by Julia Halprin Jackson | Apr 21, 2021 | Campus Life
When Elisha Miranda, chair of San José State’s Film and Theatre Department, saw Assistant Professor of Theatre Arts Kirsten Brandt at the Hammer Theatre Center for the first time in more than a year, she felt like crying. Though they had collaborated closely on many...
by Robin McElhatton | Jun 25, 2020 | Community Engagement
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by Julia Halprin Jackson | Feb 4, 2020 | Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
This month, the Africana, Asian American, Chicano and Native American Studies Center at the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Library is home to a special exhibit, featuring costumes, programs, photographs and mementos from the Tabia African-American Theatre Ensemble....
by Julia Halprin Jackson | Dec 5, 2019 | Research and Innovation
The curtain opens on a young man lying on a jail cot, haunted by the ghosts of four high schoolers—classmates he killed. William Matrosimone’s Bang Bang You’re Dead tells the story of a school shooting from the perspective of the perpetrator, a troubled...
by Julia Halprin Jackson | Nov 21, 2019 | Research and Innovation
Seventeen actors stand in a circle facing the audience. One by one they address the crowd and say a number—”Seven!” “Three!” “Ten!” “Four!”—until the final actor says, “I was eight months old when I was brought to...