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The Dance Company will perform in the Symphony Orchestra’s spring concert on Mother’s Day.

Dance Co. performs in orchestra concert

Tomi Brunton, Editor-in-Chief May 2, 2024

For the first time in 10 years, the Dance Company will perform to live music in the AACC Symphony Orchestra’s spring concert. The orchestra’s concert is titled “A Mother’s Day Tribute,” as...

Improv club Co-Presidents Éva Parry, left, and Jason Kalshoven rehearse for their upcoming spring show.

Improv club preps for 1st solo productions

Tomi Brunton, Editor-in-Chief April 5, 2024

AACC’s student improv club will put on its first solo performance on May 10 and 11. The Overcast Troupers, which started last fall, will play comedic games and interact with the audience in two, one-hour...

Opera AACC will put on “Considering Matthew Shepard,” a show about a gay man who was murdered in 1998.

Opera show focuses on hate crime history

Tomi Brunton, Editor-in-Chief April 5, 2024

Opera AACC will put on a show in May about Matthew Shepard, a gay man who was murdered at age 21. “Considering Matthew Shepard,” written by conductor Craig Hella Johnson, will run on May 17 and 19...

Second-year theater and production design student Gabby Bly, right, designed the Audrey II puppet for Theatre AACC’s spring performance of “Little Shop of Horrors.”

Theatre AACC makes carnivorous puppet

Tomi Brunton, Editor-in-Chief April 5, 2024

A second-year theater student designed a puppet that can swallow actors whole for Theatre AACC’s spring production of “Little Shop of Horrors.” Gabby Bly, the assistant set designer for “Little...

The AACC Dance Company will hold its spring auditions on Jan 30. Shown, the company's fall performance.

Dance Company holds spring auditions

Tomi Brunton, Editor-in-Chief January 29, 2024

The AACC Dance Company will hold auditions on Jan. 30 for its spring performance. The audition will consist of ballet barre work, contemporary dance and improvisation, according to company Director...

Theatre AACC actors prep for their April performance of “Little Shop of Horrors.”

Theatre to show 1st musical since before COVID

Tomi Brunton, Editor-in-Chief January 22, 2024

Theatre AACC will show the comedic horror musical “Little Shop of Horrors” in April. The production, which will show April 12 to 14 and April 19 to 21 in the Kauffman Theater, will be the first musical...

The Performing Arts Department will update AACC’s music degree, adding classes that focus on recording technology and sound production.

AACC updates music degree, adds new classes

Tomi Brunton, Editor-in-Chief January 22, 2024

The Performing Arts Department will offer a new associate of arts degree in music, replacing the old one, starting this fall. The new degree requires students to take more of the music classes that will...

Kain Lakis, who plays drums for an alternative grunge-inspired group called "Fire Escape," is one of several students on campus who plays in bands.

Students perform in off-campus rock bands

Izzy Chase, Associate Editor November 29, 2023

The classmate sitting next to you in math class could be the next rock ‘n’ roll superstar. AACC students who have their own bands off campus say a lot of time and effort goes into being in a band...

Steve Konopelski, a first-year communications student, performs in a regional production of “Guys and Dolls,” one of multiple shows he has appeared in.

Ex-Broadway dancer is COM student now

Rebecca Merkel, Reporter November 6, 2023

A first-year communications student is also a three-time Broadway dancer and the winner of a Food Network cooking show. Steve Konopelski, 46, danced in the Broadway productions of “Hot Feet” in 2006,...

Professional casting director Brette Goldstein will teach students how to succeed in the acting industry in an event on Oct. 12. 
Photo courtesy of Brette Goldstein.

Casting director to speak at AACC

Tomi Brunton, Editor-in-Chief October 4, 2023

A professional casting director will talk to students about “all the s**t that no one will ever tell you about the industry” in an event on Oct. 12. Brette Goldstein, who has worked as a casting...

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