Spotlight UB's Fall Season Features Mix of Music and Theater
August 29, 2016
Contact: University Relations
Phone: 410.837.5739
The University of Baltimore's fall 2016 Spotlight UB series, featuring a menagerie of musical and dramatic productions that are as socially aware and relevant as they are entertaining, will kick off on Friday, Sept. 9 in the Wright Theater in UB's Student Center, 21 W. Mt. Royal Ave. All events are open to the public. Attendance details are listed below.
The season will open with a production of Variations on Blame, in association with Rapid Lemon Productions. This series of short plays by local authors focuses on the theme of blame and is directed by Lance Bankerd. Spotlight UB also will showcase University of Baltimore voices with Charles Street Conversations, an interdisciplinary project by student Bilal Bahar, and with its final show, One Particular Saturday, a devised play of interwoven witness accounts of the 1968 Baltimore race riots performed by students from ARTS 297 and part of the new Performance Studies: Baltimore specialization.
Support from the Yale Gordon College of Arts and Sciences also continues to introduce exciting musicians to UB students; the famous Rimsky Korsakov String Quartet will conduct residencies and perform a concert in November.
Check out Spotlight UB's varied and engaging performing arts selections for this fall:
Rapid Lemon Productions, in association with Spotlight UB, presents Variations on Blame, a series of short plays by local authors, directed by Lance Bankerd.
Sept. 9-17, 8 p.m.
Matinees on Sept. 10, 13, and 17 at 2 p.m.
$20 general admission, $10 UB students
Conversations on Charles Street with Gary Groove, a film project by Bilal Bahar that employs an interdisciplinary studies approach to address community issues. Bahar will screen segments of conversations with musician Gary Groove and mediate a panel of local artists.
Tuesday, Sept. 27
7 p.m.
Free
Susan Stroupe directs a staged reading of William Shakespeare's classic Hamlet as part of Virginia Carruthers' class.
Wednesday, Oct. 12
5:30 p.m.
Free
For the fifth year in a row, Spotlight UB presents Reflections and Echoes, a gathering of 10-minute plays written by the students of the Armagh Project, a yearly residency that brings young poets, playwrights, and journalists to Armagh, Northern Ireland for a cultural immersion and intensive writing workshops. These works will be performed in classrooms in September and October and again during the Maryland Irish Festival at the Timonium Fairgrounds on Nov. 5. (Tickets to the Maryland Irish Festival can be purchased at the door. For more information, visit irishfestival.com.)
Saturday, Nov. 5
1 p.m.
The famous Rimsky Korsakov String Quartet will conduct class residencies and then perform a concert for the public.
Tuesday, Nov. 1
7 p.m.
$10 general,
$5 seniors and staff
Free to UB students
Campus veterans take the stage to provide military perspectives of music, art and literature that developed during the Vietnam War. This event is co-produced with the Bob Parsons Veterans Center at UB.
Thursday, Nov. 10
Evening
Free
For the third year in a row, students of ARTS 297 will perform their work in November. This year, local director Donald Hicken will direct the students in Kimberley Lynne's devised play, One Particular Saturday, a series of witness accounts of the 1968 Baltimore race riots. This freshman class also marks the beginning of the new Performance Studies: Baltimore specialization.
Tuesday, Nov. 15
Thursday, Nov. 17
2 p.m.
Free
For tickets and additional information about these performances, visit www.ubalt.edu/spotlightub or call 410.837.4053. Online ticketing is available via www.etix.com.
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