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Join us this January in a magical kingdom beneath the sea for Disney’s The Little Mermaid, the timeless tale of Ariel, the beautiful young mermaid who longs to leave her ocean home to be part of the world above. Based on one of Hans Christian Andersen’s most beloved stories and the classic animated film, Disney’s The Little Mermaid is a hauntingly beautiful love story for the ages. With music by eight-time Academy Award winner, Alan Menken, lyrics by Howard Ashman and Glenn Slater and a compelling book by Doug Wright, this fishy fable will capture your heart with its irresistible songs, including “Under the Sea,” “Kiss the Girl” and “Part of Your World.” We welcome you to join us for another magical ETC journey, in celebration of our Silver Jubilee 25th Anniversary, this time, under the sea.

Tickets:

$39 PREMIUM / $29 ADULT / $25 SENIORS & PSU EMPLOYEE / $20 YOUTH-COLLEGE / PSU STUDENTS $10

Chamber Singers: Puerto Rican Tour in Review

February 5 @ 2:00 pm
Hanaway Theater

TUESDAY FEBRUARY 5, 2PM – Smith Recital Hall

Join the PSU Chamber Singers as they report on their recent performance and study tour in Puerto Rico. The students will speak, sing, and share pictures and video of their experiences in schools, churches, and community centers.

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Peter Mack – Piano Concert

February 10 @ 4:00 pm
Hanaway Theater

SUNDAY FEBRUARY 10, 4PM

Irish pianist Peter Mack is in great demand as a performer, clinician, convention artist, adjudicator, and teacher. Celebrated for his moving playing, and his easy rapport with audiences, he has performed throughout the United States and Europe, as well as in Australia, India, and the former Soviet Union. He is the winner of the New Orleans, Young Keyboard Artists, and Pacific International Piano Competitions. His prize in the Sherman-Clay competition included a Steinway grand piano. Naturally, he is a Steinway artist!

Peter Mack is well known for his extensive repertoire, having performed twenty-six concertos with orchestras. A choral scholar at Trinity College Dublin, and a fellow of Trinity College London, he has a doctorate in piano performance from the University of Washington. His principal teachers were Frank Heneghan, and Bela Siki.

In 2013, Dr. Mack received the extraordinary honor of being asked to deliver both the Advanced Piano Masterclass at the Music Teachers National Association (MTNA) annual convention in California, and the Masterclass for MTNA Winners at the biennial National Conference on Keyboard Pedagogy (NCKP) in Illinois. His students are frequent winners of local, national, and international competitions. He is the proud teacher of twenty MTNA national finalists, and three MTNA national first place winners. Dr. Mack is Professor of Piano Performance at Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle.

“Mack is one of those lucky ones, born with a completely balanced set of talents. He has perfect piano hands, his technique is all but infallible, he has boundless temperament, style and taste, and above all, he communicates directly…. In all capacities he is indefatigable….”

–Los Angeles Times

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Hannah Murray, soprano Faculty Voice Recital

February 17 @ 1:00 pm
Hanaway Theater

SUNDAY FEBRUARY 17, 1:00pm – Smith Recital Hall

New to the voice faculty this year, soprano Hannah Murray collaborates with professor Dan Perkins on a program including Brahms, Debussy, African-American spirituals, and musical theatre selections.

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Sidore Lecture – Dr. Adrienne Kovach

February 19 @ 7:00 pm
Hanaway Theater

From Mountains to Sea: How Climate Change Impacts New Hampshire’s Wildlife

Warming temperatures, increasing precipitation, and decreasing snow cover impact New Hampshire’s diverse natural habitats and the species of wildlife that inhabit them. Changes in our northern forests affect distributions of birds and mammals, including iconic species such as moose, lynx, and loon. Warming ocean waters bring with them a shift from cold-water to warmer-water adapted marine life, with foreseeable changes in commercially important fisheries. Rising sea levels affect our coastal ecosystems, including birds that nest in sand dunes and salt marshes. This talk will consider some of these climate change impacts, features of ecosystems that are more resilient, and human actions that may facilitate species’ adaptations.

Dr. Kovach grew up in the Midwest and obtained her B.S. in Biology from the University of Kansas. She received her PhD in Zoology from North Carolina State University, studying black bears in the Blue Ridge mountains. She’s been at the University of New Hampshire since 2001, researching New England wildlife, with a focus on species of conservation concern, including the state-endangered New England cottontail, tidal-marsh-nesting birds threatened by sea-level rise, and cod fish. She is a faculty member in the Wildlife and Conservation Biology program in the Department of Natural Resources.

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Piano Concerto Concert

February 24 @ 4:00 pm
Hanaway Theater

Movements from the standard concerto repertoire will be performed by Plymouth State students.

