When the average person goes to see a live theatre performance they don't think much about what goes on in order to produce what they are watching. That's normal and it’s the whole point. If you as an audience member have time to think too much about lighting, design or rehearsal hours then the performers ...
On Friday October 30, Longwood University junior Tyler Gage held his junior recital in Wygal Auditorium. Gage, a music performance major within the Cook-Cole College of Arts and Sciences’ music department, is a trumpet player who during the recital was assisted by two faculty accompanists, Carole ...
On Friday, October 23, Longwood hosted “Southside Sings” in Jarman Auditorium at 7:30 p.m. The concert was an All Choirs Concert with special performances from Longwood Honors Choirs and Longwood’s a cappella choirs. The concert opened with the SSA Honors Choir and was accompanied by Teri Kidd. ...
On Saturday, October 24, 2015 the Longwood Center for the Visual Arts (LCVA) hosted their annual Día de los Muertos or Day of the Dead, a free family workshop from 10:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. As explained by the LCVA, Día de los Muertos is “often mistaken as Halloween. Day of the Dead is about remembering ...
Five groups danced like 200 people were watching on Thursday night at Longwood’s first ever Best Dance Crew competition. Jarman was packed with audience members who were ready to watch participants twerk and nae nae their way to victory. The crews performed for a good cause; breast cancer awareness ...
In today’s society, it is often hard for musical artists to achieve a large amount of fame without the aid of a record label. Unlike Miley Cyrus and Nicki Minaj, artists who aren’t under a label don’t necessarily have the tools it takes to become popular, but are still worth listening to. The ...
The Longwood Center for the Visual Arts (LCVA) opened “Fire! The Resurrection of Mr. Imagination” earlier this month as a part of the ”Fall into Folk” celebration. Longwood University, a place not unfamiliar with a history of devastating fires after enduring two in the past, is hosting this ...
It is around this time every semester when you start spotting people sleeping, crying and just generally losing their minds in the library. It’s a stressful time of year, the second half of the semester is no cake-walk and Brock Commons is filled less with the sounds of laughter and more with the ...
Now that fall has come around, a new season calls for new television. This fall, a new show premiered, called Screams Queens, which is worth turning on your T.V. every Tuesday night to FOX and watching. This new series is all about the horrors that are taking place at the Kappa Kappa Tau sorority house ...
During the month of October, people tend to gather around their televisions in order to watch Freddy, Jason, or some other creature in a mask chase down some helpless damsel who can't seem to stop tripping. We like to be a little scared, we like to try and guess “who done it.” Chris Klinger is bringing ...
Aer The reggae/hip-hop band Aer will be this year’s Oktoberfest headliner. Playing on Longwood Stage at 8:15 p.m. until 9:45 p.m. The band consists of two guys, David von Mering and Carter Schultz. Coming off their hit single, Aer is set to deliver a perfect end to Saturday night, with their ...
In a society dominated by artists such as Taylor Swift and One Direction, it is difficult for songwriters of equal or greater talent to achieve the same level of fame if they don’t adhere to the conventions of today’s popular music. According to Rolling Stone magazine, Jeff Buckley is considered ...
Miriam Loya, Jamie Rule and Baylee Holloran all sat around a table at Java City looking tired but determined. In the midst of tech week for their show, Dead Man’s Cell Phone, they had taken the time to discuss the production that the rest of the cast and crew and they have been working on since the ...
The most recent band to play at Longwood was Cover Drive, an exciting Barbados-based group, featuring vocalist Amanda Reifer, guitarist Barry Hill, bass guitarist Jamar Harding and backup vocalist and percussionist Thomas “T-Ray” Armstrong. They work in several different genres, including reggae ...
Saturday, September 12 was the official opening night for the Longwood Center for Visual Arts’ (LCVA) current running exhibition, “The Quickening Image: The Wax-Resist Drawings of David Dodge Lewis and Ephraim Rubenstein /A Twenty Year Collaboration.” Although the exhibition has been on display ...
This year’s MTV Video Music Awards (VMAs) were very highly anticipated. With a mix of the outrageous Miley Cyrus hosting, the Twitter feud between Nicki Minaj and Taylor Swift brewing, and Justin Bieber’s comeback, no one knew what to expect when the cameras went live (with a cursing delay) on Sunday ...
Sisterhood is a vital part of the Longwood University experience. Whether it’s at sorority that feels like a home away from home, or just a randomly assigned roommate who turns into a best friend. Everyone finds where they belong in a different way, if you happen to find a group of people who you ...
Movies: “Pitch Perfect,” May 15: This is going to be the sequel to the incredible witty comedy that was full of girl-power. The long awaited second installment of the “Pitch Perfect” franchise is said to equally as funny and so, it will be bigger and better. We will have to see on ...
Food, drinks, friends and art. On the Saturday of spring weekend, The Longwood Center for the Visual Arts (LCVA) was packed with people to enjoy Point of Departure: Senior Thesis Opening Reception. Saturday, April 11 was the kick off event to what will continue to show Longwood University senior art ...
A Midsummer Night’s Dream: April 9-11, 7 p.m. & April 12, 3 p.m. CSTAC WMLU ...
