Next Spotlight UB Event:
The Figaro Project presents Who Killed Don Giovanni? May 11-12, 7:30p.m.
Neil Feather in Worlds in Collusion
Trial of the Catonsville Nine
Homo Will Inherit, Gay Expectations Too
The Vagina Monologues, 2009
Poet Gayle Danley
Spotlight UB Performing Arts Series
Slam Bang Pow Art
Spotlight UB is pleased to present another season of theatrical productions, movies and concerts in the Lucy and Vernon Wright Theater, an acoustically designed space on the fifth floor of the UB Student Center. The diversified programming spans the arts from Dvorak to storytelling, dramatic performance to opera.
Spring 2012 Events
The Figaro Project, Who Killed Don Giovanni?, May 11-12, 7:30 p.m.
Contemporary opera troupe, The Figaro Project, returns to UB with an operatic whodunit based on Mozart's classic opera. At the end of Mozart's Don Giovanni the black-hearted Don is dragged down to hell for all eternity . . . or so we're told. But is that what really happened? Join the Figaro Project in unraveling the truth of Don Giovanni's demise in this comedic adaption of the classic opera . . . as a whodunit!
Preview the hilarious commercial on YouTube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9COJbH9PrSg William Schaller directs the show, and the cast includes eight opera singers from the Batlimore area, including Lydia Beasley, Jessica Hanel Satava, Stephen Campbell and Nathan Wyatt. Tai-Wei Tsai will accompany on piano and BSO cover conductor Blair Skinner will conduct.
Tim Smith blogged on Clef Notes about the performances.
Tickets $10 general, $5. For more information about Figaro Project, please visit www.thefigaroproject.com
Ermerging Voices Project
Every summer, Spotlight UB features new work by campus writers/artists for free on Thursday nights at 7 p.m.
Masterson v. United States, May 31, 7 p.m.
Law faculty member Samantha McDermitt explores The Supreme Court's rulings on transgender issues in this reading of her most recent play.
BearWorld Test Screening, June 7, 7 p.m.
UB Corporate Communications student Rodolfo Rivera served as the Director of Photography in this poignant documentary about the bear subculture in the international gay community. Spotlight is proud to pre-screen a test viewing of sections of this compelling work that illustrates the differences in the bear communities around the world. To view a trailer of the film, please visit http://www.bearworldmovie.com
Playwrights Lab, June 14, 7 p.m.
Brand new playwrights who developed their work in Kendra Kopelke's fall creative writing course are featured in this evening of stories ranging from the existential to the irreverent. Dustin Carpenter's Heroes examines the drive to super heroism in the lives of two factory workers. Courtney L. Smith's Dangerous Woman exposes holes in the judicial system. Victoria Williams' Do You Accept This Stranger? looks inside the mind of a fundamentalist papering patrons outside The Charles Theatre.
UB alumnus Mary Banks reads excerpts from her book, Street Magic: Stories and Tales, June 21, 7 p.m.
The High Zero Festival returns with Artscape, July 20-22
For more information about the festival, please visit Baltimore Office of Promotion and the Arts website.
Upcoming Fall Events:
- Comedy improvisation night, September 20
- Aspen String Trio, October 9
- Veteran Reading, November 9
- Baltimore RetroFest, November 16-18
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Purchase tickets to events at the UB Student Center's Lucy and Vernon Wright Theater via www.etix.com; search under "University of Baltimore." As with all online ticketing services, etix charges a minimal processing fee. Tickets are also available one hour before the show at the door.
All events are held in the Lucy and Vernon Wright Theater on the fifth floor of the UB Student Center, 21 W. Mt. Royal Ave. (at the corner of Maryland and Mt. Royal avenues).
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If any audience members require an event to be interpreted for the deaf, please e-mail spotlightub@ubalt.edu with your request. Requests can only be honored at two weeks prior to performance.
For updates on UB Theatrical Society information, visit their page via the CSI Link on the UB Portal page.
Want to talk about art? Visit the video blog !?Y-Art?!, featuring many Spotlight UB artists at mysuperartfriends.blogspot.com.