Benstead Theatre Shines
Benstead Theatre is located in the C.J. Rodman Center for the Arts, home to music, fine arts and theatre. The theatre is an innovative flexible-space black-box. It includes a proscenium opening, stage deck and a fly gallery, allowing plays to be staged in arena, thrust, environmental or proscenium depending upon the director and designers’ creative vision. The facility is dedicated to the theatre department so rehearsals and construction occur right in the space. First-year students who have experienced only proscenium staging in high school find Benstead Theatre a new and exciting place to perform and work.
The theatre is supported by lighting and sound control boards that are replaced with the latest equipment on a regular rotation; fully equipped scene and costume shops; a design studio; an acting studio; and a makeup room large enough to double as a rehearsal space.
Ripon College Cabaret
The Ripon College Theatre Department is proud to present: The Ripon College Cabaret, which will include a variety of acts including music, dance, theater, spoken word, poetry and stand up comedy! Performances are at 7:30 PM on November 22 and 23 in Benstead Theatre in the Rodman Center for the Arts. Although walk-up seats are […]
Ripon College Cabaret
The Ripon College Theatre Department is proud to present: The Ripon College Cabaret, which will include a variety of acts including music, dance, theater, spoken word, poetry and stand up comedy! Performances are at 7:30 PM on November 22 and 23 in Benstead Theatre in the Rodman Center for the Arts. Although walk-up seats are […]
Reading by Poet Sarah Schweig
Sarah Schweig, winner of the Jake Adam York Poetry Prize, will read from her collection, The Ocean in the Next Room. Books will be available for cash purchase. As always, this event is free and open to the public.
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Gallery exhibit to feature Haudenosaunee raised beadwork
Karen Ann Hoffman, an award-winning Haudenosaunee raised beadwork artist, is bringing her art to Ripon College’s Caestecker Gallery of Art in the C.J. Rodman Center for the Arts from Feb. 28 to April 11. She will host an artist talk Feb. 28 at 7 p.m. in Demmer Recital Hall, followed by a reception. The exhibit […]
Drum, Dance Group to perform Feb. 7
Atimevu Drum and Dance Group will perform as part of the Chamber Music and Jazz at Ripon Series at Ripon College in Demmer Recital Hall, C.J. Rodman Center for the Arts on Friday, Feb. 7 at 7 p.m. The ensemble will also lead a song workshop open to the community at 4:15 p.m. that day […]
Professor Salas’ artwork showcased in Trout Museum exhibit
Ripon College’s Professor of Art Rafael Francisco Salas has contributed artwork to an upcoming exhibition, “A Creative Place: Art from Northeastern Wisconsin 1940 to Present,” at the Trout Museum of Art in downtown Appleton, Wisconsin, from Jan. 24 to May 18. An opening night reception will be held on Jan. 24 from 5-8 p.m. It […]