The celebration features a joint concert by the UMD Women’s Chorus and guest choirs. Together, they perform music for treble voices to mark the beginning of Women’s History Month.
Ensembles will showcase music written especially for women’s choirs by such contemporary composers as Joan Szymko and Stephen Hatfield.
The Bach Cantata Series is dedicated to exploring the more than 200 extant cantatas by the great master through informal performances by students and friends of the UMD Choral Activities.
Join us in The Clarice’s Grand Pavilion to experience this unique tradition!
This blog post is by Emily Schweich, junior broadcast journalism major.
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The Lost World isn’t your typical coming-of-age play – unless your idea of a coming-of-age play includes a secret world of dinosaurs under the bed. I spoke with writer and director Jared Mezzocchi, an assistant professor in the School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies design department, about his inspiration for the play and the multimedia aspects of the performance.
"I think the biggest challenge has really just been making sure that everybody is seeing the same thing in their head as we’re building it. It’s a really complex landscape, because it’s all kind of a memory play, set in the mind of our narrator, who’s telling the story."
The Bach Cantata Series is dedicated to exploring the more than 200 extant cantatas by the great master through informal performances by students and friends of the UMD Choral Activities.
Join us in The Clarice’s Grand Pavilion to experience this unique tradition!
This blog post is by Emily Schweich, junior broadcast journalism major.
Fun, quirky and genre-based – that’s the kind of theatre that inspires Jason Schlafstein.
He often saw it at the Capital Fringe Festival, but “it didn’t seem like year-round theatres were doing theatre that had that kind of spirit all year,” he said.
So Schlafstein, a University of Maryland School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies (TDPS) alumnus who received his B.A. in Theatre Performance in 2008, joined with Colin Grube to found Flying V Theatre in 2010. The company was recently named the 2015 John Aniello Outstanding Emerging Theatre Company by theatreWashington and the Helen Hayes Awards.
The UMD family is a really strong one,” Schlafstein said. “I’ve never seen in this town a group of alumni who are so invested and supportive in working with one another.”
