Exhibitions & Performances
DFPA Events 2008 – 2009
JUBA: Masters of Tap and Percussive Dance
Kathleen Mullady Theatre, August 1-3, 2008
Friday & Saturday 8:00pm, Sunday 2:00pm
The culminating concerts of Chicago Human Rhythm Project’s 18th annual Rhythm World will feature the amazing faculty and youth tap ensembles of the festival. Don't miss an opportunity to see the world's finest tap artists all on one stage!
boxoffice@luc.edu, 773.508.3847
Visual Arts
You Had to be There: Alumni Art
Ralph Arnold Fine Arts Annex, August 15 – September 28,2008
Reception: September 27, 2008, 10:00am-3:00pm
Artists from all over with two things in common: they each received a diploma from Loyola University Chicago and they all are exhibiting their artwork in the Ralph Arnold Fine Arts Annex. Due to it’s overwhelming success in 2006, the Department of Fine and Performing Arts has decided to host another alumni show this year, celebrating in our newly dedicated Ralph Arnold Fine Arts Annex, located at 1131 W. Sheridan Avenue.
gallery@luc.edu, 773.508.7510
Music
Callipygian Players, Chicago’s finest period musicians
Madonna Della Strada Chapel, September 26, 2008, 7:30pm
The Callipygian Players are an ensemble of Chicago's finest period Instrument musicians and singers dedicated to present concerts of music from the Baroque era featuring familiar works as well as giving exposure to previously
unknown scores.
boxoffice@luc.edu, 773.508.3847
This event is free and open to the public. Limited advance seating available to subscribers.
*Our new Fuchs Professional Music Series is devoted this year to the performance of rarely heard music from different historical periods and from around the world. The series includes four concerts of music from the Baroque era, Latin American piano music, music written by or for women, and music from Muslim and Jewish Spain. Ancient Greek songs accompany by the lyre as well as Baroque oratorios performed on period instruments will be presented at Loyola throughout the year in this rapidly expanding professional concert series in Chicago.
Theatre
Black Women Playwrights’ Group
Directed by Jonathan Wilson
Kathleen Mullady Theatre, Thurs., September 4, 2008, 7:30pm
Loyola is proud to be host the Black Women Playwright’s Group (BWPG) for its first national conference, Whisper. Laugh. Shout. Tell the Story; for women of color writing drama. A staged reading, entitled Shades of Change, directed by Jonathan Wilson, will feature recent work from playwrights Lynn Nottage, Nambi E. Kelley, and others.
boxoffice@luc.edu, 773.508.3847
To register, please visit http://www.blackwomenplaywrights.org
Intimate Apparel
By Lynn Nottage
Directed by Jonathan Wilson
Kathleen Mullady Theatre, September 25 – October 8, 2008
Thursday – Saturday 7:30pm, Sunday 2:00pm
Esther Mills, an African-American seamstress in turn-of-the-century New York City, fashions lingerie for clientele ranging from ladies of Fifth Avenue society to ladies of the night. Her desire for intimacy brings her in contact with her clients, an Orthodox Jewish shop owner, and a Barbadian worker on the Panama Canal, with whom she forges a long-distance relationship. This passionate and dangerous bond with a man she has never met leads her to question her ability to fit into the set patterns prescribed by society for a person of her race and gender. Award winning playwright Lynn Nottage has been called “an original voice in American theater, a playwright whose entertaining and thought-provoking works address contemporary issues with empathy and humor.”
boxoffice@luc.edu, 773.508.3847
$15 General Admission, $10 LUC faculty/staff/alumni, $8 Non-LUC students/seniors, $6 LUC students with ID
*Following the second Thursday of each mainstage performance, audience members are invited to stay after the performance and join the cast and dramaturg for a discussion of the play. Special guests will include local experts on topics and themes explored in the play.
Visual Arts
Amos Kennedy: Letterpress Printer, “Put the Message in the Hands of the People and Move On!”
