Mandolin, guitar and a little bit of electricity created folkie tunes brought to campus Thursday night by Gin Mill Hollow and Fruition. The opening band, Gin Mill Hollow is an acoustic folk rock trio out of Madison. Marc Norman, songwriter, guitarist, double bassist and vocalist for Gin Mill Hollow, is quite familiar with the university, having graduated from the University ... Read More »
The College of Fine Arts and Communication (COFAC) hosted their annual fundraising event, Arts Bash, on Saturday. The evening festivities held in the Noel Fine Arts Center included an art sale, student performances, demonstrations as well as food and drink provided by local sponsors. The purpose of the event is to create scholarship funds for students within the Department of ... Read More »
University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point Alumni, Holly Janz and Michael Keller, performed a unique opera style act with dramatic staging on Sunday, Jan. 29. Previous performances of the show include Concordia College in September and two days before appearing at UWSP they performed in Madison. A native of Marshfield, Janz received her Bachelor of Music from UWSP, Master of Music from ... Read More »
Eerie echoes, looping tracks, and a strong beat defined the feel of the alternative music in the Encore on Thursday night. It was music that sounded like the reverberations of life. Thomas Wincek, member of the bands Volcano Choir, Field Report and All Tiny Creatures, performed solo in the first Centertainment Productions show of the spring semester. The concert opened ... Read More »
For many people, the day after Thanksgiving marks the seasonally acceptable date to start listening to holiday music. As the days of December fly by amid a flurry of the final weeks of the semester and snow, the holiday spirit grows and music from holiday radio stations to caroling to rumbles of tubas fills the air. The University of Wisconsin-Stevens ... Read More »
Ballet, jazz, contemporary, modern, swing, hip-hop and more. The University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point Department of Theatre and Dance presents the 2016 production of Afterimages. Afterimages is an annual dance showcase that is complexly student-directed, danced, choreographed and designed. Anna Kurzynski is a dance major as well as a student dancer, choreographer and director in Afterimages. “This is one of my ... Read More »
Justin Spanbauer, senior drama major at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, is producing an original play, Mars Lost. Mars Lost tells the story of a woman who was elected to participate in a mission to colonize the planet Mars, leaving Earth behind forever. “It’s the story of her as a person, a character study of someone who would make the ... Read More »
“We are what we are” declares the opening song of La Cage Aux Folles. The phrase both opens and closes the musical, a show performed by the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point Department of Theatre and Dance the past two weekends. La Cage Aux Folles tells the story of Jean-Michel’s unconventional family melding with that of his conservative fiancé’s. Jean-Michel’s father, ... Read More »
This week brought something unique and close to home to The Encore stage: two live bands right from the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point campus, Heartlight and Eazy on the Eyez. The two-hour show gave equal light to both bands. Heartlight filled the first slot, playing for an hour. After a short break for the bands to organize themselves, Eazy on ... Read More »
Tatyana Lubov, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point alumna, is stepping into pretty important shoes: shoes worn before her by actresses such as Julie Andrews, Lesley Ann Warren and Brandy Norwood. The shoes? Glass slippers. Lubov is starring as Ella in the national Broadway tour of Rogers and Hammerstein’s “Cinderella.” A Cottage Grove native, Lubov graduated from UWSP in December of 2015 ... Read More »
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