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Folk duo to perform Thursday

The 1891 Fredonia Opera House Performing Arts Center presents acclaimed folk duo Newberry & Verch in concert on Thursday at 7 p.m. The concert is part of the Folk in Fredonia Gilman Family Music Series. Growing up, Joe Newberry and April Verch absorbed traditions of home and ...

Met Live continues with ‘Fidelio’

Live at the Met, the Metropolitan Opera’s award-winning series of live, high definition (HD) opera transmissions to theaters around the world, continues its 2024-25 season at the 1891 Fredonia Opera House Performing Arts Center on Saturday at 1 p.m., with the Beethoven’s Fidelio. ...

Cinema Series to screen ‘Wicked’

The Cinema Series at the 1891 Fredonia Opera House Performing Arts Center resumes after the theatre had been closed for six weeks to allow for the replacement of seats, with screenings of the hit musical film “Wicked” on Saturday and Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. The film was nominated for 10 Oscars ...

Book writer, illustrator featured by club

In a recent meeting of the Fredonia Shakespeare Club, Rebecca Ross presented a paper on Tomie dePaola. DePaola was born Sept. 15, 1934 into a close-knit Irish and Italian family in Meriden, Conn. He attended the local high school and earned advanced degrees from the Pratt Institute in ...

Spring musical premiere is March 21

The hard work from approximately 100 of the most talented high school students in the area will be on display later this month as Fredonia High School premieres its annual spring musical, “SOMETHING ROTTEN!” The musical will be presented on March 21 and 22, then again a week later ...

Theater work based on classic ‘Alice in Wonderland’

A work inspired by the classic Lewis Carroll novel “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” will be the next offering in the Walter Gloor Mainstage Series at the State University of New York at Fredonia. The Department of Theatre and Dance presents five performances of “Alicia’s Lens” ...