Wallace State plans events for Arts in April | CullmanSense

HANCEVILLE ? Wallace State Community College will offer plenty of opportunities for entertainment and introspection next month as it celebrates Arts in April. From a pianist and a storyteller to theater, band, and choir performances, WSCC will host a variety of events starting on April 1 and continuing throughout the rest of the month.

English Department faculty member Kathy Buckelew, who co-chairs the Arts in April committee, said the annual event started out as a week-long event before growing to encompass the entire month.

Faculty and staff from the English, Music, Theater, Speech, and Philosophy and Religion departments, as well as Museum staff and representatives from the college?s diversity team met to plan the agenda for the month.

Buckelew said the theater performances and the Jazz Band dance have become popular events throughout the month. This year the theater department will conduct five performances of the Pulitzer Prize winning comedy ?You Can?t Take it With You.? The performances will be held at 7 p.m. April 11-13, and at 2 p.m.?on April 14. A special morning performance is also scheduled for April 11 at 9:30 a.m.?

The Jazz Band will hold its dance on April 19 from 7 to 9 p.m. in the atrium of the Burrow Center for the Fine and Performing Arts. Buckelew said the dance is often attended by dance groups from the area, but is also fun for observers who may not feel like putting on their dancing shoes.?

?That?s for anyone who likes to listen to jazz and big band music,? said Ricky Burks, chair of the Fine and Performing Arts division and Arts in April committee co-chair.

Other events include a piano recital by UNA professor Dr. Yi-Min Cai; a presentation by storyteller Nina Reeves, who will talk about the art of storytelling and spin a few yarns herself; a discussion of philosophy by retired Ole Miss professor and author Dr. William Lawhead; a celebration of original poetry in honor of National Poetry Month; and a conversation on the art and architecture of Italy in advance of a spring trip sponsored by the Burrow Museum.

Artwork by local and student artists will be on display as part of the Wallace State Art Department?s Juried Visual Art Exhibition.? The Evelyn Burrow Museum is featuring an ongoing exhibit of Alabama pottery. Donny Wilson, museum director, will host a gallery talk on April 23 at 11:30 a.m. on Alabama pottery and the Burrow collection.

Events include:

April 1-13 ? Juried Visual Art Exhibition at the Burrow Center for the Fine and Performing Arts featuring art from students and community members.

April 1-31 ? Pre-1900?s Alabama Pottery Exhibition at The Evelyn Burrow Museum.? The Burrow Museum is open Tuesday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Saturday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

April 4 ? Piano recital by Dr.? Yi-Min Cai at noon in the recital hall at Burrow Center.

April 9 ? English Forum with Storyteller Nina Reeves at 9:30 a.m., in the recital hall at Burrow Center.

April 9 ? WSCC Choir ?Seasons of Love? concert at 7 p.m., in the recital hall at Burrow Center.

April 10 ? Sam Pugh, Outreach Coordinator of the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute, 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. in Recital Hall at Burrow Center.

April 11 ? Wallace State Theatre performance of ?You Can?t Take it With You? at 9:30 a.m. and 7 p.m., in the Betty Leeth-Haynes Theatre in the Student Center building. Admission charged.

April? 12 ? Wallace State Theatre performance of ?You Can?t Take it With You? at 7 p.m., in the Betty Leeth-Haynes Theatre in the Student Center building. Admission charged.

April 13 ? Art Reception from 8 to 11:30 a.m., at Burrow Center.

April 13 ? Wallace State Theatre performance of ?You Can?t Take it With You? at? 7 p.m. at Betty Leeth-Haynes Theatre in the Student Center Building.? Admission charged.

April 14 ? Wallace State Theatre performance of ?You Can?t Take it With You?? at 2 p.m., at Betty Leeth-Haynes Theatre in the Student Center Building. Admission charged.

April 16 ? Philosophy Scholar Dr. William Lawhead at 9:30 a.m., in the recital hall at Burrow Center.

April 16 ? WSCC Concert Choir at 1 p.m. and 7 p.m. in the recital hall at Burrow Center.

April 19 ? WSCC Jazz Band Dance at 7 p.m., in the atrium of the Burrow Center. Donation requested.

April 23 ? Gallery Talk with Museum Director Donny Wilson at The Evelyn Burrow Museum, 11:30 a.m.?

April 25 ?? WSCC Music Department Spring Show? with Jazz and Concert Bands at 7 p.m., in the recital hall at Burrow Center.

April 30 ? Cultural Conversation: Italian Art and Architecture at 5:30 p.m. in the recital hall at Burrow Center for the Performing Arts; a meeting for travelers taking part in Wallace State?s May trip to Italy will follow at around 6:15 p.m.

