Year: 2014

  Broken hearts in paper bags and love in big red sacks. Amidst snowy-white evergreens and under a starry sky the Tower Players began their production of “Almost Maine” yesterday. They continue performing through Saturday night at 8 p.m. in the Sage Center for the Arts’ Markel Auditorium. John Cariani’s contemporary “real romantic comedy” meets...

The summer movie season of box office wars waged among popcorn flicks and blockbuster spectacles has ended, and critics and moviegoers alike are gearing up for the films to change like trees from green to gold. Awards season brings films built not as cash cows, but as art to be submitted in contest for a...

When describing pop-icon Lady Gaga, the words “smooth jazz” and “easy-listening” do not come to mind. However, the young megastar has yet another game-changing move up her sequined sleeve.  She and standards legend Tony Bennett just released a collaborative album titled “Cheek to Cheek,” which samples a range of jazz classics from the Great American...

Director of String Studies Melissa Knecht will spend the semester on sabbatical, focusing her efforts on finishing a book, studying other professors in action, and performing with professional string ensembles. Danae Witter and Emily Rolka, both commuting from Ann Arbor, will work together to take on Knecht’s immense workload. “[Knecht] typically teaches 16-18 private lessons...

Hillsdale students are channeling their passion for dance by teaching community lessons. From ballet to swing dancing, students are sharing the beauty of dance with peers, professors’ children, Hillsdale community members and more. With the help of these college students, little girls are learning to pirouette, twirl, and leap, and students are swinging, hopping, and...