Crown Center Gallery, September 5, 2008-September 28, 2008
Reception: September 5, 2008, 5:00pm – 8:00pm
A man with his feet planted firmly in the past, Amos Kennedy is a letterpress printer, papermaker and builder of artist’s books. His work embodies his passion for stirring up strong emotions and encouraging people to think in previously unexplored ways. Kennedy personifies what art has been for centuries, namely, communication with style. He demonstrates to us all, that art need not be intimidating or exclusive and invites everyone, rich or poor, as a creator, or in appreciation to be a part of the joy of creativity.
gallery@luc.edu, 773.508.7510
Music
Lauren Pelon: “Someone Will Remember Us”
Mundelein Auditorium, October 17, 2008, 7:30pm
Pelon, who sings and plays many ancient and modern instruments, traces the story of women in music and performs music from around the world. Her repertory runs the historical gamut creating a truly universal presentation of both old-world and new-world music.
boxoffice@luc.edu, 773.508.3847
*Our new Fuchs Professional Music Series is devoted this year to the performance of rarely heard music from different historical periods and from around the world. The series includes four concerts of music from the Baroque era, Latin American piano music, music written by or for women, and music from Muslim and Jewish Spain. Ancient Greek songs accompany by the lyre as well as Baroque oratorios performed on period instruments will be presented at Loyola throughout the year in this rapidly expanding professional concert series in Chicago.
Jazz and Chorus Concert
Mundelein Auditorium, October 27, 2008, 7:30pm
Enjoy a lively concert as our Jazz band teams up with our University Chorus to bring some musical masterpieces to life.
DFPA@luc.edu, 773.508.3847
Wind and Orchestra Concert
Mundelein Auditorium, October 29, 2008, 7:30pm
The Wind Ensemble and Orchestra will perform solo and together in a truly melodious experience. DFPA@luc.edu, 773.508.3847
Theatre
Precisely? Precisely.
5 short plays by Harold Pinter
Directed by Katie Kasper
Studio Theatre, October 7-12, 2008
Wednesday – Saturday 7:30pm, Sunday 2:00pm
Harold Pinter an English playwright, screenwriter, actor, director, poet and political activist, has written 29 stage plays; 26 screenplays; many dramatic sketches, radio and TV plays, poetry, short fiction, a novel, and many essays, speeches, and letters. Pinter's dramas often involve strong conflicts among ambivalent characters fighting for verbal and territorial dominance and for their own remembered versions of the past; stylistically, they are marked by theatrical pauses and silences, comedic timing, provocative imagery, witty dialogue, ambiguity, irony, and menace. Thematically ambiguous, they raise complex issues of individual human identity oppressed by social forces, the power of language, and vicissitudes of memory. Join us for a selection of these one-acts, examining the work of this playwright.
boxoffice@luc.edu, 773.508.3847
$6 General Admission
Visual Arts
Faculty Biennial: Secret Lives Revealed
Crown Center Gallery, October 10 – November 7, 2008
Reception: October 10, 2008, 5:00pm – 8:00pmThe Fine Arts faculty of the Department of Fine and Performing Arts will exhibit their recent works at our very own Crown Center Gallery. The exhibition will feature works in ceramics, painting, drawing, digital prints, photography, jewelry, mixed media constructions and installation. The Art Faculty Biennale has become a tradition for Loyola University Chicago whereby students, colleagues and the community can see the strong talent that comprises the Department of Fine and Performing Arts. The extensive credentials of the faculty include local, national and international exhibitions, publications in the fields of photography, graphic and architecture design.
gallery@luc.edu, 773508.7510
Music
Alexandre Dossin
Chicago Cultural Center (Preston Bradley Hall), November 14, 2008, 7:30pm
This Brazilian prize-winning pianist will be playing a selection of works from South American composers downtown in the Preston Bradley Hall of the Chicago Cultural Center as part of the Chicago Latino Music Festival.
http://www.latinoculturalcenter.org/index.php, 773.508.3847
*Our new Fuchs Professional Music Series is devoted this year to the performance of rarely heard music from different historical periods and from around the world. The series includes four concerts of music from the Baroque era, Latin American piano music, music written by or for women, and music from Muslim and Jewish Spain. Ancient Greek songs accompany by the lyre as well as Baroque oratorios performed on period instruments will be presented at Loyola throughout the year in this rapidly expanding professional concert series in Chicago. This event is free to the public. Seats are limited.
