In honor of Valentine’s Day, Spartan sweethearts – from the 1980s to current campus couples – shared their UNCG love stories. Some couples hit it off immediately – more than a few noted that they met their loved one on their very first day of class or at freshman orientation…. Continue reading…
This past Sunday at UNCG Auditorium, UNCG students performed works that interpreted the world-renowned writer’s stories and novels. Atwood joined the event from her home for a Zoom conversation with the audience. Inspired by the “The Handmaid’s Tale,” in one performance (below) students and faculty voiced the handmaid’s thoughts and… Continue reading…
Evan Frierson ’13 has skill with sounds – in both language and music. For the last few years, he’s worked as a Spanish language court interpreter and now – most surprisingly to him – he’s a percussionist in “American Utopia,” the Broadway show of Oscar winning-composer and frontman of Talking… Continue reading…
UNCG Theatre alumna Sibel Damar is one of 15 actors chosen to bring humor to Viacom CBS’ Diversity Comedy Showcase this year.
For School of Music alumnus and internationally-lauded singer Sidney Outlaw ’04, sharing Black history through art is not only a joy but a responsibility, and one he takes seriously. And, impeccably timed for Black History Month, he has just released his first solo album, shortly after appearing on Greensboro’s Tanger… Continue reading…
The four upstairs galleries of UNC Greensboro’s Weatherspoon Art Museum currently hold a stunning and timely retrospective of one of the most prominent and influential conceptual feminist artists: Lorraine O’Grady. “Both/And,” on loan from the Brooklyn Museum in New York, is the first comprehensive collection of O’Grady’s work, from four… Continue reading…
Opening night was electric. At the end, in a sold-out Tanger Center, a long, standing ovation, and well deserved for the remarkable production of the challenging, historic opera. Spartans were on the stage, in the orchestra, and behind the scenes in bringing “Porgy and Bess” to life, with Rhiannon Giddens… Continue reading…
“What are you doing for others?” That’s the question Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. asked the crowd during his famous “Conquering Self-Centeredness” speech on August 11th, 1957 in Montgomery, Alabama. UNC Greensboro’s motto is “service,” and as an institution, Spartans are committed to serving others every day on campus, in… Continue reading…
Star of the stage and screen, Tony Award-winner and seven-time nominee Kelli O’Hara visited UNC Greensboro last week to give a concert at UNCG Auditorium, and she also held a moderated Q&A with students and faculty members. Professor of Voice Robert Wells and Assistant Professor of Theater Mya Brown moderated… Continue reading…
In 2019, it was the first show to be announced for Greensboro’s new premier concert hall, the Tanger Center. And now, two years from when tickets first went on sale, the much-anticipated production will soon arrive: Greensboro Opera’s “Porgy and Bess.” On the morning of January 3rd, the performers and… Continue reading…
