Lauren Irving remembers telling her parents she was signing up with Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey. Given that she’d already spent years on the road — actually, on cruise ships — as a professional vocalist, her parents weren’t worried. Instead, her father recalled the excitement he felt as a boy, watching the circus train…

“The Bluegrass Mile” is the final show of Pittsburgh Playwrights Theatre Co.’s 20th season. That this new historical drama was written by company founder Mark Clayton Southers is fitting. That the former mill worker’s small, resourceful troupe has lasted for two decades is remarkable. But the production is just the latest step in Playwrights’ new…

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Several Penn State College of the Liberal Arts students immersed themselves in Spanish art, culture, history and language this summer during four weeks in Cadiz, Spain, as part of the “Spain Language and Culture” embedded course. The program, led by Miguel Ramirez-Bernal, assistant teaching professor of Spanish, and Susana Garcia-Prudencio, director…

ALBANY, N.Y. (NEWS10) — Community leaders in Albany unveiled plans for a new Black arts and culture center in the city. The Alice Moore Black Arts and Cultural Center is replacing the African-American Culture Center of the Capital Region, which was dissolved because of a lack of funding. The new organization will be housed in…

<!– SHOW ARTICLE –> Southeast Ohio’s nonprofit arts and culture industry generated $24,677,808 in economic activity in 2022, according to the newly released Arts & Economic Prosperity 6 (AEP6), an economic and social impact study conducted by Americans for the Arts and Buckeye Hills Regional Council, with support from the Ohio Arts Council and U.S.…

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WATCH NOW: On Oct. 17, 2023, the Waco City Council heard presentations and discussed the Waco downtown redevelopment Project, a proposed mixed-use development on city-owned and adjacent properties near city hall, and the proposed Waco Culture, Arts, and Performance Center, including design process and renderings. #lee-rev-content { margin:0 -5px; } #lee-rev-content h3 { font-family: inherit!important;…

When people picture a small city in upstate New York, it’s likely that very few envision a thriving hub of art, music, film and other cultures — unless that city is Ithaca. Ithaca has a long history of supporting and fostering the arts and this creates an ideal environment that every student — but especially…

LAWTON, Okla. (KSWO) – As the Oklahoma Arts Conference continues, leaders of the Comanche Nation made an appearance to highlight the tribe’s culture and artistry. The Comanche Nation hosted a panel during the conference focusing on their art and culture on Wednesday. They brought in a group of Comanche Youth Dancers for the panel. The…

Jeffrey Brown: Now 81, Herzog tells of his lifelong pursuit in creation of images in a new memoir, “Every Man for Himself and God Against All,” his childhood in poverty in a remote Bavarian village in the ruins of post-World War II Germany, his travels, often by foot, far and wide,his own visions that would…