Theatre & Dance Events
The following events are free unless listed otherwise
WINTER 2012:
Waiting for Lefty
by Clifford OdetsDirected by David Girard
On January 5, 1935, within two minutes of the lights going up on “Waiting for Lefty,” at the Civic Repertory Theatre, on Fourteenth Street, the audience began to clap. “Line after line brought applause, whistles, bravos, and heartfelt shouts of kinship,” (Harold) Clurman wrote. Odets and (Elia) Kazan, who were part of the cast, were sitting together as plants in the audience. “You saw for the first time theatre as a cultural force,” Odets recalled. “There was such an at-oneness with audience and actors that the actors didn’t know whether they were acting and the audience didn’t know whether they were sitting and watching it, or had changed positions.” He continued, “I found myself up on my feet shouting ‘Bravo!’ . . . I forgot I wrote the play, forgot I was in the play. . . . The proscenium arch disappeared.”
“Waiting for Lefty” became, as Odets said later, “a kind of light machine gun that you wheeled in to use whenever there was any kind of strike trouble.” At the end of the première, there were twenty-eight curtain calls, and for twenty minutes afterward the dazed audience did not leave the theatre; some climbed onto the stage, waiting for the actors to come back out. It was “the birth cry of the thirties,” Clurman said. “Our youth had found its voice.” Kazan wrote, “None of us was ever to be the same again, and I suppose we all knew it. But we had no idea how far and how fast this change would go. Cliff was to become a god.”
-- excerpt from "Stage Left: The struggles of Clifford Odets" by John Lahr.Wednesday, February 22 to
Saturday, February 25 at 7:30 pm
Sunday, February 26 at 2:00 pmTICKETS go on sale Wednesday, February 8
INFORMATION: 518-388-7129
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The Dance Experience Show
Dance Studio in the Visual Arts Building
Friday, March 2 at 6:00 p.m.
A must-see winter show created by faculty and students alike. Welcoming all dance lovers for an hour of intricate moves, music, and rhythms. This will be a night that will get you away from the cold winter storms. Come and groove on the beats of delightful and vibrant music and choreography.
INFORMATION: 518-388-7129
SPRING 2012:
Steinmetz Dance Performance
directed by Miryam Moutillet
The Nott Memorial
Friday, May 11 at 4:00 pm
INFORMATION: 518-388-7129
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Spring Dance Concert: Paris Danse
created and directed by Miryam Moutillet
Yulman Theatre
Wednesday, May 23 through Saturday, May 26 at 7:30 pm
Sunday, May 26 at 2:00 pmTICKETS go on sale May 9
INFORMATION: 518-388-7129
