It's not just the weather that will keep Buffalo steamy this summer. The Center for the Arts will host an array of distinguished national performing acts while summer classes are in session.The summer calendar will open with an appearance by journalist Cokie Roberts on May 1.
It's time for a little show-and-tell, and Madonna's finally ready to talk.Her 10th studio album, "American Life," was made available as a streaming download on MTV's "The Leak" Web site on April 16, a first for both Madonna and the cable music network.The title track, and the album's first single, is a pro-peace anthem that encapsulates the album's mantra: Through self-evaluation, peace is possible.
Though not observable in the icy sky, UB's own brand of stars were visible last week. The professionals of Hollywood and New York's entertainment industries visited the classes of the department of media studies, discussing the business and the artistic creativity, hoping to give students an inspired push into the professional world.Co-sponsored by the departments of media studies, theatre and dance, English and communication, the second annual Celebrity Scholar Seminar Series hosted 10 industry professionals for student lectures, including Hollywood director James Foley and former Saturday Night Live writer Alan Zweibel.
Peter Cincotti is a few short steps from entering a career similar to artists like young pop-opera singer Josh Groban and his female counterpart, 17-year-old Charlotte Church.
Often mistaken as background decoration to leading actors, the chorus of a musical is usually the last introduced in the opening song and the first to bow at curtain call.
The man on the other end of the phone didn't know me. His voice was as smooth as crushed concrete, his personality as comforting as a cold sore.
When Gregory Hines opened his sold-out concert at the Center for the Arts Saturday night with the jazz-rock of "I Just Want to Have Some Fun," he clearly meant it.Hines is legendary in all aspects of the entertainment industry, but mainly for his incredible tap dancing and Broadway crooning.
Theater design can make one production of a play drastically different from the next, rendering the work of a theater designer, who works with costumes, sets, props and lighting, extremely important.In the exhibit "Empty Space 2003: Students Design for Theatre," which is running until Friday, April 27 in the CFA Art Department Gallery, students in the Department of Theatre and Dance will display the various environments they have created for productions throughout the school year.This is the second time the department has held such an exhibit, the first of which was held three years ago.
Lovers Serse and Amastre from George Friedrich Handel's opera "Serse," are engaged in levels of dishonesty, betrayal and threats of suicide reminiscent of modern-day soap operas.
When students assembled in September to begin production on the Department of Theatre and Dance's "Birdbath," they knew their work would be memorable.The project, which cultivated the skills and talents of over a dozen student artists, is a multimedia presentation of Leonard Melfi's one-act romance, "Birdbath." Stretching the script's 30-minute length into a one-hour hybrid of drama, poetry, dance, singing and video projection, "Birdbath" demonstrates the result of a good collaboration.Jamie Elvey, a sophomore theater major and performer in "Birdbath," said the style of production is like nothing else she's worked on before."Most theater is geared toward the end product," Elvey said.
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