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Ada Performing Arts presents “Footloose”
#inform-video-player-1 .inform-embed { margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 20px; } #inform-video-player-2 .inform-embed { margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 20px; } Ada Performing Arts students from 5th to 12th grades partnered with Ada High Cheer and AHS Student United Way to support the Cougars as they took to the field against Ft. Gibson Friday. Over 250 students danced in a…
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Wilkes University Welcomes New Faculty Members
Wilkes University recently welcomed fifteen new faculty members for the fall semester. The new faculty and their areas of specialization include: Martha Agbeli has joined the College of Health and Education as an assistant professor in the Passan School of Nursing. She previously served as an assistant professor in the Tan Chinfen Graduate School of…
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San Diego weekend arts events: ‘Korea in Color,’ haunted theater and a 19th century courtesan
Visual art For more arts events, or to submit your own, visit the KPBS/Arts Calendar. If you want more time to plan, get the KPBS/Arts newsletter in your inbox every Thursday to see event picks for the weeks ahead. ‘Korea in Color: A Legacy of Auspicious Images’ opens this weekend at the San Diego Museum…
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A performing arts center dedicated to the immigrant experience is opening in Inwood
New York’s cultural offerings will soon include productions mounted at The People’s Theatre: Centro Cultural Inmigrante, a 19,000-square-foot space in a new, mixed-use building at 407 West 206th Street in Manhattan’s Inwood neighborhood. Set to open in 2026, the new destination has been funded by a variety of figures, including local theater darling Lin-Manuel Miranda…
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Sweet and Sad presented by Performing Arts of Woodstock
As the curtain rises again on the Apple family of Rhinebeck, theatergoers are in for a poignant exploration of connections, crises, and shared history. Whether you’re already acquainted with the Apple family from Performing Arts of Woodstock’s (PAW) previous production, That Hopey Changey Thing, or are stepping into their world for the first time, Sweet…
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CPA debuts second ‘Artists/Athletes’ video – The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Dizzying footwork and percussive kicks mix with an original score punctuated by tap beats and soccer sounds in the latest “Artists are Athletes / Athletes are Artists” video from Carolina Performing Arts. The second installment in the series features Carolina women’s soccer player Sam Meza and Michelle Dorrance, founder of Dorrance Dance and an award-winning…
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Check out the musical “The Lightning Thief” at the Academy for the Performing Arts and Chagrin Falls High School
[embedded content] CHAGRIN FALLS, Ohio — If you’re looking for a little local entertainment this weekend, the Academy for the Performing Arts at Chagrin Falls High School opens their 2023-24 theater season on Thursday night with the musical “THE LIGHTNING THIEF: The Percy Jackson Musical.” The musical, based on the book of the same name…
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Theatre UAB presents “Everybody” Nov. 8-11 and Nov. 15-18
In this modern take on a 15th-century morality play, follow Everybody as they journey through life’s greatest mystery: the meaning of living. Theatre UAB presents “Everybody,” a modern take on the 15th-century morality play “Everyman,” with shows Nov. 8-11 and Nov. 15-18, at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Theatre UAB is the performance company of…
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TBT: The “Artistic Necromancy” of Uday Shankar
In the October 1933 issue of The American Dancer, the predecessor to Dance Magazine, writer Basanta Koomar Roy profiled Uday Shankar on the eve of the Indian dance artist’s second U.S. tour. Roy wrote that Shankar was “endowed with such sensitive arms and hands that he is able to paint the Mudras in the air…
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Bombshell Dance Project revives expanded version of its immersive, ‘Clue’-inspired mystery
Bombshell Dance Project is reprising In the Conservatory with the Knife, an immersive murder mystery inspired by the board game Clue that allows audiences to roam three floors of the Wyly Theatre trying to solve the crime. Starring 12 female actors and dancers in scenes spread across four rooms, In the Conservatory has been expanded…
