Category: Theatre & Dance

  • Dance Production Shared Space: Tangled Relations

    Dance Production Shared Space: Tangled Relations

    From December 9 to December 11, the Gustavus Theatre & Dance department will be presenting the Dance Production Shared Space: Tangled Relations. This production is entirely student-driven, a culmination of student choreographers and dancers that have come together and created a project that lets all of their creative voices shine. “Going into the semester, all…

  • Theatre Gallery, a production in which students write, direct, design, and star in their own plays

    Theatre Gallery, a production in which students write, direct, design, and star in their own plays

    On December 9, 10, and 11 from 7-9 p.m. in the Rob and Judy Gardner Laboratory Theatre, Gustavus will be presenting the Theatre Gallery – a production in which students write, direct, design, and star in their own plays. This year’s Theatre Gallery is entitled Fuzzy Gray Lines and many of the plays are centered…

  • Fine Arts Preview November 28 – December 4

    Christmas in Christ Chapel: Celestial Wonder, Joy Unfolding Christ Chapel Friday, December 2 at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, December 3 at 2:30 p.m. Saturday, December 3 at 7:30 p.m. (performance will also be livestreamed) Sunday, December 4 at 2:30 p.m. Celestial Wonder, Joy Unfolding: Christmas in Christ Chapel 2022 is a celebration in which heaven, earth,…

  • TRAGEDY: A Tragedy

    TRAGEDY: A Tragedy

    From November 3rd through the 6th, the Gustavus Adolphus College Theatre Department will be presenting TRAGEDY: A Tragedy. Written by Obie Award winner Will Eno and directed by Henry McCarthy, the play is a tragically hilarious play for the fake news era. “I think the whole thing is really funny”, says Lily Roehric ‘26. “I…

  • Fine Arts Weekly Preview October 31 – November 6

    Fine Arts Weekly Preview October 31 – November 6

    This week features the opening of TRAGEDY: a tragedy, at the Gardner Laboratory Theater, as well as the first day of the Honor Band Festival. Theater Production- TRAGEDY: a tragedy Gardner Laboratory Theater November 3, 4, and 5, 8:00-10:00 p.m. November 5, 2:00-4:00 p.m. “It is night-time in the world. Everyone’s afraid, like in real…

  • Fine Arts Preview: October 24 to October 30

    Fine Arts Preview: October 24 to October 30

    This week features the continuation of the Schaefer Art Gallery Exhibit: Student Creative Suite ‘22, as well as the continuation of the Hillstrom Museum Exhibit: FOCUS IN/ON: George Ault’s Lower Broadway and His Traumatic Life. Tickets for the upcoming theatre show TRAGEDY: a tragedy are available for purchase. The Schaefer Art Gallery is displaying: Student…

  • Nobel Conference: Fine Arts Overview

    Nobel Conference: Fine Arts Overview

    The theme of mental health (in)equity and young people will be presented through an art exhibition, a concert, and a dance performance. Our music ensembles will play a prelude at the start of each session. Then on Saturday and Sunday, our music ensembles will put on their annual family weekend concerts. Music Prelude Wednesday, September…

  • Fine Arts Weekly Preview: September 26 to October 2

    Fine Arts Weekly Preview: September 26 to October 2

    This week features the annual Family Weekend Showcase at Christ Chapel, the Nobel Dance Feature Concert: Resonance, as well as the public receptions of both FOCUS IN/ON at the Hillstrom Museum of Art, and Are you ok? I am not. And that’s ok. at the Schaefer Art Gallery. Resonance: Songs, Dances, and Poems that explore…

  • Senior Spotlight: Sydney Sutherland

    Senior Spotlight: Sydney Sutherland

    Sydney Sutherland is a Theatre Honors major and a minor in Arts Administration and English from Minneapolis, Minnesota. We asked Sydney about her time at Gustavus and her goals for the future. What are your plans for the future? SS: “I plan to travel as an assistant stage manager and stage manager. So far I’ll…

  • Senior Spotlight: Tessa Longshore

    Senior Spotlight: Tessa Longshore

    Tessa Longshore is a Dance Honors major from Faribault, Minnesota. In the future, she plans to move to New York to further her dancing career. Professor Melissa Rolnick says that “ Tessa has been a teaching assistant for dance classes, both modeling and supporting students to understand and achieve success in the form. Tessa has…