Arts News from the Chronicles


Brent's 'Hoffman'

A terrific article by the Athens Banner Herald on the Hugh Hodgson School of Music's production of 'The Tales of Hoffman" and DMA student Joseph Brent, who stars as Hoffman: Compromised is too harsh a description for the UGA Opera Theater’s production of “Hoffman,” as only highlights from the text…
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University Theatre to present 'The Darker Face of the Earth'

University Theatre will present Rita Dove's powerful "The Darker Face of the Earth" begining on Nov. 1 at 8 p.m. in the Fine Arts Theatre: Dove, a former Poet Laureate and Pulitzer Prize winner, set "The Darker Face of the Earth" on a pre-Civil War plantation in South Carolina. She loosely based…

Film studies professor Richard Neupert


Space camp

Terrific show of student work at the Lamar Dodd School of Art, opening tonight, featured in an article in the Athens Banner Herald: “Space Camp,” the larger exhibition featuring Lee’s work, showcases 15 student artists currently working in Lamar Dodd’s studios. It’s reception is 7-9 p.m. tonight at…
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Spotlight on the Arts at UGA

Perhaps nothing exemplifies a society's highest ideals and broadest ambitions more than its commitment to the arts. It's a kind of multi-generational, altruistic selfishness, a form of public self-interest, which shows us these are not mutually exclusive. Even the most solitary among us can become…