September 14, 2008
Arts Take Center Stage
by Robert Khan, Newsday.com

"Melana Tysowsky knew that Adelphi’s dance department had outgrown its quarters, but "the lacrosse incident" in May underscored matters. To present a choreography project, Tysowsky and fellow ballet students had reserved the Woodruff Hall gym, a more spacious venue than their cramped, out-of-the-way rehearsal studios in the same building..."
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September 14, 2008
Adelphi has Room for 'Rent'
by Robert Khan, Newsday.com

"Days after its Broadway closing, "Rent" begins a new life onstage at Adelphi University, the alma mater of its composer, Jonathan Larson. A weeklong run—neither carbon copy of the storied musical nor "a sacrilege," assures its director—will be the first production performed at the school’s renovated Olmsted Theatre..."
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September 7, 2008
Readying an Arts Center for Prime Time
by Marcelle S. Fischler, NYTimes.com

"A few weeks before Adelphi University’s new 53,000-square-foot Performing Arts Center opened here, Michael Stepniak, the associate dean of performing arts, tried his viola on stage in the concert hall..."
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