During a panel discussion at Nicholas Music Center on February 26, celebrated opera singer Renée Fleming spoke about the power of music as it relates to health and the brain.
Rutgers University’s Nancy Yunhwa Rao recently received the third award for her latest book, Chinatown Opera Theater in North America (Illinois University Press, 2017). The award-winning book tells the story of iconic theater companies and the networks...
Young Sun Han is a visual artist, lecturer, and curator who articulates human stories through intersecting media: photography, moving image, durational performance, rituals, installation, and found objects.
Photo of David Dannenfelser (left) with Charlene Wetterstrand and Andrew Abdou by Keith Bratcher. Andrew Abdou was in the middle of giving a presentation at the annual conference of the American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine in September when he noticed audience...
In her teaching and research, Music Department Associate Director Rebecca Cypess specializes in the history, interpretation, and performance practices of music in 17th- and 18th-century Europe, as well as music in Jewish culture and women in music.
Christopher Cartmill is an award-winning playwright, actor, and director. He taught for six years at NYU’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study and has directed plays, operas, and cabarets in New York (off-Broadway), Los Angeles, and Chicago.
BFA student Nora Sadek has created a series of 24″ circular paintings based on the 12 zodiac signs. The series begins with the first sign of the zodiac, Aries, and ends with the last sign, Pisces. Sadek—by the way, she’s a scorpio—says,...
Mio Guberinic, costume designer for Madonna, Katy Perry, Saturday Night Live and Batman’s nemesis Bane, is training theater students to create wearable art through the technology of thermoplastics. The instruction takes place in Ellen Bredehoft’s costume...
MFA candidate Valerie Suter (above) along with alumni Nell Irvin Painter and Layqa Nuna Yawar have contributed to the Zimmerli Art Museum’s centennial celebration exhibit on the many faces of Paul Robeson. Read more about the exhibition, which runs...
Thomas Lennon, the Academy Award-winning head of the Documentary Film Lab at the Rutgers Filmmaking Center, has directed a film that will premiere nationwide on PBS on December 10. Sacred is a feature-length documentary that weaves scenes from...