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The Arts
October 20, 2017 | 12:49 pm

Gift makes city’s musical theater affordable for students

A new initiative of the Institute for Performing Arts, supported in part by a fund established by alumni Dan ’82 and Marcia Mantell ’83, makes it possible for more students to experience a professional performance in the city of Rochester.

topics: Institute for Popular Music,
The Arts
October 10, 2017 | 12:15 pm

Timely political drama plays out on stage

The play, created directly from transcripts, chronicles the 1954 Atomic Energy Commission hearing in which the physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer is called before the commission.

topics: Department of English, featured-post-side, humanities, International Theatre Program, Nigel Maister, politics, School of Arts and Sciences,
Voices & Opinion
October 3, 2017 | 07:54 am

Remembering Tom Petty: ‘A new traditionalist’

John Covach, director of the University’s Institute for Popular Music, remembers the pop and rock values of Tom Petty. “Petty was not a new waver after all, but rather someone moving forward by looking back.”

topics: Arthur Satz Department of Music, Institute for Popular Music, John Covach, obituaries, School of Arts and Sciences,
The Arts
September 29, 2017 | 12:46 pm

From Homer in the classroom to Meat Loaf on stage

The former Midnight Rambler is finding success on the London stage. Bat Out of Hell: The Musical makes its North American premiere in Toronto in October.

topics: Class of 2012, featured-post-side, International Theatre Program, Kim Kowalke, Midnight Ramblers, profile, Russell Peck,
Society & Culture
September 25, 2017 | 07:59 am

Whose heritage do we honor when building—and destroying—monuments?

What’s the function of a monument? Who should be honored with one—and who gets to decide? Richard Leventhal, a professor of anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania, will explore these questions in the second annual James Conlon Memorial Lecture.

topics: Department of Religion and Classics, events, James Conlon Memorial Lecture, School of Arts and Sciences,
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