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Love is... connection Dear Friends, One of Usdan's core values is to create a community of artists across age groups — students, faculty, guest artist — who collaborate as equals. When professional artists perform at Festival, the performer-audience connection illustrates this relationship...

Love is...being U Dear Friends, After another jam-packed week of performances, exhibitions, and community gatherings, the entire staff and faculty say goodbye to our 4A students. We remember the relevance of the last line of Usdan's mission: "Our goal is to instill in our community a desire and...

Q & A with Musical Director & Composer Ben Boeker In his seventh year as a Musical Director in the Theater Department and in his 14th year total at Usdan, Ben Boecker's musical adaptation of the book, “Aviva vs. the Dybbuk,” written entirely on guitar, will premiere on the Lucy Moses Stage on...

Love is...student work Dear Friends, Starting this week and continuing into next, we are reminded of the first line of our mission: "We invite people of all ages to experience the natural beauty of our campus and the transformative power of the arts." Families joined in the fun, and it was...

Dear Friends, On August 11, 1973, teenager Cindy Campbell set out to throw a multigenerational party to raise money for back-to-school clothes. Charging 25 cents for girls and 50 cents for boys, the party in the rec room of her Bronx apartment building is now widely recognized as the "big-bang...