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 ...
The Annual River City Festival of the Arts will return after COVID shut it down a couple of years ago. Scheduled for Memorial Day weekend — May 27-30 — the festival features a number of artists and is dedicated to all those who lost their lives during the pandemic. The festival will be held in the Janet and Imre Szilagyi Center in Rowlesburg. Soprano Christina Nassif (Submitted photo) Cristina Nassif will be featured in an inspiring concert titled, “Songs My Mother Taught Me” at 2 p.m. May 28 in the Szilagyi Center/Historic Rowlesburg Auditorium. Passes and tickets ...
West Virginia Watercolor Society is pleased to announce “Aqueous Plus 2022,” exhibiting Friday through June 7 at the Parkersburg Art Center in Parkersburg. Several Morgantown artists are represented in the exhibition: Jamie Lester, with “Cheat River Haze" and “Pools of the Big Sandy”; Janet Michael, with “Undersea View” and “Spring Thaw”; Greg Kullman, with “River of Coal”; and Kathleen Snoderly, with “Reflections.” The exhibition features three displays in three galleries. Gallery One: “Aqueous 2022” — $2,300-$2,800 in awards will be granted in ...
