Western Carolina University presents “Plaza Suite,” a comedy by Neil Simon, with performances at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday through Saturday, Sept. 17-20, and 3 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 21, at Hoey Auditorium, on the WCU campus.
Western Carolina University’s voice and musical theatre faculty and advanced students will present two vocal recitals, including solos, duets and other ensembles, Sunday, Sept. 14, and Tuesday, Sept. 16.
Amy Laughead-Riese, senior lighting designer for Macy’s and Bloomingdale’s department stores, will make a presentation from 4 to 6 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 16, in Room 130 of the Fine and Performing Arts Center, on the campus of Western Carolina University.
The Fine Art Museum at Western Carolina University will open its fall season with the first retrospective exhibition of work by Lewis Buck, a lifelong artist and longtime Asheville-area resident with what critics describe as unique artistic vision.
A performance by Fushu Daiko, a Japanese drumming ensemble, will launch Western Carolina University’s 2008-09 Lectures, Concerts and Exhibitions Series. Fushu Daiko will perform at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 18, at the Fine and Performing Arts Center on the WCU campus.
P. Bradley Ulrich, professor of trumpet at Western Carolina University, will travel to Russia in October to teach a trumpet clinic and perform recitals.
Tickets go on sale Tuesday, Sept. 2, for a bluegrass concert featuring Western North Carolina’s own Balsam Range on stage at Western Carolina University’s Fine and Performing Arts Center.
Tickets for an October concert at Western Carolina University’s Ramsey Regional Activity Center by Corey Smith, an independent musician whose popularity has soared with an online audience, go on sale at 10 a.m. Tuesday, Sept. 2.
Japanese drumming, contemporary dance, politically charged spoken word and more are on tap for Western Carolina University’s 2008-09 Lectures, Concerts and Exhibitions Series.
Students and community members will have the opportunity to engage movie directors about their work as part of the 2008-09 Southern Circuit Tour of Independent Filmmakers, the nation’s only regional tour of independent filmmakers and their films, running from September through April at Western Carolina University.
Western Carolina University’s Ramsey Regional Activity Center will host the first stop on a 20-city national tour featuring country musician Jason Aldean and sponsored by the music network CMT.
Subscribers to the University Theatre’s 2008-09 Mainstage season at Western Carolina University have a full menu of laughs, love, tragedy, song and dance. This season’s productions include the comedy “Plaza Suite” by Neil Simon, Shakespeare’s “Othello,” the classic musical “Fiddler on the Roof” and contemporary vignettes on love with “Almost, Maine” by John Cariani.
Thomas M. Salzman, past chair of the performing arts department at the College of Santa Fe, recently joined Western Carolina University as head of the stage and screen department.
The summer company of WCU's Theatre in Education program will perform “Dogwood’s Search” at 3 p.m. Sunday, July 20, at the Colonial Theatre in Canton and then July 25 at a national theater conference in Atlanta.
A new community theatre company led by WCU students will stage Disney Channel’s “High School Musical” from Thursday, July 10, to Sunday, July 13, at the Swain County Center for the Arts.
Western Carolina University’s Last Minute Productions will host a series of free concerts Tuesdays and Thursdays this summer on the lawn of the A.K. Hinds University Center. All performances are at 7 p.m. The rain location is Club Illusions, on the third floor of the University Center.
