News
‘Rainbow’ Connections
April 21, 2023
Tyler Applegate
Amara Granderson’s visions of Broadway came into focus on the stages of Oberlin.
![Granderson peforms alongside her "for colored girls" cast.](https://www.oberlin.edu/sites/default/files/styles/fp_w360_h270/public/content/news/image/fcg_cast.png?itok=QoFAcAZC)
Oberlin Opera Theater to Present Offenbach and Rossini Double Bill
November 7, 2022
Cathy Partlow Strauss ’84
Oberlin Opera Theater will present a double bill of operas not seen on Oberlin stages previously—Offenbach’s operetta Le mariage aux lanternes ("The Wedding by Lantern Light") and Rossini’s burletta L'occasione fa il ladro ("Opportunity Makes a Thief")—in Hall Auditorium November 10-13.
![Scene from a rehearsal of Rossini's "L'occasione fa il ladro." Two male characters in rehearsal for the opera on the stage of Hall Auditorium.](https://www.oberlin.edu/sites/default/files/styles/fp_w360_h270/public/content/news/image/2022_fall_opera_news_center_image.jpg?itok=h8QIOowS)
Cassandra Gutterman-Johns Awarded Fulbright ETA to Czech Republic
May 2, 2022
Amanda Nagy
A theater and creative writing major, Gutterman-Johns hopes to learn more about teaching and pedagogy with the Fulbright program in the Czech Republic.
![Cassandra Gutterman-Johns portrait Cassandra Gutterman-Johns.](https://www.oberlin.edu/sites/default/files/styles/fp_w360_h270/public/content/cassandraguttermanjohnsnews-trj.jpg?itok=OV1Io3dn)
Dance, Creative Writing Faculty Members Receive Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Awards
March 14, 2022
Amanda Nagy
The awards are peer recognition of an artist's body of work, and support artists' growth and development in Ohio and beyond.
![Warner Concert Hall. The reflecting pool outside of Warner Concert Hall.](https://www.oberlin.edu/sites/default/files/styles/fp_w360_h270/public/content/news/images-2022/warner_concert_wide_news-yevhen.jpg?itok=OUjg3hBc)
Oberlin Dance Department Celebrates 50 Years of Contact Improv
March 9, 2022
Amanda Nagy
Critical Mass: CI@50 honors the past, present, and future of Contact Improvisation, as well as Oberlin's history in developing and studying the dance form.
![Contact Improv Winter Term Dancers performing.](https://www.oberlin.edu/sites/default/files/styles/fp_w360_h270/public/content/news/image/contact_improv_wt_news-clarissa_heart.jpg?itok=7rLMpBV3)
Gabriel Morales Receives Ping Legacy Award for Service-Learning
June 11, 2020
Amanda Nagy
A jazz guitarist, Morales piloted a performance in residence program in Oberlin’s health spaces.
![Gabriel Morales ’22 Man holding guitar.](https://www.oberlin.edu/sites/default/files/styles/fp_w360_h270/public/content/news/images-2020/gabrielmorales-027.jpg?itok=PaHSPse2)
Three Oberlin faculty members receive Ohio Arts Council Excellence Awards
February 28, 2020
Kyra McConnell ’22
Three Oberlin faculty members have been awarded individual grants from the Ohio Arts Council to continue their creative projects.
![Arts Council logo Ohio Arts Council logo.](https://www.oberlin.edu/sites/default/files/styles/fp_w360_h270/public/content/news/image/oac_full-color-rgb-logo-resized.png?itok=HHKOuA48)
Staging the Real: Workshopping Neo-Futurist Performance Art
January 31, 2020
Amanda Nagy
Theater alum Joey Rizzolo ’97 teaches interdisciplinary course in collaborative performance art.
![Staging the Real winter term group Four students and professor talk while seated at a round table.](https://www.oberlin.edu/sites/default/files/styles/fp_w360_h270/public/content/news/images-2020/stagingthereal1-dustinfrantz.jpg?itok=lmLbcPqZ)
Performance Features World Premiere of Ogonek Chamber Concerto
December 6, 2019
Cathy Partlow Strauss
Pianist Xak Bjerken will give the premiere performance of Elizabeth Ogonek’s chamber concerto where are we now (2019) tonight at 7:30 p.m., Friday, December 6 in Oberlin Conservatory...
![Oberlin composition faculty with Timothy Weiss and pianist Xak Bjerken Five people standing in front of the stage in Warner Concert Hall; Elizabeth Ogonek, Stephen Hartke, Xak Bjerken, Timothy Weiss, and Jesse Jones.](https://www.oberlin.edu/sites/default/files/styles/fp_w360_h270/public/content/news/image/20191206-mth_3312.jpg?itok=nOhnO2Z3)
A Feast of Foolishness
October 17, 2019
Erich Burnett
Oberlin Opera Theater presents the Britten comedy A Midsummer Night’s Dream Nov. 6-10.
![lovers meet in the woods accompanied by fairies and other creatures](https://www.oberlin.edu/sites/default/files/styles/fp_w360_h270/public/content/news/image/midsummer_nights_dream_web_graphic_0a.jpg?itok=f6b4hoIl)