News and Events

Current Events

 Harlequin's Lesson in Love, a short comedy by Marivaux.
Rooke Theatre
Thurs-Sat, October 22-24 at 8 pm
Sat & Sun, October 24 & 25 at 2 pm

Past Events

Paul Sorvino actor and director, will teach a master class in acting for selected students from the Mount Holyoke Theatre Department.
April 6, 2009, 7-9 pm
Rooke Theatre
Observation of the class is open to the public.
Admission $5.00
Seating is limited, reservations encouraged.
Please call 413-538-2406

Lighting Designers! Set Designers! Costume Designers!
Five College, Inc. and Mount Holyoke College Theatre Department present:

Lighting Workshop
Color & Light: Mixing It Up

An introduction to the art of color mixing using light as the medium. See a demonstration of the subtle ways in which tinted, colored light can change the eye’s perception of the color of an object. All visual artists are invited to attend.

Sunday February 15th, 2009, 3pm-4:30pm
Rooke Theatre, Mt. Holyoke College
Free and Open to All

Lecturer: Beverly Emmons
Beverly Emmons has designed for Broadway, Off Broadway, regional theatre, dance, and opera in the US and abroad. Her Broadway credits include Annie Get Your Gun, Jekyll & Hyde, The Heiress, Passion, Chronicle of a Death Foretold, Hapgood, High Rollers, Stepping Out, The Elephant Man, The Dresser, and Doonesbury. She has regularly designed lighting for Robert Wilson; most notably in America, Einstein on the Beach and Civil Wars Pt. V. She has been awarded 6 Tony nominations, the 1975 Lumen Award, 1984 and 1986 Bessies, and a 1980 Obie for Distinguished Lighting. She is visiting Mt. Holyoke College as the Lighting Designer for the Five College Operas Dido & Aeneas and The Seven Deadly Sins being presented at the Rooke Theatre February 26th –March 1st, 2009

For more information contact:
Lara Dubin
413-538-2833