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Point Park University's Student-Run Newspaper

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

Senior Madison Downing performs original one-woman show "Smile Sweetie" in the JVH auditorium.

Senior debuts one-woman show ‘Smile Sweetie’

Written By Brynn Rees, Co-Sports Editor March 20, 2024

Sometimes, you have to let it all out by screaming into your pillow.   This is a concept presented by senior Madison Downing in her piece, “Smile Sweetie.” Downing walked the audience through...

Jordan Threatt, senior musical theater major, passionately grabs a payphone during a performance of RENT.

RENT was due: COPA students serve in recent production

Written By Ana Bellamy, Co-Features/Arts and Entertainment Editor March 20, 2024

Point Park's production of RENT at the Pittsburgh Playhouse this past week successfully revitalized the show that broke ground on Broadway 30 years ago.  RENT follows a year in the life of a group...

Lisa Frankenstein revives the eighties

Written By Ana Bellamy, Co-editor for Feats and A/E March 13, 2024

Diablo Cody’s newest film “Lisa Frankenstein” is a great rom-com for the weird and the ‘80s obsessed. Set in the late 1980s, Lisa Swallows, a teenage girl obsessed with death and the macabre, falls...

Outside the theater in New York City that Hadestown the musical is currently performed at.

Livin’ in up on top in Hadestown

Written By Erin Yudt, Editor-In-Chief March 6, 2024

This past weekend I had the amazing opportunity to see “Hadestown” on Broadway. During some free time at the Intercollegiate Broadcasting Systems Conference, my friend and former roommate Alexa and...