There is a $10 charge for adults and $5 for students, including WSCC students, to attend the theatre performances of? ?You Can?t Take it With You.? A $15 donation is requested for the Jazz Band dance on April 19.

For more information, visit www.wallacestate.edu.

By Gail Crutchfield, WSCC Contributor

Source: http://cullmansense.com/articles/2013/04/02/wallace-state-plans-events-arts-april

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NBC's Jim Maceda reports on U.S. Navy movements of destroyers into the Pacific amid threats from North Korea.

By Jim Miklaszewski, and Courtney Kube, NBC News

The U.S. Navy is shifting a guided-missile destroyer in the Pacific to waters off the Korean peninsula in the wake of ongoing rhetoric from North Korea, U.S. defense officials said.

The USS McCain is capable of intercepting and destroying a missile, should North Korea decide to fire one off, the officials said.

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The White House on Monday said the United States hasn?t seen large-scale movements from North Korean military forces in the aftermath of harsh rhetoric from the reclusive government.

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The McCain in December 2012 was moved to be in position to defend against a impending North Korean rocket launch.

On Sunday, The United States sent F-22 stealth fighter jets to South Korea as part of military exercises in a move aimed at further deterring threats from North Korea against its neighbor.

It was unclear if the McCain was also part of the ongoing military drills.

It was earlier reported that the USS Fitzgerald, another guided missile destroyer, would be moved to the area, though it was only among the ships under consideration for the deployment.

Also Monday, South Korean President?Park Geun-hye appeared to give her country's military permission to strike back at any attack from the North without further word from Seoul, saying she took the North's escalating threats "very seriously," South Korean news agency Yonhap reported.

"As commander-in-chief of the armed forces, I will trust the military's judgment on abrupt and surprise provocations by North Korea," she said, according to Yonhap.

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The deployments and Park's remarks came as tensions approached an all-time high between Pyongyang and Washington. ?

Kim Jong Un has?ratcheted?up the rhetoric?against?both South Korea and the United States in recent months, and in February violated U.N. sanctions by ordering a nuclear weapons test.?

On Saturday, North Korea said it had entered a "state of war"?against South Korea, according to a statement reported by the North's official news agency, KCNA.?

In an interview on CNBC Monday, former Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said the United States needs to be "very concerned" by North Korea?s recent weapons test and "level of bellicosity" and do everything necessary to defend U.S. allies and interests.

Panetta said while Kim Jung Un?s actions appear aimed at his internal situation the U.S. should ?take nothing for granted? and be prepared. ?The greatest danger right now, he said, appears to be the possibility of a miscalculation.

"The reality is we don?t have as much insight as we should," Panetta said of Kim's motives.

The stealth aircraft ? two F-22 Raptors -- were deployed from Japan to the Osan Air Base in South Korea from Japan where they will remain on ?static display? as part of the military drills, Pentagon spokesman George Little said. The F-22s are not expected to actively participate in any exercises, however.

This is the fifth time F-22s have deployed to South Korea. Exercise Foal Eagle began on March 1 and will continue until the end of April.

Kim has also recently threatened to "settle accounts" with the U.S. and posed near a chart that appeared to detail bombings of American cities.

The F-22 jets' arrival follows other recent displays of air power by the U.S. in South Korea. Last week B-52 bombers and B-2 stealth bombers were sent to the country for the annual?exercise.?

In North Korea, meanwhile, KCNA reported on an Easter service at which it said "the participants renewed the firm resolution to put the warmongers [the US and South Korea] into the red hot iron-pot of hell as early as possible."

North Korea's stance, however, can be notoriously difficult to interpret.

In a later release Monday on KCNA, Pyongyang announced the adoption of a law "consolidating" its position as a nuclear power that would use its weapons only ?to repel invasion or attack from a hostile nuclear weapons state and make retaliatory strikes.?

Among the law's pledges were that North Korea would store its weapons responsibly, that it would not use them against non-nuclear nations, and that it would participate in nonproliferation talks -- though the last clause came with the condition that there was ?improvement of relations with hostile nuclear weapons states.?

NBC News? Andrew Rafferty, John Newland and Jeff Black contributed to this report.

