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 6.04
Guests on this episode include: SUNY Professor Dr. Jessica Hillman-McCord, and cast members Katya Sacharow, Jordan Baez, and Nate Carr discussing SUNY Fredonia's production of Cabaret; Artists Susanne Slavick and Andrew Ellis Johnson talking about their exhibit, for nothing is fixed, at the Kathy & Jesse Marion Art Gallery; and retired drama professor, Dr. Scott Walters, discussing the National Theatre Live's production of The Playboy of the Western World at the Opera House.
Past Episodes + -
Guests on this podcast include SUNY Fredonia Professor Don Marrazzo talking about the next two Live at the Met offerings at the Opera House, Mozart’s Cosi fan Tutte and Verdi’s Macbeth; and SUNY Fredonia Professor Dan Lendzian discussing SIX – The Musical Live!
Guests on this podcast include SUNY Distinguished Professor Emeritus Alberto Rey discussing the artist James McNeill Whistler, who is featured in the next Opera House Art & Architecture On Screen program; Musician/Composer Leslie McMichael talking about her presentation of the 1916 Silent Film Snow White and the live score she composed; and Liz Simmons of the Americana/Roots band Low Lily.
It’s an “all Opera House” episode of the podcast! Guests include Executive Director Rick Davis with a preview of fall events; James Gedeon talking about his “Coming Home: The Music of James Taylor” concert on 9/18; and Dr. Jessica Hillman-McCord discussing the musical Hadestown from the National Theatre of London, playing on 9/19.
In this “mini” episode, Lucas West, who placed 3rd in the latest edition of the television show The Voice, will be previewing his August 28 concert at the 1891 Fredonia Opera House. And with Labor Day just around the corner, the North Shore Arts Alliance Art Trail will take place on Sept. 5 and 6. Marcia Merrins gives us a preview of this Chautauqua County tradition.
In this “mini” episode, Mark Brazill, co-creator, writer, and producer of That ’70s Show, gives us an inside look at his work on the show as a preview to an upcoming presentation at the Opera House, while director David Oliver talks about the upcoming production of The Gin Game at Westfield’s Lakeshore Center for the Arts.