Honors Recital
Stella Maris Chapel, November 19, 2008, 7:30pm
The final solo performances of the year for our advanced students participating in applied lessons.
boxoffice@luc.edu, 773.508.3847
Guitar Ensemble & Chamber Ensemble Concert
Stella Maris Chapel, November 21, 2008, 7:30pm
An intimate ensemble concert in our Stella Maris chapel
boxoffice@luc.edu, 773.508.3847
Theatre
The Good Woman of Setzuan
By Bertolt Brecht
Directed by Ann Shanahan
Kathleen Mullady Theatre, November 7-16, 2008
Thursday – Saturday 7:30pm, Sunday 2:00pm
This work, by the author many consider to be the most influential theatre artist of the twentieth century, tells the fable of three gods’ search for ‘good’ people. When Shen Te, a humble prostitute, shares her meager home, they reward her with enough money to open a small shop. The people of the city take advantage of her compassion and generosity, forcing her to adopt the guise of an unemotional, pragmatic, even ruthless male cousin named Shui Ta. Using the techniques of “epic theatre” to explore the worlds of gender, ethics, and philosophy, Brecht poses the question “can a good person exist in a world that is not good?”
boxoffice@luc.edu, 773.508.3847
$15 General Admission, $10 LUC faculty/staff/alumni, $8 Non-LUC students/seniors, $6 LUC students with ID
* Following the second Thursday of each mainstage performance, audience members are invited to stay after the performance and join the cast and dramaturg for a discussion of the play. Special guests will include local experts on topics and themes explored in the play.
The Lonesome West
By Martin McDonagh
Directed by Patrick T. Murphy
Studio Theatre, November 18-23, 2008
Wednesday – Saturday 7:30pm, Sunday 2:00pm
Valene and Coleman, two brothers living alone in their father’s house after his recent death, find it impossible to exist without the most massive and violent disputes over the most mundane and innocent of topics. Only Father Welsh, the local young priest, is prepared to try to reconcile the two before their petty squabbling spiral into vicious and bloody carnage.
boxoffice@luc.edu, 773.508.3847
$6 General Admission
Visual Arts
The Graphic Imperative: International Posters for Peace, Social Justice, and the Environment 1965-2005
Crown Center Gallery, November 14 – December 19, 2008
Reception: November 14, 2008, 5:00pm – 8:00pm
The Graphic Imperative is a select retrospective of forty years of international sociopolitical posters. Themes include dissent, liberation, racism, sexism, human rights, civil rights, environmental and health concerns, AIDS, war, literacy and tolerance, collectively providing a window to an age of great change. Focusing on the issues of our turbulent times, these 121 posters endeavor to show that social, political and aesthetic concerns of many cultures in a single exhibition through delineating themes and contrasting political realities. gallery@luc.edu, 773.508.7510
Dance
Dance Informance
Kathleen Mullady Theatre, December 5, 2008, 7:30pm
This performance will celebrate the hardwork of all levels of our Dance Program in the styles of Jazz, Ballet, and Modern. Come experience Loyola's Dance Program...where soul meets body.
boxoffice@luc.edu, 773.508.3847
$3 LUC students; $8 Non-LUC students
General Admission
Music
JOYOLA: Loyola Ensembles Holiday Concert
Mundelein Auditorium, December 3, 2008, 7:30pm
Attend the Second Annual Joyola Holiday Concert in Mundelein Auditorium. This concert will feature Loyola's six music performance ensembles. Traditional and contemporary holiday songs will be performed. Don’t miss our biggest event of the year!
boxoffice@luc.edu, 773.508.3847
$5 Suggested Donation
Theatre
Musical Theatre Workshop: A TIME FOR CHANGE
Studio Theatre, December 6, 2008, 7:30pm
Musical theatre writers and composers from Theatre Building Chicago’s unique Musical Writers Workshop team up with Loyola’s theatre students and faculty to develop and create two original one-act musicals: A TIME FOR CHANGE. This public performance will represent the culmination of a highly collaborative process between our student actors with professional writers starting with initial creative ideas through developmental stages of rewrites and rehearsals.
boxoffice@luc.edu, 773.508.3847
Also visit: http://www.theatrebuildingchicago.org
Visual Arts
Sue Coe: Graphic Witness
Crown Center Gallery, January 2 – February 20, 2009
Reception: January 16, 2009, 5:00pm – 8:00pm
Sue Coe is one of the most important politically oriented artists living in the U.S. today. From the outset of her career working as an illustrator for such publications as the New York Times and Time Magazine, Coe was committed to reaching a broad audience through the print media. Later, she began creating extended visual discourses on subjects
(such as racial discrimination or animal rights) that she felt were not being adequately addressed by conventional news organizations. Of her politically charged paintings and drawings, the British-born artist Sue Coe has said, “My dream is that people don’t discuss the work, but discuss the content.”
gallery@luc.edu, 773.508.7510
Dance
Sacramental Life and Dance: Where Body Meets Soul
Madonna Della Strada Chapel, February 15, 2009, 6:00pm
Sacramental Life and Dance unite for this performance…where soul meets body.
