Remembering Joan Pape, BA 1965

One of my favorite backstage stories that Joan Pape used to tell, always to my and whoever was around’s amusement, was about a time she was doing a perfectly dreadful “avant-garde” play that was, if possible, even more confusing for the audience than for the actors. Whatever it was meant to be had never revealed […]
After long wait, live theatre returns to Purdue with ‘Nell Gwynn’ livestream

Skyler Tipton was on stage the last time the Purdue Department of Theatre delivered a live main-stage performance: March 1, 2020. Back then, Tipton and his fellow castmates in “Angels in America, Part One: Millennium Approaches” had no reason to believe that it would be the last in-person theatrical performance at Purdue for nearly a […]
Designing for seniors

For Diane Smith, a home needs to be much more than just a visually attractive living space. A resident of Westminster Village, a West Lafayette senior living community, Smith considers all of the functionality and design elements that transform the place she lives into a home. “It’s efficiency, use of storage, considering who is going to be […]