Arts & Culture
Tony Award-Winning Rock Musical ‘Spring Awakening’ Closes SU Drama Season
Winner of eight Tony Awards, “Spring Awakening” is a hard-hitting rock musical adaptation of Frank Wedekind’s expressionist play. Set in late-19th-century Germany, the story follows Wendla Bergmann, Moritz Stiefel, Melchior Gabor and their peers as they struggle to understand the…
Ellen Bryant Voigt to Close Out Spring Carver Series
The poet Ellen Bryant Voigt will close out the spring 2014 Raymond Carver Reading Series at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 23, in Gifford Auditorium. A question-and-answer session will precede the reading from 3:45-4:30 p.m. The event is free and open…
Cruel April Series Concludes with Poetry Readings by Caturelli, Colasacco
Point of Contact’s annual poetry series Cruel April will conclude on April 24 with readings by Celia Caturelli (in its original Spanish with English translation) and John Colasacco. Part of Point of Contact’s annual poetry series Cruel April, the readings…
A Catalyst for Change
Leave it to Karin Ruhlandt, newly appointed interim dean-designate of The College of Arts and Sciences, to put a global spin on things. In 1999, when the Department of Chemistry was retooling its Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) program, the…
Jordan Firkey ’16 Named TracyLocke Scholarship Recipient
College of Visual and Performing Arts (VPA) sophomore Jordan Firkey has been named the 2014 recipient of the TracyLocke Scholarship in communications design. TracyLocke, an Omnicom global agency led by president and CEO Beth Ann Kaminkow ’89, established the TracyLocke…
SU Symphony, Concert Bands to Perform
The Syracuse University Symphony Band and Concert Band will present their final concerts of the season this week in the Rose and Jules R. Setnor Auditorium, Crouse College. Both concerts are free and open to the public. On Friday, April…
CSD Professor Wins Arts and Sciences Master’s Teaching Award
Soren Y. Lowell, assistant professor of communication sciences and disorders (CSD), is the recipient of the 2014 Prize for Excellence in Master’s Level Teaching in The College of Arts and Sciences. In conjunction with the award, she will address candidates…
Syracuse Stage Announces 2014/15 Season
Syracuse Stage announces its 2014/15 Season, featuring recent Broadway hits, award-winning shows, celebrated playwrights and an international exchange. Kicking things off in September is the raucous comedy and 2013 Tony winner for Best Play, “Vanya and Sonia and Masha and…
VPA Celebrates Arts in April
Each spring, the College of Visual and Performing Arts bustles with activity, with exhibitions, competitions, presentations, performances and talks by visiting artists and scholars. Many of these events represent a culmination of work by graduating seniors and graduate students. Highlights…
Kari Smiraglia Wins Grand Prize in Design-a-Throw Competition
Kari Smiraglia, a senior fashion design major in the Department of Design in the College of Visual and Performing Arts, was named the grand prize winner of the 2013 Design-a-Throw competition sponsored by Monterey Mills, one of the nation’s premier suppliers…