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Bloom, Rashad in Broadway's 'Romeo and Juliet'

FILE - In this Feb. 24, 2013 file photo, actor Orlando Bloom arrives at the 2013 Vanity Fair Oscars Viewing and After Party at the Sunset Plaza Hotel in West Hollywood, Calif. Bloom and Condola Rashad will star in a modern take on William Shakespeare's ?Romeo and Juliet? on Broadway this fall. Producers said Monday, April 1, 2013, that previews at the Richard Rodgers Theatre begin Aug. 24, with an opening night set for Sept. 19. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP, File)

FILE - In this Feb. 24, 2013 file photo, actor Orlando Bloom arrives at the 2013 Vanity Fair Oscars Viewing and After Party at the Sunset Plaza Hotel in West Hollywood, Calif. Bloom and Condola Rashad will star in a modern take on William Shakespeare's ?Romeo and Juliet? on Broadway this fall. Producers said Monday, April 1, 2013, that previews at the Richard Rodgers Theatre begin Aug. 24, with an opening night set for Sept. 19. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP, File)

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NEW YORK (AP) ? Orlando Bloom and Condola Rashad will star on Broadway this fall in a modern take on William Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet," a revival that will add an intriguing element of racial contrast to the classic tale of two star-crossed lovers.

"The last thing we wanted to do was to do a sort of pompous, classic version of 'Romeo and Juliet,'" said director David Leveaux, a five-time Tony Award nominee. "I'm just taking away all the wallpaper and mantelpieces, all the kind of pompous stuff we associate with grand Shakespeare productions, and try to go as simple as possible."

Producers said Monday that previews at the Richard Rodgers Theatre will begin Aug. 24 with an opening night set for Sept. 19. Tickets will go on sale to the general public on April 8.

The production will also star two-time Tony Award nominee Jayne Houdyshell as the Nurse and Tony nominee Joe Morton as Lord Capulet. The Capulets will be played by black actors and the Montagues by white actors.

Leveaux stressed that the idea of exploring the racial difference between the two feuding Italian families came organically after the casting of the lead actor and actress.

"I did not set out to create some conceptual frame," he said. "At the end of the day, if you're sitting in Row E in a Broadway theater, you either believe that these two people are in love and are invested in them or the play doesn't work."

Leveaux said Bloom came aboard first several years ago, thirsty to try his hand at the work despite the director saying there were easier ways to make his Broadway debut. Years ago, Bloom had wanted to join the Royal Shakespeare Company but was persuaded to film "The Lord of the Rings" instead.

"I was just so fascinated by his passion and his absolute boyish love of this language that I thought, 'Yep, that feels like our Romeo," Leveaux said.

Leveaux, whose Broadway credits include the musical "Nine" with Antonio Banderas and "Cyrano de Bergerac" starring Kevin Kline, found his Juliet after seeing "Stick Fly" on Broadway and immediately spotting the "luminous" Rashad, who was playing a maid with a secret.

They began to work together and the director was smitten: "That combination of wit and heart, which is what you need in a Juliet, seemed sort of irresistible to me."

Leveaux put the pair together for the first time in Los Angeles a few months ago to see if they could produce sparks and proposed they start performing the Act 2 balcony scene.

"The first line out of Condola's mouth made Orlando laugh," he said. "I looked at him and it was like watching a man shed every ounce of armor he had as a celebrity and just adore this girl. I thought, 'There you go.'"

Leveaux then decided not to be colorblind about the cast, concluding that Juliet's parents must be black and Bloom must come from a white household. The casting teases out how very conservative the two families have become.

He said "Romeo and Juliet" is a fast and urgent play and both families are barely able to conceal a deep well of barbarism. That has Leveaux wanting to go as simple as possible and he is tempted to just cover the stage with sand and then set fire to it.

"That's what this production should feel like ? it should feel like fire on the sand," said Leveaux, who once did a production of Sophocles' "Electra" with Zoe Wanamaker and covered the stage with earth. "To make it modern, we're going primal."

Bloom, who also has appeared in "The Pirates of the Caribbean" film series, recently completed filming "Zulu" with Forest Whitaker. Rashad, the daughter of Phylicia Rashad and sportscaster Ahmad Rashad, earned a 2012 Tony nomination for "Stick Fly" and was in the recent remake of "Steel Magnolias." She is also in the new Broadway revival of "The Trip to Bountiful" with Cicely Tyson.

It will be the first "Romeo and Juliet" on Broadway since Paul Ryan Rudd and Pamela Payton-Wright played the doomed lovers in a 1977 Circle in the Square production. Other famous names to play the parts on Broadway include Claire Bloom, John Neville, Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier.

This new revival precedes another high-profile New York production of the play. A Classic Stage Company production will star Elizabeth Olsen next season.

Over the centuries, the story of the warring Capulets and Montagues has been set in creative ways, whether it's to illustrate the divide between Palestinians and Israelis or competing American pizza parlors. The martial-arts flick "Romeo Must Die" updated the Montagues and Capulets into a gang rivalry between blacks and Asians in California.

Now a fresh version aims for Broadway.

"While I think it's a terrifying idea to do 'Romeo and Juliet' on Broadway, equally, why would you do 'Romeo and Juliet' anywhere but?" Leveaux asked. "That's the place to get really mischievous and primal and urgent and direct."

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