Arts and Entertainment

A Magical, Funny And Profound Première From El Salvador

Arts and Entertainment | Friday, February 14, 2020 | By The Cherry Arts

The Cherry starts off 2020 March 1st with 'On the Other Side of the Sea' by Salvadoran writer Jorgelina Cerritos . 'On the Other Side of the Sea' received the Casa de las Americas award for drama and will be seen for the first time in English at the Cherry Artspace . The play explores resonant themes of documentation, migration and connection through a dreamlike lens, telling a heartwarming story about the unexpected ways of finding connection.

The cast is anchored by beloved Ithaca actor/director Susannah Berryman (Cherry Artists’ Collective founding member), joined by Jahmar Ortiz , Berryman’s student in the Ithaca College acting program. Susannah is a veteran of dozens of local productions, most recently The Children at the Kitchen Theater and A Doll’s House Part 2 at the Hangar. Ortiz was recently seen in A Raisin in the Sun at the Hangar and as Oberon in Ithaca Shakespeare Company’s A Midsummer Night's Dream.

Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center at Cornell

Arts and Entertainment | Friday, February 14, 2020 | By Cornell Concert Series

The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center is known for setting the benchmark for chamber music worldwide, through its inspired programming and extraordinary performances.

This program, featuring the institute’s piano and wind quintet, combines six distinctive instruments with composers from five countries to create an evening that is as surprising as it is captivating. The Mozart Quintet for Winds and Piano, K. 452, as the distinguished ancestor to the other works on the program, is an unceasingly beautiful masterwork from the composer’s busiest days in Vienna.

Ithaqa Comic Comes To The City Of Ithaca

Arts and Entertainment | Friday, February 14, 2020 | By -

Hoboken, NJ - Michael Watson, writer and creator of the new ITHAQA comic, is taking ITHAQA on tour to the city that shares its name, Ithaca, NY, as well as to neighboring cities, from March 20th through March 28th. ITHAQA is a comedy-turned-Lovecraftian horror story that will appeal to readers who enjoyed HBO's "True Detective", but thought it would be copacetic if it had been set at the advent of the roaring 20s. In ITHAQA, filmmaker and conman, Mookie Smitts, stumbles upon the horrible Eldritch Truth of the cosmos, as a moving picture he is struggling to produce in the 1920's accidentally uncovers a plot to destroy the Spacetime Continuum.

In Ithaca, Watson's tour takes the comic to Buffalo Street Books on Friday, March 20th: Ithacon (the 45ᵗʰ year of this comic book convention!) on Saturday and Sunday March 21st and 22ⁿᵈ at Ithaca College; to Comics For Collectors on Wednesday, March 25ᵗʰ; and a comic book creation workshop for kids with the Wharton Studio Museum and The History Center taking place at the Tompkins Center for History & Culture the morning of Saturday, March 28th. More tour stops – possibly Elmira and Syracuse -- will be announced as they are confirmed.