The Arts

In Stephen Schottenfeld’s This Room Is Made of Noise, a down-on-his-luck handyman befriends an elderly widow of means. What’s a reader to think?

A Rochester research team is part of an inter-institutional project to document the history of the close-up, one of film and television’s most powerful techniques.

English professor Russell Peck is being remembered as much for his eminent medieval scholarship as his excellence in teaching.

By partnering with Black actors and artists, the International Theatre Program’s recent productions help give new dimension to marginalized characters.

Musicologist Cory Hunter identifies a notable contemporary shift in the century-old musical form.

Fellowship is the latest production commissioned as part of the International Theatre Program’s New Voice Initiative supporting early-career playwrights

The Pulitzer Prize–winning poet will give a reading as part of the University of Rochester’s 202–23 Hyam Plutzik Memorial Reading Series—one of the nation’s oldest literary reading series.

A partnership between City of Rochester schools and the Memorial Art Gallery leads to innovation in arts education and furthers the museum's mission to serve the Greater Rochester community.

Here are a few things to know about the literary masterpiece that has exhilarated and confounded its readers for 100 years.

This year’s Art of Science competition, which explores “the aesthetic beauty that results when science, art, and technology intersect,” drew more than 50 entries and more than 700 votes cast for People’s Choice.

Music theorist Matt BaileyShea explores the interrelationship between poetry, lyrics, and music in a new book.

When the Eastman Wind Ensemble was founded at the Eastman School of Music in 1952, it launched a movement in wind music.