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Connecticut Repertory Theatre adds “Cabaret Late Night” Event to Nutmeg Summer Series
Connecticut Repertory Theatre (CRT) Artistic Director Terrence Mann and Executive Producer Matthew J. Pugliese announce “Terry’s Cabaret Late Nite.” A special event added to the Nutmeg Summer Series schedule of programming, which will be held on Saturday June 24, 2017 following the performance of “Noises Off”. “This is the first step towards offering more kinds […]
DMD Student to Premiere Comedy TV Pilot, BuyTown
Ivan and Theo are employees in a small grocery store in Eastern Connecticut surviving what appears to be another mundane shift (unruly customers, power failure, wild animals, bathroom duty, etc.) until they discover that the newly hired cashier is not as innocent as he seems to be. BuyTown is a half hour comedic television pilot episode […]
Final Parts of the Complete Beethoven Cycle to Be Performed
UConn’s Jorgensen Center for the Performing Arts announces the return of the award-winning Dover Quartet to perform Parts 5 and 6 of the 6-part complete Beethoven Quartet Cycle, comprising all 18 of the composer’s works for string quartet spread throughout Jorgensen’s 2016/2017 concert season. Having completed Parts 1 through 4 in previous Jorgensen appearances, the […]
First-Ever Banners and Cranks Mini-Festival at the Ballard
The Ballard Institute and Museum of Puppetry will present its first-ever Banners and Cranks Mini-Festival on April 14 and 15, 2017 in conjunction with its current exhibit Banners and Cranks: Paintings and Scrolls in Performance. The Banners and Cranks Mini-Festival will present cranky and cantastoria performances created by puppeteers, musicians, and artists from throughout the […]
‘100 Birds’ to Descend on the Ballard
A magical and whimsical, if not slightly chaotic, group of birds have flocked to the Ballard Institute and Museum of Puppetry! 100 Birds follows Jada Jones, captain of her middle school’s basketball team, who finds out that her school doesn’t have the money to get the team to their playoff game. The 100 Birds, an […]
UConn Art+Art History Hosts International Art+Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon Event
UConn Art & Art History stands in solidarity with the upcoming Art+Feminism Wiki Edit-a-thon. The disparity between males and females participating in media is shocking. Alarming statistics, such as less than 10% of Wikipedia contributors identify as female, show us that we must continue the struggle to have our voices and contributions heard. Let’s do […]
An Inspiring Voice for Peace to Sing March 23 at Jorgensen
Sanam Marvi, Pakistan’s inspiring diviner of South Asia’s humanist, folk, and Sufi texts, is a vocal warrior for tolerance, spirituality, and peace. Whether singing in Urdu, Sindhi, or Saraiki, Marvi finds comfort in the wisdom of Sufis, and in the couplets on divine love and devotion of the great poets. Reaching across generations and cultures […]
Benton Exhibit of Women Artists to Confront Portrayal and Recognition
Opening March 23, 2017 to coincide with Women’s History Month, three new exhibitions at the Benton highlight women artists. Objectifying Myself explores work by women artists, created between 1968-2005, which serve, to some degree, as self portraits. But these “self portraits” employ surrogate objects rather than depictions of the artists’ faces or bodies. Artists in […]
‘Twisted Tales’ to Terrorize Audiences at the Ballard!
Step right up ladies and gentlemen! Step right up and prepare to be shocked, delighted, and horrified during Doc Foster’s Twisted Tales! The one and only Doctor Thaddeus J. Foster rolls into town to beguile audiences with his rare and ghastly brand of storytelling. Nowhere else will audiences have the opportunity to marvel as monsters, […]
A UConn SFA Grad explains his journey from these very walls to the big bad world.
Michael Siporin Levine, 2011 UConn BFA, sat down in Storrs Center’s Barnes & Noble in awe of how much has changed on campus in a few short years. After earning his BFA in printmaking at UConn, he continued on to graduate school at the University of Georgia and earned his MFA in 2014. After a […]