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PSU Theater Presents-Our Town

February 27 @ 7:00 pm
Hanaway Theatre

The classic American play Our Town, which won the 1938 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, comes to the Hanaway stage in a new manner. With innovative staging, audiences join the occupants of Grover’s Corners on the stage itself, seated in an audience area that looks out upon the empty Hanaway auditorium, up into the fly loft, and off into the wings. Directed by PSU Teaching Lecturer and Winnipesauke Playhouse Director of Education Timothy L’Ecuyer, Our Town offers us insights into family, love, and life as it focuses on our daily existence and how much we take for granted each day, as well as how magnificent everyday life truly is.

PRICE:
$15 PSU FACULTY AND STAFF / $9 PSU STUDENTS / $18 PUBLIC EVENING / $15 MATINEES

Note: Free tickets MTD Fac/Staff, MTD Majors, Minors, and Interdisc within MTD

DATES:

Wednesday, February 27, Thursday, February 28, and Friday, March 1, 2019, 7 pm

Saturday, March 2, 1 pm and 7 pm

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Eagle Pond: January Gill O’Neil

March 5 @ 7:00 pm
Hanaway Theater

January Gill O’Neil is the author of two poetry collections, Misery Islands and Underlife, published by CavanKerry Press. A third collection, Rewilding, will be published by CavanKerry Press in fall 2018. A Cave Canem fellow, she is the executive director of the Massachusetts Poetry Festival, an assistant professor of English at Salem State University, and board of trustee member with the Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP) and Montserrat College of Art. January’s poems and articles have appeared in the Academy of American Poet’s Poem-A-Day series, American Life in Poetry, Garrison Keillor’s The Writer’s Almanac, American Poetry Review, New England Review, and Ploughshares, among others. Misery Islands was selected for a 2015 Paterson Award for Literary Excellence. Additionally, Mass Center for the Book chose Misery Islands as a Must-Read Book for 2015 and it won the 2015 Massachusetts Book Award. Previously, O’Neil was a senior writer/editor at Babson College. She earned her BA from Old Dominion University and her MFA at New York University. She lives with her two children in Beverly, Massachusetts.

Generous support from the Follett Higher Education Group at the PSU Bookstore helps keep this series free and open to the public. A book signing and reception will follow the reading. Free tickets are available in advance to ensure admission.

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SYMPHONIC BAND WINTER CONCERT

March 6 @ 7:30 pm
Hanaway Theater

The Plymouth State University Symphonic Band will be performing a wide range of music from concert band classics to contemporary compositions. They will be joined on stage by guest conductor Dr. Andrew Pease, from Hartwick College (NY).

PREMIUM ROW N $15/ADULT $10/SENIOR $8/GROUP (10 minimum) $8/YOUTH-COLLEGE $6

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All New England Jazz Festival

March 7 @ 6:00 pm
Hanaway Theatre

The All New England Jazz Festival is made of the top high school jazz musicians from all six New England states. They will be joined by the PSU Big Band and Jazz Workshop in concert.

PRICE:
$TBD PREMIUM / $15 ADULT / $12 SENIOR / FREE PSU EMPLOYEE / $12 GROUP MIN# / $8 YOUTH-COLLEGE / FREE PSU STUDENT

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Quilters

March 27
Studio Theatre

Quilters is the story of a pioneer woman and her six daughters that blends a series of interrelated scenes into a rich mosaic designed to capture the sweep and beauty, the terror and joy, the harsh challenge and abiding rewards of frontier life. Illuminating stories contained in various patches or “blocks” with music, dance and drama, the action depicts the life of women on the frontier, as they battle illness and death, face the challenges that nature offers, and struggle to creature a stable existence. They do also, in a life that is grueling and harsh, find love, warmth, rich and lively humor, and the moving spectacle of simple human dignity and steadfastness in the face of adversity. In the end, when the various patches are assembled into one glorious, brilliantly colorful quilt, the effect is both breathtaking and magical—and a theatrical masterstroke which will linger in the mind and memory long after the house lights have dimmed. Professor of Theater Elizabeth Daily directs this moving and uplifting evening in the theater.

PRICE:

$18 PUBLIC EVENING / $15 MATINEES / $15 PSU FACULTY AND STAFF / $9 PSU STUDENTS /

Note: Free tickets MTD Fac/Staff, MTD Majors, Minors, and Interdisc within MTD

DATES:

Wednesday, March 27, Thursday, March 28, and Friday, March 29, 2019, 7 pm

Saturday, March 30, 1 pm and 7 pm

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Box Office

Box office hours Tuesday through Friday 12:00pm – 6:00pm,

and one hour prior to each performance.

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