Jasper Swartz, Production Editor

May 10, 2024

Luca Guadagnino gave us queer coming-of-age in Call Me By Your Name. He gave us lonesome cannibals and the great American rural expanse in Bones and All. Now, he picks up from his usual tempo of slow yearning amid breath-taking scenery and turns his attention to the fast-paced world of professional tennis in his new film Challengers,  starring Zendaya, Josh O’Connor, and Mike Faist. The result is a melodrama of epic proportions powered by the sheer, electric chemistry between the three leads....

Calvin Ray Shawler, Staff Writer

May 3, 2024

April has been a month full of campus theater performances, between shows produced by the Oberlin Theatre Department, by student theater organizations like OMTA/OSTA, or independently produced. One of the first, but still most memorable, of these performances was Peerless, written by Jiehae Park and directed by College fourth-year Hana Castellano. The play was not an easy watch. The script recontextualizes Shakespeare, setting Macbeth in a high school. However, Park uses this familiar plot archetype...

Nikki Keating, Editor-in-Chief

May 3, 2024

It is clear to Review readers and the general public that I enjoy musical theater. Musical theater has always not only provided me an escape from the stressors of everyday life, but also allowed me to feel things through the characters and, in turn, tap into my emotions. So when word got out that Company was being performed at Oberlin, I was over the moon. Company, with music by Stephen Sondheim, is a must-see, foundational piece of musical theater, and I often pull out the score to marvel at the...

Grace Connell, Staff Writer

April 26, 2024

Editor’s Note: This piece contains mentions of sexual assault. Galatea Erupted is a play written by College fourth-year Ashton Doll and directed by College fourth-year Becca Dulaney. It is showing in the Kander Theater April 25–28 as part of the Oberlin Theater Lab Series. The play is a senior capstone production, originally written for Professor of English and Comparative Literature and Chair of Book Studies Wendy Hyman’s Shakespeare and Metamorphosis class. Overall, it is an insightful,...

Sydney Collinger, Senior Staff Writer, Layout Editor

March 15, 2024

A plethora of exuberant “Yes Aunty!”s reverberated through the crowd at drag queen Dr. LaWhore Vagistan’s show “Lessons in Drag” at the Cat in the Cream Monday. The show included some lecture, some lip syncing, and some audience participation. The show sought to inform people on South Asian and South Asian-American issues through drag, and it successfully did just that. Dr. LaWhore Vagistan is the drag queen persona of Dr. Kareem Khubchandani, associate professor of Theatre, Dance, and...

Loie Schiller

November 10, 2023

On Friday, Nov. 3, I walked into Warner Main and sat down on the crowded mats in front of the bleachers. I was there to see Fall Forward, the annual performance put on by the Oberlin College Dance department. Before I walked into the show, one of my friends told me that there was a controversy about a half-hour senior dance piece that was part of the program for the night. It was about whether or not a piece that took up three dance slots in the show should have been allowed or whether it should...

Ava Cantlon, Staff Writer

April 7, 2023

For the first time since 2019, students gathered by the hundreds in Hales Gymnasium for the Dandelion Romp, an event put on by the Oberlin Contra Dance Club consisting of live music, dancing, and socializing with both old friends and new acquaintances. Contra dance is a form of American folk dance in which couples dance in line with others, often to fiddle music. The Dandelion Romp was canceled for the past few years due to COVID-19, and the reestablishment of the Romp created quite...

Dlisah Lapidus, Arts & Culture Editor

March 31, 2023

Al Evangelista is an interdisciplinary artist, performer, choreographer, and assistant professor of Dance. His work focuses on social justice, queer and Filipinx identity, and technology. He is currently choreographing a performance for this semester’s Spring Back event, exploring movement in spaces and working with audio about recent legislation restricting freedoms for transgender people. Evangelista recently contributed to the Dance Studies Association’s Chats issue and is on the...

Juju Gaspar, Arts & Culture Editor

October 28, 2022

There are over 17 student-led dance groups at Oberlin, including troupes like VIBE Dance Company, Kinetik Hip Hop Crew, AndWhat?!, Capoeira Angola, and more. That’s not to mention that Fall Forward and Student Showcase: Dance Umbrella are coming up. These groups offer a diverse spectrum of dance styles and many opportunities for those interested in dance to get involved.  Yet despite the large number of groups, there are far more students wanting to get involved in dance on campus than already...

Milo Ono

May 20, 2022

Bright, colorful artworks were on display in the lobby windows of the Irene and Alan Wurtzel Theater this past week, marking the first part of Assistant Professor of Dance Al Evangelista’s multidisciplinary project Somewhere Good. The project is a collaboration between Oberlin’s Dance, Theater, and TIMARA departments as well as a community project between Oberlin dancers, English for Speakers of Other Languages, students of the Conservatory, and residents of Kendal at Oberlin. This Friday and...

