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February 17 @ 1:00 pm
Smith Recital Hall
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.
FREE!
February 19 @ 7:00 pm
Smith Recital Hall
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.
Tickets aren’t required for this event!
February 24 @ 4:00 pm
Smith Recital Hall
Movements from the standard concerto repertoire will be performed by Plymouth State students.
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
March 5 @ 7:00 pm
Smith Recital Hall
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.
March 6 @ 7:30 pm
Smith Recital Hall
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
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
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 theatre.
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
April 4 @ 12:00 am
Hanaway Theatre
The American College Dance Association Adjudicated Concerts present works of choreography by students, faculty and guest artists from across institutions of Higher Education in New England as part of a 4-day conference. Each work is considered by a professional panel of national artists, who take notes and comments between dances during brief pauses. The distinguished panel includes, Licia Perea from Los Angelos, CA (Founder and Director of the BlakTina Festival), Robin Wilson (MI – University of Michigan/founding member of Urban Bush Women) and Peter DiMuro (MA – Executive Director of The Dance Complex). The evening highlights all dance styles and genres and showcases the strength of artistry across dance programs in New England. Plymouth State University’s own Dance Division is proud to welcome over 300 participants to our campus in celebration of dance education, innovation and collaboration.
Audience members should be aware that brief pauses will take place between each dance. Similarly, conference participants may move in and out of the theater based on additional events taking place as part of the full conference.
Showtimes at 6:00pm on Thursday 4/4/19-Saturday 4/6/19 and 1:00pm on Sunday 4/7/19
FREE PSU faculty/staff/students $10 Adult/ $7 Student/Senior/Youth
April 11 @ 7:00 pm
Smith Recital Hall
Poet Patrick Donnelly is the author of The Charge (Ausable Press, 2003, since 2009 part of Copper Canyon Press), Nocturnes of the Brothel of Ruin (Four Way Books, 2012), a 2013 finalist for the Lambda Literary Award, Jesus Said (a chapbook from Orison Books, 2017), and Little-Known Operas, forthcoming from Four Way Books in 2019. His poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, Slate, Ploughshares, The Yale Review, The Virginia Quarterly Review, Hayden’s Ferry Review, The Massachusetts Review, and many other journals. Poet Laureate of Northampton, Massachusetts from 2015-2017, Donnelly is director of the Poetry Seminar at The Frost Place in Franconia, NH.
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.
April 13 @ 8:00 am
Hanaway Theatre
On the heels of their tour in Puerto Rico, the PSU Chamber Singers are joined by University Chorale in performances of Leonard Berstein’s timeless musical hit “West Side Story.” Exploring themes of prejudice, discrimination, immigration, and cultural traditions, the show is made even more relevant through our study of society’s current struggles with these same issues.
Showtimes are at 7pm Saturday 4/13/19 and 2pm Sunday 4/14/19
Premium Row N $20/ Adult $18/ Senior $15/ PSU Faculty $15/ Group min. 10 $15/ Youth-College $10/ PSU Students and MTD Student and Faculty are Free
April 24 @ 7:00 pm
Hanaway Theatre
The Plymouth State University Symphonic Band will be joined by the PSU Dance Division, under the direction of Amanda Whitworth, for a night of dance, set to classic and contemporary wind music.
Adult $15/ Senior $12/ Youth-College $8/ Group min. 10 $12/ PSU Student PSU Faculty MTD Student MTD Faculty Free
May 5 @ 3:00 pm
Hanaway Theatre
The Pemi Choral Society will be finishing their season with Randall Thompson’s “Frostiana” with chamber orchestra. Also featuring other New England chestnuts and a new commission by local composer, Ian Soderberg. For more information, please visit www.pemichoral.org
Adult $15/ Senior $9/ Youth-College $9/ PSU Student $5/
May 21 @ 7:00 pm
Hanaway Theatre
The Plymouth Regional High School Music Department will be presenting their final concert of the year. Performing ensembles include the Concert Band, Jazz Ensemble, Concert Choir, and Chamber Singers. Admission is free and open to the public. Visit www.prhsmusic.com for more details.