Gainesville Community Playhouse hosts theater showcase
Gainesville Community Playhouse’s membership director Susan Christophy hosted the Playhouse’s first Director’s Showcase on Saturday at the Vam York Theater at 4039 NW 16th Blvd.
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Gainesville Community Playhouse’s membership director Susan Christophy hosted the Playhouse’s first Director’s Showcase on Saturday at the Vam York Theater at 4039 NW 16th Blvd.
Just one week after experiencing devastating loss, survivors of the Oklahoma tornado will be able to take comfort in special visitors from Gainesville: three miniature therapy horses.
New York City is the city that never sleeps.
Clever. Brilliant. The bane of your existence in high school. Call them what you want, but there’s something about Shakespeare plays that transcends time. With the upcoming release of Joss Whedon’s modern re-telling of “Much Ado about Nothing” (in theaters June 7), audiences are sure to be reminded why Shakespeare classics are often brilliantly readapted onto the silver screen as modern tales. Here are some examples of those modern takes:
UF Performing Arts recently announced it will put on 76 performances during its 2013-2014 season lineup.
Anthony Rapp sat on the floor of the Reitz Union Grand Ballroom with his legs crossed in front of about 25 UF students Thursday. Best known for originating the role of Mark Cohen in the Broadway musical “Rent,” Rapp spoke in an open forum for students interested in theater three hours before his scheduled public speech.
Actor Anthony Rapp, best known for his performance in the Broadway musical and film “Rent,” speaks to students in the Reitz Union Grand Ballroom on Thursday evening before his show.
The Reitz Union Grand Ballroom teemed with laughter and applause Tuesday night as Alfonso Ribeiro spoke about his experiences in show business.
Carlton is coming.
Anthony Rapp from the Tony Award-winning rock opera “Rent” will speak at UF April 18.
Are you trying to get involved with arts on campus, but not sure where to start? Or, do you have a passion for theatre, dance, or music but are nervous about auditioning? Here’s your guide to performing and fine art groups on campus that don’t require try-outs, just a passion and excitement for the arts!
After a big trip or a busy bout of work we can find ourselves in a travel lull. Sometimes it is because we have run out of funds or because we need to hanker down and actually do school work for a change. Whatever the reason may be, we need to keep busy so we aren't just sitting around waiting for the next vacation.
Every college student dreams of having an outrageous spring break, whether it would include drinking margaritas on the beach, gallivanting in New York City or building houses for Habitat for Humanity. All of these ideas that come crawling into our vacation obsessed minds have a cost.
Ten UF fine arts students will perform two shows at the 2013 UF Actor Showcase on March 4 in the Laurie Beechman Theatre in New York City.
Arthur Miller’s classic, ”Death of a Salesman,” opened on the High Springs Community Theater stage Friday night. While everything about the venue screamed small-town theater, nothing about the performance hinted at it.
In an age when an erotic novel like “Fifty Shades of Grey” can become the fastest-selling paperback ever, it is no wonder that sadomasochism has hit the theatrical stage. What is astonishing is just how funny, thrilling and completely brilliant an S&M play like the Hippodrome State Theatre’s “Venus in Fur” can be.
Quarterback Jeff Driskel suffered a sprained right ankle during Florida’s 27-20 win against Louisiana on Saturday at Ben Hill Griffin Stadium. Coach Will Muschamp did not know the severity of Driskel’s injury following the game.
Defensive lineman Dominique Easley tackles Louisiana quarterback Terrence Broadway during Florida's 27-20 win on Nov. 10 in Ben Hill Griffin Stadium. Easley returned to practice Tuesday after missing Monday with the flu.
Take a whiff. Is that something in the air? It has a distinct smell, that’s for sure, but we can’t quite exactly put our finger on it ... Oh, right, how silly of us! Fest is here. That’s why the air feels so foreboding and dirty.
So, I’m going to pose a hypothetical: You’re in New York City, and you are bored. You languish urbanely in your loft (it’s an extremely generous hypothetical). However, boredom is generally hard to sustain in a city like New York, where finding things to do is more a matter of choosing. Let’s say you’re a particularly literary metropolitan. You could go see John Jeremiah Sullivan do a nonfiction reading at a bar in the East Village, go to a reading of The Paris Review in a bookstore on Broadway or see the Happy Ending reading series at the Ace Hotel. Let’s take a moment to reflect on the fact that those are all actual things that are happening, just this week, in New York.