Together Rosenfeld and Prosser con people out...