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stills from five movies: Bye Bye Birdie, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, The Pajama Game, The King and I, and Damn Yankees.
The Arts
April 16, 2020 | 01:54 pm

What to stream: Add some Rochester to your queue

You’ll find University of Rochester connections in some of your favorite movies, musicals, and television series, all ready for binge watching.

topics: Eastman School of Music, featured-post-side, film, humanities,
four actors sitting on chairs on stage listening to a director.
The Arts
February 24, 2020 | 12:12 pm

A lottery picks the cast each night in production of Everybody

This spring, the University of Rochester’s International Theatre Program dives into the work of Everybody, and it is certainly not your typical theatrical production, with student actors playing a different role each night.

topics: events, International Theatre Program, School of Arts and Sciences,
dance class with one dancer doing a demonstration in the center of a studio.
The Arts
February 13, 2020 | 03:43 pm

Love of the dance floor: 10 years of inspireDANCE

The inspireDANCE Festival—a signature event from the University’s Program of Dance and Movement—features nine days of more than 30 master classes, workshops, and performances on the River Campus.

topics: events, inspireDANCE Festival, Institute for the Performing Arts, Missy Pfohl Smith,
Richard Fischoff
The Arts
October 25, 2019 | 12:34 pm

Reel time: Richard Fischoff ’68 had big role in popular movies

Richard Fischoff ’68 didn’t star in Kramer vs. Kramer, Sleepless in Seattle, The Big Chill, or Fatal Attraction. But the veteran Hollywood producer and executive played a major role in those movies becoming box office hits.

topics: alumni, Department of History, School of Arts and Sciences,
Joan Rubin and Wendi Heinzelman talking and laughing on the quad
The Arts
October 9, 2019 | 12:04 pm

What engineers and humanists can learn from one another

To Joan Shelley Rubin, the Ani and Mark Gabrellian Director of the Humanities Center, and Wendi Heinzelman, dean of the Hajim School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, engineering and the humanities are strongly connected.

topics: faculty, featured-post-side, Hajim School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Humanities Center, interdisciplinary, Joan Shelley Rubin, thought leadership, Wendi Heinzelman,
artist rendering of planned arts center
The Arts
October 2, 2019 | 02:17 pm

Construction on Sloan Performing Arts Center to begin in November

Construction is scheduled to begin in November on the Sloan Performing Arts Center, a 29,000-square-foot facility on the River Campus that will provide new space for theatrical programs, dance programs, concerts, and other activities.

topics: construction, humanities, Sloan Performing Arts Center,
graphic shows a parody of the Beatles feet as they walk across the Abbey Road crosswalk, with the words ABBEY ROAD CONFERENCE and 26 GIBBS
The Arts
September 17, 2019 | 04:45 pm

Music scholars come together in Rochester for Abbey Road conference

The University’s Institute for Popular Music and the Eastman School of Music host “Come Together: Fifty Years of Abbey Road,” a three-day symposium to commemorate the Beatles’ landmark work.

topics: Arthur Satz Department of Music, Eastman School of Music, featured-post-side, humanities, Institute for Popular Music, John Covach, School of Arts and Sciences,