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La Casita presents free workshop on theater and social change
The La Casita Cultural Center, 109 Otisco St., Syracuse, will present an introductory workshop on the use of theater as a means for social change on Saturday, Jan. 21, from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. The workshop is free and open to…
Discounted tickets available to Syracuse theater and opera through Pulse holiday special
Give the gift of arts of culture this holiday season, or enjoy your own inexpensive night at the theater. While tickets last, the Pulse Performing Arts Series is offering discounted tickets as part of a holiday promotion for SU students,…
Children’s touring production ‘New Kid’ to have additional public performances Dec. 3 and 10 at Syracuse Stage
Public performances of this year’s Bank of America Children’s Tour “New Kid,” produced by Syracuse Stage and the Department of Drama in Syracuse University’s College of Visual and Performing Arts (VPA), will be held at noon on Dec. 3 and…
A fantastical, musical adventure for the holidays in ‘The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe’
London. The war is on and the bombs are falling. Four children—Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy—flee the perils of the Blitz to the safety of the countryside. In an old wardrobe, they discover a portal to the land of Narnia,…
Sherman presents video art in Nova Scotia
Tom Sherman, professor of art video in the Department of Transmedia in the College of Visual and Performing Arts, presented his recent video art at the ADJA Gallery in Liverpool, Nova Scotia. He also presented his video and lecture at the McLuhan100 Conference in Toronto on Nov. 10. His presentation was “Technology as language: Cultural engineering begets personal humans.”
VPA’s Waggoner releases ‘Terror and Memory’
Andrew Waggoner, professor of composition in the Setnor School of Music in the College of Visual and Performing Arts, just had his new CD, “Terror and Memory” released on Albany Records.
Rodriguez co-authors ‘Liminal Traces: Performing, Storying, and Embodying Postcoloniality’
Amardo Rodriguez, professor of communication and rhetorical studies in the Department of Communication and Rhetorical Studies in the College of Visual and Performing Arts, co-authored the new book “Liminal Traces: Performing, Storying, and Embodying Postcoloniality” (Sense Publishers, 2011).
Godfrey conducts for Yale Russian Chorus Alumni concert
Daniel S. Godfrey, professor of composition in VPA’s Setnor School of Music, was one of two conductors in a concert by the Yale Russian Chorus Alumni at St. Michael’s Episcopal Church in Litchfield, Conn.
‘Fuddy Meers’ presents hilarious antics in a world where nothing is what it seems
With moments like a wild carnival ride, throwing the characters back and forth between perception and reality, playwright David Lindsay-Abaire masters off-beat humor in “Fuddy Meers” with a colorful cast of characters consisting of a lisping, limping man; a pot-smoking…
Syracuse Stage, SU Drama to participate in nationwide premiere of ‘Standing On Ceremony: The Gay Marriage Plays’
Witty, warm and occasionally wacky, “Standing On Ceremony: The Gay Marriage Plays” is an evening of new short plays by an A-list lineup of writers with two Pulitzer Prizes, four Obies, one Emmy and three Tony nominations. Be there as…