Archive: Arts & Entertainment

On Sunday, December 10, RESONATE will present music from their new CD, Listen! at the Carriage House Cafe Loft, 305 Stewart Avenue, Ithaca.

The need for excellent music and lyrics that speak to the issues of our day has never been greater. Enter Ithaca band RESONATE, founded by musician and activist Will Fudeman and Cantor Abbe Lyons, bringing together a multifaith group of local musicians. RESONATE infuses Middle Eastern and cantorial music into folk, rock, blues and jazz sounds. This combination of Eastern and Western influences and instruments, along with tasteful vocal harmonies, delights and surprises, creating a rich sound while lifting Lyons' soaring lead vocals even higher.

The Hangar Theatre Company is bringing five great shows to their stage in the summer of 2018.

"We are excited to announce our 2018 season of musicals and comedies that we are certain everyone will love." Mitchell H Smith, Director of Marketing and Communications at the Hangar Theatre.

Kitchen Theatre Company brings 'Abstracting the Figure: Paintings by Michael Sampson' to the Judith Holliday Gallery at KTC. A reception for the artist will be held on Friday, December 1 from 5pm-7pm at Kitchen Theatre Company's Judith Holliday Gallery, 417 West MLK/State Street, Ithaca, NY.

Sampson has a BFA from Monserrat College and has been exhibiting his work in this region since 2003. A member of the State of the Art Gallery in Ithaca, NY, his work has been seen at CSMA Gallery, Sola Art Gallery in Ithaca; Finger Lakes Exhibition, Memorial Art Gallery in Rochester; and Montreal Art Center in Canada.

Aurora, N.Y.—The Wells College Theatre and Dance Department earned four awards from the Theatre Association of New York State (TANYS) for this fall's production of the Neil Simon play "Rumors." The awards will be conferred at the organization's annual banquet on Saturday, Nov. 18, at Cayuga Community College in Auburn, N.Y.

The honors include Excellence in Ensemble Acting, awarded to the cast; Excellence in Acting to Devon Harris '18 for his portrayal of Lenny Ganz; Excellence in Direction to Associate Professor of Theatre Siouxsie Easter and Excellence in Technical Design and Execution to technical director Patti Goebel, Katelyn Costello '18, Rosalina Maassen '18 and Barbara Murphy. The award designation of "excellence" indicates that the winners possess specific theatrical skills that are not routinely seen in non-professional productions.

Brooktondale NY - Daymark will play a house concert at The Canaan Institute on Thu Nov 16th. The band is an international trio performing traditional Irish music infused with infectious energy, raw power, and Northern swagger. Fusing the talents of Will Woodson (flute, border pipes), Dan Foster (fiddle) and Eric McDonald (guitar, vocals) the group presents a classic blend of wind and string as driving flute meets virtuosic fiddle, underpinned by well-considered and expertly delivered guitar.

Each member of the trio had carved their individual musical pathways and style from diligent listening and study, extensive travels, and numerous performances in Ireland, Scotland, England, America, and Canada before meeting at the Northern Roots Festival in Vermont during the winter of 2016. Over a long night of music, they discovered a natural and complementary fit of individual styles, as a well as a mutual interest in the same corners of the Irish tradition.

Kitchen Theatre Company continues its 2017-2018 Season with the regional premiere of Every Brilliant Thing by Duncan Macmillan with Jonny Donahoe, a funny and moving new play about the lengths to which we will go for those we love. It is an immersive experience, as members of the audience are called upon to help tell the story. You'll want to see it more than once! Performances of Every Brilliant Thing begin at the Kitchen Theatre Company in The Percy Browning Theatre on November 11 and run through December 10.

When a boy's mother lands in the hospital after a suicide attempt, he begins a list: every "brilliant thing" that makes life worth living. As he gets older, the list grows, and it has a powerful impact on his life and on others. Every Brilliant Thing tells this simple story in a most unexpected way, involving the audience that's in the theater that very night. No two performances will be the same! Playing the central character in the play is Karl Gregory, an Ithaca- and New York City-based actor who has appeared in over forty productions at the Kitchen. Wendy Dann, director of many plays at the Kitchen and writer of last season's Birds of East Africa, directs.

"Hamlet Wakes Up Late," a biting political satire of Shakespeare's tragedy by renowned Syrian poet and playwright Mamduh Adwan, will have its English-language premiere this month at the Schwartz Center. The production, translated by Margaret Litvin and directed by Rebekah Maggor, assistant professor in the Department of Performing & Media Arts, will feature original music, dancing, action-packed scenes, humor and extravagant costumes. Performances are Nov. 10, 11, 16 and 17 at 7:30 p.m., and Nov. 18 at 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. in the Flex Theatre.

In Adwan's adaptation, Hamlet is a narcissistic prince, blissfully unaware of his people's bleak reality. Distracted by drink and artistic pretentions, Hamlet fails to notice the rise of a brutal plutocratic dictatorship.

The Hangar Theatre Board of Trustees announced Monday that MaryBeth Bunge has returned to the theatre in the new role of Interim Managing Director. Bunge served as Development Director throughout the Hangar for All Season's Campaign and was an essential player in its success. The campaign resulted in the opening of the renovated year-round theatre and performing arts center earlier this year.

Original paintings by one of the most influential wildlife artists of the 20th century will be on display at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. Exquisite bird illustrations and paintings created by Arthur Singer (1917-1990) will hang in the Visitor Center auditorium beginning November 2. They will be on view through February 2018, between 10:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. each day of the week.

One key highlight of the exhibit is the opportunity to hear from the artist's two sons. Paul and Alan Singer will talk about their father's life and work during the Monday Night Seminar held in the Cornell Lab auditorium on November 6 at 7:30 p.m., while a selection of Singer owls, finches, spoonbills, and hummingbirds gaze from the walls.

The Wells College Theatre and Dance Department presents the fall faculty production, "Rumors," written by Neil Simon and directed by Associate Professor of Theatre Siouxsie Easter. "Rumors" will be performed at Phipps Auditorium in Macmillan Hall on the Wells College campus on Friday, October 27 and Saturday, October 28. The box office will open at 7 p.m. and the show will begin at 7:30 p.m.

'Rumors' is a fast-paced farce that takes place during the 10th anniversary party for Charley and Myra Brock. But, as the guests gather, they find Charley wounded by a gunshot and Myra missing. Will the guests ever figure out what is going on?

Special guest Schola Antiqua of Chicago will perform at Sage Chapel Tonight, October 27 at 8:00pm. The professional early music ensemble presents 'Music in Secret', a concert of medieval and early modern music by and for women in the convent that has rarely been heard in contemporary performance. Schola Antiqua has provided the highest standards of performance and education at institutions throughout the country, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art Cloisters, the Morgan Library and Museum, and the Art Institute of Chicago.

The 'Music in Secret'8 program showcases a thirteenth-century Italian plainchant recently unveiled at the Art Institute with the singers reading music from projected images of the original manuscript; the program also includes works by Hildegard von Bingen and Sulpitia Cesis, a nun from the Italian city of Modena. The program is complemented by keyboard works also heard in convents, played by British organist and guest director Naomi Gregory, a leading Renaissance music historian.

Creepy crawlers are coming out to play for Insectapalooza 2017, an interactive, hands-on experience for all ages on Oct. 28.

Held from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. in Comstock Hall on Cornell's Ithaca campus, the annual insect fair reflects the ways insects interact with people and affect our lives. Insectapalooza features hundreds of live insects, spiders and other arthropods from the collections of the Department of Entomology in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. Entomologists and students will be on hand to explain the behaviors and adaptations of the insect world at the event, which draws up to 2,000 people each year.