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Spring LaRose

Deputy Arts Editor

Spring is a deputy arts editor for the Daily. Spring is a sophomore who has not yet declared a major and can be reached at Spring.LaRose@tufts.edu.

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Arts

‘Undertone’ is sonically inventive and thematically banal

By Spring LaRose | March 10

The podcast is a hot topic among media forms — an infinite, on-demand radio ecosystem of entertainment and indoctrination. Given its rather recent climb into the mainstream, the podcast remains mostly untrodden ground as far as film goes — and that makes it very fertile ground. “Undertone” is a bold experiment with the podcast in film, using it as a conduit of psychological and supernatural terror.

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Union Comedy’s ‘Here It Comes!’ delivers sketch with improv flair

By Spring LaRose | February 11

A man walks out in pink spandex and a pig nose, and the crowd bursts into laughter that is both stifled and uproarious. The dim, purple lights of The Rockwell cast him in both shadow and spotlight. Soon, the stage is filled with a whole cast of barn animals, a farmer’s daughter and, of course, a sexed-up song set to the tune of “Belle.” This is the grand finale – and it’s been a real good time.

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Theater

‘The Cloud Collector’ explores imagination and identity

By Spring LaRose | January 30

This abridged production of the musical “The Cloud Collector” is part of The Rockwell’s Work-in-Progress Showcase, a series that allows artists to workshop pieces for a live audience. The show tells the story of Hazel (Robin Elmer), a young transgender playwright who reconnects with his lost girlhood in a fantasy dreamworld.

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‘Hamnet’ breathes new life into Shakespeare

By Spring LaRose | November 24

William Shakespeare is, arguably, the most influential writer in history, with lines that have been parroted both in and out of the context of his plays for centuries. “Hamnet” is a testament to the timeless power of Shakespeare — for the long-cliched words “To be, or not to be,” somehow feel as fresh onscreen in 2025 as they must have onstage at the start of the 17th century. “Hamnet” is the newest film from director Chloé Zhao, based on the novel of the same name by Maggie O’Farrell. It is a work of historical fiction about the life of Shakespeare, focusing on his wife and children rather than his work.

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‘Lizard Boy’ upholds and reimagines the hero’s story

By Spring LaRose | November 5

The Roberts Studio Theatre feels like an underground rock club. The stage is set minimally, with panels of graffiti, black boxes, a piano and other musical instruments lit by hazy, colorful lights. The audience is still murmuring when the three characters that make up the cast of “Lizard Boy” casually walk onstage to tune their various instruments. It’s as if a concert is about to start, rather than a musical. The opening display is very intentionally alternative. “Lizard Boy” is a story about an outsider, and the show itself is situated on the boundaries between sci-fi and myth, and between the quirky and the cliché.

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The 24-Hour musical irreverently romps through Oz

By Spring LaRose | October 3

The 24-hour musical: where silence on the Cohen Auditorium stage is rewarded with raucous laughter and applause from the audience. We’re not in some polished, rehearsed Kansas anymore — we have landed in a raucous, occasionally ad-libbed Oz.

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‘The Hills of California’ is a tortured and beautiful dream

By Spring LaRose | September 25

A play is isolated from reality, forever fixed in its own little pocket of space and time. “The Hills of California” is distinctly aware of this fact, presenting the house the story unfolds in as both a sanctuary and a prison, where dreams are expressed and reminisced on but never able to come to fruition. 

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‘Together’ bends body horror into romance

By Spring LaRose | September 2

When love rears its head, it’s not always a pretty sight. “Together” embraces this truth and stretches it to its most grotesque limit. Michael Shanks’ new film is not only a supernatural body horror, but also a comedy and a relationship drama. The fusion of genres is literalized in the fusion of flesh — a process that is terrifying, ugly, funny and erotic all at once.

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Arts

Erin Zhu and the evolution of an artist

By Spring LaRose | May 15

“To be a fly on the wall, basically, is the dream,” graduating senior Erin Zhu said, smiling. In the background, there was the quiet hum of students in the Mayer Campus Center. Zhu, an experienced college journalist, was finally on the other side of the interview.

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