Rocky Horror Photos
Dunkirk NY – For those of you interested in such things, the picture below is a link to the Picasa site of our production shots of Rocky Horror, as well as past SUNY Fredonia productions.
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…meditations on the art of theatre…
a poor player
...that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more...
Theater – NY TImes
- Music Review: For This Musical Couple, It’s Simply a Matter of Chemistry September 8, 2010Barbara Cook and Michael Feinstein sing a program of standards at Feinstein’s at Loews Regency. […]By STEPHEN HOLDEN
- Theater Review | 'Vision Disturbance': Seeing in Just 2 Dimensions as Her Marriage Breaks Up September 8, 2010In Christina Masciotti’s “Vision Disturbance,” a Greek-born woman experiences a strange eye disorder while going through a divorce. […]By BEN BRANTLEY
- Critic’s Notebook: Ah, Hamlet, I Thought I Knew You Well September 8, 2010Hedda and Hamlet, Nora and Blanche. Once in a while, an actor will shake your preconceptions of these classic characters. […]By BEN BRANTLEY
- Soap Suds by Day, Political Drama by Night September 8, 2010The actress Florencia Lozano of “One Life to Live” has written “underneathmybed” — an Off Broadway play about Argentina’s “disappeared” — that is anything but soapy. […]By PATRICK HEALY
- Superstar! Molly Shannon Joins 'Promises, Promises' September 8, 2010Ms. Shannon will take over the role of Marge MacDougall from Katie Finneran on Oct. 12. […]By DAVE ITZKOFF
Community Arts Network News
- Special Notice to our Community Arts Network friends August 31, 2010Dear CAN friends and APInews subscribers, We are writing to let you know that we will be closing the Community Arts Network website on Labor Day, September 6, 2010. As you’re probably aware, we have spent much of the past year trying to develop a stable environment for CAN to move forward, but in the current economic environment those efforts have not been f […]
- Education Department's i3 Grant Deadline: May 12 April 30, 2010May 12, 2010, is the deadline to apply for the U.S. Department of Education's Investing in Innovation (i3) competition, part of the $5 billion investment in school reform in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Applications may be submitted by individual schools, school districts or entrepreneurial nonprofits in partnership with schools. Applicat […]
- Education Secretary Arne Duncan: Arts Not a Frill April 29, 2010"The arts can no longer be treated as a frill," said U.S. Department of Education Secretary Arne Duncan in an address to the Arts Education Partnership National Forum, April 9, 2010. "Now-- as we move forward with reauthorizing the Elementary and Secondary Education Act--is the time to rethink and strengthen arts education. I believe education […]
CAN Blog
- Shakira Investigating New Arizona Law, Racial Profiling April 29, 2010Colombian singer Shakira is visiting Phoenix today over concerns that a sweeping new state law cracking down on illegal immigration will lead to racial profiling, says Amanda Lee Myers in the Huffington Post (4/29/10.) The Grammy winner was set to meet with Phoenix's police chief and mayor to learn more about how the law will be implemented if it goes i […]
- Measuring Impact of National and Community Service April 27, 2010For those CAN readers interested in service and service-learning: The Chronicle of Philanthropy recently reported that Patrick Corvington, the head of the Corporation for National and Community Service, is developing a five-year strategic plan to transform the agency’s approach to service to become more "results oriented." Corvington, who describes […]
- Arts Administrators: Are You Making Too Much $$? April 26, 2010Times are tough, so many New York cultural executives are taking pay cuts, say Robin Pogrebin and Kate Taylor in the N.Y. Times (4/25/10) "Glenn D. Lowry, director of the Museum of Modern Art, earned $2.7 million in the year that ended in June 2008, including several one-time bonuses and the cost of his apartment in the tower beside the museum. But in t […]
Fredonia Theatre and Dance
- Some Things Speak for Themselves September 7, 2010From time to time our students will do something or create something that we think really speaks to how much they enjoy their time here, and how much their time here means to them as developing artists and adults. Below is a video created by Danielle Pelcher ’10, who graduated in May with a BFA […]
- More exciting things to come… September 7, 2010People always seem to ask me why I always seem so tired after the first week of school, and I think that’s a feeling mutual of most of this fine theater department. I always hesitate hoping to find the right response and it always comes out and without fail “I guess I’m just busy.” Since […]
- Department Secretary Vicki Gage to Retire September 4, 2010After 14 years of service to the Department of Theatre and Dance, Ms. Vicki Gage had announced her intention to retire effective September 29th. The State of New York has offered to many SUNY employees an early retirement incentive package, and “Miss Vicki” (as she is known) decided this was a good time to take […]
Tom,
Wonderful photo’s. SUNY Fredonia still puts on some of the most beautiful productions I have ever seen(In and out of Academia).
So what’s next? Do you have another production to direct this season? Act in?