April 25, 2022

Setting the Stage

CARMENS, TOREADORS, AND FIGAROS; TOSCAS, BESSES, AND QUEENS OF THE NIGHT – WHERE DO THEY COME FROM? In North Carolina, UNCG Opera Theatre is the premier incubator for singers who advance to the...

April 21, 2022

Broadway COVID Safety, with Hugh Hysell

As Broadway audiences have cautiously returned to theaters after the Omicron variant wave, safety is top priority for Hugh Hysell ‘88. The actor and Tony Award winning producer now leads The Broadway...

April 21, 2022

Lorraine O’Grady exhibition from Brooklyn Museum of Art

It’s a big exhibition straight from the Big Apple. “Lorraine O’Grady: Both/And,” on loan from the Brooklyn Museum of Art in New York, is the first comprehensive overview of the...

April 21, 2022

A lesson of their own, with Geena Davis

When Geena Davis offers you a masterclass on acting for the camera, you grab your notepad and get the best seat you can. Acting major Katherine Gerondelis loved Davis’ funny stories and the...

April 21, 2022

At the Met

At the Met Perfomance of “La Boheme” at the Met Life on opera’s grandest stage is a whirlwind. “Carmen,” “Verdi,” “Tosca,” “Romeo and Juliet,” “Turandot,” “Macbeth,” “Madame Butterfly,” and more...

April 21, 2022

UCLS presents …

UNCG’s Concert and Lecture Series, the longest running series of its kind in North Carolina, will mark its 110th season in the coming with some great shows. • Winston Duke, star of the blockbuster...

April 21, 2022

A Triumphant Return

A Triumphant Return Above, final dress rehearsal of “Porgy and Bess.” The cast included many UNCG alumni and several students. In early 2020, the opening of Greensboro’s Steven Tanger Center for the...

November 1, 2021

‘Porgy and Bess’ at Tanger in January

The first opera in Greensboro’s new Tanger Center is set to be a very Spartan affair. Sidney Outlaw ’04, the cover feature in this magazine in 2012, has performed on the biggest stages in Europe...

November 1, 2021

Simon says: Spartans have got talent

They made it through round after round on television’s “America’s Got Talent” – receiving standing ovations from the judges and audience for largely a capella versions of songs they love. It...

November 1, 2021

UCLS spring season

The university concert and lecture series offers a particularly strong spring line-up, with artists appearing on stage in UNCG Auditorium: • Jan. 14 – Kelli O’Hara• Feb. 6 – Margaret Atwood• Feb....

November 1, 2021

Power of dance

This fall’s biggest dance day in Greensboro was led by Spartans. The National Dance Day celebration kicked off with the premier performance of “A Wicked Silence” from Alexandra Joye Warren ’06 MFA. Warren...

November 1, 2021

Molly Oldham, singing her song

A rare gift for vocal performance … and a rare cancer to overcome Taylor Theatre’s a big stage. And for the 19 students polishing their choreography for the “My Deer” scene, Sept. 13 starts...

April 25, 2021

The show must go on

Soon after graduating from UNCG’s School of Music, Martha Bassett ’96 MM made a name for herself with her first band, Martha and the Moodswingers. Nine albums later, the jazz singer realized she was...

April 19, 2021

BB makes a banjo ring

She received the Steve Martin Banjo Prize last fall. Her band, Mile Twelve, was named New Artist of the Year by the International Bluegrass Music Association. BB Bowness learned banjo in her native...

April 16, 2021

Museum mural

A major new artwork by Sheena Rose ’16 MFA will grace the Weatherspoon Art Museum atrium this spring and summer. Her vibrant and energetic work is at once anchored in her Caribbean heritage and...

April 14, 2021

New at UNCG: Robinson Family Fund in Jazz Studies

When Ward Robinson, MD, retired, he turned to a different challenge: music. As an infectious disease expert, Robinson served for two decades at Moses Cone Health System and five years as medical...

October 9, 2020

UNCG alumnus making waves on ‘Outer Banks’

One of the most popular series binge watched around the globe during the pandemic quarantine was “Outer Banks,” the hit Netflix television series that premiered last spring. The show is about a...

October 9, 2020

Artist Sherrill Roland: spotlight on incarceration

After spending months in jail and on probation, he ultimately received a bill of innocence. He turned his experience into art. Sherrill Roland ’09, ’17 MFA is the founder of the Jumpsuit Project,...