Finally—you’re adulting. You’ve moved out of the dorms or your parents’ house, and you’re in your own apartment! What’s the next step? Decoration, of course. But, no matter if you’re decorating your first apartment or your third, it’s always going to take time to make this space feel like home. To give you a little…
By Dora Thompson Next Monday, you can take a journey into the depths of Africa as it struggles for liberation from the Third World with the premier a new documentary called Concerning Violence. USM staff and students gain free entry to the screening at Space Gallery with a valid university ID as the audience gets…
Eminem, Shady XV Eminem’s new album “Shady XV” features one disc of his new material and one that has his greatest hits. His song, “Detroit Vs. Everybody” reminds listeners of how far he has come from being a man on the streets of Detroit to a world-renowned rapper. He raps, “Comin’ from them streets where…
By: Matthew Donovan The USM Theatre department is letting the audience decide “whodunit” with the premiere of the Tony Award-winning murder mystery musical The Mystery of Edwin Drood. The Mystery of Edwin Drood is shaping to be a musical that narrows the distance between audience and player interaction, where the ending of the story is…
This week four USM students will take on the Portland Stage in a production of Doubt, the 1960s drama set in St. Nicholas’, a New York catholic school. A Pulitizer-prize winning stage play written by John Shanley will be under the direction of USM professor of theatre William Steele. Amidst the aftermath of Kennedy’s assassination,…
This weekend at Russell Hall, comedy manifests itself in politically incorrect and somewhat offensive humor. Liberal college students are welcomed to this button-pushing production. “The show is unkindness wrapped in comedy,” said sophomore theatre major Zac Stearn, who plays the protagonist Billy Claven, referred to as “Crippled Billy,” in the USM Theatre Department’s production of…
Plays aren’t just all romance, singing and dancing – sometimes, they’re just like real life. This weekend at Russell Hall the USM Theatre Department will debut its production of Night Sky that will run Thursday through Sunday. In Night Sky, a family fights and an accident happens in this story that any audience can relate…