Arts
& Entertainment
Penn State Intercom......January
25, 2001
Pat Gibboney,
network
support specialist in the College of Arts and Architecture, readies the
entrance to the new photo show, "History Past, History Present: The Daguerreotype
Portrait in America." This exhibit will be on display through May 20.
For a list of additional exhibits taking place at the Palmer Museum of
Art, check the Web at
http://www.psu.edu/dept/palmermuseum/special.html.
Photo: Greg Grieco
Shakespeare Festival
Penn State Fayette will hold its annual Shakespeare Festival Jan. 29-31. The festival, organized by Dennis Brestensky, has been a campus tradition since 1972, and will feature drama productions, library exhibits and student projects. The schedule follows:
* Jan. 29: "The Taming of the Shrew," a Shakespeare-in-the-Schools production, is scheduled from 12:15 to 1:15 p.m. in the Williams Building Auditorium. A question-and-answer session will follow the performance.
* Jan. 30: A Stage Combat Demonstration, conducted by the National Players, will take the stage from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. in the Williams Building Auditorium. As a precursor to the following night's stage performance, the audience will be given an inside view of how the actors' hand-to-hand action scenes and combat moves in a realistic and safe manner.
* Jan. 31: As the highlight performance of the celebration, the National Players theatre group will present Shakespeare's "A Comedy of Errors" from 7 to 9 p.m. in the Williams Building Auditorium. A question-and-answer session immediately after the performance will give the audience a chance to meet the actors.
Tickets are required for the Jan. 29 and 31 performances and can be obtained by calling Cheryl Duncan at (724) 430-4123. All other events are free to the public, and library exhibits extend to Feb. 2.
Bach's Lunch
Essence of Joy, a choir of 39 members directed by Anthony Leach, assistant professor of music, will sing at the Bach's Lunch concert at 12:10 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 1, in the Helen Eakin Eisenhower Chapel on the University Park campus.
Essence of Joy performs sacred and secular music from the African/African-American traditions. The group also will be featured in the performance of "God's Trombones" Feb. 8 in Eisenhower Auditorium.
After the Bach's Lunch concert, audience members may take their bag lunches to the Roy and Agnes Wilkinson Lounge in Eisenhower Chapel. Coffee and tea will be provided.
A cappella music
Naturally Seven — a gospel, rhythm and blues, a cappella vocal group —will perform at 8 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 8, in the Perkins Student Center Theatre at Penn State Berks.
The group recorded its first CD, "Non-Fiction," last year after being named Regional A Cappella Champions at the New York City Regional A Cappella Harmony Sweepstakes.
Admission is free to the public. For more information, call Jeff Wakemen at (610) 396-6068.