Friday (BFA’13) credits a robust Rutgers alumni network with helping her land her latest gig, as rehearsal stage manager on George C. Wolfe’s much-anticipated Broadway revival of Stephen Sondheim’s “Gypsy,” starring Audra McDonald.
Ritual4Return is the brainchild of Kevin Bott, director of Rutgers Arts Online. The project works with people coming home after incarceration to develop a ritual through theatrical storytelling that helps them move on from their experiences.
Rao has been honored “for her contributions to musicology, in particular her achievements in fostering cross-cultural dialogue between Anglophone music studies and music research in Chinese-speaking lands, as well as her efforts to bridge the divide between musicology and her home discipline of music theory.”
Earlier this year, faculty Robinson McClellan made a rare discovery: a previously unknown waltz by none other than Frédéric Chopin.
Brandon Mejia, who is on track to graduate in May 2025 with majors in jazz performance and information technology, will serve as one of the speakers at an induction ceremony for Tri-Alpha, the national first-generation honor society.
“Promotora” will be screened along with two other short films during “Mexican/American: The Search for Health and Happiness,” followed by a conversation about health and well-being in New Jersey’s Mexican American communities. This event is sold out.
“Engaging with horror films is like a rite of passage, between being young and being an adult,” says Caroline Key, who’s been teaching “Horror Film Production” for six years.
The New York Times singled out Dance chair Gerald Casel in their review of Oliver Tompkins Ray’s spoken-word opera Woolgathering, based on singer-songwriter and author Patti Smith’s memoir about growing up in South...
Kevin Bott’s Ritual4Return is a 12-week program that establishes a public storytelling ritual for formerly incarcerated individuals returning to their lives outside the prison system. R4R has won the NJ Council for the Humanities’ Katz Prize.
Theater alum Sebastian Stan (BFA’05) is garnering rave reviews for his star turns in “The Apprentice,” in which he stars as former President Donald J. Trump, and for “A Different Man,” as an actor whose face changes after an experimental treatment.