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Acclaimed playwright Suzan-Lori Parks to give eclectic presentation

By Greg Winget · Thursday, April 10,2008 1:08 a.m.

Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Suzan-Lori Parks will visit IU on Monday, to deliver a free lecture known as “The Suzan-Lori Parks Show.”

Local artist’s work to hang in US Embassy in Bangkok

Thursday, April 10,2008 1:06 a.m.

Joel Washington, local artist and IMU custodian, sat down in the Back Alley, weary from an early morning shift. Though he was tired, he was still excited to talk about what he loves: art.

Jazz quintet to play Bear’s Place today

By Allison Tyra · Thursday, April 10,2008 1:05 a.m.

A multi-generational group slated to play at 5:30 p.m. today at Bear’s Place includes not only professional musicians and professors, but also someone quite a bit younger.

Tickling big keys

By Katherine Fay · Thursday, April 10,2008 1:02 a.m.

The Jacobs School of Music has appointed two internationally prominent performer-teachers to its organ department.

Riverdance When: 7:30 today Where: IU Auditorium More Information: Student tickets are $19 to $40 and general admission is $37 to $59. Tickets are available at the Auditorium Box Office, open 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday. Tickets are also available through Ticketmaster.

'A funny thing happened on the way to the forum'

By Sam Leffers · Thursday, April 10,2008 12:57 a.m.

Many people know how partial the Bloomington community is to the festivity of Greek life. IU’s Department of Theatre and Drama hopes it will be equally interested in the comedy of Roman life.

IU graduate student Chris Lysack as the character "Hoffman" sings during a Les Contes d'Hoffmann dress rehearsal April 1 at the Musical Arts Center. Les Contes d'Hoffmann will be showing April 11 and 12 at 8 p.m.

60 years later, ‘Les Contes D’Hoffmann’ returns to IU stage

By Gabrijel Gelic · Tuesday, April 8,2008 10:41 p.m.

IU Opera Theater celebrated 60 years of opera performance Friday night at the Musical Arts Center with Jacques Offenbach’s “Les Contes D’Hoffmann.”

Tunes for the drunk and sober

By Teri Rosenbaum · Tuesday, April 8,2008 10:39 p.m.

It’s almost as if people have this all-known consensus that local bands that play at bars, in general, are bad, and therefore these people feel the need to clarify when they say that said local band is “actually pretty good.”

‘Riverdance’ stops at IU for farewell tour

By Shannon Dahmer · Monday, April 7,2008 10:23 p.m.

Born of the intricate moves and traditions of Irish step dance, “Riverdance” has traveled across the Atlantic and made its way to the IU Auditorium. As part if its farewell tour, “Riverdance” will visit IU at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday.

‘Bearded Child’ to visit Bloomington

By Evan Wells · Monday, April 7,2008 10:19 p.m.

The bizarre and out-of-the-ordinary will hit the big screen Tuesday night as the Bearded Child Film Festival comes to Bloomington.

Letters from Abroad: Taking it easy

By Lindsey Landis · Monday, April 7,2008 10:18 p.m.

BOLOGNA, Italy – “‘The water,’ by Feist.” “‘Bridge over troubled water,’ by Simon and Garfunkel.” “‘Black water,’ by the Doobie Brothers.” My friend Maureen and I were playing our favorite game – trying to find all of the songs with a given word in the title – on the banks of Lake Como this weekend.

Dave Matthews and Tim Reynolds perform Sunday evening in Assembly Hall, to support Senator Barack Obama's campaign. Matthews and Reynolds are one of many celebrities that have visited Bloomington to promote a candidate for this year's election.

Musicians rock out for change

By Chelsea Merta · Monday, April 7,2008 8:18 p.m.

Thousands of concertgoers anxiously waited, some for more than 12 hours, to get good seats for the free Dave Matthews and Tim Reynolds concert, “Change Rocks,” in support of Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Barack Obama. PODCAST: Hoosier Headlines

Singing Hoosiers celebrate 58 years

By Gabrijel Gelic · Sunday, April 6,2008 11:55 p.m.

Saturday’s performance at the IU Auditorium celebrated the Singing Hoosiers’ 58th anniversary.

Luminescence Project gives ‘multi- sensory’ show

By Allison Tyra · Sunday, April 6,2008 11:54 p.m.

The IU Luminescence Project’s multi-sensory performance Friday and Saturday in the Musical Arts Center transported the audience into a world where a young black man is lynched by a white mob.

‘Overexaggeration of human emotion’ displayed Friday

By Aaron Risch · Sunday, April 6,2008 11:27 p.m.

Friends, family and art lovers gathered Friday night at the SoFA Gallery to celebrate the last showing of Bachelor of Fine Arts student Joel Hernandez’s photography as an IU student.

Enterprising students bring Southern rapper to IU for Little 5

By Ernest Moore · Sunday, April 6,2008 11:25 p.m.

With most of the performances for Little 500 being hosted by fraternity houses on campus, a few eager and business-oriented students at IU decided to collaborate and bring in a recording artist as well.

Around the Arts

Friday, April 4,2008 12:54 a.m.

Travelocity: Fashion From All Over the World Where: 8 p.m. Saturday More Info: The IU Black Student Union will host a program showcasing clothing from around the globe. Tickets are $5 in advance and $7 the day of the show.

Curtain rises on student-led theater troupe at Collins

By Tom Edwards · Friday, April 4,2008 12:52 a.m.

Wednesday night’s debut of playwright Noah Haidle’s “Mr. Marmalade” at the Collins Ernest Bernhardt-Kabisch Coffeehouse was a success, as the exuberant eight-person student cast made audiences gasp and giggle at Haidle’s bleak comedy.

Buskirk to host African American Dance Co.

By Sam Leffers · Friday, April 4,2008 12:50 a.m.

There’s an old African proverb that says “when the music changes, so does the dance.” Considering the repertoire of styles, influences and techniques employed by the African American Dance Company for Friday’s spring concert, that proverb will ring true many times before the curtain falls at the Buskirk-Chumley Theater.

Luminescence Project will be ‘ensnaring hate’

By Allison Tyra · Friday, April 4,2008 12:48 a.m.

or the 40th anniversary of King’s death, the IU Luminescence Project, a group that creates a multi-sensory experience with classical music, will present “Ensnaring Hate,” a three-part choral performance, at 6:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday in Musical Arts Center 301.

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