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Art Now: Jennifer Levonian – Stop Motion Painter

The Great Hall Auditorium

Jennifer Levonian creates animations and paintings in Philadelphia, PA. In addition to delivering an artist lecture and screening a few of her short films, Jennifer will lead a workshop on stop motion animation.

Free

Provost Film Series: Fill the Void

Pollak Theatre

A young Hasidic Jewish woman is pressured into an arrange levirate marriage to an older widower.

Undergraduate Mid-Term Grades

Undergraduate mid-term grades are due in the Office of the Registrar. Grades will be posted approximately two days after the Office of the Registrar has received all grades

National Theatre of London: War Horse – Second Screening

Pollak Theatre

The National Theatre’s original stage production of War Horse, broadcast live from London’s West End to cinemas.

Since its first performance at the National Theatre in 2007, War Horse has become an international smash hit, capturing the imagination of four million people around the world.

Based on Michael Morpurgo’s novel and adapted for the stage by Nick Stafford, War Horse takes audiences on an extraordinary journey from the fields of rural Devon to the trenches of First World War France. Filled with stirring music and songs, this powerfully moving and imaginative drama is a show of phenomenal inventiveness. At its heart are astonishing life-size puppets by South Africa’s Handspring Puppet Company, who bring breathing, galloping, charging horses to thrilling life on stage.

$22

Met Opera: WERTHER

Pollak Theatre

Jonas Kaufmann stars in the title role of Massenet’s sublime adaptation of Goethe’s revolutionary and tragic romance, opposite Sophie Koch as Charlotte. The new production is directed and designed by Richard Eyre and Rob Howell, the same team that created the Met’s recent hit staging of Carmen. Rising young maestro Alain Altinoglu conducts.
Encore: Sun. April 13 at 1:00 p.m.

$23

On Screen/In Person: WONDER WOMEN! The Untold Story of American Superheroines

Pollak Theatre

WONDER WOMEN! The Untold Story of American Superheroines traces the fascinating legacy of comic book character Wonder Woman to illustrate how popular representations of powerful women often reflect broader cultural anxieties about gender roles. There will be a Q & A with the filmmaker Kristy Guevara-Flanagan following the screening.