The Dryden will screen The Trespasser (Edmund Goulding, U.S. 1929, 90 min., 35mm) tonight at 8 p.m. Class difference and moral issues intertwine in this stark social drama starring Gloria Swanson. A stenographer who falls in love with the son … Continue reading
As a girl, Violet was involved in a tragic accident leaving her with a visible scar across her face. With enough money finally saved, she's traveling across the deep south in 1964 towards a miracle - the healing touch of … Continue reading
For this "illuminating" post-sunset ride, decorate yourself and your bike as beautifully and brightly as you can. Meet at 8pm at the Genesee Valley Sports Complex (131 Elmwood Ave) in Genesee Valley Park. For this 8 mile route on trails … Continue reading
Starting at 10 p.m., the Little will screen O Brother, Where Art Thou? (Joel Coen, Ethan Coen, U.K. / France / U.S. 2000, 106 min.) Loosely based on Homer's "Odyssey," the movie deals with the picaresque adventures of Ulysses Everett … Continue reading
Today from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. is a Printing and Book Arts Open Studio at the Printing & Book Arts Center at Genesee Center for the Arts. Choose from 2 etching presses and 3 flat bed cylinder presses. Print … Continue reading
Starting at 11 a.m., Kathy Richardson will present The Pathology of Gun Violence: Building Safer Communities for Our Children at the Gandhi Institute. The presentation is a look at how guns move from the gun dealers out into communities, where … Continue reading
Mosaic Foundation performs on the Center Stage at the Lilac Festival at 12:30 p.m.
Two actresses meet each other for the first rehearsal of an all-female production of the famed playwaiting for Godot, but their different backgrounds may throw them and the show out of control — then there's the neurotic stage manager who … Continue reading
Prime Time Funk performs on the Center Stage at the Lilac Festival at 3:30 p.m.
At this afternoon's 3:30 p.m. screening of Lambert and Stamp (James D. Cooper, U.S. 2014, 117 min.), one of the producers—my guess is Douglas Graves—will be on hand to discuss the film. Early 1960s London: the postwar generation who grew … Continue reading
ShakeCo presents 50,000,000 Jacobeans Can't Be Wrong: Shakespeare's Greatest Hits—Volume 2 at the MuCCC starting at 4 p.m. The canon of Shakespeare's plays runs to a grand total of thirty-eight works. (Or thirty-nine...or forty — I mean, how do you … Continue reading
From 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. tonight at the Firehouse Gallery at Genesee Pottery is the Opening Reception for Oversight featuring works by Adam Jennett; on display through May 23.
Orestes 2.0 by Charles Mee is based on Orestes by Euripedes. The Euripides after-war play, re-set in the world today, in which veterans return from the Trojan War, to find that the disorder and nightmare of war has come home … Continue reading