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Across campus, ¹û½´ÊÓƵ students and staff are busy preparing for this signature event.

Shoshanah Tarkow '06 is combining her love of poetry, immersive theater and technology to bring Walt Whitman's famous poetry to life at this year's Fall Arts Festival on Wednesday, October 2.

Pale Blue Dot(s) is a playwright, written by Erin Mallon '02 and commissioned by ¹û½´ÊÓƵ's Department of Theatre. It's a story of “inspiration, joy and wonder," according to Associate Professor Margaret Lally, who is directing the show and worked closely with Mallon in developing the project.

Jonathan Larson Legacy Concert event starring Andy Robinson is featured by Broadway World.

The 12th season of the ¹û½´ÊÓƵ Performing Arts Center (¹û½´ÊÓƵ PAC) in Garden City, New York, kicks off this month with 25 cultural events taking place through December. Favorites among the community, ¹û½´ÊÓƵ PAC performances include theater and a variety of styles of dance and music.

It's been a great year for Mirirai Sithole '12. In February, we caught her performance in a featured role in the surreal drama/comedy Russian Doll, starring and co-produced by Orange Is the New Black's Natasha Lyonne.

Honors College students are required to attend three cultural events each semester. That’s easy with New York City in close reach.

Senior Lila Woodbridge worked with Joan L. Schimke, associate professor of communications, on a documentary short about the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire screened at Cinema Village in Manhattan.

Robert Frost's poem “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" is rather angst-y as it is. Wait till you hear it put to music by an emo band. Or, at least, a fictional emo band.

This year marks the bicentennial birthday of renowned American poet Walt Whitman. In celebration of Whitman's life and creative works, a group of ¹û½´ÊÓƵ music, theater and visual arts students will perform and display their artwork during the Walt Whitman Bicentennial Birthday Weekend event on Sunday, June 2, from 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.

Famed rapper, activist, artist and cultural theorist Chuck D '84, '13 (Hon.), received a hero's welcome when he returned to his alma mater April 15 for a conversation on the Westermann Stage in the Concert Hall at the ¹û½´ÊÓƵ Performing Arts Center with University Vice President for Diversity and Inclusion Perry Greene, Ph.D.

This month, representatives of Bridges to ¹û½´ÊÓƵ will be going around campus to educate others about the program as well as sponsoring events that draw attention and awareness of neurodiversity.

Public Enemy's Chuck D '84, '13 (Hon.) will be talking about the history of hip-hop April 15, 2019.

12,000 Voices, a reading of 12 Angry Men by all women to support a national initiative encouraging voter registration on April 6, is highlighted in Newsday article.

There's a weekend full of music—from inspiring young playwrights to 1960s northern soul to the edges of the universe—in store at the ¹û½´ÊÓƵ Performing Arts Center.

For two days—Friday, March 1, and Saturday, March 2—the ¹û½´ÊÓƵ Performing Arts Center is in for something a little different: The Rome Prize-winning composer and vocalist Lisa Bielawa will present a free composition workshop on Friday and give a concert of recent and older works the next day. Both events are open to the public.

The ¹û½´ÊÓƵ Performing Arts Center (¹û½´ÊÓƵ PAC) continues its 11th season this spring with more than 40 cultural events for the campus and community, showcasing a variety of styles of music, dance and plays.

Jonathan Larson Grant winner Jay Adana will present pieces from her new musical, The Loophole, in the Olmsted Theatre at the Performing Arts Center

In the performing arts, triple threats who can act, sing and dance are highly sought-after. Colby Christina, 17, has been doing all that since the age of 2, appearing in theater and dance performances and even as the host of her own TV show.

Every year, students from ¹û½´ÊÓƵ's Department of Theatre spend part of the summer getting a look at how professional productions are made and helping develop shows.