Comedy series to look back at 2004 events

“Right Between the Ears,” Kansas Public Radio’s award-winning comedy series, will look back and laugh at the events of 2004 in a special “Year in Review” show at 5 p.m. and 8 p.m. Jan. 8 at Liberty Hall in Lawrence. The 8 p.m. show will be broadcast live on KPR stations and online at kpr.ku.edu.

The Right Between the Ears cast will reprise some of the best topical sketches and songs from broadcasts in 2004. Among the expected targets are Election 2004; President George W. Bush and the war in Iraq; former president Clinton’s autobiography; domestic diva Martha Stewart; TV commercials done in 2004 by singer-songwriter Bob Dylan; plus spoofs of Harry Potter, TV’s “The Apprentice” and “Jeopardy,” as well as new material created especially the “Year in Review.”

Tickets for the show are on sale at the Liberty Hall box office and at Ticketmaster.com. Tickets may also be purchased by calling (816) 931-3330.

Area business gives gift to Dana College

Dana College’s arts department has received a gift — a potter’s wheel worth $1,000 — from Bracker’s Good Earth Clays, 1831 E. 1450 Road, in memory of Bill Bracker, a 1962 Dana graduate.

The wheel will allow the private liberal arts institution to expand its ceramics classes to more students.

Bracker’s family established the William Bracker Endowed Scholarship at Dana College, which is in Blair, Neb., and has about 600 students.

Theater director to receive medallion

Kathy Pryor, associate director of theater at Kansas University, will receive a Medallion of Excellence Jan. 21 at the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival in Washington, D.C., for her contributions to the teaching and producing of theater.

KU senior Christopher Wheatley, Pryor’s son, is a nominee for the Irene Ryan acting competition at the regional festival. He played Romeo in University Theatre’s “Romeo and Juliet.”