Peter Jacobs '13 gives us his take on the Oscar-nominated film The Fighter.

The second show of the season, The Brothers Size opened this weekend at The Kitchen Theatre Company.

The first show of the season at the Schwartz Center offers up a good dose of comedy and some Big Love.

TV is not reality, but wouldn't it be nice if it was?

“Go see a play at the Kitchen Theatre” isn’t yet on Cornell’s infamous list of 161 Things to Do Before You Graduate — and that’s a crime.

“Are you a virgin?!”

No, it’s not an advance of any sort. It’s an audience filter for the innocent, a means to weed out and expose Rocky Horror seedlings to the comically sensuous light of a theater experience unlike any other. A gleaming stripper pole, a monitor fashioned out of scored cardboard and a human torso, tasseled pasties and the Time Warp. A typical weekend, right? And what better way of spending it than seeing your classmates decked out in fishnets, body-glitter and six-inch platforms? You’ll find yourself compelled to stand up and boogie with your fellow confused but excited patrons, and you’ll be impressed by how many guys have it in them to rock a corset and a garter belt.

Some things are never quite left behind from high school: the acne, the immaturity, the insecurities, the need for social acceptance, but most importantly, the unexplainable urge to create drama. We all claim to hate it and that we’re too good for it. But, come on. Who are we kidding? We’re not in high school, but our mentality is perpetually stuck in it. We thrive on drama because it’s probably the most exciting thing that happens in Ithaca other than a frat party and maybe acing a prelim. It always starts with something small. Then through a series of he-said-she-said miscommunications, one thing leads to another until it finally explodes and turns into an episode of Gossip Girl. And I’m not going to deny it: girls do start most, if not all, of the drama and insist on adding fuel to the fire. Sometimes, for absolutely no reason. Just because, y’know, you have to tell someone if Amanda is being, like, such a bitch — gawd!

BOP: The North Star is an original play (premiered at the Kitchen Theater Sunday evening!) written and directed by Emilie Stark-Menneg. It was created through a collaborative process involving the actors, musicians and dancers in the play, as well as with Cornell English professor Prof. Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon, upon whose poetry the play is based. The play incorporates six poems from Professor Van Clief-Stefanon’s newest collection of poetry, Open Interval, recently nominated for a National Book Award. The focal poem, which returns several times in the 60-minute play, is entitled (can you guess?) “Bop: The North Star.”

Going to see a play at the Schwartz Center for Performing Arts is a way to escape the doldrums of life — each and every performance has its own energy. The latest at the Schwartz, Nice People Dancing to Good Country Music is no different. The play, penned by acclaimed playwright Lee Blessing and directed by Schwartz Center Artistic Director David Feldshuh, is a unique and hilarious comedy about ordinary people living ordinary lives in Houston, Texas, set at a bar called Nice People Dancing to Good Country Music.