Thu, Apr 19, 2007
April 19, 2007
STUDIO THEATRE, TEMPLE BUILDING, 7:30PM
University Theatre Presents "Suburbia"
UNL's University Theatre continues its season at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln with Eric Bogosian's subUrbia. The production, directed by guest director Jennifer Hubbard, will have performances April 19, 20, 21 at 7:30 p.m. in Studio Theatre, third floor of the Temple Building at 12th and R Streets.
Tickets are $16, $14 faculty/staff and senior citizens, and $10 students with ID. Tickets are available from the Lied Center Ticket Office, 301 N. 12 Monday through Friday 11 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. and one hour prior to the performance in the Studio Theatre Lobby.
UNIVERSITY THEATRE
LIED CENTER FOR PERFORMING ARTS, 7:30PM
Lied Center Hosts Author David Sedaris
Best-selling author of "Me Talk Pretty One Day" and "Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim," David Sedaris is truly original. His sardonic wit and incisive social critique have made him one of America's preeminent humor writers. He will make an appearance at the Lied Center for Performing Arts this evening at 7:30 p.m.
The great skill with which Sedaris slices through cultural euphemisms and political correctness proves that he is a master of satire and one of the most observant writers addressing the human condition today. Tickets for the event are $18 for student/youth and $36 for general admission.
LIED CENTER
HAMILTON HALL, 3:30PM
School of Biological Sciences Seminar Series - "Elucidating the small RNA component of the transcriptome"
Pamela Green, University of Delaware
BRACE LABORATORY, 3:30PM
Physics & Astronomy Colloquium - "Targeting Cancer with Radiation: Technology for Focused Delivery and Image Guidance"
Dr. Timothy Solberg, University of Nebraska Medical Center Refreshments: Brace Lab 201 at 3:30 p.m. Colloquium abstract
HARDIN HALL - SCHOOL of NATURAL RESOURCES, 4PM
Environmental Studies Seminar Series - "The Changing Human-Environment Dialogue in Children's Picture Books, 1938-2006"
Dr. J. Allen Williams, Professor, UNL Dept. of Sociology
MARY RIEPMA ROSS MEDIA ARTS CENTER
The Namesake, Inland Empire Show at the Ross
UNL's Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center presents The Namesake and Inland Empire. The Namesake will show through April 19, while Inland Empire will show through April 26.
The Namesake is the story of the Ganguli family whose move from Calcutta to New York evokes a lifelong balancing act to meld to a new world without forgetting the old. Though parents Ashoke and Ashima (Irfan Khan, Tabu) long for the family and culture that enveloped them in India, they take great pride in the opportunities their sacrifices have afforded their children. Paradoxically, their son Gogol (Kal Penn) is torn between finding his own unique identity without losing his heritage. Even Gogol's name represents the family's journey into the unknown.
With Inland Empire, David Lynch - creator of such mind-bending works as Eraserhead and Lost Highway - delivers his most avant-garde, abstract, and impenetrable vision yet. A three-hour fever nightmare of a motion picture, Inland Empire takes the basic structure of Lynch's 2001 masterpiece, Mulholland Drive, and spins it even further out of control. Laura Dern's multi-fractured performance is downright heroic. She gives the film the human grounding that it so desperately needs. Not for the fragile or timid, Inland Empire is a full-blown assault to the senses.
More information is available at the Ross website.
