Brandeis University's Community Newspaper — Waltham, Mass.
Sweeney Todd Friday to Saturday, May 2-3, 2008, 8 p.m. Loeb Drama Center, 64 Brattle St., Cambridge You’ve (probably/maybe if you’re a Johnny Depp fan) seen the movie, now go see Sweeney Todd, The Demon Barber of Fleet Street on stage. The musical features blood, gore, meat pies, and one pissed off barber. Also, this […]
Measure for Measure Friday-Sunday, May 2-May4, 2008, 8 p.m. Epstein Juliet has a bun in the oven. In this Shakespearean “problem play,” sex out of wedlock is illegal and so Juliet’s fiance Claudio is sentenced to death. Will Claudio avoid the chopping block? Will Juliet be reunited with her lover? And what does a pirate […]
The Heller School for Social Policy and Management hosted the second screening of Before Sunrise, a short film by Mohammad Kundos ’10 who also composed the music for the film. The first screening was held during the Leonard Bernstein Festival of the Creative Arts. The film, which initially started as a class project for Kundos, […]
This past Tuesday, the comedic Brandeisians came together again for a third installment of Slice and ‘Deis. “The Finals Countdown” opened with a parody of the Lost opening credits. The opening scene was humorous, with suspense leading up to a low-brow fart joke. This episode’s plot centers around finals as well as Brandeis relationships. The […]
On April 30 2008, the season finale of Brandeis Got Talents was shot live in Shapiro Theater. The final five contestants, were Etta King ’10, Lisa Fitzgerald ’10, Nick Pollack ’10 , Natasha Vadera ’11 and Michael Cohen (GRAD), competed before a live studio audience to affirm their supremacy as the talent-icon-demi-god that is the […]
While tabloids usually focus on the celebrity component of a Hollywood love triangle, Forgetting Sarah Marshall follows the underdog, as he attempts to recover from a breakup with up-and-coming It girl Sarah Marshall, played by Kirsten Bell (Veronica Mars). Produced by Judd Apatow, Jason Segel (How I Met Your Mother, Freaks and Geeks) plays Peter, […]
Nick Cave is not the sort of person you’d want to meet in a dark alley at night. As a matter of fact, I’m not even sure you’d want to associate with the pugnacious Aussie in the middle of Grand Central Station. If his ferociously raw vocals weren’t intimidating enough, imagine them fermented in a […]
What brought Community Service Director Diane Hannan to her current job? Chalk it up to serendipity if you ask her. But a move to Boston 20 years ago and a chance posting for the position of director and advisor for the Waltham group caught her attention. Now, 17 years and many fond memories later, Hannan […]
