Arts & Music

(WNY News Now) The free, livestreamed SUNY JCC Winter Jam performance has been rescheduled for December 18 at Scharmann Theatre due to weather-related delays. SUNY, Jamestown, N.Y. The Winter Jam! performance at Jamestown Community College has been rescheduled for Wednesday, December 18, at 12:20 p.m. at the Scharmann Theatre on the Jamestown campus. Due to bad weather, the rock showcase with student bands led by Bill Eckstrom was postponed from its intended date of December 12. The public is welcome to attend the concert for free. Zoom will stream it live as well. To locate the event link, go to sunyjcc.edu/events and select the concert event. The Division of Arts, Humanities, and Health Sciences, the Faculty Student Association, and the Society and Human Expression Career Community all...

(WNY News Now) For a special, limited-edition production of It's a Wonderful Life this holiday season, Jamestown's Robert H. Jackson Center is transformed into a vintage 1940s radio station.This holiday season, a special production of the well-known tale It's a Wonderful Life will take audiences back in time for just four performances. You are cordially invited to the Cappa Theatre at the Robert H. Jackson Center in Jamestown, which is transformed into a mystical 1940s environment.This classic story moves from movie to stage in the unusual setting of WMTA, a radio station from the 1940s. This unique production is a live replay of It's a Wonderful Life in the captivating manner of an old-fashioned radio show. The beloved characters of George Bailey, Mary, Clarence, and the rest of the Bed...

(WNY News Now) – The Metropolitan Opera’s Live in HD series continues at Fredonia Opera House on Nov. 23 with Giacomo Puccini’s Tosca, a thrilling performance featuring world-class talent and breathtaking Roman scenery.FREDONIA – 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 Sat., Nov. 23, at 1 p.m., with the Giacomo Puccini’s Tosca.Norwegian soprano Lise Davidsen stars as the passionate title diva in David McVicar’s thrilling production, transmitted live from the Metropolitan Opera stage. British-Italian tenor Freddie De Tommaso makes his eagerly anticipated company debut as Tosca’s revolutionary lover, Cav...

(WNY News Now) – New York Attorney General Letitia James and Acting Commissioner Amanda Hiller secure $6.25 million from Sotheby’s for assisting clients in dodging taxes on millions in art purchases.NEW YORK – New York Attorney General Letitia James and Acting Commissioner for the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance (DTF) Amanda Hiller announced yesterday a $6.25 million settlement with Sotheby’s, Inc. (Sotheby’s) for using fraudulent methods to secure tax breaks for its clients on tens of millions of dollars of art purchases. A lawsuit brought by the Office of the Attorney General (OAG) revealed that Sotheby’s encouraged clients to fraudulently claim to be purchasing art for resale, allowing them to avoid paying sales tax on tens of millions of dollars of art they purchased ...

(WNY News Now) – Step into the icy beauty of Antarctica without leaving Jamestown – The Roger Tory Peterson Institute presents a stunning visual journey through one of the world’s most remote and breathtaking landscapes.Jamestown, NY – November 11, 2024 – The Roger Tory Peterson Institute announces the opening of its next major nature art exhibition, celebrating one of the harshest and most beautiful landscapes on earth.Through the National Science Foundation’s Antarctic Artists and Writers Program, artist Helen Glazer spent two months in remote, scientific field camps, with access to protected areas that may be entered only with government permits. She took more than 5,000 images, along with extensive field notes, from which she has produced archival pigment prints, sculptures and an audi...