Fri, Jul 06, 2007
July 6 - 8, 2007
LENTZ CENTER FOR ASIAN CULTURE, OPENING FRIDAY
Asian Musical Instruments Focus of Lentz Exhibition
"Sight and Sound: Asian Musical Instruments from the Collection of Donald and Velma Lentz," the summer exhibition of the Lentz Center for Asian Culture at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, opens July 6 and runs through Sept. 9.
The purpose of the exhibition, in addition to honoring the Lentzes, is to show some of the breadth and variety of Asian instrumentation, said Barbara Banks, director/curator of the Lentz Center. The exhibit will include stringed instruments, idiophones, drums, woodwinds and horns. A video will accompany the show. more...
LENTZ CENTER FOR ASIAN CULTURE
SHELDON MEMORIAL ART GALLERY, FRI 5 -7 PM
Sheldon Hosts First Friday Events
Music and special art activities for youngsters will enliven this mid-summer reception. Children will be invited to participate in craft and art activities, including painting, jewelry-making, and acting. Refreshments will be tailored for younger tastes too: macaroni and cheese, pigs in a blanket, veggies and lemonade.
Visitors of all ages are invited to enjoy current exhibitions, including The Anatomy of Charley Friedman and Flow 2007-2008 Statewide, while enjoying appetizers. Admission is free to all art lovers.
SHELDON MEMORIAL ART GALLERY
HOWELL THEATRE, TEMPLE BUILDING, STARTING JULY 5
Nebraska Repertory Theatre Celebrates 40th Season
The Nebraska Repertory Theatre, the professional theatre company of the Johnny Carson School of Theatre and Film in the Hixson-Lied College of Fine and Performing Arts at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, celebrates its 40th season with three performances. Opening July 5 in Howell Theatre is Jason Robert Brown's new musical The Last Five Years. Jason Robert Brown creates a unique, musical portrait celebrating the life of a marriage. Told in Jamie's voice (played by Paul Coate, Omaha) from the first moments of infatuation and Catherine's (played by Melissa Lewis, Lincoln) from the final goodbye, the lovers' stories intersect in time for one all too brief and touching moment.
Jennifer Hubbard from Louisville, Kentucky, directs the production with musical direction by Lincoln's Vincent T. Learned. The production is designed by Steve Shelley from New York City (lighting), Ahna Packard from Vermillion, South Dakota (scenic), Sharon Sobel from University of Nebraska at Omaha (costumes), and Jeff O'Brien of Lincoln (sound). Performances are July 5, 6, 7, 14, 20, 27 and August 1 at 7:30 p.m. and August 5 at 2:00 p.m.
Season passes are $50, $45 faculty/staff and senior citizens, $30 student/youth. Each season pass allows the pass-holder unlimited attendance to all three NRT 2007 productions, one free admission to each Destinations performance, and one free admission to the special screening of the film Gone with the Wind. Individual performance tickets are $20, $18 faculty/staff and senior citizen, and $10 student/youth.
NEBRASKA REPERTORY THEATRE
MARY RIEPMA ROSS MEDIA ARTS CENTER
La Vie En Rose, Severance Play at the Ross
UNL's Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center presents La Vie En Rose and Severance. Severance will show through July 19, while La Vie En Rose will play through July 26.
A swirling, impressionistic portrait of an artist who regretted nothing, writer-director Olivier Dahan's La Vie en Rose stars 2005 Cesar Award-winner Marion Cotillard (A Very Long Engagement, A Good Year) in a blazing performance as the legendary French icon Edith Piaf. From the mean streets of the Belleville district of Paris to the dazzling limelight of New York's most famous concert halls, Piaf's life was a constant battle to sing and survive, to live and love. Born into abject poverty, surrounded by street performers, hookers, and pimps, Piaf's magical voice made her a star on both sides of the Atlantic.
In Severance, a team-building holiday goes takes a change for the worse in the mountains of Europe. Seven employees of the international weapons manufacturer Palisade Defense (global suppliers of innovative weaponry for the past 75 war-torn years) are being treated to a retreat weekend at the company’s newly built luxury spa lodge by their president, George Cinders. But things quickly go awry as the colleagues find themselves faced with the chop when their corporate weekend is sabotaged by a deadly enemy. Forget office politics, only the smartest will survive this bloody office outing.
More information is available at the Ross website.
