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(01/19/24 3:05am)
Each year, IU’s Department of Theatre, Drama, and Contemporary Dance brings in an artist from around the world to teach students. Traveling from Detroit, MI, with a love for Shakespeare, Sam White will be this year’s spring guest artist.
(01/19/24 3:00am)
The year has just begun and IU’s Department of Theatre, Drama and Contemporary Dance is already preparing for a show. At 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. on Jan. 19-27 at the IU Studio Theatre, director and IU professor of practice, Jenny McKnight will present a stripped-down production of Shakespeare's play “Measure for Measure.”
(12/10/23 11:01pm)
John Oliver was three months late. The award-winning late-night host was supposed to perform at the IU Auditorium on Sept. 30, but two days before his performance, the actors strike ended, and he rushed off to resume “Last Week Tonight with John Oliver.”
(12/10/23 7:54pm)
For Singing Hoosiers director Chris Albanese, putting on concerts goes back to his childhood.
(12/06/23 10:49pm)
The IU Department of Theatre, Drama and Contemporary Dance will present "Cultural Immersion: Winter Dance Concert" at 7:30 p.m. on Dec. 8 and 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. on Dec. 9 at the Ruth N. Halls Theatre.
(12/04/23 9:15pm)
As a part of their Sleighin’ It tour, a cappella group Straight No Chaser will perform 7:30 p.m. Dec. 13 at IU Auditorium. Tickets are available for $29 for students and $43 for non-students.
(12/04/23 8:58pm)
With each changing projection, the audience audibly gasped. With each pirouette, they applauded enthusiastically. For each moment of magic, the adults in the room became children again, awed and enraptured by the beauty brought to life by the Jacobs School of Music Ballet Theater department.
(12/04/23 12:10am)
This December, celebrate the holiday season by visiting the theater for a night of winter fun.
(11/29/23 9:41pm)
As the all too familiar overture begins to swell, the unfamiliar strips of white light framing the stage glow as the purple curtain rises to reveal a swirling snowstorm projected against a sheer curtain. While the snow whips around the large house set in the background, a white owl flies past. The scene is set for a reimagining of perhaps the most well-known title in ballet, “The Nutcracker.”
(11/14/23 6:43pm)
The Jacobs School of Music will host a concert event featuring the Concert Band, Symphonic Band and Wind Ensemble at 8 p.m. Nov. 14 at the Musical Arts Center. The performance will also be streamed on IUMusicLive!
(11/14/23 6:36pm)
There are no puns to be found in composer Charles Gounod’s version of Verona as there are in Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet.” Multiple minor characters have been trimmed away to focus on the main couple, adding drama to their romance. Many of Shakespeare’s iconic lines remain, with music added to them as they stand. “Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo,” “Goodnight, goodnight, parting is such sweet sorrow” and even Mercutio’s iconic “Queen Mab” soliloquy remain as they were in the original play.
(11/14/23 12:00pm)
Acclaimed pianist Timothy Reed performed his show of family friendly music, stories and skits on Nov. 11 at the Buskirk-Chumley Theater.
(11/13/23 11:50pm)
Juniper Art Gallery will host its monthly Jazz Night! concert from 6-7:30 p.m. Thursday on Kirkwood Avenue. Musical guest Peter Kienle is set to perform at the gallery’s Janiece Jaffe Legacy Stage.
(11/11/23 8:22pm)
IU Auditorium will welcome three student ensemble groups: the African American Dance Company, the African American Choral Ensemble and IU Soul Revue to perform the annual “Potpourri: An African American Performance Showcase.” The show kicks off at 7:30 p.m. Saturday.
(11/05/23 9:52pm)
The Jacobs School of Music Opera and Ballet Theater department will present its final opera of the fall season, “Romeo et Juliette,” at 7:30 p.m. with two different casts Nov. 10 and 11 at the Musical Arts Center.
(10/29/23 9:14pm)
Dennis James began his career as a prank. According to him, he suggested the idea of accompanying a silent movie on the pipe organ to his roommate as a joke but, in the nature of pranks, the event kept getting bigger and bigger. He said he printed pieces of paper that merely said “The Phantom is Coming” in reference to “The Phantom of the Opera” — the movie he showed at his first show Oct. 31, 1969.
(10/27/23 8:04pm)
NYC Comedian Ben Wasserman brought vulnerability and laughter to Bloomington’s Allen Funeral Home and Crematory on Oct. 24. During one of the last shows on his independent, cross-country “Live After Death” tour, he hugged an audience member for the first time and taught a retired director of chaplaincy how to employ comedy as a grieving mechanism.
(10/26/23 11:57pm)
The Jacobs School of Music, in collaboration with the Oratorio Chorus, IU Children’s Choir and Concert Orchestra will present a performance of “Carmina Burana.”
(10/26/23 11:43pm)
The Far Side, a local house show venue that emerged in August of this year, will host live music performances and costume parties two nights in a row Oct. 27 and 28.
(10/25/23 10:21pm)
As the tuning of the instrumentalists faded, silence fell on Auer Hall. The silence was cut by the raised hands of the conductor, Dominick DiOrio, drawing the elegant harmonies of the chorus from the air, guiding them out to the fixed gazes of audience members that had come to watch NOTUS’ first concert of the semester.