Category: Performing Arts

  • The sounds of the series: Community sing, five concerts featured in ECU performing arts season

    The sounds of the series: Community sing, five concerts featured in ECU performing arts season

    Much has changed in the years since Russian-born French pianist Alexander Brailowsky took the stage at East Carolina as a solo artist in the inaugural concert of what would become the S. Rudolph Alexander Performing Arts Series. In the more than six decades since, the series, named for former ECU assistant dean of student affairs…

  • Join The Festival Disney Music Program At Walt Disney World

    Join The Festival Disney Music Program At Walt Disney World

    Calling all educators! Here is a program from Disney that you simply must learn more about. It’s called Festival Disney, and it’s a music program held by the Imagination Campus in Walt Disney World, where students can improve performance skills and gain a competitive edge, all while enjoying the opportunity to explore the Walt Disney…

  • It’s an award-winning week in CT arts from ‘Angels in America’ to Jason Alexander

    It’s an award-winning week in CT arts from ‘Angels in America’ to Jason Alexander

    To make the Hartford Courant’s arts picks for this week, it helps to have a Pulitzer Prize. Eugene O’Neill, whose name adorns a theater center near his childhood home in New London, had four of them. Tony Kushner got one for “Angels in America,” which students are performing at Western Connecticut State University, and Bruce…

  • ECU initiative to give performing arts greater reach

    ECU initiative to give performing arts greater reach

    When East Carolina launched a performing arts series in 1962, it was to help bring the arts to eastern North Carolina. Now, as the S. Rudolph Alexander Performing Arts Series enters its 62nd season, it is finding new ways to offer cultural opportunities to the surrounding community. ECU Shares the Arts, the newest SRAPAS initiative,…

  • COAST Players begin ‘Seussical’ performances on Thursday

    COAST Players begin ‘Seussical’ performances on Thursday

    The COAST Players are inviting audiences to journey with them next week both to the Planet of Who, home to the smallest of the small, and to the jungle of Nool, home to the largest of all. The College of The Albemarle Student Players will begin performances of “Seussical,” a musical comedy based on the…

  • Experience Michiana | DeBartolo Performing Arts Center | Season 2023 | Episode 43

    Experience Michiana | DeBartolo Performing Arts Center | Season 2023 | Episode 43

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  • UIS Performing Arts Center gearing up for busy couple of weeks

    UIS Performing Arts Center gearing up for busy couple of weeks

    SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (WAND) — The University of Illinois Springfield Performing Arts Center is getting ready for a very busy next couple of weeks with four new shows set to take the stage. ‘Newsboys,’ a Christian music group performs on Saturday, November 4th and a few nights later on November 7th, ‘One Night of Queen,’ a…

  • Nebraska Arts Council announces State Arts Awards

    A number of organizations and individuals were honored at the recent Nebraska Arts Council 2023 State Arts Award ceremony. Here are the winners: Access to the Arts Circle Theatre. It provides performing arts opportunities and a voice for individuals with disabilities, both on and off stage. It produces two plays each year with all-ability casts…

  • From “Mouse” to “Marie” in SC Ballet’s Nutcracker at the Performing Arts Center

    The Nutcracker, Santa Clarita Ballet’s beloved holiday classic is returning to the Santa Clarita Performing Arts Center stage this December with three public performances of virtuosic dancing and Tchaikovsky’s memorable score.This year the ballet’s heroine, “Marie” will be danced by Jenna Lang, a graduating Senior at West Ranch High School. Jenna started as a  Mouse…

  • NSU School of Performing Arts to present faculty recital

    NSU School of Performing Arts to present faculty recital

    #inform-video-player-1 .inform-embed { margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 20px; } #inform-video-player-2 .inform-embed { margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 20px; } The Northeastern State University School of Performing Arts will be featuring a faculty recital from Dr. Jordan VanHemert, director of Jazz Studies, on Thursday, Nov. 2. VanHemert will showcase music he previously played on a tour with world-renowned flugelhornist…