Author: James Britton

Three Stories High Theatre Festival: Downtown Lafayette

  This is all your fault. Let me explain. We’re always looking for fascinating artists to bring into our community. Each time we’ve thrown the range of possible experiences even wider, you’ve rushed right in and made it a success....

U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Vilsack to visit Purdue

Purdue President Mitch Daniels is pleased to announce that U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack will make an important visit to Purdue’s West Lafayette campus on Nov. 17 and 18. The public will have the opportunity to hear from Secretary Vilsack on...
Local school children attend a matinee of Scrap Arts Music

Preschool-Grade 12 Student Matinee Series begins Monday

Purdue Convocations will kick off its 2014-15 Preschool-Grade 12 Matinee Series on Monday (Nov. 17). The matinees give area schoolchildren the opportunity to attend a performing-arts presentation in a theater and, for many students, serve as an introduction to live...

Q&A with Béla Fleck

Béla Fleck has been nominated in more different Grammy® categories than anyone in the awards’ history—country, pop, jazz, bluegrass, classical, folk, spoken word, composition, and arranging. See Béla Fleck live at Purdue University on November 14 with Brooklyn Rider. Q:...

Yo-Yo Ma and Kathryn Stott’s Encore

Thank you for attending Wednesday's performance by Yo-Yo Ma & Kathryn Stott! Here is a list of the pieces performed during the multiple encores: Salut d’Amour, by Edward Elgar (listen) Prelude No. 1 from Three Preludes for Piano, by George Gershwin (listen) The Swan from The Carnival of the Animals, by Camille...
David Dorfman group dancers in mid dance position

From Generation to Generation: David Dorfman Dance

  Come, and Back Again Got junk? Maybe you’re a person who has a garage full of bric-a-brac you’ve kept around just in case you ever have a need for it. Maybe you have a family member who can’t drive...
Mamma Mia performance image

Mamma Mia! brings the music of ABBA to Purdue

Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus’ MAMMA MIA!, the smash hit musical based on the songs of ABBA, returns to Elliott Hall of Music October 21, 2014 at 7:30 pm. ABBA: the band behind the music that captured the world On Saturday April...
Peter and the Starcatcher

‘Peter and the Starcatcher’ performance moved to April 9

Purdue Convocations will present the award-winning Broadway show "Peter and the Starcatcher" at 7 p.m. April 9 at Elliott Hall of Music. This performance was originally scheduled for April 23. All tickets issued for the original date will be honored at the door. Purdue...

Neon Trees Concert Postponed

UPCOMING NEON TREES CONCERT AT PURDUE POSTPONED DUE TO ILLNESS Neon Trees regretfully must postpone some dates of their upcoming fall tour– including a scheduled Nov. 7 show at Purdue University– due to health issues of bassist Branden Campbell, who recently underwent open-heart...

Fieldwork: An Alan Lomax Centennial Residency

Featuring Jayme Stone/The Lomax Project Friday/Saturday, March 27-28, 2015 Beginning in 1934, with cumbersome—and now quaintly-primitive—recording equipment loaded in the back of his car, the young Alan Lomax (1915-2002) travelled down the dusty byways and backwaters of the United States...
Rainn Wilson with The Acting Company in A Midsummer Night's Dream

The Acting Company: Where Are They Now?

Did you know acclaimed actors Rainn Wilson (The Office, The Rocker, Super) and Jeffrey Wright (Broadway’s Angels in America; James Bond films Casino Royale, Quantum of Solace, No Time to Die) performed at Purdue with The Acting Company?

Sun Studio: The Birthplace of Rock ‘n’ Roll

It was on a tiny corner in Memphis, Tennessee, that Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins, and Jerry Lee Lewis came together for a legendary impromptu jam on December 4, 1956, at Sun Studio. When owner Sam Phillips called the...