Arts + culture

For SUNY Oswego students Owen West and Claire Bosley, playing the leads in the Theatre Department’s production of “Romeo and Juliet” has provided a real learning experience. The iconic piece opens at 7:30 p.m. on April 19 in Tyler Hall’s Waterman Theatre.

SUNY Oswego’s Theatre Department will produce “Romeo and Juliet” for the first time in 30 years – and director Steven Mazzoccone, cast and crew are focusing on making this piece appealing and accessible to a wide audience.

SUNY Oswego professor Eric Schmitz composed a CD with his brother and father, titled “ACE Composers Ⅱ,” which also features work fellow music faculty members Rob Auler and Daniel Wood.

The Symphoria Woodwind Quintet will perform a concert of classic music as the next installment in the Ke-Nekt Chamber Music Series at 7 p.m. Wednesday, April 12, in the Sheldon Hall ballroom.

The work of Tyrone Johnson-Neuland, the university's assistant director of instructional technologies, will be on display through May 28 at Schweinfurth Art Center and Cayuga Museum of History & Art, 203 Genesee St. in Auburn.

SUNY Oswego's 60th annual Juried Student Art Exhibition showcases top student work from March 21 to April 2 in Tyler Hall's Tyler Art Gallery.

The award-winning story of a forgotten prodigy from a famed musical family, "The Other Mozart" will bring its tale to SUNY Oswego's Waterman Theatre at 7 p.m. on Thursday, March 23.

The award-winning Saakumu Dance Troupe from Ghana will share a repertoire reflecting traditional and contemporary cultures at 7 p.m. Wednesday, March 8, in SUNY Oswego’s Waterman Theatre.

The last time SUNY Oswego’s Music Department presented “Collage,” its annual fundraising concert, was March 2020 – just before the pandemic changed everything. But the popular music highlight makes its comeback with a free performance at 7:30 p.m. on Friday, March 3, in Tyler Hall’s Waterman Theatre.

Two storytelling performances on Thursday, Feb. 23, will showcase the work of students in SUNY Oswego’s expressive arts therapy minor while showing storytelling’s power in helping the healing process.