Culture

  • One-minute Plays Offer Snapshot into the Lives of Hoosiers

    KEVIN VOGEL | Arts, Etc. Editor What kind of story could you tell in one minute? Could you make us laugh? How about cry? Could you blast a paradigm, present a life-changing idea or capture the essence of a generation? This was the challenge put forth to 25 Indiana playwrights ahead of the first Basile…

  • Opera Takes to the Sky

    BRITTANY GARRETT | Staff Reporter The Butler Opera will take its performance of “Il Mondo della Luna” (“The World on the Moon”) as close to the moon as possible on Butler University’s campus. The 75-minute show will be staged in the Holcomb Observatory. Thomas Studebaker, assistant professor of voice and director of the lyric theatre…

  • Senior Recital Highlight: Hannah Varnau, composition major

    MALLORY DUNCAN | Asst. Arts, Etc. Editor The Butler Collegian spoke with senior composition major Hannah Varnau about her upcoming senior recital. BC: Talk about you, your major and your senior recital. HV: I’m a composition major, and we have lessons and classes about writing music. This recital is a culmination of what I’m most…

  • Indianapolis insists on innovation

    BRITTANY GARRETT | Staff Reporter The entire Indianapolis arts community is about to undergo a makeover. The Indianapolis Museum of Art is preparing to start the first event of the new Innovative Museum Leaders Speaker Series this Thursday. It will bring in an assortment of leaders in the art field to talk about their work…

  • Page by page

    BREANNA MANLEY | Staff Reporter A bag of Fritos, a bottle of Gatorade, a computer and a pencil make up the ideal workspace for graphic designer Joel Fuller to produce some of his best artwork. In fact, the sophomore Art + Design major still has his very first childhood comic book and sketch pad, complete…

  • Students share Sondheim with “Little Night Music”

    MALLORY DUNCAN | Asst. Arts, Etc. Editor The curtains opened last weekend to reveal a different kind of show on the stage of Butler University’s Eidson-Duckwall Recital Hall. Three students presented “A Little Night Music,” a musical. Instead of a traditional or original play, the students collaborated to bring the musical to the recital hall…

  • REVIEW: Try out “Terminal”

    BRITTANY GARRETT | Staff Reporter Am I living to my full potential? Will I regret this life when I’m in the afterlife? Is there even an afterlife? All these questions pervaded the play “Terminal,” beautifully conceived by Susan Yankowitz. With the audience watching from both sides of the stage, the production portrayed different stages of…

  • Beyond the runway

    VANESSA STAUBLIN | Staff Reporter The Butler Collegian sat down with Butler University senior Arnetta Shade after the Black Student Union fashion show to talk about BSU and the fashion show itself.   What is your role in BSU, and what are some of your responsibilities/duties? I am the co-president of Black Student Union, and…

  • The Bush years, through the eyes of the First Lady

    KEVIN VOGEL | Arts, Etc. Editor One of the first things former First Lady Laura Bush did when she took the Clowes Memorial Hall stage Monday was place a bobblehead doll of herself on the podium. She said a friend gave her the bobblehead after finding it in a gift shop in Washington, D.C., on…