Posts categorized The Arts

With a Museum Initiative grant, a joint project of Verizon and NYC Media Lab, the Memorial Art Gallery and recent digital media studies graduates team up to expand the museum’s digital reach.

In Rochester’s International Theatre Program, intimacy directing is playing a growing role.

Teaching an undergraduate class on ‘dangerous’ children in literature inspired English professor Kenneth Gross’s latest book.

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.