Sierra Colbert, Senior Staff Writer
May 20, 2022
Last weekend saw the full run of the Oberlin Musical Theater Association’s final musical of the 2021–22 academic year, Chicago. The show ran from Friday, May 13 to Sunday, May 15 in Wilder Main Space, and was met with extreme enthusiasm from the student body, illustrated by the unprecedented turnout. Director and College third-year Maeve Hogan had low expectations for audience turnout and was far more focused on finding her own satisfaction through the creative process. “I thought I knew...
Kathleen Kelleher, Arts & Culture Editor
May 6, 2022
After a six-year absence of capstone opportunities for seniors, 12 students in the Cinema Studies department will debut films through the Advanced Film Making Projects course to culminate their film careers at Oberlin. These films define a college career of making and learning for these students and symbolize a “wrap” on their time at Oberlin. In 2016, in the face of understaffing and lack of resources, the Cinema Studies department cut its support for senior capstones from the program. Since...
Emerald Goldbaum, Staff Writer
April 29, 2022
The Moors, a play set in the 18th-century English countryside, will run in the Irene and Alan Wurtzel Theater May 5–8. Written by American playwright Jen Silverman and directed by Professor of Theater Matthew Wright, the show follows an impressionable governess as she begins working for two sisters in their isolated countryside manor. Grappling with mounting jealousy and its inevitable consequences, the play explodes as deeply held resentments come to a head. According to Silverman, inspiration...
Sierra Colbert, Senior Staff Writer
April 22, 2022
The set of Shayna Punim, a play written and directed by College fourth-year Clara Zucker, features colorful books of all different sizes, a lint roller and vacuum, pillows tucked away beneath a coffee table, and a plethora of pictures of a beautiful woman sandwiched between family and friends. The play premiered at Kander Theater on Thursday and will run until Sunday, transforming the stage into a lived-in family room. Shayna Punim, taken from a Yiddish phrase which translates to “pretty face,”...
The Dropout’s Brilliance Lies in its Strange Performances
March 25, 2022
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March 25, 2022
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...
Maeve Woltring, Arts & Culture Editor
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...
Jocelyn Blockinger, Senior Staff Writer
March 11, 2022
On March 11 and 12, fourth-year Dance majors Jewel Cameron and Analise LaRiviere will perform their capstone dance recitals in Warner Main Space. LaRiviere’s piece is titled Au Milieu and Cameron’s, Dance Stories. While the performances are the culmination of LaRiviere and Cameron’s dance careers at Oberlin, both performers also hope to communicate their love and dedication to the College’s Dance department. A labor of love that has taken months of preparation, the show is being put on...
Jocelyn Blockinger, Staff Writer
February 25, 2022
Over Winter Term, Rind, a new student-run, community-based art collective, held its first show. Hoping to revitalize a community of artists on-campus, the event offered participants an exciting opportunity to connect with fellow artists and showcase their own work in an informal, intimate setting. Rind is the brainchild of College fourth-year Milo Hume, who hopes the collective will achieve a future as a leaderless community. Hume was originally inspired by Los Angeles-based nun Corita...
August 13, 2021
Last weekend the Dionysus Disco hosted its first ever Angel Ultra Fest, a two-day music festival featuring nine experimental, hip-hop, R&B artists, and house DJs. Artists included DJ Macro, SiDAKA, Tama Gucci, Staysie Atoms, Blake Saint David, Sydfalls, TWEAKS, baby.com, and Yesterdayneverhappened — the venue’s first lineup from outside of Oberlin in an in-person concert series since March 2020. Angel Ultra Fest was the brainchild of College third-year Courtney Brown, and the festival featured...
May 13, 2022
The sounds of bass, drums, guitar, and vocals filled Finney Chapel last Saturday night as singer-songwriter Madison Cunningham closed out this year’s Folk Fest. The festival, organized by the Oberlin Folk Music Club, took place May 6 and 7. While last year’s Folk Fest featured only student acts, Folk Fest 2022 welcomed professional acts back to the festival, including performances by Mapache; duo Vivian Leva and Riley Calcagno, OC ’20; and Nora Brown; in addition to student acts. Cunnigham’s...
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April 29, 2022
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April 29, 2022
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April 22, 2022
Kathleen Kelleher, Arts & Culture Editor
March 18, 2022
This past Wednesday, I chatted with College fourth-year Eva Sturm-Gross, a Studio Art and Religion major with a special interest in Kabbalah and Jewish Mysticism. Eva is a talented multimedia artist; their works feature strange animal-like creatures and domestic scenes of breadmaking and shabbos tables. We met in the print lab and talked over a light table illuminating their most recent work in progress, a print of a person in a Purim mask walking over water with a giant fish in it. I watched as...
