Notes from the Aisle Seat
AN OPERA HOUSE PODCAST ON THE ARTS
Join us every other Wednesday for a new episode of Notes From the Aisle Seat, the Opera House's podcast on the arts in northern Chautauqua County! Your host is SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor and Chair Emeritus of Theatre and Dance at SUNY Fredonia Tom Loughlin. Each episode explores the rich landscape of the visual and performing arts that exists in northern Chautauqua County, from the many art galleries and exhibition spaces to performing arts organizations to the individual artists and performers that call this area home.
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Current Episode
Episode 5.14
Guests on this episode include: UNC-Asheville Professor Emeritus Dr. Scott Walters talking about National Theatre Live's The Fifth Step, the next feature in the Arts in the Afternoon Series at the Opera House; Director Joseph Newton and Reed Cook, discussing The Play That Goes Wrong at Main Street Studios; and SUNY Fredonia Alumnus Briana Kelly talking about the Fredonia Dance Ensemble performance at the Rockefeller Arts Center.
Past Episodes + -
Guests on this episode include: Paul Preston of “The Movie Guys,” talking about March movies at the Opera House; SUNY Fredonia Director of Opera Studies Don Marrazzo, discussing the Met’s new staging of Tristan und Isolde; and, MUS1C Ryan C. Connelly of the US Navy Band’s Sea Chanters, talking about the group’s coming concert at the Opera House.
Guests on this episode include: Photographic Artist BA Van Sise, whose exhibition “Children of Grass” is at the SUNY Fredonia Marion Art Gallery; Assistant Professor Dan Lendzian, director of Ruthless! – The Musical being presented at the Rockefeller Art Center’s Bartlett Theatre; and Associate Professor Vernon Huff, talking about the SUNY Fredonia Choral Festival.
Guests on this episode include: Artist Alberto Rey talking about the Arts in the Afternoon presentation Frida: Viva la Vida at the Opera House, Head of Jazz Studies Nick Weiser discussing The Fredonia Jazz Showcase at SUNY Fredonia, and Comedian/Actor Marc Price, who played Skippy on the 80s sitcom Family Ties, previewing his appearance at the Opera House in May.
Guests on this episode include: Paul “The Movie Guy” Preston, discussing the February movies in the Opera House Cinema Series, and Dr. Scott Walters, Emeritus Professor of Drama at UNC-Asheville, discussing the National Theatre Live production of Mrs. Warren’s Profession, screening at the Opera House.
Guests on this episode include: Buffalo Opera Unlimited Artistic Director Emeritus Tim Kennedy discussing Live at the Met’s coming broadcast of Andrea Chénier; Mike Lee, of Main Street Studios, talking about A Christmas Carol; and Bill Ward discussing his coming concert, Christmas with Bill Ward and Friends, at the Lake Shore Center for the Arts.