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Where: Hollis E. Cornell Auditorium, Goldwin Smith HallWhen: Feb. 4, 8 p.m.Tickets: Free and open to publicBased on Shakespeare’s Macbeth, this adaptation tells the story of one prisoner’s quest for power through betrayal and murder, and the insanity and death that result. The raw and powerful film is written and performed almost entirely by...
Where: Hollis E. Cornell Auditorium, Goldwin Smith HallWhen: Feb. 3, 7:30 p.m.Tickets: Free and open to publicDirector Curt Tofteland’s bold documentary chronicles the nine-month process of a prison production of Shakespeare’s final play The Tempest. Inmates in Kentucky’s Luther Luckett prison cast themselves in roles reflecting their own...
Auditions for All God's Chillun Got Wings and SLTC scheduled for Feb. 2-3General auditions for PMA's Spring production of All God's Chillun Got Wings will be held Tuesday Feb. 2 at 7 p.m. in the Black Box Theatre at the Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts. Audition is open to all Cornell students, faculty and staff. Actors do not need to...
Cornell professor Bruce Levitt and the Phoenix Players Theatre Group were recently featured in a long-form article titled "Rehearse for Release: Inside the Fight for a Maximum Security Prison Theater" on Inverse.com. Since 2009, Levitt and a host of graduate students from Cornell University have worked with prisoners in the maximum security...
Maria Dizzia '98 was featured in the January issue of American Theatre magazine. Dizzia and five other actors were asked to detail their process by discussing training and the mind/body connection.Dizzia went back to her days at Cornell University where acting teacher Alison Van Dyke helped her feel comfortable with the idea of being an actor.“...
Written by Eugene O'NeillDirected by Godfrey SimmonsWhere: Kiplinger Theatre, Schwartz Center for the Performing ArtsWhen: April 29-30, May 6-7, 2016 at 7:30pm, May 7, 2016 at 2 p.m.Tickets: $8 students & seniors, $15 general BUY TICKETS New York City. 1920s. Jim and Ella fell in love....Then they got married. Race. Love. Marriage. Hate...
Coordinated by PMA faculty: Austin Bunn & Chelsea WesselsCoordinated by PMA students: Alex Rehberg & Kriszta PozsonyiWhere: Schwartz Center Film ForumWhen: April 8, 2016 reception at 4 p.m., festival at 4:30pm, April 9, 2016 at 2:00pmTickets: $5 BUY TICKETS
Where: Schwartz Center Kiplinger TheatreWhen: March 17-19, 2016 at 7:30pmTickets: $8 students & seniors, $15 general BUY TICKETS Cornell University’s Department of Performing and Media Arts invites you to expect the unexpected with the Locally Grown Dance Festival in the Kiplinger Theatre at the Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts,...
Written by Mary ZimmermanDirected by Brian Murphy '16Where: Schwartz Center Black Box TheatreWhen: March 10-12, 2016 at 7:30pmTickets: $5 BUY TICKETSThe Secret in the Wings is an ensemble play written by Mary Zimmerman, a revolutionary playwright and theatre scholar. In a mysterious yet whimsical way, the play explores storytelling as an art...
Written by Adam Long, Daniel Singer, Jess WinfieldDirected by Jeff GuytonWhen: February 25-27, March 4-5, 7:30pm, March 5, 2pmWhere: Schwartz Center Flexible TheatreTickets: $8 students & seniors, $15 general BUY TICKETSA wicked wild ride that will leave you breathless with laughter as actors romp through all 37 of The Bard's plays in 97...
Where: Schwartz Center Black Box TheatreWhen: February 2, 2016 at 7:00 pmOpen to all Cornell students, faculty & staffFor more info: psl1@cornell.edu
Austin H. “Kip” Kiplinger ’39, chairman emeritus of the Cornell University Board of Trustees and a giant in the fields of publishing, journalism, philanthropy and university leadership, died Nov. 20 in Rockville, Maryland, at the age of 97.Kiplinger became a trustee in 1960, served as board chairman from 1984-89 and was elected trustee emeritus...
By Matt Morgan"On the Corner" reads like a play ripped from the headlines: An innocent young black man is confronted by a white police officer during a call about a suspicious person. The two men clash over the mistake and head toward a moment that could change their lives forever. Neither knows how exactly they got there and neither has time to...
Celebrate the end of the semester with an outdoor light show and concert at the Schwartz Center located on College Avenue across from Collegetown Bagels! Lighting design students of PMA 3650: Automated Lights and Control Systems, as part of their final project, will be lighting a live performance to be viewed from in front of the building Friday (...
A unique multi-sensory experience featuring work by Cornell University professor Bruce Levitt was recently featured on broadwayworld.com.The article highlights “Nightcap Riot: Mombucha,” a Brooklyn based event (Jan. 15-Feb. 14) offering live music, beverage tasting and a full theatrical production of "Destiny and the Little Man," directed by...
The Department of Performing and Media Arts is pleased to announce the winners of the 2015 Heermans-McCalmon writing competition for plays and screenplays.For screenplays, there was a tie for first place with The Mods by Kiki Hosie and In Mourning by Emma Sassoon sharing top honors.For stage plays, Mourning for Pebbles (or Dead Guinea Pig) by...
For the inmates of Auburn Maximum Security Prison, acting is not a recreational activity. To the members of Phoenix Players Theatre Group (PPTG), the work they create, engage in and grapple with serves not only as a source of self-reflection, but of transformation. Founded in 2009 by inmates Michael Rhynes and Clifton Williamson, PPTG began as an...
Griffin Smith-Nichols ’19 spent three nights last week cowering on a set of lounge chairs in the Schwartz Center’s Black Box Theatre. The Arts and Sciences student played the slightly mad, mostly murderous and often humorous Orestes in this semester’s Department of Classics production of the Euripides play.The play, filled with maniacal rants,...
Austin H. “Kip” Kiplinger ’39, chairman emeritus of the Cornell University Board of Trustees and a giant in the fields of publishing, journalism, philanthropy and university leadership, died Nov. 20 in Rockville, Maryland, at the age of 97.Kiplinger became a trustee in 1960, served as board chairman from 1984-89 and was elected trustee emeritus...
The jungle surrounding Julie Locker is breathing. Trees sway, leaves rustle. She walks cautiously toward a row of moving branches, pulling out her machete and leveling it with one strike.The set for the upcoming Department of Performing and Media Arts production of “On the Verge” is full of energy. With rope bridges, platforms, hidden windows, a...
Love, loss, birth and death. The biggest moments in our lives usually involve change. Sometimes welcome and other times unforeseen and extremely inconvenient, change is what propels life forward. However, how do you cope if change involves reaching the edge of the world or ending your own life? In his debut book, “The Brink,” Austin Bunn creates a...