Nikki Keating, Editor-in-Chief

May 10, 2024

Editor’s note: While I am excited to write this piece, as it is a topic that has taken up a small part of my brain, I urge readers to remember — All eyes on Rafah. Israel is beginning its ground invasion of Rafah, and we must not get distracted from fighting for every single Palestinian who is in danger. If we can keep up with pop culture, we can support and donate aid to those in Rafah in need. We must never stop fighting for Palestinians.  Rap battles have always been at the center of the...

Delaney Fox, Editor-in-Chief

April 26, 2024

On Tuesday, April 23, John G. W. Cowles Director of the Allen Memorial Art Museum Andria Derstine led the dedication ceremony of a sculpture, “Charles River,” by Athena Tacha, OC ’61. Tacha’s sculpture, “Charles River,” was gifted to the College by Tacha and her husband, former Oberlin Professor of Art History and Director of the AMAM Richard Spear. The sculpture now permanently resides in the Eric Baker Nord Performing Arts Annex.  Tacha received her masters’ degree in Art History...

Sydney Collinger, Senior Staff Writer, Layout Editor

April 19, 2024

To elevate the existing exhibit The Body, The Host: HIV/AIDS and Christianity in the Ellen Johnson Gallery at the Allen Memorial Art Museum, students from the Conservatory and the Theater department separately put on pieces that brought out its multi-faceted nature in “A Day of Connection: Art, Music, and HIV/AIDS” on April 13. “The exhibition is a Venn diagram between works dealing with HIV/AIDS and Christianity,” Ellen Johnson ’33 Assistant Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art Sam...

Kathleen Kelleher, Senior Staff Writer

September 29, 2023

This past Saturday morning, I queued up outside the Allen Memorial Art Museum, much as I have for the last three years. When I arrived at the front of the line, I noticed what would become my painting, for a semester at least: Zoë Sheehan Saldaña, OC ’94’s “White-Tailed Deer (America’s Most Dangerous Animal).”  When I picked it up, my housemate remarked, “You got the digital art piece.” The rather large piece looks somewhat like a QR code. Staring at it in my living room, I parsed...

Kathleen Kelleher, Senior Staff Writer

September 22, 2023

Oberlin welcomed a new mural to town this week as artist Jared Mitchell put the finishing touches on the Oberlin Community Mural Project’s new vintage postcard-inspired wall. The mural sits on the south side of Mill on Main, at the intersection of West Vine and Main Streets.  This is the second mural from the Oberlin Community Mural Project, after the “We Are Oberlin” mural on the wall behind the bookstore. The group’s organizer, Tanya Rosen-Jones, OC ’97, said the community wanted more...

Chloe Boccara, Staff Writer

May 10, 2024

On Saturday, an audience gathered underneath the Oberlin Gasholder Building’s dome to participate in the Ohio Underground Railroad Whistle-Stop Poetry Tour. With passionate voices, area poets Atlas, Jeremy Jusek, Raja Belle Freeman, and Associate Professor and Chair of Creative Writing Chanda Feldman read poetry that concerned themes of abolition and the Underground Railroad. As the four poets read their poems, history appeared revived. A painting of Harriet Tubman sat on the stage; her lantern...

Andrea Nguyen, Sports Editor

May 10, 2024

Parents help divest Trustee board will vote in June Alumni sign on Oberlin stop funding war bit.ly/parentsalumni   Andrea Nguyen, Sports Editor, is a College fourth-year from Portland, OR. Her parents and grandparents were displaced from a U.S.-funded war, an experience they believe no one else should go through. She was inspired to write this piece after her parents signed the poll calling on Oberlin to divest from Israel. She urges other Oberlin parents and alumni to sign at bit.ly/parentsalumni.

Holly Yelton, Illustrator

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Chloe Boccara, Staff Writer

April 26, 2024

Holly Handman-Lopez is an assistant professor of Dance at Oberlin College and has choreographed numerous works, including her three most recent engagements: Ancestra, L’Orfeo,...

Sadie Howard, Staff Writer

April 19, 2024

Tali Hinkis is a member of the artist duo LoVid. On Wednesday, she came to the Clarence Ward Art Library to give an Artist Talk on her unconventional practice. This article...

Elena Rabin and Josephine Rosman

March 15, 2024

Ruth Ozeki is a novelist, documentary filmmaker, teacher, and Zen Buddhist priest. She will be visiting campus Tuesday, March 19 to give a talk on Zen and the Art of Realizing...

Lucy Curtis, Arts & Culture Editor

March 8, 2024

College fourth-year Sofia Tomasic and College first-year Bella Schmitt are members of this year’s Drag Ball committee. Alongside other committee members, they have been...

Calvin Ray Shawler, Staff Writer

March 1, 2024

Laura Carlson-Tarantowski is a renowned scenic director and is a scenic designer and lecturer in Theater at Oberlin. She is in the midst of construction for the upcoming production...

Nikki Keating, Editor-in-Chief

February 9, 2024

Preston Crowder, OC ’16, is a visiting assistant professor of Theater and Africana Studies at Oberlin. Recently, he directed At the Wake of a Dead Drag Queen at Dobama Theatre...