Undergraduate students conducting research this summer in laboratories across campus will showcase their research projects during the Summer Research Symposium from 9:30 a.m. to noon in the Jordan Hall of Science Galleria. Student researchers participating in this year’s program are from the Center for Research Computing…
Directed by Roman Polanski
With Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway, John Huston
Rated R, 130 minutes, BluRay
English with Spanish subtitles
Chinatown ultimately became Roman Polanski’s last film to be shot in the United States and remains a classic depiction of Los Angeles, which is no short order. The neo-noir mystery follows fedora-wearing private investigator Jake Gittes (Jack Nicholson) as he picks up a seemingly routine infidelity case involving Mr. and Mrs. Mulwray. When Mr. Mulwray is snuffed out, the plot thickens as Jake noses around Depression-era Southern California.
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Directed by Steven Spielberg
With Henry Thomas, Dee Wallace, Drew Barrymore
Rated PG, 115 minutes, BluRay
English with Spanish subtitles
Often credited with creating the summer blockbuster when he released Jaws, Stephen Spielberg’s largest hit came seven years later (and six years before Mac and Me…
Read More about Film (Summer Classics): "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial" (1982)
The University will publicly unveil the largest construction project in its 175-year history with a pair of events during Kicks & Flicks Week August 20 through 25. From a football scrimmage and tours of new facilities to a movie on the video board, fans of all ages are invited to experience the enhanced amenities in and around Notre Dame Stadium during these events.…
Join witty fools, foolish wits, and one set of shipwrecked twins. Call (574) 631-3777 or visit shakespeare.nd.edu to learn more about the Touring Company and other exciting NDSF programs.
Also performed from Sunday, July 16 through Monday, Aug. 21, at local parks, botanical gardens and community spaces throughout northwestern Indiana and southwest Michigan (times vary, check with the venue) http://shakespeare.nd.edu/notre-dame-shakespeare-festival/touring-company/…
Widely acknowledged as the pre-eminent dramatic soprano today, Deborah Voigt has made her mark on both the operatic and concert stages as a down-to-earth diva with a remarkably varied repertoire. Critics have lauded Voigt for her “lyricism, beauty of tone and dramatic acuity” as well as her “impressive aura and voice.” Internationally revered for her performances in the operas of Wagner and Strauss, as well as an active performer and recitalist of Broadway standards and popular songs, be here to experience her singular voice coupled with the superb acoustics of the Leighton Concert Hall. Curated in collaboration with Professor of Music Theory Peter H. Smith.
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Nathan Gunn remains one of the most exciting and in-demand baritones performing today. Drawing from the Great American Songbook he and wife Julie Gunn perform their favorite cabaret program in the Leighton Concert Hall. The evening sweeps through an eclectic mix of standards and other iconic songs from composers as diverse as William Bolcom, Leonard Bernstein, Cole Porter, Harold Arlen, Tom Waits, and more.
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Read More about Concert: Nathan Gunn, baritone and Julie Gunn, piano (new cabaret program)
If the French Quarter is the musical heart of New Orleans, then Preservation Hall is its heartbeat. Take this group of world-class musicians plus legendary five-time Grammy winners The Blind Boys of Alabama, and combine them with Grammy-winning singer Irma Thomas, the “Soul Queen of New Orleans,” and you get a very special evening of music that simply oozes with the Crescent City vibe. It’s the next best thing to being in the French Quarter!
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Read More about Concert: Irma Thomas, The Blind Boys of Alabama, and the Preservation Legacy Quintet
Third Coast ends their 5-year tenure as our Ensemble-in-Residence with a multimedia work featuring a new soundtrack to the 1966 Oscar-nominated children’s short film Paddle to the Sea. The hard-grooving Grammy winners round out the program with works by Philip Glass, Jacob Druckman, and Musekiwa Chingodza inspired by the ubiquity of water, its properties, and our wonder at the mysterious world teeming unseen within it.…
Winner of the prestigious Olivier Award for Best New Play, The Mountaintop imagines what happened inside the Lorraine Motel’s room 306 the night before April 4, 1968. In the expert hands of L.A. Theatre Works and an experienced touring cast, Katori Hall’s fictional reimagining begins in Memphis in April 1968, as King finishes delivering his impassioned “I’ve Been to the Mountaintop” speech. Exhausted, he retires to room 306 at the Lorraine Motel, where he encounters a young hotel maid with whom he forges an unexpected relationship. During a conversation that ranges from the personal to the political, King finds himself confronting his destiny and the fate of the very nation to which he’s devoted his life.
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