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The AGIT Theater Company and Department of Performing and Media Arts invite undergraduate and graduate students to submit 10 Minute Plays. The 2017 festival explores the theme of Unbound. Selected plays will be developed and produced in the Schwartz Center Black Box in Fall 2017.Submissions due: March 13, 2017Send submissions/questions to ...
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Arts & Sciences alum director Sam Gold's '00 newest project, a Broadway production of “The Glass Menagerie,” opens on March 9. This New York Times profile explores Gold's stripped-down style and approach to directing.
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The Department of Performing and Media Arts hosts a yearly contest for The Marvin Carlson Award for Best Student Essay in Theatre or Performance. This award honors CUNY Professor Marvin Carlson (CU PhD '61).The award consists of a cash prize ($250) and certificate and is given to the best essay in theatre and performance by a Cornell student (...
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Cornell plans to vastly redesign Schwartz Plaza in Collegetown — complete with benches, tables and chairs — in time for the fall semester, when open seats at Collegetown Bagels across the street are a hard find.“We’ve been talking about this project for probably close to five or six years,” David Cutter ’85, campus landscape architect, told The...
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In the final installment of The Trestle at Pope Lick Creek (March 3–11) podcasts, host Chris Christensen chats with cast members Elana Valastro (Gin) and Jack Press (Dalton). The two, who play mother and teenage son in Trestle, discuss the family dynamic and crushed American dreams in the Depression-era setting of the play.BUY TICKETSListen to...
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Mabel Lawrence '19 grew up in a home filled with musical theater. It wasn't unusual, when she was 8 or 9, to get home from elementary school near Los Angeles to find her parents, film and television composer David Lawrence and lyricist Faye Greenberg, working with original cast members, such as those in the Disney Channel’s hit show, "High School Musical."
When: Friday, March 10, 4:00 p.m.–5:30 p.m.Where: Film Forum, Schwartz Center for the Performing ArtsCornell PMA alumni will participate in the TV, Film & Theatre Internships Panel on Friday, March 10. Discussion topics include What Makes a Good Internship, Where to Find Them, How to Get Them, What to Do When You Graduate, and How to Move to...
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Austin Bunn, an assistant professor in the Department of Performing and Media Arts, is nominated for an Audio Publishers Association Audie® Award for his short-story collection The Brink: Stories (published by Blunder Woman Productions via ACX). The audiobook, narrated by Austin Bunn, Luke Daniels, Tanya Eby, Ralph Lister, Amy McFadden, Mikael...
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When: March 6 at 4:45 p.m.Where: Film Forum, Schwartz Center for the Performing ArtsJoin us for a reading and panel discussion of Rebekah Maggor's new book, Tahrir Tales: Plays from the Egyptian Revolution on Monday, March 6, 2017, at 4:45 p.m. in the Film Forum, Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts.The ten plays in this collection, co-...
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BUY TICKETSListen to The Trestle at Pope Lick Creek (March 3–11) director, PMA doctoral candidate Nick Fesette, discuss the play with WHCU Talk Radio's Lee Rayburn.https://soundcloud.com/whcu-radio/20170223nickfesette Every day after school in rural Kentucky, working-class teens Dalton Chance and Pace Creagan meet beneath the railway bridge at...
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