boxoffice@luc.edu, 773.508.3847
Also visit: http://www.luc.edu/sacramental_life/
Music
Wind Ensemble & Chorus Concert
Mundelein Auditorium, February 23, 2009, 7:30pm
Warm up this winter to the sounds of our Wind Ensemble and University Chorus!
boxoffice@luc.edu, 773.508.3847
Jazz & Orchestra Concert
Mundelein Auditorium, February 25, 2009, 7:30pm
These two dynamic groups will be performing together to sooth away the winter blues.
boxoffice@luc.edu, 773.508.3847
Theatre
Mnemonic, Midwest Premiere*
Conceived by Simon McBurney
Directed by Mark E. Lococo
Kathleen Mullady Theatre, February 12-22, 2009
Thursday – Saturday 7:30pm, Sunday 2:00pm
Originally devised by the internationally-acclaimed theatre company Complicite, Mnemonic presents the collision of three lives: a man alone in his London flat, unable to sleep; a young woman on a pilgrimage through Eastern Europe in search of her father; and a 5200-year old corpse discovered in the ice of the Italian alps. This engaging and innovative production explores the quest for connections in the midst of a fragmented world—connections that come from community as well as from the continuity of memory.
boxoffice@luc.edu, 773.508.3847
$15 General Admission, $10 LUC faculty/staff/alumni, $8 Non-LUC students/seniors, $6 LUC students with ID
Also visit: http://www.complicite.org
* Following the second Thursday of each mainstage performance, audience members are invited to stay after the performance and join the cast and dramaturg for a discussion of the play. Special guests will include local experts on topics and themes explored in the play.
Wonder of the World
By David Lindsay-Abaire
Directed by Jamal Howard
Studio Theatre, February 24 – March 1, 2009
Wednesday – Saturday 7:30pm, Sunday 2:00pm
Nothing will prepare you for the dirty little secret Cass discovers in her husband’s sweater drawer. It is so shocking that our heroine has no choice but to flee to the honeymoon capital of the world in a frantic search for the life she thinks she missed out on. It’s a wild ride as Cass embarks on a journey of self-discovery that has her crossing paths with a blithely suicidal alcoholic, a lonely tour-boat captain, a pair of bickering private detectives and a strange caper involving a gargantuan jar of peanut butter, all of which pushes her perilously close to the edge.
boxoffice@luc.edu, 773.508.3847
$6 General Admission
Visual Arts
Telling Tales
Crown Center Gallery, February 27 – March 20, 2009
Reception: February 27, 2009, 5:00pm – 8:00pm
In honor of women’s history month, the Department of Fine and Performing Arts hosts female artists Brenda Jones (“Conversing in Stitches”) and Connie Herring (“Storytellers”) in a co-exhibition which raises questions about the conventions of women and work through the use of household products.
gallery@luc.edu, 773.508.7510
Music
Ensemble Lipzodes
Mundelein Auditorium, March 13, 2009, 7:30pm
This program of music from Muslim and Jewish Spain will highlight the various ways in which the musical forms and repertories of the three religions coexisted and drew from one another in Spain during the period of coexistence up to 1492, and afterwards in Morocco, the Balkans, Turkey, and even across the Atlantic Ocean.
boxoffice@luc.edu, 773.508.3847
*Our new Fuchs Professional Music Series is devoted this year to the performance of rarely heard music from different historical periods and from around the world. The series includes four concerts of music from the Baroque era, Latin American piano music, music written by or for women, and music from Muslim and Jewish Spain. Ancient Greek songs accompany by the lyre as well as Baroque oratorios performed on period instruments will be presented at Loyola throughout the year in this rapidly expanding professional concert series in Chicago.
