More than 600 people crammed into McNamara Rehearsal Hall Friday, Saturday, and Sunday to watch Gilbert and Sullivan’s “Pirates of Penzance.” Never in my four years here have I seen so many attend Opera Workshop’s annual performance. I would know — I was always performing. The show attracted audiences in mass, because it’s a classic,...
Tomorrow night one apartment in Hillsdale will overflow with fine art, conversation, and clinking glasses as the Alpha Rho Tau art honorary holds its second ever art show. ART President senior Rachael Reynolds will host the event, called “Glorious to Gaze Upon,” in her apartment at 969 North Howell St. from 7:30 p.m. to 9:30...
Ellen Bryant Voigt, a poet who has been nominated for the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Pulitzer Prize for fiction, among others, read her work and lectured on the poetry of Randall Jarrell last Wednesday and Thursday as part of the Visiting Writers program. Her work includes “Kyrie,” “The...
An exhibit of graphic designer Kelly Salchow MacArthur’s work is on display in the Sage Center for the Arts until Nov. 19. Called “Repercussion,” the collection features digital designs with ecological messages. MacArthur is an associate professor of studio art and co-coordinator of graphic design at Michigan State University. She also competed in rowing in...
The 18-hour documentary series “The Vietnam War” opens with Bob Dylan’s “A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall,” setting the tone of casual American optimism at the outset of the ’60s. But it transitions to an admission of defeat: “America’s involvement in Vietnam began in secrecy,” the narrator intones. “It ended, 30 years later, in failure, witnessed...