Performing Arts News

Thomas Hischak, Performing Arts Department, was awarded the Outstanding Reference Book Award of 2009 by the American Library Association (ALA) for his nonfiction work, Broadway Plays and Musicals: Descriptions and Essential Facts of More Than 14,000 Shows Through 2007.

“Rent, the award-winning Broadway rock musical by Jonathan Larson, will be presented by the SUNY Cortland Performing Arts Department April 9-11 and April 16-18 in the Dowd Fine Arts Center Theatre.

The Performing Arts Department will present three classic American one-act plays Dec. 10- 13 in a 90-minute program titled "The Long Christmas Dinner and Other Short Plays By Thornton Wilder." The three comedy-dramas will be performed by an all-student cast in the Dowd Fine Arts Center Lab Theatre. Performances are at 8 p.m. on Thursday, Dec. 10, Friday, Dec. 11 and Saturday, Dec. 12, and at 2 p.m. on Sunday, Dec. 13.

The Performing Arts Department will present its annual Holiday Concert at 8 p.m. on Tuesday, Dec. 8, in the Dowd Fine Arts Theatre.

The Performing Arts Department will present three classic American one-act plays Dec. 10-13 in a 90-minute program titled "'The Long Christmas Dinner' and Other Short Plays By Thornton Wilder."

Broadway's diabolical musical thriller, "Sweeney Todd, The Demon Barber of Fleet Street," will be presented by the Performing Arts Department for six performances at the Dowd Fine Arts Center Theatre beginning Oct 23.

SUNY Cortland has scheduled the following events through the end of the Fall Semester, including concerts, lectures, plays, a musical, a conference, a gospel music festival and other programs. Events are open to the public at no charge, unless noted otherwise.

The Performing Arts Department will present the Choral Union in its spring concert on Tuesday, May 5, at 8 p.m. in the Dowd Fine Arts Theatre. The concert is free and open to the public. The program features a concert of music for the stage and will include selections from operas and a musical play.

The Performing Arts Department will present a concert by the College-Community Orchestra, under the direction of Ubaldo Valli, on Tuesday, April 28, at 8 p.m. in the Dowd Fine Arts Theatre. The concert, which is free and open to the public, features music written by composers with local connections.