'Art' to be Staged at Pitt-Bradford
A play exploring the complexities of friendship over an argument about artistic style will be staged this weekend at the University of Pittsburgh at Bradford.
Pitt-Bradford’s Division of Communication and the Arts will present “Art” at 7:30 p.m. on April 2-4 and at 2 p.m. on April 5 at the Studio Theater in Blaisdell Hall. Admission for the annual spring play is $6 for the public and $2 for students. A part of the University’s Spectrum Series, “Art” replaces the previously announced “Cripple of Inishmaan.”
Written by Yasmina Reza, the play focuses on the cataclysmic effect on three friends when one of them purchases an expensive work of abstract art -- a large painting consisting of white lines on a white canvas.
The heated, hilarious debate over the painting gets really explosive when longstanding relationships come to be measured against this illuminating, infuriating, bare canvas, said Dr. Kevin Ewert, director of theater at Pitt-Bradford.
“‘Art’ is a wickedly funny three-hander,” he said. “It starts as an argument about artistic taste, and it turns into a comical, clinical dissection of the nature of friendship.”
The cast includes former Robert C. Laing Creative Arts Award winner Catherine Epstein, a broadcast communications major from Bradford; Carnell Lawson, a business management major from Trainer; and Katherine Yeagle, a broadcast communications major from Newville.
“Art” received the Lawrence Olivier Award for best comedy and the Tony Award for best play in 1998.
For disability-related needs, contact the Office of Disability Resources and Services at (814) 362-7609 or arj4@pitt.edu.
For tickets, call the Bromeley Family Theater Box Office at (814) 362-5113.
Pictured, Carnell Lawson, left, a business management major from Trainer; Katherine Yeagle, center, a broadcast communications major from Newville; and Catherine Epstein, a broadcast communications major from Bradford, practicing for the upcoming performance of “Art” at the University of Pittsburgh at Bradford.
(Photo courtesy of Pitt-Bradford)
Pitt-Bradford’s Division of Communication and the Arts will present “Art” at 7:30 p.m. on April 2-4 and at 2 p.m. on April 5 at the Studio Theater in Blaisdell Hall. Admission for the annual spring play is $6 for the public and $2 for students. A part of the University’s Spectrum Series, “Art” replaces the previously announced “Cripple of Inishmaan.”
Written by Yasmina Reza, the play focuses on the cataclysmic effect on three friends when one of them purchases an expensive work of abstract art -- a large painting consisting of white lines on a white canvas.
The heated, hilarious debate over the painting gets really explosive when longstanding relationships come to be measured against this illuminating, infuriating, bare canvas, said Dr. Kevin Ewert, director of theater at Pitt-Bradford.
“‘Art’ is a wickedly funny three-hander,” he said. “It starts as an argument about artistic taste, and it turns into a comical, clinical dissection of the nature of friendship.”
The cast includes former Robert C. Laing Creative Arts Award winner Catherine Epstein, a broadcast communications major from Bradford; Carnell Lawson, a business management major from Trainer; and Katherine Yeagle, a broadcast communications major from Newville.
“Art” received the Lawrence Olivier Award for best comedy and the Tony Award for best play in 1998.
For disability-related needs, contact the Office of Disability Resources and Services at (814) 362-7609 or arj4@pitt.edu.
For tickets, call the Bromeley Family Theater Box Office at (814) 362-5113.
Pictured, Carnell Lawson, left, a business management major from Trainer; Katherine Yeagle, center, a broadcast communications major from Newville; and Catherine Epstein, a broadcast communications major from Bradford, practicing for the upcoming performance of “Art” at the University of Pittsburgh at Bradford.
(Photo courtesy of Pitt-Bradford)
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