GREENSBORO – The audience at the Highland Center for the Arts in Greensboro was treated to a very imaginative, original and humorous journey in a production of a new play entitled Greenwood by Ira Karp last Sunday afternoon, in the midst of an unwelcomed late April snowfall. This was a[Read More…]
Reviews
Original Play by Drama Club Students was Different, Memorable
GREENSBORO — The Hazen Union Drama Club performed an original play entitled “Emmasey,” written by their teacher and mentor Marc Considine, on Monday evening last week at the Highland Center for the Arts. It is structured as the journey of a young woman to find her father, who had left[Read More…]
Le Vent du Nord Energizes Audience
GREENSBORO — Le Vent du Nord came down from Quebec and certainly lived up to its name (The Wind from the North) with its totally energizing performance to a sold out house at the Highland Center for the Arts, last Friday evening. With its engaging program and three encores, this[Read More…]
Local Folk Orchestra Concert Rich in Variety
GREENSBORO — The Local Folk Orchestra returned to the Highland Center for the Arts in Greensboro last Saturday evening for an upbeat concert that was most welcome at this time of a fickle Spring and dire national politics. The program was rich in its variety of sources and the 21[Read More…]
Questions Raised by “Animals Lawsuit Against Humanity”
GREENSBORO — Sister Gail Worcelo with Greensboro’s Green Mountain Monastery adapted a 1,000 year old tale for a reading in the Greensboro United Church of Christ (UCC) sanctuary, Sunday afternoon, Mar. 1: “The Animals Case Against Humanity” is said to have originated in India, been written down by Sufi Muslims[Read More…]
Alumni Participate with Winter Meeting
GREENSBORO – The Greensboro Historical Society held its winter meeting last Sunday afternoon in the Fellowship Hall of the United Church of Christ with a fine turnout. The engaging topic was the history of the Greensboro High School, with over a dozen alumni participating. Erika Karp then gave a brief[Read More…]
Adaptation of “Pagliacci” by Opera Vermont, Imaginative
GREENSBORO – Opera Vermont of Brandon, came to the Highland Center for the Arts to give a very professional and highly imaginative performance of the opera “Pagliacci” by Reggiero Leoncavallo (1858-1919) last Friday and Saturday evenings. One unique aspect of this production was to combine with Circus Smirkus (which was[Read More…]
Puzzles for the Pantry Helps Raise Funds
HARDWICK – Undoubtedly there have long been puzzles of a limited number of pieces to challenge and entertain people all around the world, but jigsaw puzzles with hundreds of small pieces must have coincided with the invention of the tool itself, either a stationary thin circular band or a hand[Read More…]
Egan Recounts Appeal of Klan Fever
HARDWICK— Brutal. Painful. Those are the feelings generated by Timothy Egan’s recounting of the Ku Klux Klan in the United States in the 1920s. “A Fever In The Heartland” focuses on Indiana and its Grand Dragon, D.C. Stephenson, but the book is a broader, historic display of a terrible time[Read More…]
Woodard’s Children’s Book Resonates with Season
Talking animals, playing instruments and dancing? They have long been featured in children’s stories, going back to Aesop’s Fables. Springing from our imagination, which is particularly fertile when we are young, they acquire a life of their own which delights us, in the “willing suspension of disbelief” that is an[Read More…]
“A Christmas Carol” Entertains, Encourages Empathy
GREENSBORO – In four completely sold out shows the Civic Theater Project of the Civic Standard presented Charles Dickens’ classic, “A Christmas Carol,” in partnership with the Highland Center for the Arts in Greensboro last Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday, in a brilliant performance that demonstrated the power of theater[Read More…]
Winter Concert Includes Variety of Singers, Musicians
HARDWICK – The United Church of Hardwick opened the Christmas season with an all inclusive winter concert last Sunday afternoon, which featured a number of different singers and musicians as well as a clever bingo contest (with prizes!) and an amusing skit of “dancing knees.” (more later). The program began[Read More…]
