It's 2024 in South Bend, Indiana, on the Patricia George Decio Mainstage, and 17 dancers are being put through the final phase of a torturous audition for FTT's next production. Only eight can make it.A Chorus Line examines one day in the lives of 17 dancers, all vying for a spot in the "chorus line" of a Broadway musical. Born from real-life testimonies, audiences are allowed a glimpse into the lives of professional dancers as they bare their hopes, dreams, and ambitions on stage.A Chorus Line was conceived and originally directed and choreographed by Micheal Bennett, with a book by James Kirkwood and Nicholas Dante, music by Marvin Hamlisch, lyrics by Edward Kleban, and co-choreographed by Bob Avian. GET TICKETS

Join the Minor in Sport, Media, and Culture (SMAC) students, faculty, and friends to celebrate our second year! This year the SMAC fest will showcase our seniors' 11 capstone projects, welcome our third cohort of students into the minor, and provide the opportunity for alumni, faculty, staff, and friends to discuss sport, media, and culture from a variety of perspectives. Folks are welcome to attend the full session or come and go as their schedule allows. Capstone presenters: Sonya Baumgardt, Lilly Callahan, Sarah Cernugel, Madaket Chiarieri, Ryan Coury, Claire DeMeo, Atara Greenbaum, Colleen Mackin, Andrew McGuinness, Maria Wainscott, and Shay Zilvitis Originally published at smacminor.nd.edu.

The Department of Art, Art History & Design presents the annual Art History Symposium. Clare Barloon and Kendra Lyimo will present research from their honors thesis. The keynote speaker is Antawan I. Byrd, Northwestern University.This lecture examines how sound technologies and photography mutually mediated ordinary engagements with struggles for decolonization in Africa during the mid-twentieth century. Focused on a corpus of photographs, ranging from documentary images to studio portraiture, Byrd explores the art historical stakes of being seen listening during situated moments of political change. Headshot Credit: Felton Kizer  Originally published at artdept.nd.edu.

The Department of English is pleased to announce that its 2024 Joseph M. Duffy Lecturer is Branden Jacobs-Jenkins. A conversation between Jacobs-Jenkins and Chanté Mouton Kinyon, assistant professor of English, will take place on Wednesday, April 24. Branden Jacobs-Jenkins is a Brooklyn-based playwright and producer and two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist. Recent theatre credits include Appropriate (currently running on Broadway), The Comeuppance (Signature Theatre), Girls (Yale Rep), Everybody (Signature Theatre), War (Yale Rep; Lincoln Center/LCT3), Gloria (Vineyard Theatre), Appropriate (Obie Award; Signature Theatre), An Octoroon (Obie Award; Soho Rep, Theatre for a New Audience), and Neighbors (The Public Theater). He was showrunner, executive producer, and writer for HULU/FX’s drama series, Kindred, based on Octavia E. Butler’s groundbreaking novel. He currently teaches at Yale University and serves as vice president of the Dramatists Guild council and on the boards of Soho Rep, Park Avenue Armory, the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, and the Dramatists Guild Foundation. Honors include a USA Artists fellowship, a Guggenheim fellowship, the MacArthur fellowship, the Windham-Campbell Prize for Drama, and the inaugural Tennessee Williams Award. Chanté Mouton Kinyon is assistant professor of English at the University of Notre Dame. Kinyon’s primary research explores transnational Black American literature and culture, with a particular interest in the way in which Black American culture and literature intersects with Irish culture and literature. The 2019–2021 Moreau Postdoctoral Fellow (ND), Kinyon was previously the 2018–2019 NEH Fellow at the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies. Co-sponsors Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies Department of American StudiesNotre Dame Initiative on Race and ResilienceDepartment of Film, Television, and Theatre Originally published at english.nd.edu.

Musician and activist BL Shirelle is the co-executive director of FREER Records, the first non-profit record label for prison-impacted musicians in the United States. In this presentation, Shirelle will discuss the richness of prison music, past and present. She will also share some of her music and discuss elements of her own life and career in a conversation moderated by Jon Bullock, assistant professor of ethnomusicology in the Department of Music.  This event is free and not ticketed.  Originally published at music.nd.edu.