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Connective Corridor buses transform into performance spaces
Over the next two weeks, passengers on board select Connective Corridor buses will get a taste of the arts. Three buses will feature artists at work as part of the “’In Motion’ series.” The acting, poetry and dance performances will…
Syracuse Stage announces 40th anniversary season
Classic, contemporary works offer celebration of theater
Department of Drama Presents ‘Quilters’ a joyous, moving, musical celebration from the American Frontier
The memories, hopes, dreams and prayers of the indomitable women of the American frontier enliven this hauntingly beautiful musical. Based on oral histories from the pioneers of the prairie states, “Quilters” celebrates with unassuming honesty and simplicity the fears, joys,…
Syracuse Stage’s ‘The Brothers Size’ moving to leading theaters in South Africa
Syracuse Stage’s production of Tarell Alvin McCraney’s The Brothers Size, directed by Producing Artistic Director Timothy Bond, will move to leading theaters in South Africa, made possible by support from the Robert Sterling Clark Foundation. “The Brothers Size” began rehearsing…
Ping Chong & Company part of disabilities panel discussion at Newhouse
Syracuse University’s ArtsEngage and the Goldring Arts Journalism Program welcome members of Ping Chong & Company for a panel discussion about its theatrical production “Inside/Out … voices from the disability community.” The discussion is part of Undesirable Elements, an ongoing…
VPA’s Cas Holman wins Design Distinction from I.D. Magazine
Cas Holman, assistant professor of industrial and interaction design in the College of Visual and Performing Arts’ Department of Design, had her design for the Children’s Workyard Kit, a custom play feature for the High Line on Manhattan’s West Side,…
‘Red,’ sizzling bio-drama of famed painter Mark Rothko, to run at Syracuse Stage March 7-25
Play won 2010 Tony Award for Best Play The 2010 Tony Award-winner for Best Play, ‘Red’ is an intense and exciting bio-drama of the famed abstract expressionist painter Mark Rothko at the time that he was working on a commission…
VPA’s John Laverty produces new album ‘Rock Stars,’ featuring two renowned musicians
John Laverty, professor of applied music and performance in the College of Visual and Performing Arts’ Rose, Jules R. and Stanford S. Setnor School of Music, has produced the new album “Rock Stars” on Mark Records, which features soloists Joseph…
‘The Lower Depths’: Provocative portrait of outcasts from master of Russian realism
A masterpiece of Russian realism, “The Lower Depths,” was Maxim Gorky’s first great play, and its premiere production in 1902 helped establish the reputation of the famed Moscow Art Theatre and its influential director, Constantine Stanislavsky. Presented by the Department…
SU’s Ray Smith Symposium presents expert on early modern English drama Feb. 23-24
The Ray Smith Symposium in Syracuse University’s College of Arts and Sciences continues its yearlong examination of “Sex and Power from the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment” with a mini-residency by an expert in early modern English drama. Thomas King,…