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Reason plans to put on “AFROFANTASIA: The Journey of Iyanu.” The play will be fully produced by Jason Tristan Brown ’23, with a cast of over twelve members, Moyer wrote. Performances are scheduled to take place between April 26 and 29 at the Granoff Center.

Production Workshop Production Workshop is a campus group committed to making anti-racist theater, according to board member Louisa Cavicchi ’25.

“The goal is to uplift marginalized voices in the theater community who haven’t had a platform in entertain - ment in the past,” Cavicchi said.

PW is also responsible for maintaining the u pspace and the Downspace — the two black box theaters at TF Green Hall. As a result, the organization has a very busy season ahead. “We have this space — we want to be able to get as much theater in there as we can,” Cavicchi said.

“Our first show of the semester is ‘Hint,’ which is a parody of a murder-mystery board game that you might know,” Cavicchi said. Performances are currently slated for the weekend of Feb. 23-25 in the

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“Our March slot is going to be a festival of table readings of original student plays and student scenes,” Cavicchi added. The festival, called “Writing is Dead,” will take place March 10-12, also in the Downspace.

Cavicchi added that PW’s April slot will be devoted to another mainstage production in the Downspace, but applications for the process have not opened yet. In the meantime, she said that PW is accepting applications for the TWITS program, or “Two Weeks In The (up)Space.”

The program’s shows are a “generally more experimental kind of work,” Cavicchi said. PW will help produce the show over two weeks, March 8-21, that will culminate in a performance towards the end of the session.

Musical Forum

Musical Forum will work on a couple of big projects throughout the semester, according to Co-Chair Miriam Arden ’23.5. The group is a “student-run musical theater” group that aims to put on one big production every semester, according to Arden.

“Our mainstage show this semester is ‘Spring Awakening,’ which we’re very excited for,” she said. “It’s like a rock-style musical, very angsty.”

The show was cast about two weeks ago, and rehearsals have already begun. Musical Forum is hoping to stage the show the weekend of March 17 in the Fleet Library at RISD, according to Arden.

The library “would be a very interesting, new venue for Brown theater,” Arden said. “It’s this very cool, almost gothic room.”

According to Arden, “there is a huge shortage of good theater spaces for student groups, so if we’re able to make (theater) in this kind of unconventional venue, that’d be very cool.”

In addition to its mainstage production, Musical Forum will host a musical festival towards the end of April exclusively featuring work written by students.

The festival will include “two short student-written musicals and one longer student-written piece,” Arden said. A more formal reading of the longer work will be held in mid-March, culminating in the full performance at the end of the festival.

Music Forum wants to “expand opportunities for students to create their own work and write their own shows,” Arden said, adding that the group is “always talking about how to break down barriers for getting involved in theater.”

The group is currently “trying to increase transparency with the audition process” and increase outreach.

Brown Opera Productions

Brown Opera Productions plans to “get back to (its) roots” this semester with two different presentations of Mozart’s “The Magic Flute,” according to President Emma Giventer-Braff ’23.

“Around March 17 and 18, we will have a performance that is gala style,” Giventer-Braff said. The performance will be an opportunity for vocalists and the pit orchestra to practice live at Alumnae Hall. “It’s going to be just a sing-through, basically,” she added.

For their second presentation of “The Magic Flute,” BOP plans to take a step out of its comfort zone and produce a film.

“The concept is putting ‘The Magic Flute’ in 1960s New York in a sort of Mad-Men-esque vibe,” Giventer-Braff said. “If someone had asked me two years ago when I became president if I would have imagined us doing a film, I would have thought that was out of reach.”

But BOP has grown tremendously since its inception in 2009, GiventerBraff said, putting on its largest show yet last semester with a cast of 18. According to Giventer-Braff, BOP will film and edit throughout the spring and likely screen their product in the Granoff Center on April 22.

Ensemble Theatre at Brown Ensemble Theatre at Brown plans to concentrate most of its time on its production of “Tick, Tick… Boom!”

The performance is scheduled to take place in Alumnae Hall the weekend of April 14.

Ensemble remains “dedicated to the production of fully orchestrated ensemble musicals that foster an inclusive community,” according to this production’s Company Manager Xiaoyue Hou ’25. “This semester, we are also trying to improve and refine our DEI statement,” she said.

One way the group aimed to accomplish this was by opening “audition slots for performers of color first for 48 hours,” Hou said. After that period, slots were opened up to the entire student body.

Ensemble’s production team has already started planning for the show, and the group plans to post its cast list on Feb. 19 before jumping into rehearsals.

Kitchen Sink Theater Company

Kitchen Sink Theater Compa - ny is one of the newest additions to Brown’s theater scene, having formed just last semester. According to member William Malloy ’25, the organization is a “process-based theater group,” focusing on teaching its members “how we do” theater. the corner for a quick three, sending the crowd into a frenzy.

“We’re a non-hierarchical group where members of the company take on multiple different roles in production,” Malloy said.

This means each person in the group is involved in “every single aspect of a show,” member Catherine Jones ’23 added. Jobs are shuffled as lighting designers become directors, directors become stage managers and all take turns acting on stage.

This semester, Kitchen Sink is working on a documentary-based project. Malloy explained that they plan to conduct several interviews, transcribe them, cut them down into monologues and then construct a play out of whatever material remains. All of the interviews will be united by a common subject: basements and attics.

Jones emphasized the potential for ambiguity in such a concept, adding that interviewees will feel included to share whatever they want to.

Both Malloy and Jones said that the production would premiere sometime in late April.

“I was excited when I threw the behind-the-back pass because I knew that there was no chance Kino was going to miss it,” Wojcik wrote in a message to The Herald.

In the following play, Landon Lewis ’26 posterized a defender, capping off a massive Bruno run to take a dominant 30-point lead, 59-29.

Although Cornell cut the deficit to only 14 with six minutes remaining in the contest, the Bears held on to their lead, ultimately winning the game 80-66.

The team has “gotta get better at playing with a 30-point lead,” Martin said following the game.

“That’s a good problem for us to have at this point.”

Wojcik, Lilly and Friday led the team in Saturday’s match. Wo - jcik tallied 13 points, 11 rebounds and six assists, shooting 5-11 from the field and 3-7 from three-point range. Lilly notched 25 points on an efficient 10-13 from the field and 3-6 from behind the arc. Friday added 16 points, a career-high seven assists and five rebounds.

“I went over film with the coaches a little bit, so I kind of knew … what spots were gonna be open,” Friday said of his career-high in assists. “I just tried to take advantage of that (and) get my guys good shots.”

As a team, Bruno shot 29-54 (53.7%) from the field and 10-24 (41.7%) from behind the arc. Defensively, Brown held Cornell’s high-powered offense — ranking fifth in Division 1 with 84.0 points per game — to 66 points, their second-lowest total against an Ivy opponent this year. Cornell shot 22-58 (37.9%) from the field and 6-28 (21.4%) from three-point range.

“I thought our offense and defense complemented each other,” Coach Martin said. “We shared the ball offensively. We got great shots. We took what the defense gave us. Defensively, I thought our physicality and our ball pressure disrupted them.”

Brown will play Princeton (167, 7-3 Ivy), who is currently first in the Ivy League, on Friday at 7 p.m. in Princeton. The game will be streamed on ESPN+.