Thespian action heats up this year as productions improve in quality - Grocely Overrated
Reporting about the SGA, not a record of it: The Johns Hopkins News-Letter published this and the SGA did not write it, file it, or approve it. The archive holds it because the article itself uses the phrase “student council”.
Summary
- This Johns Hopkins News-Letter article covers reported changes and continuing problems in campus theater, dance and other performing arts.
- The News-Letter reported that the Arts Certificate was created and that Peabody and the Barnstormers collaborated on The Secret Garden; SAC Chair Elise Roecker said dance was becoming a stronger campus presence.
- The paper reported that SAC Performing Arts liaison Sara Marten said theater-show quality had improved, while it highlighted Witness Theatre’s The Blue Cranberry Hour and the Barnstormers’ The Secret Garden.
- The article says the number of productions had fallen because of problems with Arellano Theatre, including limits on set-building and storage.
- The reporter writes that dance and a cappella groups were charged $250 to remove and replace the Hopkins Symphony Orchestra’s shell in Shriver.