Arts

Wilkes University’s Division of Performing Arts is excited to present its spring concert series from April 27-30, 2025, at the Dorothy Dickson Darte Center for the Performing Arts and First Presbyterian Church. The concerts, which showcase vocal, orchestral and band performances, are free and open to the public. Audiences can …

The Title IX Department and It’s On Us Club will welcome author Sarah Vaughan to campus for a virtual Q&A and discussion of her bestselling novel Anatomy of a Scandal at noon on Thursday, April 24, in the Miller Room on the second floor of the Henry Student Center. Since …

The Diamond City Partnership and Sordoni Art Gallery at Wilkes University are proud to announce a new community event, SOMA Night Lights, on Friday, April 25 from 6 to 11 p.m. on the 100 block of South Main Street in Downtown Wilkes-Barre. This event is free and open to the …

The Sordoni Art Gallery at Wilkes University will close its season with Family Tree, a show that brings together the work of four sisters to look at a common subject in a variety of unique and beautiful ways. “We have a family reunion in the Sordoni,” says Heather Sincavage, gallery …

The Wilkes University English Department will close its 2025 Allan Hamilton Dickson Spring Writers Series with a reading by guest artist George Saunders at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, April 15, in the Dorothy Dickson Darte Center for the Performing Arts, 239 South River Street, Wilkes-Barre.   Saunders is the author of …

Wilkes University Theatre will present William Shakespeare’s As You Like It, a comedic play full of wit and romance, at 8 p.m. on April 10, 11 & 12, and at 2 p.m. on April 12 & 13 in the Dorothy Dickson Darte Center for the Performing Arts, 239 S. River …

The Wilkes University English Department will open the Allan Hamilton Dickson Spring Writers Series with guest artist Indra Novey at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 25, in the Kirby Hall Salon, 202 South River Street, Wilkes-Barre. Novey is a novelist, poet and translator. Her most recent novel, Take What You Need, was a New …

Wilkes University Theatre will present the magical musical Between the Lines at 8 p.m. on Feb. 20, 21 & 22, and 2 p.m. on Feb. 22 & 23, at the Dorothy Dickson Darte Center for the Performing Arts,  239 S. River St., Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania.  Between the Lines is based on …

Hosted by the Wilkes University English Department, the Allan Hamilton Dickson Spring Writers Series features a variety of authors, poets, directors and other accomplished writers annually. Guest speakers read selections from their works and answer questions at each event. Guest speaker Idra Novey, a novelist, poet and translator, will open …

When Heather Sincavage, director of the Sordoni Art Gallery, performed at the University of Colorado, she had a chance to see Minor Threat, an exhibition by Gregg Deal. Her first thought was how Wilkes University students would respond to Deal’s work, and her second thought was how to get his …