Catawba College is known for many things, in particular it is known for the incredible theatre and drama department the school has. The campus thrives with a number of students who dedicate their time to assist in preparing, as well as perform in a variety of plays or musical productions that the school has to […]
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After his stellar job as the director of the Mike Wiley’s play, The Parchman Hour, Craig Kolkebck, who most students just know as “Craigo” in the theatre department tells The Pioneer his story. Professor Kolkebeck was born and raised in New York, he was always involved in the arts as a child but he […]
READ MOREThis past Saturday night, I went to go see the wonderful and hilarious show, On the Verge, here at Catawba College. The play consisted of four main characters; three Victorian travelers (Prentice Clark, Anna Catherine Hall, and Maddy Auchter) who take an adventure through time in hopes to absorb knowledge from the future and discover […]
READ MOREWilliam Shakespeare, the famous playwright, usually wrote serious plays centered around a theme of tragedy. However, a couple of Shakespeare’s plays had a theme consisting of tragedy but the way the tragedy occurred was considered to be comedic. One of these comedic plays is “A Comedy of Errors.” “A Comedy of Errors” is Shakespeare’s shortest […]
READ MORELast Thursday, November 13, marked the premiere of Rent, which happens to be the Catawba College Theatre Arts Department’s first ever collaborative production with Lee Street Theatre. This was by no means a small project; Rent is a Tony Award-winning rock musical written by Jonathan Larson about a group of artists struggling with poverty, drug […]
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