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Bloomington Playwright Project brings ‘Sex/Death’ to stage for 7th year

By Jake Wright · Wednesday, Dec. 9,2009 12:38 a.m.

“The Dark Alley Series shows things that are too edgy for the main stage,” he said. The BPP will be presenting “Sex/Death XXX” at 10 p.m. today until Saturday and Dec. 14 to 16 at the BPP. “Sex/Death” is a combination of nine short plays featuring one-night stands, homicide, fetishes and imprisonment.

Obama drops cautious arts policy

By Brett Zongker · Tuesday, Dec. 8,2009 12:40 p.m.

Still far less than arts advocates contend is needed, they have high hopes that President Barack Obama, still in his first year, could transform cultural policy, funding and arts education for years to come.

‘Palmer Park’ tackles ’60s integration

By Patrick Craig · Monday, Dec. 7,2009 11:25 p.m.

Black pediatrician Fletcher Hazelton jokes to his white friend Martin Townsend in “Palmer Park,” a play by Joanna McClelland Glass, which was performed as a staged reading Monday.

‘Blood’ creates political satire

By Carly Bassen · Monday, Dec. 7,2009 11:23 p.m.

Instead of giving in to an abusive government, the victims in “Parentheses of Blood” decide to take a stand. The play by Sony Labou Tansi focused on the terrors of government injustice and was performed at the Wells-Metz Theater as the last show of the Theatre and Drama Department’s fall season.

Bands We are Hex, Crystal Antlers, Audacity perform at The Bishop

By Kelsey Finn · Monday, Dec. 7,2009 11:21 p.m.

Indianapolis band We Are Hex will open for nationally touring California-based bands Crystal Antlers and Audacity at 9 p.m. today at The Bishop on South Walnut Street.

Neville and quintet ring in holidays at Buskirk

By Keiara Carr · Monday, Dec. 7,2009 11:20 p.m.

While the weather outside is frightful, four-time Grammy winner Aaron Neville and his quintet will take the stage with holiday music at 8 p.m. today at the Buskirk-Chumley Theater.

BPP’s Mini Play Festival accepting submissions until Wednesday

Monday, Dec. 7,2009 1:58 p.m.

The Bloomington Playwrights Project will be organizing its 26th Annual Mini Play Festival, set to take place from March 8 to 11.

Art Mart encourages holiday spirit at Waldron

By Lindsey Ferguson · Sunday, Dec. 6,2009 11 p.m.

Girl Scout troops 261 and 256 of Marlin Elementary greeted guests with Christmas carols as they climbed the stairs to the auditorium of the John Waldron Arts Center for the Holiday Art Mart reception Friday.

SoFA gallery provides experiences from classroom to Japan

By Margaret Ely · Sunday, Dec. 6,2009 10:59 p.m.

Although Tina Newberry, associate professor in the Henry Radford Hope School of Fine Arts, has been teaching at IU for three years, Friday was the first time she saw any of her students’ work displayed in the school’s gallery. Those students are the 21 undergraduates enrolled in Newberry’s painting seminar this fall, and their paintings are hung in the SoFA’s center and west gallery for the BFA Painting Exhibition. The exhibition, as well as the School’s Overseas Study Exhibition, opened Tuesday and ended Saturday.

‘Nutcracker’ enchants audience members of all ages

By Lily Miller · Sunday, Dec. 6,2009 10:57 p.m.

Winter ballet warms hearts with classic tale.

Straight No Chaser returns to IU fan base in April

By Rachel Krasnow · Sunday, Dec. 6,2009 10:55 p.m.

The original Straight No Chaser, a 10-member a capella group, will perform April 12 at the IU Auditorium.

Bloomington Playwrights Project reading adds laughs to Voltaire classic

By Lindsey Ferguson · Sunday, Dec. 6,2009 10:51 p.m.

Laughter filled the Bloomington Playwrights Project on Friday during a staged reading of “Candide Does America,” a modern twist on Voltaire’s classic.

Musical Arts Youth Orchestra jazzes up Waldron Arts Center

By Kirk Bradtmiller · Sunday, Dec. 6,2009 10:47 p.m.

The Musical Arts Youth Orchestra presented a small audience of family and friends with a night of toe-tapping jazz music on Friday at the John Waldron Arts Center. The performance consisted of two groups of aspiring musicians whose ages ranged from 12 to 18. The musicians, who come from local middle schools and high schools, gather once a week to practice and express their love for jazz under the guidance of IU graduate student Ben Mathews.

Todd Glass entertains with audience interaction, physical comedy

By Allison Tyra · Sunday, Dec. 6,2009 10:45 p.m.

Stand-up comic Todd Glass made hundreds of people laugh with his quick wit, audience interaction and sheer personality at the Funny Bone Bloomington Comedy Club over the weekend.

Paper art, calligraphy on display at Wandering Turtle for solstice exhibit

By Almondia White · Sunday, Dec. 6,2009 10:43 p.m.

Both craft work with cut paper and Chinese calligraphy are on display from now until Dec. 29 at the Wandering Turtle Art Gallery downtown. With displays by Deborah Klein and Donna Eder, the gallery’s annual solstice exhibit recognizes “the long winter night” season and awaits the “rebirth” season, which is spring, said Rachel DiGregorio, the gallery’s assistant manager.

City announces Buskirk grant winners

Sunday, Dec. 6,2009 2:09 p.m.

The Bloomington Entertainment and Arts District and the City’s Parks and Recreation Department announced the winners of the 2010 Buskirk-Chumley Theater grants.

‘The Nutcracker’ to show at MAC

By Lily Miller · Friday, Dec. 4,2009 12:22 a.m.

Visions of sugarplums will sparkle from the stage of the Musical Arts Center this weekend, as the IU Opera and Ballet Theater opens its annual production of “The Nutcracker” on Friday.

Reading shines fresh light on Voltaire classic

By Lindsey Ferguson · Friday, Dec. 4,2009 12:15 a.m.

BPP presents contemporary spin on original 1759 ‘Candide.’

‘Potpourri’ to mix black art styles, history

By Keiara Carr · Friday, Dec. 4,2009 12:12 a.m.

The African American Choral Ensemble, African American Dance Company and IU Soul Revue will take the stage for the African American Arts Institute’s 16th-annual “A Potpourri of the Arts in the African American Tradition” concert 8 p.m. Saturday at the Buskirk-Chumley Theater. The theme for this year is “Above and Beyond.”

World culture gifts are Fair Trade

By Danielle Paquette · Friday, Dec. 4,2009 12:09 a.m.

A small, black sign propped amid second floor walking traffic turned heads and sparked interest at the Indiana Memorial Union on Thursday. “Live fair, make fair, trade fair, buy fair,” one student read to her friend. The two turned right into the Christmas light-illuminated Frangipani Room, where the fifth annual International Fair Trade Market was in full swing.

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