Honors Recital
Stella Maris Chapel, March 20, 2009, 7:30pm
The final solo performances of the year for our advanced students participating in applied lessons.
boxoffice@luc.edu, 773.508.3847
Theatre
Savage in Limbo
By John Patrick Shanley
Directed by Eileen Tull
Studio Theatre, March 24 – March 29, 2009
Wednesday – Saturday 7:30pm, Sunday 2:00pm
The setting is a slightly seedy neighborhood bar in the Bronx, where a group of regulars (who all happen to be the same age—thirty-two) seek relief from the disappointments and tedium of the outside world. An arresting and brilliantly inventive play which moves from comedy to near tragedy as it explores the hopes and dreams of this group of rootless young "losers" who congregate in a bar, hoping to find respite from the drabness of their lives.
boxoffice@luc.edu, 773.508.3847
$6 General Admission
Visual Arts
Student Juried Show – BLING
Crown Center Gallery, March 27 – April 17, 2009
Reception: March 27, 2009, 5:00pm – 8:00pm
The Department of Fine and Performing Arts at Loyola University Chicago will host its fourth annual Student Juried Competition. All students currently registered at Loyola University Chicago were eligible to enter in all media. The competition was juried from actual artwork submissions. Who will have the best bling to show off? Chicago artist Nathan Peck will have to make decisions as he juries this year’s competition.
gallery@luc.edu, 773.508.7510
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Dance
Dance Informance
Kathleen Mullady Theatre, April 24, 2009, 7:30pm
This performance will celebrate the hardwork of all levels of our Dance Program in the styles of Jazz, Ballet, and Modern. Come experience Loyola's Dance Program...where soul meets body.
boxoffice@luc.edu, 773.508.3847
$3 LUC students; $8 Non-LUC students
General Admission
Music
Jazz & Wind Ensemble Concert
Mundelein Auditorium, April 15, 2009, 7:30pm
You won’t want to miss this energetic and talent group of musicians!
boxoffice@luc.edu, 773.508.3847
Guitar & Chamber Ensemble Concert
Stella Maris Chapel, April 21, 2009, 7:30pm
An intimate ensemble concert in our Stella Maris chapel
boxoffice@luc.edu, 773.508.3847
Chorus & Orchestra Concert
Madonna Della Strada Chapel, April 22, 2009, 7:30pm
Join us for the final musical performance of the year!
boxoffice@luc.edu, 773.508.3847
Theatre
The Pirates of Penzance
By Gilbert & Sullivan
Directed by Sarah Gabel
Kathleen Mullady Theatre, April 2-5, April 16-19, 2009
Thursday – Saturday 7:30pm, Sunday 2:00pm
Frederic, the orphaned son of a wealthy man is mistakenly apprenticed to a band of pirates. Rejoicing at his release when he reaches his 21st year, he stumbles to shore where he encounters a bevy of beautiful maidens and their father, "the Very Model of a Modern Major-General." Gilbert and Sullivan's comic operetta continues to enchant audiences with unforgettable melodies, tongue-twisting lyrics, and swashbuckling slapstick comedy.
boxoffice@luc.edu, 773.508.3847
$15 General Admission, $10 LUC faculty/staff/alumni, $8 Non-LUC students/seniors, $6 LUC students with ID
* Following the second Thursday of each mainstage performance, audience members are invited to stay after the performance and join the cast and dramaturg for a discussion of the play. Special guests will include local experts on topics and themes explored in the play.
McElroy Shakespeare Celebration
Kathleen Mullady Theatre, April 14, 2009, 7:30pm
Performed on or close to Shakespeare’s birthday, this event was established in 1992 to celebrate and honor the work of the greatest playwright of all time, William Shakespeare. This event will be centered around a particular theme or work, and will consist of expert lecture, performance, and discussion.
boxoffice@luc.edu, 773.508.3847
Visual Arts
Senior Exhibition 2009
Crown Center Gallery, April 26 – June 8, 2009
Reception: April 26, 2009, 2:00pm – 5:00pm
The graduating seniors from the Department of Fine and Performing Arts will exhibit their work at the Crown Center Gallery. The students will exhibit a range of media, including ceramics, mixed media, photography, visual communications, drawing and painting, and children’s book illustration. As the culmination of their undergraduate studies, each student has prepared a new body of work in their area of concentration.
gallery@luc.edu, 773.508.7510
Visual Arts
Loyola National Works on Paper
Crown Center Gallery, June 12 – July 17, 2009
Reception: June 12, 2009, 5:00pm – 8:00pm
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Visual Arts
LUC Print Biennial IV: National Printmaking Competition
Crown Center Gallery, July 24 – August 29, 2009
The Department of Fine and Performing Arts will host its LUC Print Biennial IV Competition which will feature some of the latest and most innovative work in the printmaking media, including photography and digital prints. This year’s competition will be juried by Spencer Fidler, Artist and Professor of Art at New Mexico State University. The competition is considered one of the preeminent printmaking competitions in the United States, usually drawing in several hundred entries from artists across the country.
gallery@luc.edu, 773.508.7510