Category Society & Culture

‘Secret Garden’ tells children’s tale in song

February 10, 2004

“The Secret Garden”will open on Friday, Feb. 27, and run Saturday and Sunday, Feb. 28 and 29; and Thursday-Sunday, March 4-7, in the Wisconsin Union Theater. Read More

Lecture, concert feature Irish broadcaster and traditional singer

February 9, 2004

Irish broadcaster and traditional singer MeaitÃ JÃ³ ShÃ©amuis Ã“ FÃ¡tharta will explore the role of radio in preserving and promoting minority languages and cultures during an upcoming lecture at UW–Madison. Read More

Guest artists to bring together university, community

January 29, 2004

Sizzling beats, exuberant motion and dynamic new poetry will heat up the night at a carnival on the UW–Madison campus that celebrates the Caribbean in music, word and dance. The event, "Sin Fronteras Multicultural Carnival: Celebrating the Word Through Dance, Poetry and Caribbean Rhythms," will be held on Saturday, Feb. 21, at 7 p.m. in the Margaret H'Doubler Performance Space, Lathrop Hall, 1050 University Ave. Read More

Cantus offers superb choral music at Wisconsin Union Theater

January 28, 2004

Cantus, called a "superb and innovative professional male choir...unique and charismatic group...with a delightfully refreshing and adventurous approach to choral singing" by American Record Guide, opens the spring offerings of the Wisconsin Union Theater's Concert Series on Saturday, Jan. 31, at 8 pm. Read More

Four textile artists probe repetition in pattern

January 27, 2004

Four textile artists will explore how repetition establishes pattern in "Repeat Repeat," an exhibition of their work at the Gallery of Design in the Human Ecology Building. Read More

Musicians offer free concert

January 27, 2004

A national tour with stops in Atlanta, Denver and Aspen will begin in Madison, as Robert McDuffie, violin, and Christopher Taylor, piano, perform on Thursday, Feb. 5, at 7:30 p.m. in Mills Concert Hall in the Mosse Humanities Building. Read More

2004 Wisconsin Film Festival set for April 1-4

January 19, 2004

This year's Wisconsin Film Festival, a public program of the Arts Institute at UW–Madison, is slated for Thursday, April 1, through Sunday, April 4. Read More

UW professor remembers Uta Hagen

January 15, 2004

The death of renowned stage actress Uta Hagen, who studied at the University of Wisconsin and received an honorary degree from UW–Madison in 2000, leaves a tremendous void in the theatrical world, according to a UW–Madison professor who knew Hagen. Read More

Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center returns to Union Theater

January 14, 2004

Having played to a full house several times in the past, an audience favorite, the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, returns to the Wisconsin Union Theater on Friday, Feb. 13, at 8 p.m. with a program of music by Ravel, Adolphe and Haydn. Read More

Musical feast in store for ’04

January 13, 2004

The School of Music and the Wisconsin Union Theater will ring in the new year and the new semester with distinguished instrumental and vocal performers. Read More

Watercolors on display

January 13, 2004

Artist Sarah Aslakson likes to go where wild things are for inspiration. The result is an exhibition of her watercolors now at the Arboretum Steinhauer Trust Gallery. Read More

Chinese community presents gala talent show

January 12, 2004

Members of the campus Chinese community celebrate the new year with a talent show on Sunday, Jan. 25, at 7:30 p.m. in the Wisconsin Union Theater, 800 Langdon St. Read More

Center receives 1927 film

January 2, 2004

A restored print of a 1927 film that received two inaugural Academy Awards in 1929 has been donated to the Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research by Twentieth Century-Fox. Read More

Art of China, Africa fills Elvehjem’s galleries

January 2, 2004

"Circles in Reflection: The Carter Collection of Chinese Bronze Mirrors" features more than 100 examples dating from the fifth or fourth century B.C. through the early 20th century, and will be on view at the Elvehjem Museum of Art, Saturday, Dec. 20, 2003 - Sunday, Feb. 29, 2004. Read More

McKay helps connect diverse students, faculty

December 31, 2003

Nellie McKay has been one of the motivators behind and contributors to the Lorraine Hansberry Visiting Professorship, which recently brought artist-in-residence Tim Bond on campus to teach and direct the acclaimed production of Hansberry's final play, "Les Blancs," for University Theatre, among other notable accomplishments. Read More