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The student newspaper of Wellesley College since 1901

The Wellesley News

The student newspaper of Wellesley College since 1901

The Wellesley News

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First Mandarin-language play “Sunrise” makes theater history at Wellesley

Alina Edwards, Staff Writer | December 4, 2024

On Friday, Oct. 18, the cast and crew behind “Sunrise” (“日出”), Wellesley College Upstage’s first theatrical production of the semester, made Wellesley history. “Sunrise” is the first...

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Camp Half-Blood Comes to Alumnae Hall in Upstage Performance

Phoebe Grandi | February 7, 2024

From Feb. 1 to 4, Wellesley College’s student-run theater organization, Upstage, performed five showings of "The Lightning Thief: The Percy Jackson Musical" in the Ruth Nagel Jones Blackbox Theater in...

Dying of Dysentery in Upstage's Production of "The Trail to Oregon!"

Dying of Dysentery in Upstage’s Production of “The Trail to Oregon!”

Morgan Gallegos | February 22, 2023

CW: mentions of colonization and other forms of violence against Indigenous people Death comes to us all, but in “The Trail to Oregon!” it comes not as an act of fate but as a consequence of...

Big Alison (Micah Fong ’22) and her father (Kaiya Wilson ’24) "in the car."

Upstage produces lesbian musical “Fun Home”

Tekla Carlén | March 15, 2022

Content warning: (Reclamation of) lesbophobic slur, discussion of suicide Upstage, Wellesley’s student-run theater company, put on a production of “Fun Home” this past weekend from March 10 to 13....

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