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UNCG announces lineup for 2020-21 UCLS
UNC Greensboro today announced the lineup for the 2020-21 Concert and Lecture Series, an annual celebration of the arts that brings some of the brightest luminaries and performers in the arts to UNCG’s campus. The 2020-21 season features an Academy Award winner, a world-renowned author, and a Broadway legend of stage and screen, to name […]
Superlative! Renée Fleming at the G
Opera singers and classical singers are the “power lifters of singing,” says Renée Fleming. They have to project, without amplification, through orchestras and choruses, all the way to the back of the house. And through her masterclass and her sublime University Concert and Lecture Series performance at UNC Greensboro, she magnificently showed the full range […]
‘Arabian Nights’ casts a spell for all ages
UNCG’s North Carolina Theatre For Young People’s production of “Tales of The Arabian Nights” will open March 10 for school groups and run through March 15, with two public performances March 14 and 15. Written by Barry Kornhauser and directed by MFA student Deepmala Tiwari, “Tales of The Arabian Nights” is an adaptation of the […]
Performance at First Presbyterian, and 'Concert Weeks'
On February 25, the UNC Greensboro Symphony Orchestra and Choirs will play a joint concert at the beautiful First Presbyterian Church on Elm Street. The iconic church, co-designed by the same architect who designed many UNCG buildings, has a rich history of music. The unique ambience created by its vaulted ceilings and stained glass windows […]
UNCG Theatre revamps 'The Tempest'
One of Shakespeare’s most familiar plays, “The Tempest,” will soon hit the UNCG stage, in unfamiliar ways. In this production of Shakespeare’s well-known romantic comedy, the powerful sorcerer Prospero is now female, Prospera, and the story is set 12 years after World War II. After years stranded on a deserted island with her daughter, Prospera […]
UNCG alumnus produces Oscar-nominated '1917'
On February 9, John Hilary Shepherd, a UNC Greensboro alumnus and native of North Carolina, is hoping to add a big accomplishment to his collection: a credit on an Academy Award-winning movie. The WWI feature “1917,” which he developed with New Republic Pictures, is up for Best Picture. The film has already received two Golden Globe awards […]
London’s ‘Prince of Egypt’ features UNCG faculty
Months of preparation. Hundreds of performers, musicians, managers, directors, designers, and production staff. And in the middle of it all, UNC Greensboro’s very own Dominick Amendum. This week, the long-awaited DreamWorks production of “The Prince of Egypt” hits the stage at the Dominion Theatre in London’s West End. Based on the acclaimed animated film, the […]
The art of basketball
It’s college hoops season all across America. January and February’s tough conference match-ups will soon make way for tournament season and March Madness. In North Carolina, basketball is king. So much so that UNC Greensboro’s Weatherspoon Art Museum is opening a new, original exhibition exploring all things basketball. “To the Hoop: Basketball and Contemporary Art” opens Friday, […]
A red letter day with 'Red Dirt Girl'
“Together Again” was a highlight of alumna Emmylou Harris’ concert Jan. 24. And it emerged as the theme of the day – a red letter day for UNC Greensboro and for all music lovers who treasure the music of Emmylou Harris, a roots music icon. Emmylou Harris, who attended UNCG in the mid-1960s on a […]
Prints and sculpture reflect history
Art is a mirror for culture and history – and art is profoundly inspiring when it reflects our collective history’s most difficult moments. Through Feb. 23, UNC Greensboro’s Weatherspoon Art Museum hosts “Mirror, Mirror: The Prints of Alison Saar,” an exhibition that speaks boldly about identity and the African American experience, including the history of […]
