The Tony Award and Pulitzer Award-winning musical “Rent” will conclude its two-day Bloomington stop at 8 p.m. at the IU Auditorium.
Before performing Tuesday at The Bluebird as part of the “Hip-Hop Live Tour” with Ghostface Killah, Rakim and the Rhythm Roots Allstars, Brother Ali talked to the Indiana Daily Student via cell phone from his tour bus.
Hearing the name William Shakespeare might be enough to scare off anyone from seeing a play after taking literature courses. Fear not. The IU Department of Theatre and Drama’s production of “Measure for Measure” jumps far from the classroom and into a very entertaining night of theater.
BOLOGNA, Italy –You never realize how American you are until you leave the country. The National Anthem has never stirred deep feelings of patriotism and pride in me. I could live without baseball games and Mom’s hot apple pie. I waited all of my life to get out of the U.S. I wanted to see exotic places, eat new foods and experience the art and history of faraway lands, because I felt that home was lacking a bit in the culture department.
To create hip-hop music live on stage without a DJ or a looped sample might be unorthodox, but Davey Chegwidden, band leader for the Rhythm Roots Allstars, does it every night of the “Hip-Hop Live!” tour. The 10-piece band, which will stop at 9 p.m. today at The Bluebird as part of the tour, provides a unique experience for concertgoers.
The packed audience Friday night at the IU Auditorium was on its feet screaming well before the Umphrey’s McGee concert began.
Under a high ceiling lined with white Christmas lights, the Al Cobine Big Band gave guests a chance to swing dance the night away at “Stardust Melodies” – a tribute to Bloomington’s own jazz musician, Hoagy Carmichael.
The word “potpourri” usually implies a diverse mixture of various objects, which have an underlying theme in common. “Potpourri” is typically thought of as a collaboration of flower petals, pine cones and other scented aspects of nature, but Saturday night saw a “potpourri” that transcended the sense of smell.
For a fun evening, theater fans should check out the Bloomington Playwright’s Project’s newest production, “Fatal Attraction: A Greek Tragedy.”
The African American Arts Institute’s ensembles will inaugurate their performance seasons Saturday evening with the 14th annual “A Potpourri of Arts in the African American Tradition.”
IU Opera Theater’s new production of “La Bohème,” directed by Tito Capobianco, will open at 8 p.m. Friday at the Musical Arts Center to much anticipation.
Shakespeare, a sex ballet and Metallica– sounds like any other day for the IU Department of Theatre and Drama and its latest production of William Shakespeare’s “Measure For Measure,” which will open at 7:30 p.m. Friday in the Ruth N. Halls Theatre.
At 8 p.m., the Jacobs School of Music Chamber Orchestra will perform in IU’s Auer Hall under the baton of Principle Guest Conductor Uriel Segal. On the program is the Overture “Il matrimonio segreto,” by Domenico Cimarosa, an orchestra version of Giuseppe Verdi’s String Quartet in E Minor and the Piano Concerto No. 3 in C Minor, Op. 37, by Ludwig van Beethoven.
SALT LAKE CITY – George Osmond, father of Donny and Marie Osmond and patriarch to the family’s singing group, The Osmond Brothers, died Tuesday. He was 90.
LOS ANGELES – David Mamet found an immediate outlet for his creativity during the Hollywood writers strike. In a cartoon published Tuesday on the op-ed page of the Los Angeles Times, Mamet played the labor dispute for laughs, appearing to lampoon Writers Guild of America strikers.
It is often said that the human body is a beautiful thing, a piece of art in itself. Local artist and IU School of Fine Arts faculty member Tim Kennedy has embraced this mantra through his exhibit, “Figures,” now on display at the Textillery Gallery on the second floor of the Buskirk-Chumley Theater.
The Buskirk-Chumley Theater overflowed with people wanting to see the sold-out Comedians of Comedy show, featuring Patton Oswalt, Brian Posehn and Doug Benson on Tuesday night. The comedians who had been touring for two weeks visiting various college campuses and cities, closed the tour in Bloomington.
This past Saturday, I spent the day walking around Clinton, Iowa, knocking on doors and talking to the people about election politics. The purpose of this process, called canvassing, is to relate issues that each individual is concerned about to the candidate you are promoting. It sounds cult-like, I know, but the process of bringing politics to people one-on-one has been one of the most crucial elements of winning an election, and, surprisingly enough, has been a fundamental by-product of art throughout the ages.
Made famous for his monotone repetition in the 1986 film “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off,” Ben Stein offered a much different message to a packed lower level at the IU Auditorium Tuesday night.
