Parker Biller, a student at Taylor County Middle School, has been selected for the 2022 Middle School Honors Performance Series at Carnegie Hall. He will perform as a bass in the Honors Junior Ensemble Choir this month. Participation is limited to the highest-rated middle-school performers ...
By Jade Ruggieri As the cast sits in a semicircle around Jerry McGonigle under the bright stage lighting, they attentively listen to the director’s feedback about their run-through from earlier. “Make sure you’re peeing on your fire hydrant,” said McGonigle, director of ...
The Hazel Ruby McQuain Charitable Trust and City of Morgantown Arts & Culture Department kicked off the 2022 Ruby Summer Concert Series Friday with royal flair. Queen tribute band Almost Queen took the stage to entertain audiences with the legendary band’s greatest hits. The band ...
After two years without a summer season, West Virginia Public Theatre is making a comeback with the play, “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time” from June 10-12, followed by the musical “I Do! I Do!” June 24-26. Both shows explore the challenges and rewards of family life and will be performed at the Gladys Davis Theatre at the Canady Creative Arts Center. “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time” has been critically praised for its moving portrayal of 15-year-old Christopher as he rises to meet new challenges when his world is upended. At seven ...
MORGANTOWN – Take a walk among 150 million years of dinosaurs without getting chomped this weekend. Jurassic Quest, the traveling dinosaur experience, is at Mylan Park's Hazel & J.W. Ruby Community Center Friday through Sunday. You can see and touch tyrannosaurs and triceratops ...
As we enter an era when few living Holocaust survivors remain and when there is a concerted effort to ban books like Maus that directly confront the horrors of the Holocaust, it is important for art to continue to be made that passes these stories down. Barry Levinson’s latest film, “The Survivor,” currently streaming on HBO Max, does just that. The story follows Harry Haft (Ben Foster), a boxer and survivor of the concentration camps at Auschwitz. We meet up with him as he is struggling with PTSD symptoms during his matches. He is approached by reporter Emory Anderson ...
