Alex Novak is a senior arts editor at The Spectrum.
Most people don’t even know it’s there. The KCT serves as a creative outpost, an incubator for new ideas squirreled away within the winding hallways of Ellicott. The theater, like its namesake, is a hidden gem.
This past weekend, the Emerging Choreographers Showcase lit up the Katharine Cornell Theater (KCT) with dances that were beautiful, technical and, best of all, not afraid to be unserious.
The fifth Beatle, AI, helped them release their latest song. UB students grapple with the implications of A.I.-aided, posthumous releases. Will students “Let It Be” or will they “Come Together” against this new music trend?
Locally produced film “The Niagara Movement” tackles unexplored truths about The Civil Rights Movement that aren’t in your history books.
Photo: Graphic / Alex Novak, Image / Paolo Villanueva via Wikimedia Commons
1989 (Taylor’s Version) represented not only a reclamation of Swift’s masters, but a new twist on the lightning in a bottle pop record that redefined her career. Most UB students found themselves to be a total “Slut!” for her triumphant return.
Photo: Courtesy of Ken Smith / UB Department of Theatre and Dance
A musical rebirth: "Renascence" brings poet Edna St. Vincent Millay back to life through song, dance and emotionally intense performances. The show highlighted the meaning and importance of queer representation onstage.
The UB dance company Zodiaque ushered in its 49th fall season this weekend with a showcase that was as shocking as it was significant.
C3 Dining Hall on UB North Campus hoped that capitalizing on Taylormania would “make the whole place shimmer” with excitement.
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Lil Tay stepped out of the hearse and into a sports car: UB students react to the controversial child star’s comeback after announcement of her death.
Photo: Courtesy of Ken Smith
“Gruesome Playground Injuries” had its characters — and the audience — in stitches this past weekend at the Katharine Cornell Theater. Part of UB’s student-directed series of plays, the two-actor show follows three decades of Kayleen (Alissa di Cristo) and Doug’s (Brandan Booker) lives.
Katharine Cornell was "First Lady of the Theater." | Photos courtesy of the University at Buffalo Archives, graphic created by Alex Novak.
Katharine Cornell Theatre on UB's North Campus.
C3 decorated its food stations with fun facts about Taylor Swift.
C3 dining hall hosted "Taylor Swift night" on Thursday, Oct. 12.
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