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Audra McDonald performed at Hill Auditorium on Nov 4. A brief Q&A session with U-M Musical Theatre students preceded the performance. Sarah Bichsel, UMS Social Media Intern, attended and transcribed this session.

George Shirley, U of M Joseph Edgar Maddy Distinguished University Emeritus Professor of Voice, discusses the rise of the countertenor and the history of castrati. UMS presents French countertenor Philippe Jaroussky in with Apollo’s Fire baroque orchestra on November 3rd at Hill Auditorium.

Flamenco is a living art form. Joseph Pratt, a flamenco and classical guitarist of 20 years, guides through this extraordinary music, and introduces Diego el Cigala, one of today’s most exciting flamenco singers and musicians.

The Gate Theatre Dublin is synonymous with the works of Samuel Beckett, having toured productions throughout the world from Beijing to New York, Sydney to Toronto and London to Melbourne. Leslie Stainton interviews Gate’s artistic director Michael Colgan. Topics covered: Do actors think of Beckett as a sadist? Is theatre the art of loss? And what of Beckett’s genius?

Samuel Beckett once said about adapting from text to theater: “to ‘act’ it is to kill it.” Akiva Gottlieb explores the audacity of Gate Theatre Dublin’s adaptation, featuring Barry McGovern, of Beckett’s novel WATT.

Editor’s Note: Gate Theatre Dublin will perform Samuel Beckett’s Watt and Endgame on October 27-29. Below, Akiva Gottlieb takes a closer look at Film, a film by Samuel Beckett. Samuel Beckett’s Film….

Editor’s Note: UMS presents Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan, performing “Water Stains on the Wall,” on Oct 21 & 22 at the Power Center. Rani Kotha and Howard Hu are co-sponsoring…

In a long-awaited performance, Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan presents Lin Hwai-min’s newest work, Water Stains on the Wall, on October 21 & 22 at the Power Center. Below, Cloud Gate…

It is serendipitous, even ironic, that here in Ann Arbor, Michigan I will see perform, for the first time, my neighbor from Sarajevo. Balkan music icon and acclaimed film composer Goran Bregovic,…