Parker Theatre

Parallel Worlds in Parker

March 1, 2012 Carolyn Quimby 0

New Paltz’s newest play, “Eugenia,” will be taking the American stage for the first time. The New Paltz Theater Arts Department’s production of play, directed by Anita Gonzalez and composed by Stephen Kitsakos, will run from Thursday, March 1 to Sunday, March 11 in Parker Theatre. “Eugenia,” written by New Zealand playwright Lorae Parry, was first introduced to Gonzalez four years ago. “A New Zealand international exchange student [introduced it] in my ‘Race, Gender and Performance’ class when we were doing a unit on gay, lesbian and transgender identities on stage,” Gonzalez said. “Since then, both Stephen Kitsakos and I have taught the play in our classes.” The play weaves parallel stories […]

Reinventing Rauschenberg

October 27, 2011 Katherine Speller 0

When Robert Rauschenberg sculpted and painted “combines,” the innovative mixed media works he became famous for in the transition between Abstract Expressionism and the rise of Pop Art, he did not simply capture an image or make an argument. Rauschenberg captured the numerous events occurring around him in a collage of the people, places and absurdities he […]

‘Three Sisters’ Take the Stage

October 13, 2011 Nikki Barnhart 0

It is not plot that drives New Paltz Theatre’s latest venture, but character. For its latest production, the department will be performing Anton Chekov’s “Three Sisters.” “They were flowers in a garden of weeds,” said director Frank Trezza about the play. Once high class, the eponymous three sisters and their brother Andrei eventually fall to the lower and uneducated people around […]