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‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ to open

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Reading Time: 3 minutesPicture taken by: Reecca Hale/ Assistant Reverb Editor REBECCA HALE Assistant Reverb Editor This weekend, “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” will open as the first production in this year’s Walter Gloor Mainstage Series in Marvel Theatre. The play is one of Shakespeare’s most popular works, and the Department of Theatre and......
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An artist’s life after Fredonia: Greg Paladino

Reading Time: 2 minutesKORI BARKLEY Staff Writer It is evident to most students pursuing the arts that finding a career to fit one’s area of study will be a challenge, especially in today’s society where arts programs in schools and communities are continuously diminishing. Greg Paladino, a graduate from the School of Music......
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Quartetto Gelato to bring an amusing twist on traditional music

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Reading Time: 3 minutesKORI BARKLEY Staff Writer Described on their website as “supremely talented, deliciously smart, endlessly creative, refreshingly funny and totally surprising,” Quartetto Gelato, a virtuosic, classically trained, multi-genre group from Toronto, will bring its theatrical style and a taste of acrobatics to the Fredonia campus this week. Formed nearly 20 years......
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Fredonia alumni inducted into Buffalo Music Hall of Fame

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Reading Time: 5 minutesJORIAN HOLKA Special to The Leader Each year at its annual induction gala, the Buffalo Music Hall of Fame recognizes and honors natives and residents of Western New York who have proven invaluable to the local music scene. This year’s event will take place on Oct. 2, when 18 new......
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Rockefeller addition displaces students, holds new opportunities for the future

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Reading Time: 4 minutesBRITTANY PERRY Special to The Leader The Fredonia campus has been in a constant state of change and re-construction for the past few years, with the most recent additions being made to the Rockefeller Arts Center (RAC). This has left many wondering what is in store for its current and......
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Four shows in just 24 hours: Spontaneous Productions

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Reading Time: 3 minutesPicture taken by: Rebecca Hale / Assistant Reverb Editor REBECCA HALE Assistant Reverb Editor Every semester, writers, actors, actresses, directors and producers get together to create their own short one-act plays, entirely composed and put on in a mere 24-hour period. This semester, four one-acts were performed on Sunday evening......
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The sound of Italy in Rosch

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Reading Time: 2 minutesKRISTEN SHULTIS Staff Writer Thursday night brought musicians, community members and students together in Rosch recital hall to hear the sounds of Italy. This concert included two faculty members from the School of Music, Julie Newell and Daniel Ihasz, as well as three native Italians, Stefani Donzelli, Sandra Buongrazio and......
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Comedian Jessica Halem gets down and dirty

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Reading Time: 3 minutesREBECCA HALE Assistant Reverb Editor Jessica Halem, who introduced herself as “a radical, Jewish, feminist queer stand-up comic,” and whose career she describes as “generally being pissed off for a living,” put on quite a jaw-dropping act in Marvel Theatre last Tuesday. Halem is not a cautious comic who treads......

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