Michael Trotti, associate professor of history at Ithaca College, has spent the majority of his professional career researching murder. Now, he is reconstructing the way historians view lynchings in the South. Trotti recently published “The Scaffold’s Revival: Race and Public Execution in the South,” an exploration of the relationship between public execution and lynching in [...]
Next week, members of the Global Poverty Project will drive their decorated tour van to Ithaca to challenge students to live like 1.4 billion people around the world — with less than $1.25 per day. Danielle Goldschneider, a member of the Global Poverty Project, an organization that works to help eradicate extreme poverty, will present [...]
Rebecca stood outside her downtown Ithaca apartment in a bathrobe. She kissed the boy she had just had sex with goodnight and put him in a cab to take him home. From that same cab emerged the next boy she’d have sex with that night.
Quivering under the lights of the Hoerner Theatre, a nun will beg for her brother’s life in front of a corrupt politician. Later, a housewife, a prostitute and a steelworker will share the parallels of their lives through introspective song in the Clark Theatre. The Ithaca College Theater Department’s upcoming season will explore student concerns [...]
Call him the Justin Timberlake of chamber music — professor Mark Radice is bringing it back. Radice, professor of music theory, history and composition, recently became the author of “Chamber Music: An Essential History,” a modern analysis of chamber music that includes work from after the 1920s. In his sixth book to date, Radice explores [...]
“Art,” a Tony Award-winning play written by Yasmina Reza that originally opened in London’s West End in 1966, is finding a new home in Ithaca. The Readers’ Theater will mount a production of the play Feb. 18. “Art” features three old friends — Serge, Marc and Yvan — who question their bonds after Serge buys [...]
As a child growing up in Italy, Catherine Galasso spent hours at live rehearsals listening to her father’s music and taking in the aesthetics of European theater. This February, she will put on her own live performance, inspired by and showcasing her father’s music and two of film’s most prominent figures.
