Nikki Keating, Editor-in-Chief
May 5, 2023
“I just don’t like Musical Theater.” It’s time I talk about my problem with that sentence. And with Tony nominations being released, I feel it is timely to speak on the hate for musical theater. I acknowledge this sentence is often said to me in an attempt to thwart me from playing Hamilton on full blast in the Review office or during a car ride. But even so, as a resident musical theater fan, I must point out the opportunity being missed in refusing to give musical theater music...
Dlisah Lapidus, Arts & Culture Editor
April 21, 2023
On Tuesday, Hallock Auditorium was the site of the screening of the experimental film compilation Bodies are Fluid. Viewers interested in media art related to gender identity filled the auditorium to watch short art films exploring the topic. This included a film created solely with the artist’s mouth, a 1970s-era feminist film on menstruation, and a 16-minute-long recording of an intimate performance in which one artist shaves another’s lower body. The organization of this event started with...
Nikki Keating, Editor-in-Chief
April 21, 2023
Until recently, Parade was an underrated musical that I never noticed. In its original Broadway run, it was often compared to Ragtime, one of my favorite musicals. This is not an unfair comparison, as both shows represent stories about “American life,” highlighting the subjects of class, racism, and the American experience. But it’s because of this that it went to the bottom of the list of musicals I needed to listen to. The March 23 release of the 2023 revival album, however, prompted...
Lucy Curtis, Arts & Culture Editor
April 14, 2023
In the mainstage theater production Stonewallin’, mountains engulf the audience. The stage consists of nothing but a couple pedestals, and the theater is framed by screens depicting smokey purple hills: an artistic yet realistic rendition of the landscape. The first few moments of the play feel gravely serious — dim lighting, the cast members silent as they step up to the pedestals. The closest platform is mere inches from audience members, blurring the line between actor and audience. The...
Cleveland Film Festival Highlights Ukraine
April 14, 2023
Calypso Subverts Classic Mythology with Emotional Immersion
April 7, 2023
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...
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...
May 13, 2022
This past Thursday, the Root Room in Carnegie Building was the site of an open band and a menagerie of spirited folk dancers. After its hiatus due to COVID-19, the Contra Dance Club welcomed the community to its first dance of the year. Contra dance, often referred to as New England folk dance, is easy to pick up; couples switch periodically, the ‘caller’ calls out instructions for each successive set of moves, and by the end, everyone has danced with everyone. Though contra’s form lends itself...
Sierra Colbert, Senior Staff Writer
April 29, 2022
Colors of Rhythm, one of the Multicultural Resource Center’s most celebrated annual events, returned to the Finney Chapel stage for the first time in two years. Colors of Rhythm was founded in 1997 by Oberlin students in conjunction with the MRC, and seeks to highlight and celebrate the talent of student-artists and performers of color. This year’s show saw performances from a wide range of students and student organizations including OSLAM, African Students Association, And What!?, South...
Lucy Curtis, Arts & Culture Editor
September 15, 2023
Lately, I’ve been feeling like an “all-american bitch,” and I would argue that most women would agree with me. To be “light as a feather, stiff as a board,” to be “built like a mother and a total machine,” and most importantly, to be “grateful all the time” — these are the expectations of American women. And here is 20-year-old Olivia Rodrigo, belting them out on the first song of her sophomore album, GUTS. During the opening track — arguably the best on the album — Rodrigo...
FIG Engages Audiences at Cat in the Cream with Unconventional, Interactive Show
September 15, 2023
Hozier Explores Themes of Identity, Modernity, and Religion in Unreal Unearth
September 8, 2023
AMAM Invites Local Musicians to Celebrate Shared Art Program Painting
May 5, 2023
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...
Kayla Kim, Managing Editor
September 22, 2023
On September 13, New York investigators seized pieces by Egon Schiele from three out-of-state museums. The pieces were “Russian War Prisoner" from the Art Institute of Chicago, “Portrait of a Man” from the Carnegie Museum of Art, and “Girl With Black Hair” from the Allen Memorial Art Museum. Oberlin released a statement one day later. “We are confident that Oberlin College legally acquired Egon Schiele’s ‘Girl with Black Hair’ in 1958, and that we lawfully possess it,” a statement...
Dlisah Lapidus, Arts & Culture Editor
September 8, 2023
In the Allen Memorial Art Museum’s Ellen Johnson Gallery, a series of textiles with fluid black silhouettes line the walls. These quilts honor the life and findings of Henrietta Leavitt, a female astronomer who studied at Oberlin from 1885 to 1888. Through her work as a “computer” in the Harvard College Observatory, Leavitt discovered thousands of variables of stars, and her research was vital to understanding several fundamental rules of the universe. This series is part of the solo exhibition...
Maeve Woltring, Senior Staff Writer
May 5, 2023
This past Thursday, the BadArtCo Gallery Show exhibited the Experimental College course’s investigation of terrible art in Birenbaum Innovation and Performance Space. It was a vibrantly experimental event complete with bloody performance art, bad comedy on loop, and effigy burning to a live opera soundtrack. Everyone has their own notion of what makes art “good art,” and, chances are, that notion has less to do with personal taste and more to do with social and cultural trends. After...
Vintage Looks, Cat Motifs Highlighted In Met Gala Theme
May 5, 2023
Julia Christensen: Professor of Integrated Media and Chair of the Studio Art Department
May 5, 2023
Artists, Activists Support Reproductive Justice Cause at Flea Market
April 28, 2023
Holly Yelton, Illustrator
April 22, 2022
Holly Yelton, Illustrator
March 25, 2022
Holly Yelton, Illustrator
March 5, 2022
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Delaney Fox, Editor-in-Chief
September 22, 2023
Annie Zaleski recently joined the Oberlin Office of Communications as the Oberlin Alumni Magazine editor last spring. Zaleski’s byline has been featured in publications...
Lucy Curtis, Arts & Culture Editor
September 8, 2023
Amanda Hodes is a lecturer in Creative Writing with a specialty in teaching poetry. Her written work has been published in multiple poetry publications and her multimedia...
Emma Benardete, Editor-in-Chief
May 19, 2023
Richard Powers is a novelist with a background in environmental and computer science whose work focuses on the relationship between humanity and the natural world. He has...
Cal Ransom, News Editor
April 28, 2023
Dr. Lady J is a non-binary trans woman and drag performer. She received her Ph.D. in Musicology from Case Western Reserve University in 2017. She gave a talk on the history...
Ava Miller, News Editor
April 21, 2023
Roya Hakakian gave a talk this past week titled “The Women of Iran Have Risen Up: Should You Care?” Hakakian is a founding member of the Iran Human Rights Documentation...
April 7, 2023
Diane Ramos has been the City of Oberlinʼs communications manager since 2021. Recently, she worked with Firelands Association for the Visual Arts and Oberlin High School...
On the Record with Jennifer Blaylock, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow
March 10, 2023