Culture on Center Street in June

At the BTE

The Bloomsburg Theatre Ensemble's interns are presenting Mr. and Mrs. Fitch, a light comedy about two gossip columnists. Details.

Dan Ford and Katti Mayk star; Michael Yerges, directs. The play is by Douglas Carter Beane and ran in New York with John Lithgow and Jennifer Ehle a couple of years ago.

Artspace

Joan Trusty Lentczner and Gail Zambor are exhibiting paintings at Artspace Gallery, 221 Center Street, through July 8. A reception will be held Saturday, June 2, from 6 to 8 p.m. Lentczner works brings the immediacy of rapidly done watercolors; Zambor the drama of large-scale oil canvases.

What's that buzzing sound next door?

The Bloosmburg Theatre Ensemble is staging In the Next Room (or The Vibrator Play) through May 20 at Alvina Krause Theatre, Center Street.

Cassandra Piscieczko directs the play by Sarah Ruhl about Victorian Dr. Givings, who performs experimental treatments for hysteria in his home office. Wife Catherine Givings discovers some pleasant side effects. Yes, sexual topics are explored, so mature audiences only. Tickets range in price from $5 to $25. Check the BTE website for specifics.

Sky writing

Graduating Bloomsburg University art studio majors are showing their work for one more week until May 12.  Featured in the exhibit are works by these BU students: Brittney Logan Andrew Bull Rachel Etzweiler Megan Combs Melanie Ortiz Olivia DeFranco Megan Koontz Lena Kurtz and Kyle Gosson. A detail of Gosson's sculpture, which deals with his experience as a deaf person, is pictured. This piece is located just outside of Haas Gallery and really needs to be seen in person to be fully appreciated. The Haas Gallery is open free of charge weekdays from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

They played real good for free ... until there was a fee

Today's (April 30) Press-Enterprise has an article on the front page about the Town Park Association needing to pay licensing (back) fees to ASCAP for the Summer Concert Series. The story brought to mind a situation my brother, a musician in Missoula, Montana, passed along to me a few weeks back.

A folk singer he knows, who performs only originals, played at a community market. BMI contacted the market and told them they had to pay licensing fees to have live music ... even if it was all originals by the performer. The community market can't pay the fee and so the performer is out of a gig. Seems more than unfair and it does makes you wonder, who empowered this organization.

Details here.

—E.G.F.

Final shows for the semester

Bloomsburg University will hold it's second annual Repertory/Ensemble Dance Minor Concert on Sunday, April 29, at 3 p.m., and Monday, April 30, at 7:30 p.m. in the Haas Center for the Arts. The show will feature choreography by Jenna Introna, Marcedes Kennedy, Michelle Megill, Olivia Naugle, Amber Nicole and Julie Petry. Both shows are open free to the public.

Graduating Bloomsburg University seniors majoring in art history and art studio will exhibit their work in the Senior Exit Show that runs from Tuesday, May 1, until Saturday, May 12, in Haas Gallery of Art. A reception will be held Tuesday, May 1, from 11 a.m. until 2:30 p.m. Featured in the exhibit are works by these BU students:

Brittney Logan
Andrew Bull
Rachel Etzweiler
Megan Combs
Melanie Ortiz
Olivia DeFranco
Megan Koontz
Lena Kurtz
Kyle Gosson 

Haas Gallery is open free of charge weekdays from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Art you can wear

Bloomsburg University will hold its annual Personal Adornment Day and Makeup Extravaganza on Thursday, April 26, at the Moose Exchange, 203 West Main Street, Bloomsburg.

Personal Adornment Day (PADME for short) is a visual showcase of student wearable art, performance art and theater makeup. There will be catwalk and stage presentation of 30 students' work from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m.  at the Moose. Visiting artist  Jan Myers-Newbury, internationally renowned art quilter, will give a lecture from 9:45 to 11 a.m. in Old Science Hall, room 311.

To the Bat ... gallery

The Bloomsburg University Museum Exhibition class has put up a show in the Haas Gallery ... "The Many Faces of Batman." The show runs through May 10. A reception is today (April 24) from 4 to 5:30 p.m.

Gallery hours are Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., Saturday from noon to 2 p.m. and closed Sunday.