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(Photo courtesy of Yifeng Hu).

‘Illegal: A New Musical’ takes the College’s stage

A near full house of students, their families, faculty members, trustees, administrators, local community members and out of state residents got to enjoy “Illegal: A New Musical,” on Sunday, March 24. The show told the story of Chinese immigrants in the early 20th century, who were considered America’s first “illegal” immigrants. 

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Drake Bell spoke out in the recently released documentary, “Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV,” to share his story about the sexual abuse he suffered at the hands of Nickelodeon vocal coach Brian Peck (Photo courtesy of Wikimedia Commons / “Nickelodeon old logo” / November 11, 2000).

Drake Bell comes forward as a victim of abuse at Nickelodeon

Drake Bell spoke out in the recently released documentary, “Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV,” to share his story about the sexual abuse he suffered at the hands of Nickelodeon vocal coach Brian Peck. The four part documentary series by Investigation Discovery scrutinizes Nickelodeon’s production and programming from the ‘90s to the late 2010s under Dan Schneider’s leadership.

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Fall Out Boy maintained a constant and blaring stage presence throughout the show (Photo courtesy of Lake DiStefano / Staff Writer).

The resurgence of emo: Fall Out Boy’s 2ourdust

Over the past two decades, Fall Out Boy has been the epitome of what many consider to be pop-punk. They are titans in the genre, and while many — myself included — expected that style of music to die down in tandem with the 2000s, there is a recent phenomenon I’ve begun to notice.

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The film features jumpscares, an underlying eerienes and a gruesome ending (Photo courtesy of IMDb).

Sydney Sweeney stars in the new horror movie ‘Immaculate’

The American psychological horror film “Immaculate” released earlier this month on March 22 and has received mixed reviews from critics. The film has received an average rating of 6.4/10, and the critics consensus reads “Immaculate in conception if not always in execution, this religiously themed horror outing is saved by a divine performance from Sydney Sweeney.”

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The inventiveness and artistic bravery put on display here, by an outstanding creative team like that of Shakespeare 70, is in service of an invigorating chamber piece reckoning with a fictional American town’s hidden past. (Photo courtesy of Shakespeare 70)

‘The Minutes’ fly by in this knockout production of historical proportions

A play which succeeds in provoking an audience the way “The Minutes” did could only have been written by the great American playwright Tracy Letts. Having started its run here at the College on March 20 and closing shop on March 24, audiences for five evenings straight were given an exuberant and well-mannered display of confined and claustrophobic acting tour-de-forces. 

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The cast of “Something Rotten!” (Photo by Mckenna Super)

TCNJ Musical Theatre presents ‘Something Rotten!’

TCNJ Musical Theatre presented its mainstage musical “Something Rotten!” for the spring semester. The show is a satirical take on Shakespeare, telling the story of two brothers struggling to make it big in the theatre world while being in competition with William Shakespeare. There were four shows, starting on Thursday, Feb. 29 and continuing through Saturday, March 2.

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