Loyola Today · Arts & Culture
Follow Loyola students from auditions through rehearsals and performances of Jonathan Larson’s Rent, a musical about friendship, survival, artistic community, and life during the AIDS crisis in New York City.
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The Loyola Phoenix · Theatre Review
Loyola’s production of Jonathan Larson’s Rent celebrates LGBTQ+ identities while exploring poverty, grief, love, and the AIDS epidemic through the lives of struggling artists in New York City.
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The Loyola Phoenix · Theatre Review
Loyola’s production of Jackie Sibblies Drury’s Fairview examines the violence of the white gaze and the ways Black people and Black culture are watched, interpreted, and appropriated.
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The Loyola Phoenix · Theatre Review
Loyola’s production of Notes From the Field, directed by Deron Williams, confronts the Black experience in education and the systems that fail vulnerable communities. The production draws from real-life accounts of the school-to-prison pipeline.
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DeRon Williams discusses the rehearsal process and artistic work behind Loyola’s production of Jackie Sibblies Drury’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play Fairview.
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Loyola Today · Arts & Culture
DeRon Williams directs Loyola’s production of Jackie Sibblies Drury’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play Fairview. Set around a family birthday party, the production confronts race, bias, stereotypes, and the ways audiences see and interpret other people.
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Dr. DeRon S. Williams discusses how the coalition develops programs, workshops, and presentations that use artistry and advocacy to call attention to systemic racism and other social justice issues.
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Eastern Connecticut State University · Theatre
Eastern Theatre presents Tarell Alvin McCraney’s The Brothers Size, directed and co-choreographed by DeRon Williams. Set in the Louisiana bayou, the play follows two brothers navigating incarceration, freedom, family, and the need to belong.
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