Next week swords will flash and guns will fire in Markel auditorium when the Tower Players perform Pedro Calderón’s tragicomedy “Life is a Dream.” Shows will run Oct. 3 to 6 at 7:30 p.m. with a matinee on Saturday, Oct. 6 at 2 p.m. Pedro Calderón de la Barca’s 20th century Spanish play recalls the...
Category: Sage Center of the Arts
Professional Artist Series kicks off with ‘The Shape of Color’
Julio Suarez, assistant professor of art, sees the world in a series of abstract shapes and colors interacting with each other. “I’m very interested in color, in mixing,” Suarez said. “Everything is made up of color, a mosaic that makes up our visual field.” In his upcoming art show, titled “The Shape of Color,” Suarez...
Festival of Student Work offers hardship, hope, and a little humor
George Washington, Mormon missionaries, and an ex-girlfriend from high school will all make an appearance as characters in the Quilhot Black Box Theatre in the Festival of Student Work. The festival will include three student-directed one-act plays: “Hello Out There!,” “The Bear,” and “Wanda’s Visit.” In between these performances will be two 10-minute plays: “Take...
With ‘Straw Hat,’ a senior tackles a rare challenge
“Actors ready?” “Ready,” the students under the stage lights said. “Actors go,” senior Elena Creed replied as she paced the audience rows in Markel Auditorium with the discerning eye of a director. Creed is in her final stretch of directing “An Italian Straw Hat — A Five Act Comedy With Song,” which opens April 25....
Keely Rendle: A violin for a voice
Practice makes perfect, but Keely Rendle’s talent makes practice short and rewarding. By the time most winners of the annual concerto competition step on stage to solo with the orchestra, they will have prepared their pieces for a full year. A winner of this year’s competition, sophomore Keely Rendle didn’t leaf through the pages of...