Arts Blog :: Carleton College

Something Wicked This Way Comes: Macbeth Opens at the Weitz

Thu, 02 May 2013 23:22:06 -0500

Macbeth--one of Shakespeare's shortest, darkest, most psychological, and most popular tragedies--opens at the Weitz Theater this May as produced by the Department of Theater and Dance. The production is directed by senior CAMS major Daisuke Kawachi and features senior theater majors Emily Altschul and Chris Densmore acting as the tragic Scottish couple in their Senior Integrative Exercise along with a stellar ensemble of Carleton's finest acting talent.

April 18th is National Poem in Your Pocket Day!

Thu, 18 Apr 2013 09:15:40 -0500

To celebrate National Poem in Your Pocket Day, the Humanities Center has collected a pocketful of poems from departments across campus.

Visit the Humanities Center website for an electronic version.

Or visit the Weitz Center Commons, where you can put an actual poem printed on actual paper in your actual pocket—there's a box of verse waiting for you to adopt one.

Weitz Cinema Showcases "Music in Film" Series

Tue, 09 Apr 2013 18:34:58 -0500

As part of Music Professor Ron Rodman's course this spring, the Weitz Cinema will be showing a series of films presenting prominent examples of music in film on Wednesday evenings at 7:30.

The Weitz in Wonderland

Sun, 07 Apr 2013 09:27:14 -0500

Joe Chvala's Flying Foot Forum and the Carleton Players join forces to bring Alice in Wonderland to Carleton's Weitz Center for Creativity this weekend.

IFF Wraps Up With Two Spanish Films

Fri, 15 Feb 2013 13:58:26 -0600

Carleton's International Film Forum will present its' last two titles the next two weeks in Carleton's Weitz Cinema on Thursday evenings (Feb. 21 & 28) at 7 p.m.

New Theater Faculty Member Roger Bechtel Directs 'Attempts on Her Life'

Thu, 14 Feb 2013 13:16:49 -0600

Roger Bechtel and the Carleton Players will be presenting British playwright Martin Crimp’s ATTEMPTS ON HER LIFE at the Weitz Center for Creativity. The production is Bechtel’s first production at Carleton. He joined the faculty this Fall after a stint at Bowdoin College. In addition to teaching, Bechtel has directed and acted Off-Broadway and at a number of regional theaters, including Theater for a New Audience in New York, the Yale Repertory Theatre, the McCarter Theatre, the Utah Shakespeare Festival, the Snowmass Aspen Repertory Theater, and the Attic Theater. He is currently the artistic director of Big Picture Group, a theater company based in Chicago that creates multimedia performances exploring contemporary culture.