Upcoming Mercyhurst Artistic & Performing Events
Dates: Oct 5-Nov 10, 2013
Location: Cummings Gallery
Faculty from the Mercyhurst University Art Department show new works in this annual exhibition. Featured artists include Daniel Burke, Tom Hubert, Gary Cardot, Jodi Staniunas-Hopper, Mary Elizabeth Meier, Deborah John, Jamie Borowicz and Patricia Tomczak-Czulewicz, along with guest alumnus Will Ursprung ’76. The show runs Oct. 5-Nov. 10 in the Cummings Gallery with an artist reception in the gallery on Thursday, Oct. 10, from 5 to 7 p.m.
Dates: Oct 24 – Oct 27, 2013
Location: Taylor Little Theatre
In a Gotham-like city, a terrible water shortage caused by a 20-year drought has led to a government-enforced ban on private toilets. The citizens must use public amenities, regulated by a single malevolent company that profits by charging admission for one of humanity’s most basic needs. Amid the people, a hero decides he’s had enough, and plans a revolution to lead them all to freedom. Mercyhurst University students perform and Brett D. Johnson, Ph.D., directs this hilarious musical at Taylor Little Theatre on Oct. 24-27. Book and lyrics by Greg Kotis; music and lyrics by Mark Hollmann. Tickets are $15 for adults, $10 for seniors and students and $5 for youth and Mercyhurst students with ID. For tickets, call 814-824-3000 or visit miac.mercyhurst.edu.
Dates: Oct 26
Location: Mary D’Angelo Performing Arts Center
William Kentridge stormed the Met with his inventive production of Shostakovich’s opera, which dazzled opera and art lovers alike in its inaugural run in 2010. Now, Paulo Szot reprises his acclaimed performance of a bureaucrat whose satirical misadventures in search of his missing nose are based on Gogol’s comic story. Pavel Smelkov conducts this production live from the Metropolitan Opera on Saturday, Oct. 26, at 12:55 p.m. in the Mary D’Angelo Performing Arts Center. Tickets are $18 for adults, $15 for seniors and students, $10 for youth (10 and under) and $7.50 for Mercyhurst students with ID. For tickets, call 814-824-3000 or visit miac.mercyhurst.edu.
Dates: Oct 28
Location: Taylor Little Theatre
Mercyhurst welcomes Bill Kelly Jr. and Robert A. Sambroak Jr., judicial candidates for Erie County Court of Common Pleas, to Judicial Forum 2013.
Dates: Oct 28 – Oct 29, 2013
Location: Walker Recital Hall
The Terry and Margaret M. Roche Family Visiting Artists Series kicks off its season Oct. 28 with an appearance by C Street Brass, a quintet in residence at Pittsburgh’s Carnegie Mellon University. The group prides itself on expanding the limits of what is possible with five brass instruments.
Dates: Nov 3
Location: Taylor Little Theatre
Occasionally scandalous in its humor, this hilarious bad-taste spoof of Westerns features Cleavon Little as the first black sheriff of a stunned town. Writer and director Mel Brooks gives a burlesque spin to a classic Hollywood movie genre. Prior to the screening, jump back in time as we play news clips, cartoons and more from 1974, the year of the film’s release. Considered one of the must-see movies of the ‘70s, Blazing Saddles screens on Nov. 3 at 2 p.m. at Taylor Little Theatre.
Dates: Nov 5
Location: Taylor Little Theatre
Catholic theologian, peace activist and author James Douglass, who wrote what many scholars of the JFK assassination have heralded as the best book on the subject, will lead the Mercyhurst University community in marking the 50th anniversary of President Kennedy’s assassination in a two-part special event Nov. 5-6. On Tuesday, Nov. 5, Douglass will deliver a lecture based on his bestselling 2008 book, JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why It Matters. He’ll speak at 7 p.m. in Taylor Little Theatre. The event is free and open to the public.
Dates: Nov 6
Location: Taylor Little Theatre
Catholic theologian, peace activist and author James Douglass, who wrote what many scholars of the JFK assassination have heralded as the best book on the subject, will lead the Mercyhurst University community in marking the 50th anniversary of President Kennedy’s assassination in a two-part special event Nov. 5-6. On Wednesday, Nov. 6, the Mercyhurst Theatre Program, under the direction of Brett Johnson, Ph.D., will stage Noah’s Ark, a play inspired by Douglass’ book and written by Ginny Cunningham of Pittsburgh. The dramatic 90-minute play will be read by members of the Mercyhurst and Erie theatre communities. The event begins at 7 p.m. in Taylor Little Theatre and is free and open to the public.
Dates: Nov 7
Location: Alex Theater
North East, Pa., is not the first community to grapple with commercial wind farming. Pennsylvania now has 700 operating wind turbines. Join us for a lively and informative panel discussion on the pros and cons of this critically important issue in “Wind Power: The Decision Is Yours,” a presentation of the Mercyhurst North East Cultural Series, on Nov. 7 at 7 p.m. in Alex Theatre.
Dates: Nov 8 – Nov 10, 2013
Location: Mary D’Angelo Performing Arts Center
The Mercyhurst Dancers present classical and contemporary dances dedicated to the 2013-14 Mercyhurst University academic theme of “happiness” featuring choreography by Ursula Payne and Mercyhurst choreographers Melissa Bobick, Noelle Partusch and Mark and Solveig Santillano. Happiness is Dance will run Nov. 8-10 at the Mary D’Angelo Performing Arts Center.
Tickets for the weekend performances are $15.50 for adults, $12.50 for seniors and students, $5 for youth and $3.50 for Mercyhurst students with ID. All tickets for the Friday preview performance are $5. Tickets can be purchased by calling 814-824-3000 or by visiting miac.mercyhurst.edu.
