- Alma Becker, nationally recognized theater director and longtime member of Skidmore's Theater Department, died June 2, 2013, following a long illness. She was 67.
- The fall Black Box production is Len Jenkin's Pilgrims of the Night, directed by Alma Becker, a story that is bizarre and funny, tender and wise.
- Skidmore presents the play that was translated and adapted by Jeffrey Hatcher and Paolo Emilio Landi. The original, written in 1743, is a high-energy production in which comedy and farce abound. (At left: Tristan Schaffer-Goldman '11, Elly Smokler '11. Grace Troxell '13 photo)