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Law and Order: Organized Crime Series Regular, Ainsley Seiger, to Lead Virginia Theatre Festival Production of Cabaret

The Virginia Theatre Festival has made its first casting announcement for its upcoming 2023 season-opening production of Cabaret. Ainsley Seiger leads the cast as Sally Bowles. Seiger returns to the Virginia Theatre Festival stage after having been seen in 2018 productions of A Chorus Line and The Cocoanuts. Seiger is a graduate of UNCSA and became a series regular on NBC’s Law & Order: Organized Crime in early 2021, playing Detective Jet Slootmaekers.

https://virginiatheatrefestival.org/casting_announcement_cabaret/

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CRAVE Builds a Creative Community Through Fashion

CRAVE — standing for Creative, Raw, and Very Edgy — combines design, performance and spirit to produce a fashion show each spring featuring student performances, production and choreography.

https://www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2023/04/crave-builds-a-creative-community-through-fashion?ct=content_open&cv=cbox_featured

The UVa University Singers and conductor Michael Slon will present “Considering Matthew Shepard,” a 2016 oratorio by Craig Hella Johnson that covers musical ground from country to Broadway to gospel to modern minimalism. Karin Elsner

UVA Singers to Present Oratorio Honoring Matthew Shepard 25 Years After Murder

When the University of Virginia University Singers perform a new oratorio on Friday evening, audience members can find their way into the story of Matthew Shepard through a variety of musical genres.

https://dailyprogress.com/entertainment/music/uva-singers-to-premiere-oratorio-honoring-matthew-shepard-25-years-after-murder/article_76b94df4-d956-11ed-866f-c77d0b79dd58.html#tracking-source=home-top-story

Years After She First ‘Met My People,’ Tina Fey Readies for Return to Grounds

Without ever having stepped foot on the University of Virginia’s Grounds before, Tina Fey nervously moved into Metcalf House, the dorm she would soon call home, in the fall of 1988. “I didn’t grow up in a world where people went on college tours,” Fey said. “You kind of looked at a paper catalog about colleges, and then you would try to get in somewhere.

https://news.virginia.edu/content/years-after-she-first-met-my-people-tina-fey-readies-return-grounds

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Department of Drama’s Dance Program to Present Spring Dance Concert

April 14, 2023

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Faculty Members Earn Guggenheim Fellowships to Support Music, Filmmaking

A journalist and filmmaker-turned-assistant professor and an award-winning flutist and bandleader who teaches music have earned Guggenheim Fellowships to pursue their arts.

https://news.virginia.edu/content/faculty-members-earn-guggenheim-fellowships-support-music-filmmaking

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Barbara Brown Wilson Receives Casteen Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Award

UVA School of Architecture Associate Professor of Urban and Environmental Planning Barbara Brown Wilson was recently awarded the John T. Casteen III Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Award by the university.

https://www.arch.virginia.edu/news/barbara-brown-wilson-receives-casteen-diversity-equity-and-inclusion-award

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Fragile Beauty: A Visual Essay - The Making of a Large-Scale Painting About the Climate Crisis

Dillon McDowell, a fourth-year undergraduate double majoring in architecture and global sustainability, wanted to create an artwork that addressed the dire environmental crisis our planet faces, but one that did so in a hopeful, not a despairing way.

https://www.arch.virginia.edu/news/fragile-beauty-exhibition-visual-essay

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Arts on the Hill: Battle of the Bands with featuring Luke Richard Powers, Logistical Nightmare, & Davy HBF

April 12, 2023

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Virginia Film Festival to Welcome Activist, Filmmaker, and Musician Boots Riley for Advance Screening of New Amazon Series 'I’m a Virgo'

April 7, 2023

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