L. Joshua Jackson, Arts and Culture Editor
March 3, 2021
Quarantine Couture: The Black History Month Fashion Show concluded February’s celebrations with flair, as models served us looks inspired by bedroom Zoom sessions, pandemic protections, and Michelle Obama’s slay at the recent inauguration. The fashion show committee, a subcommittee of the Black History Month Committee, consisted of Director and Faculty in Residence of Afrikan Heritage House Dr. Candice Raynor, College fourth-year Jasmine Mitchell, and College second-year Jillian Sanford,...
L. Joshua Jackson, Arts and Culture Editor
February 24, 2021
The Black History Month Artist Spotlight series seeks to honor Black creatives in the very moments of their first works. Afrikan American and Diasporic people have built, and been the building blocks of, the United States both economically and culturally. Even so, their work is often intentionally overshadowed by their white and white male counterparts. For instance, Shirley Graham Du Bois, OC ’35, wrote and composed the groundbreaking opera Tom Tom: An Epic of Music and the Negro, among other...
L. Joshua Jackson, Arts and Culture Editor
November 11, 2020
Galvanized by a summer marked by nationwide protests and conversations about racism, many in Oberlin have sought to create more inclusive spaces for Black students across the campus community. Talise Campbell, visiting assistant professor of Africana Studies and Dance, has made a life out of creating art as a means of social justice work. This semester, she was inspired to organize a series of Dance Dialogues, with the goal of reflecting on the accessibility of the Dance Department. “As a...
Artist Talks Showcase Socially-Engaged Work
November 6, 2020
Art Rental Gets COVID-Safe Makeover
September 9, 2020
COVID-19 Brings Challenges, Opportunities for AMAM
September 4, 2020
Adrienne Sato, Senior Staff Writer
May 6, 2022
Prior to the pandemic, the SWAP book co-op, a cozy little library tucked away in the basement of Harkness House, provided textbooks to students in exchange for their old books or labor. Students could walk into the co-op at any time during its working hours to peruse the student-made shelves of books marked with different colored sticky-notes, or they could search the co-op’s online database for specific books. Now, after more than a two year break, and a move to Tank Hall’s basement, SWAP is...
Sierra Colbert, Senior Staff Writer
March 18, 2022
On March 11, Afrikan Heritage House hosted Soul Session Allstars: The Alumni Edition as a continued celebration of Black History Month. For the past few years, Black History Month programming at Oberlin College and Conservatory hasn’t extended beyond the month of February, but this year, events have been organized running up through the end of March. A plethora of events have already been hosted around campus, from lectures to fashion shows, all in an effort to highlight and celebrate Black voices...
Book Nook: A Tale for the Time Being
March 5, 2022
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January 14, 2022
Reading Recommendations from Review Staff
December 3, 2021
Book Nook: Please Don’t Sit on My Bed in Your Outside Clothes and Other COVID-19 Lessons
November 5, 2021
On the Record with Creative Writing Professors Lynn Powell and Elizabeth Lindsey Rogers
October 29, 2021
First Indoor OSLAM Performance Since 2020 Revives Community
October 15, 2021
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April 22, 2022
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March 25, 2022
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Kathleen Kelleher, Arts & Culture Editor
May 20, 2022
In 16 days, my beloved co-editor, College fourth-year Lilyanna D’Amato, will be graduating with a degree in Comparative American Studies. She laughs at my feeblest jokes...
Jane Hobson and Lilyanna D'Amato
May 6, 2022
Comedian and actress Patti Harrison is most known for her work on the Netflix series I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson and Big Mouth. In addition, she recently wrapped...
Lilyanna D'Amato, Arts & Culture Editor
April 22, 2022
Originally from Trinidad and Tobago, Leon Foster Thomas is an internationally renowned jazz musician and steelpan virtuoso. He was the winner of the World Steelband Music...
Lilyanna D'Amato, Arts & Culture Editor
March 11, 2022
Assistant Professor of Creative Writing Allegra Hyde released her debut novel Eleutheria last Tuesday. Grappling with issues surrounding political activism, systemic corruption,...
Kushagra Kar and Adrienne Sato
March 5, 2022
Amrita “Ami” Kaur Dang, OC ’06, is an ambient musician. Her work is an electric mix of Hindustani sitar and vocals threaded through Western styles and different kinds...
February 25, 2022
North Carolina-based indie singer-songwriter Indigo De Souza will perform at the Cat in the Cream on Feb. 28 alongside student-band Jane Hobson and the Hobgoblins....
Theo Croker, OC’07: Trumpeter, Composer
December 17, 2021